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Environment

  • Aerial view of a whale surfacing in the ocean with a plume of water shooting from its blowhole.

    ‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico

    Critics say exemption for fossil fuels exploits White House’s ‘self-made gas crisis’, and could doom the rare Rice’s whale
  • A long yellow specialized industrial craft floating the water.

    Demand for hydropower surges as Trump clamps down on clean energy

  • Prices of various mixes of gasoline.

    Trump’s Iran war and drilling push show ‘dangerous volatility’ of fossil fuel era

  • A boat in open waters near an oil rig.

    Trump to revoke protections for endangered species in Gulf of Mexico

  • aerial view of road in desert

    LA county sheriff’s deputy dies after medical emergency during relay race

  • A woman squats and inspects crops with sunflowers nearby underneath a sunny sky

    ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding

  • Buildings at a steel plant against a cloudy sky

    A costly plan will keep a steel plant in JD Vance’s hometown running. Locals are aghast: ‘It’s horrible’

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  • Young Country Diary writer Alice collecting wild garlic in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire

    Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian

  • Rachel Reeves

    Energy crisis: why ‘keep calm but cut down’ may be a better message for Labour

  • power plant with smoke billowing out

    Asia ramps up use of dirty fuels to cover energy shortfall triggered by Iran war

  • Merlin bird, sitting in grass.

    UK’s smallest bird of prey among 200 species at risk of extinction, study finds

America's dirty divide

  • air pollution

    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

  • A cityscape is seen in the foreground covered in smog with a large mountain seen in the background

    Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

  • wide shot of an industrial landscape in a city

    Mexico factory that imports US toxic waste to relocate after Guardian report

  • Graphic

    Mysterious bags of ‘hazardous’ materials appeared in Mexico. Then we found more

Our unequal earth

  • bison are seen grazing land in the early morning hours

    Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life

  • inside a grocery store

    Why food justice isn’t being served in America

    Hanna Garth
  • a man holding Sambusa

    The sambusa underground: how Minneapolis’s Somalis feed community and resistance

  • a composite image showing a sign that reads 'this bar supports its community because decency isn't controversial abolish ice' and people in tactical gear holding weapons

    US restaurants targeted for opposing ICE: ‘I refuse to cook for fascists’

The age of extinction

  • Bats illuminated by a camera flash fly out of a cave.

    ‘Guano is far more than just droppings’: scientists uncover the secrets of bat poo in Gorongosa park

  • Bee held between berry juice stained fingers

    I discovered the elusive chestnut mining bee in New York after a gap of 119 years

  • Botanical illustration of Vaccinium vitis idaea (cowberry) showing berries, pods and leaves

    Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered

  • Wildflowers in the foreground, with trees and a rocky mountain in the distance.

    Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

Seascape

  • Taketoshi Niina walks up a ramp from a dock carrying a basket of oysters

    ‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse?

  • Many sea birds sit on the water and fly around the back of a large trawler

    ‘It smells like a rancid fish and chip shop’: at sea with the Antarctic’s krill supertrawlers

  • A colony of seals swimming underwater around some rocks

    ‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park

  • A surfer riding a barrel wave

    Surfing’s big break: how climate crisis insurance may save El Salvador’s waves

Opinion

  • Chaitanya Kumar

    This is what a fossil-fuel shock looks like. The UK must adapt its energy system – and quickly

    Chaitanya Kumar
  • George Monbiot

    Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime

    George Monbiot
  • Ben Jennings on changes to bin collections in England – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on changes to bin collections in England – cartoon

  • Helen Pilcher

    Forget birdwatching, I’m into moth-watching: they’re fascinating and misunderstood insects

    Helen Pilcher

Multimedia

  • Magnolia tree in full bloom during spring

    Sarah Lee captures the wonders of spring – in pictures

    Gallery18
  • A damselfly rests on a leaf in Nagaon District, India

    Week in wildlife: a flying rodent, a duty-free possum and an emerald viper

    Gallery21

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