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Environment

  • emissions rise from a power plant

    Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and ‘free passes to pollute’, report says

    Environmental Defense Fund analysis shows administration handed out $950m and Clean Air Act exemptions
  • landscape showing the frame of a former steel mill converted to a hub for tech, robotics, and advanced manufactoring is surrounded by lush greenery

    Mill 19: a creative hub built into a former steel factory

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  • people in warm coats come out of the new york subway

    The Iran war is deepening the US energy crisis. A bad winter is ahead

    Mark Wolfe
  • a composite image showing the sun behind power lines on the left and waves crashing into homes on the right

    Five reasons why the US midterms matter for the climate – and your energy bill

  • An electric ferry on the water

    A new wave of electric ferries is here in the US. Some even fly

  • A resident wades barefoot through floodwaters in Huntington Beach, holding her glasses

    Record-breaking high tides spark chaos – and kayak commutes – across California

  • Man stands behind lectern

    Trump says government to ‘terminate’ Biden-era methane emissions rules

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  • A baby orangutan is held in the arms of a rescuer with parched forest in the background.

    ‘Bunch of baloney’: calls grow for Cop summit reforms as countries on track to fail nature targets

  • An offshore wind farm

    Healey to veto new offshore wind projects if they will not lower bills

  • Smuggled green parrots are crammed inside white pipes, blocked by wire grids

    Twice as many plants and animals sold in wildlife trade as previously thought, says report

  • Ambulance workers and paramedics on the picket line, holding up official Unison signs

    Public sector an ‘afterthought’ to North Sea oil jobs, says Unison leader

America's dirty divide

  • Triptych photo composite of industrial equipment, a woman in glasses and cap and farmland.

    ‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

  • Sonora River polluted with sulfuric acid from copper mine leak in Mexico

    US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says

  • 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’

Our unequal earth

  • Wendy Rhein poses for a portrait at her farm in Tryon, North Carolina on Sunday, October 4, 2026. The Rheins incorporate their Jewish faith into their farming practices. Mike Belleme for The Guardian

    ‘It’s all God’s creation’: farmers continue a ‘Jewishly inspired’ agrarian tradition

  • restauraIllustration of waiter's hand carrying a tray with bills and invoices stacked on it.ntdebt-01-effectapp

    For restaurants Covid-19 was a crisis – pandemic loans are proving a disaster

  • woman stands and holds man's arms as he sits on couch in home

    Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company

  • A commercial building behind a fence

    This US city only has one supermarket for 45,000 people. New legislation seeks to fix that

  • A large seabird spreads its wings landing near two chicks on Corvo Island's grassy clifftop

    Lights out: the island that goes dark to save young seabirds – in pictures

  • An operative wearing blue rubber gloves uses tweezers to place a sample into a vial

    Big pharma accused of ‘free-riding on nature’ as global fund attracts just $7,000

  • Guards raise the Armenian flag ahead of the COP17 conference in Yerevan

    As a former minister who once climbed a tree to save it, I know there is passion to protect nature. We just have to show it

    Steven Guilbeault
  • A dead fish in a shallow river

    Four years ago countries made a historic deal to save nature. Is it dead in the water?

  • Six swimmers seen underwater through a shoal of fish

    I struggled to come to terms with my mum’s death. Then I swam in the sea and suddenly felt connected to her

  • A distant view of a small settlement in a snowy valley by a frozen lake or fjord surrounded by mountains

    This Norwegian village is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. How can its people save it?

  • A small town in an Arctic landscape

    Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian village as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals

  • A woman leans over the side of a boat to measure a sand shark caught in a net in the water.

    ‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums

Opinion

  • KindnessReduxpixie

    How many of these official Tiny Creature Kindness badges have you earned?

  • mark carney

    Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while he guts hard-won protections at home

    Shiri Pasternak
  • person holds sign saying 'fight datacenters'

    Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither

    Adam McKay and Philip Eubanks
  • Fiona Harvey

    The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act?

    Fiona Harvey

Multimedia

  • Blurry photograph showing ballerinas in motion at the dress rehearsal and preview of the Australian Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Ian Potter State Theatre in Melbourne

    Australia’s best photos of the month – October 2026

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  • An anhinga holds a fish speared on its beak, both raised above water

    Week in wildlife: a fishing anhinga, a northern nutcracker and cuddling seals

    Gallery26
  • Aerial view of a winding waterway through China's red beach wetland vegetation

    Sea of crimson: vivid ‘red beach’ transforms China’s wetlands and marshes – in pictures

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