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Environment

  • Fema government office building

    Fema employees who criticized Trump cuts reinstated after months on leave

    Workers wrote ‘Katrina declaration’, warning that funding cuts made US dangerously unprepared for natural disasters
  • a man on a paddle during a downwind foil run

    ‘Don’t fall!’: foil boarders describe hair-raising shark chase caught on video off California coast

  • a man in a suit speaks while seated at a table

    Democrats say EPA head’s budget cut proposal ‘reads like climate change deniers’ manifesto’

  • Aerial view of a blue home being pulled away from the shore with two excavators as passersby watch on

    Dozens of North Carolina houses have been lost to the sea. Some surviving homes are now being moved on wheels

  • Two wind turbines sticking up out of an endless, uninterrupted expanse of blue ocean water.

    Trump administration blocks US wind energy projects in switch to oil and gas

  • side by side images of man in suit and solar panels

    Trump’s attempt to crush clean energy progress not going to plan, experts say

  • people hold signs that read 'no liability protection from pesticides' and 'stop poisoning us'

    US supreme court weighs blocking lawsuits against Roundup makers alleging weedkiller causes cancer

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  • Greg Jackson, founder and chief executive of Octopus Energy

    Octopus Energy boss: some people would accept occasional blackouts if bills cut

  • An oil vessel is visible in the Caribbean Sea at sunset

    Could key climate talks mark ground zero in global push to ditch fossil fuels?

  • Tugboats near a larger LNG vessel

    How LNG interests are seeking to disrupt global talks on decarbonising shipping

  • Farmers add fertiliser to a maize field using traditional methods.

    Iran war may cause food shortages in Africa, world’s largest fertiliser firm says

America's dirty divide

  • 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’

  • wide shot of an industrial landscape in a city

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

Our unequal earth

  • A farm worker is seen through a window of a dairy barn at dusk.

    ‘I don’t go out’: Vermont’s undocumented dairy workers live in fear after immigration raids

  • A man in a striped shirt guides a cow through a barn

    ‘They want to keep denying us our rights’: workers in Vermont’s $5.4bn dairy industry fight for basic labor protections

  • two women kneeling

    Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging

  • A woman foraging for wild leeks, also called ramps, or wild onions.

    Is foraging really feasible to feed myself?

The age of extinction

  • A smiling woman

    Protecting lions and people: the biologist dedicated to tackling human-wildlife conflict

  • mayflies

    Older than the dinosaurs: scientists finally unlock secret of the mayfly’s dance

  • A field of flowers with trees growing around it in hazy sunlight

    A new haven for wildlife: London’s Queen Elizabeth II garden opens to the public – in pictures

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  • An orangutan stands on a rope bridge in the forest canopy

    ‘Cries of delight’ as Sumatran orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross road for first time

Seascape

  • A young woman with tattoos stands on a beach wearing winter clothing.

    Crack and crime to confident and qualified: is the future about to change for Rhyl’s youth?

  • A middle-aged woman in a yellow raincoat on a windswept Orkney beach.

    ‘I needed to be in that strange, flat place’: how an Orkney garden healed a writer

  • Men stand around a wooden box raised on a metal table.

    One ship, three deaths: the shocking truth behind working conditions on a Chinese fishing vessel

  • A man in overalls stands on a muddy riverbed next to a VW van and a boat.

    Stern warning: one man’s mission to clear the rotting boats poisoning Cornwall’s creeks

Opinion

  • Tania Roettger

    Germany’s climate U-turn is the worst possible response to the oil shock

    Tania Roettger
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    Are we being told the truth about a gas profits tax?

  • Adam Morton

    Labor will back fossil fuels in the budget but the gas tax campaign isn’t dead yet

    Adam Morton
  • Martin Rowson

    What does the Zoological Society of London do? After 200 years, the answer is still ‘everything’

    Martin Rowson

Multimedia

  • A squirrel searches for food in a park during a cold spring weather in Moscow, Russia.

    Week in wildlife: a clever orangutan, a cheeky frog and a dramatic whale rescue

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  • whale being transported in a flooded vessel.

    Timmy the whale rescue attempt begins off coast of Germany – in pictures

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  • Tiny harvest mouse perches on a stalk to sniff blue bells in adorable spring sceneA tiny harvest mouse balances on a stalk to sniff fresh blue bells in an adorable spring scene.The one-inch-long mammal, which weighs as much as a 2p coin, can be seen using its prehensile tail to keep itself balanced while it enjoys the flower.Photographer Tony Nellis captured the amazing moment at a wildlife conservation workshop in York. Pictures show the miniature rodent scrambling up a blue bell stem to catch the plants pleasant scent. Photo released 21/04/2026

    Week in wildlife: a tiny harvest mouse, bagel cats and a rhino out for a stroll

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