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Environment

  • Three people in hard hats and life jackets deploy a yellow glider from a boat deck

    Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system

    Ocean Observatories Initiative, $368m network that has provided crucial climate data, latest victim of Trump cuts
  • a wind turbine under cloudy sky

    Six US states sue Trump administration over deal to kill windfarm project

  • Illustration of pumpjacks with logos of Civitas, Chevron and Oxy

    There are thousands of dirty old drill sites in Colorado. The state gave oil firms a $1bn pass

  • thatched roof gazebo overlooking trees, with a rug on ground marked 'Zoological Wildlife Foundation'

    Animal welfare violations swarm Miami zoo owned by ex-drug kingpin in Tiger King

  • A blurred person in the foreground walks near railroad tracks with an industrial facility and fence in the background

    US garbage incinerators are failing to eliminate ‘forever chemical’ air pollution, experts warn

  • Glossy red tomato with a smiling face surrounded by pale pink tomatoes with human-like faces

    ‘Flavor is under siege in this country’: how food in America lost its taste

  • A man holds a solar panel on a balcony.

    Power to the people: how ‘balcony solar’ could help fight rising US utility costs

CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • Atlantic puffin.

    Puffins, dolphins and bumblebees in running to feature on new UK banknotes

  • South West Water handing out emergency rations of bottled water

    South West Water fined £1.85m over parasite outbreak in Devon

  • Adult female dolphin in Shark Bay, Australia

    Female dolphins remember who is aggressive when choosing a mating partner, research shows

  • Aerial shot of Beetaloo Energy Australia's Carpentaria project

    ‘Gateway to full-scale fracking’: Santos could drill for new gas in Northern Territory within weeks

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

  • sheep graze near solar panels

    Solar energy helps US farms stay afloat – but Republicans’ bill could change that

  • Left: An aerial shot of Cooke Aquaculture in Bingham, ME. Right: A live fish is allegedly clubbed with a metal rod.

    Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming

  • Geneva Apple Rootstock Breeding Program at a research station in Geneva, New York.

    Roots of resilience: the experts working to bolster apples against the climate crisis

  • Wheat growing in a field

    ‘The worst time for wheat’: US farmers face losses to extreme heat and drought

The age of extinction

  • An adult tern with grey plumage and black cap sits with a fluffy chick on sandy ground with pebbles

    Big gains for little terns: how Lindisfarne reserve is helping a rare bird survive tourism

  • Two men look at a dead elephant

    What is killing Sumatra’s elephants? The battle to save one of our rarest animals

  • Someone out of focus lying down and looking at a purple petalled flower with a yellow centre among grass blades

    Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

  • Three mountain bongos drink from a trough in a forested grassland.

    ‘Bringing the boys back home’: how mountain bongos Maue, Fitz, Kudu and Bon64 made their way back to Kenya

Seascape

  • A figure in blue waterproof jacket knee-deep in sea foam during gale force winds on the beach at Sandwood Bay, Sutherland, Scotland.

    It has the highest levels of toxic Pfas in drinking water in Scotland. But how did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?

  • The Lincolnshire seaside town is often written off by YouTubers as a place defined by deprivation and decline. But for many young people it's a place they love and are proud to call home, even though high unemployment limits their opportunities. As part of the year-long Against the tide project reporting on the lives of young people in coastal communities across England and Wales, the Guardian follows 19-year old Cohen, who is desperate to find a permanent job while running a mascot hire company and chasing his dream of becoming a professional wrestler

    Vape shops but no jobs: one young man’s search for work in Grimsby

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  • A man dressed in a bunny outfit stands in front of what appears to be a fairground under construction

    ‘I’m throwing everything at it’: one young man’s search for a job in Britain’s ‘worklessness capital’

  • A mosasaur skull

    Tentacles, pointy teeth and the T-rex of the sea: the Natural History Museum on beasts that once ruled the oceans

Opinion

  • An aerial view of Aberdeen port and harbour, the base for North Sea oil offshore support services.

    The Guardian view on the Aberdeen South byelection: the politics of energy take centre stage

  • Frances Ryan

    double quotation markAir conditioning: the wealthy and well can afford it, but disabled people who need it most can’t

    Frances Ryan
  • The main gas pipeline at the large gas terminal plant in North Norfolk.

    The Guardian view on energy shocks: winter is coming – and Labour needs a plan

  • A computer illustration of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the bacteria that cause diphtheria

    double quotation markDiphtheria is a disease of poverty that has no place in modern Australia. When we talk about Closing the Gap, this is the gap

    Donna Ah Chee

Multimedia

  • A robber fly with large dark eyes and spiny legs perches on a green leaf

    Week in wildlife: a baby pangolin, a gorilla super-mum and Formula One geese

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  • Snow-covered Puncak Jaya with exposed rock faces and glacial ice surrounding a deep valley

    Mapping the last glaciers in Oceania – in pictures

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