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  • A person walks barefoot across a dry, deeply cracked earth surface extending to the horizon

    El Niño southern oscillation
    Prepare for imminent return of El Niño, UN warns

    UN agency predicts phenomenon that supercharges weather extremes has 80% chance of forming before September

  • Northumberland
    How England’s largest forest went from commodity to conservation haven

    Kielder in Northumberland is balancing commercial production with conserving peatland and rare plants and animals
  • Direct air capture fans mounted on a rooftop walkway against a clear sky

    Greenhouse gas emissions
    New ways to remove CO2 from atmosphere must grow much faster, report says

  • The wind turbines of the biggest offshore windfarm in the world, off the coast of north Lincolnshire, England. For G2

    Environment policy
    UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds

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

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

  • A spotted orchid plant.

    Country diary
    Why are orchids so mysterious and coveted? It all starts underground

  • Dolphins seen during the first ever state-wide dolphin census along the NSW Coast. Australia

    Australia
    ‘Show us some fin’: citizen scientists take to the seas for first of its kind dolphin census

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Spotlight

  • Lisa and Kris Horswill, from Brixham, in their garden.

    ‘My son is still suffering’: the ill effects of water contamination in ‘Brixham incident’

    Physical and psychological impacts of a tap water parasite outbreak continue to be felt in south Devon
  • The Johan Sverdrup oil field, operated by Equinor, off the south-western coast of Norway

    One Nation says it wants a Norway-style gas policy – but it’s not actually in favour of higher taxes on profits

  • 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

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

The age of extinction

  • 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

  • A bumblebee on a white flower

    Collecting pollen can be as exhausting for bees as flight take-off, study shows

Seascape

  • 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

  • A man and a woman with two small children standing on rocks by the sea use nets on poles to scoop up marine creatures. Tankers can be seen in the waterway behind them

    High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England

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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