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  • Stickers protesting a proposed border wall adorn the back of a vehicle

    ‘I’ve never worked with so many conservatives’: the Texans fighting the Big Bend border wall

    Residents across party lines say Trump’s proposed wall threatens their homes, livelihoods and wilderness along the Rio Grande
  • Multiple air conditioning units mounted below windows on the facade of a residential apartment building

    double quotation markSurviving extreme heat increasingly boils down to this: access to air conditioning

    Mark Wolfe
  • collage

    US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics: ‘on the edge of our seats’

  • A large shark swims overhead in murky blue water above coral formations on the seafloor

    California faces highest shark numbers in years as great whites head north

  • A close of a person’s hand on the radio in car

    Hello from the outside: heat domes impeding radio and other signals in US midwest

  • A tourist takes a photo on an Old San Juan street with a sign reading 'No water, no bathroom, yes we're open, beer and food' outside a restaurant

    ‘As if a hurricane had passed’: Puerto Ricans at breaking point after weeks without water

  • a group of people padding in yellow boat on river

    A journey down one of the last wild rivers in the American west: ‘The bullseye will always be on its back’

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Latest news

  • A map showing the development of the El Niño in the tropicalPacific.Red areas are where sea surface temperatures are warmer than average.

    ‘We are waiting with bated breath’: gathering El Niño could be the strongest on record, BoM says

  • A child hops on a hopscotch grid on asphalt in a playground

    Private schools offer 41% more tree shade than state schools in England

  • An eastern brown snake tangled in a bike chain in northern New South Wales, Australia

    Snake in a chain: lucky escape for Australian woman after bite from deadly reptile caught in bike wheel

  • Rescue workers guide a boat carrying evacuees through flooded streets in Accra past damaged buildings

    How global heating supercharged floods in West Africa, displacing thousands

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

  • Composite image showing chicks on the left and a man holding a chicken on the right.

    ‘The silence was the worst part’: after culling his entire flock, US poultry farmer now fears bird flu

  • two women work in a garden

    Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto

  • A student picks a milk carton for lunch to go with a sandwich, beans and fruit cup.

    Bananas could vanish from US school meals. Here’s why

  • sheep graze near solar panels

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

The age of extinction

  • Picture 68 Pangolin traffic for Chinese tourists in Laos shop selling pangolin scales to Chinese tourists

    Inside the secret Laos shops selling pangolin scales, bear bile and tiger bones to tourists

  • Chinese tourism is booming in Laos and the illegal wildlife trade is booming with it. Pangolin scales, rhino horn and elephant ivory are all being sold at secret shops and restaurants as a new high-speed rail line brings millions of visitors to the country. Working with Chinese activists, the Guardian goes undercover to investigate the criminal networks profiting from this trade and to reveal how wildlife trafficking is pushing the critically endangered pangolin ever closer to extinction

    Undercover in Laos: how Chinese tourism fuels animal trafficking – video

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  • A black rat gnawing through the large seed of the Melocanna bamboo.

    A swarm of stink bugs and a river of rats: why India’s flowering bamboo causes a crisis for humans

  • The desert rain frog has been listed as vulnerable on the IUCN red list

    Shovels for feet and blotting paper skin: the ‘little fat froggy’ facing a fight for survival

Seascape

  • A naval officer holding a large military drone on the deck of a ship

    Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences

  • An older man in a tartan waistcoat on a beach, the Waverley paddle steamer off Oban, and a young woman in an Icelandic jumper

    Giving nature a say: why Scottish marine scientists appointed the ocean to their board

  • A person, seen from behind, looks out over a calm sea.

    The rise of blue-space therapy: how the sea is helping people deal with trauma, anxiety and addiction

  • People seen onboard a small ship seemingly floating on ice, with a brightly lit tent next to it. The sky is lit up by the eerie green northern lights

    Voyage to the end of the world: floating lab to explore life in Arctic adrift in ice

Opinion

  • Adrian Chiles

    double quotation markMy neighbours and I were left with no water this week. Why was I the only one who seemed annoyed?

    Adrian Chiles
  • A ginger cat hissing at the camera

    double quotation markAustralia has a love-hate relationship with cats – but under all the emotion is a fascinating history

    Jodie Stewart
  • Laurie Laybourn

    double quotation markAndy Burnham must act fast on the climate – or risk getting stuck in a ‘derailment’ doom loop

    Laurie Laybourn
  • Christian Wolmar

    double quotation markBritain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’

    Christian Wolmar

Multimedia

  • A crowd of people in winter coats and hats stand in heavy snow near a train

    Emergencies on planet Earth: images from the climate crisis – in pictures

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  • A sea turtle photographed from above, with bright green fluorescent handprints visible on its shell against a dark background

    Can you spot the poacher’s handprint? Earth Photo award winners – in pictures

    Gallery13
  • An Atlantic puffin flies into land on Skomer Island, UK.

    Week in wildlife: a froggy lunch, a surf-loving penguin and an ambitious treehopper

    Gallery17

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