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Environment

  • Water flowing down the Klamath River where the Copco 2 dam once stood in Siskiyou county, California.

    Klamath River dam removal: before and after images show dramatic change

    Dam removal concluded a decades long fight on 2 October, which also saw Chinook salmon return to the waters
  • Joe Biden at the White House press briefing room in Washington DC on 4 October.

    Biden sets 10-year deadline for US cities to replace lead pipes

  • Man in ball cap loads cat in hard plastic carrier into front of pickup truck.

    US south-east reels from ‘unspeakable tragedy’ of Helene as new storm looms

  • a white cyclone approaching yellow lines on a map

    How did Hurricane Milton reach category 5 strength so quickly and when will it make landfall?

  • Debris surrounds the Faraway Inn cottages and motel in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Florida.

    Double punch of hurricanes could become common due to climate crisis

  • The exterior of the NW Natural utility company, with a grey emblem saying 'NW Natural Sunset Service Center'

    Oregon county sues major gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt

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CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • Emma Pinchbeck

    Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog

  • José Ramos-Horta

    Ramos-Horta says $74bn Timor Sea gas project could begin within months if Australia signs treaty

    Timor-Leste president’s trip comes amid mounting pressure for Labor to finalise an agreement
  • Woman filling a glass of water from a chrome tap

    Water companies in England and Wales told to pay £158m penalty to customers

    Ofwat says firms must lower bills next year after poor performance on issues such as sewage spills and leaks
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Big oil uncovered

  • Donald Trump in Valdosta, Georgia, on 30 September.

    Trump continues to deny climate crisis as he visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia

  • a man looks to the right next to a coal-fired power plant

    Leonard Leo-linked group attacking efforts to educate judges on climate

  • a man in a black shirt stares at camera

    ‘Pessimism is a luxury we can’t afford’: Kumi Naidoo on fighting fossil fuels with art and culture

  • A car drives past a refinery with the sign ExxonMobil

    California sues ExxonMobil over alleged role in plastic pollution crisis

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America's dirty divide

  • A before and after of what an amusement park would look like before and after flooding

    How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater

  • the outside of an apartment building

    Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them

  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller

    Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

  • a brick building with a/c units on the outside

    93F and no electricity: why some US utilities can cut power despite heatwaves

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Our unequal earth

  • box of different grey, brown and yellow mushrooms

    ‘VCs need their money back’: why sustainable startups struggle to fix our broken food system

  • a man standing in a field swinging a farm implement.

    ‘We need ’em worse than they need us’: how Haitian workers feed the US

  • A person standing by a cooler hands another person a styrofoam meal container and a bottle of water

    US farms are forcing workers to buy inedible, expensive meals: ‘It makes you feel enslaved’

  • side by side images of a woman in a patterned shirt and women operating a hose

    Something about the migrant labor camp spooked my mother. Then she learned its dark history

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The age of extinction

  • Susana Muhamad Rozo 001 in Bogota, Colombia, June 2022

    How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil

  • A spiky agave-type plant on a mountain-side of grass and rocks

    Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants

    Kew study reveals areas with at least 100,000 undiscovered plant species – most likely to be under threat of extinction
  • Alistair Boxall, professor in environmental science at the University of York, taking a water sample at Brook Head Beck

    ‘Rivers you think are pristine are not’: how drug pollution flooded the UK’s waterways – and put human health at risk

    High levels of antibiotics and other drugs have been found in water in the country’s most treasured and protected landscapes, raising concerns over antimicrobial resistance
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Seascape

  • Aerial of Clayoquot Sound reserve in British Columbia is home to the last 60 salmon farms

    ‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon?

  • A cuttlefish amid weed-covered branches of a tree watched by a man in a wetsuit with goggles and snorkel

    ‘We look to the past to move forward’: the ancient method boosting cuttlefish numbers in the Mediterranean

    • 1st Prize Echoing Sigh-lence of Relief inside Cargo Hold by Muara Jawa.

      The Life at Sea 2024 photography awards: a rare glimpse into the highs and lows of seafaring

    • Corallian Energy Drill in Poole Bay To Explore Oil Reserves<br>POOLE, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: ENSCO-72 drilling rig working in Poole Bay for Corallian Energy on February 15, 2019 in Poole Bay, England. The scheme to drill more than 1,000 metres below the seabed to explore oil reserves in the Colter prospect has until February 28. Save Our Shores Bournemouth says the chemical permit issued by government regulator OPRED allows ‘up to 6753 tons of chemicals to be discharged, including eight tons of biocide’. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

      Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group

    • Two divers raise an anchor covered in rust and barnacles towards the surface

      ‘I had found gold before, but not like this’: four of the most splendid treasures salvaged from shipwrecks

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Opinion

  • James Piper

    Outraged that some plastic you send for recycling ends up being burned? Don’t be

    James Piper
  • Rebecca Solnit

    Hurricane Helene is a humanitarian crisis – and a climate disaster

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Nadya Tolokonnikova

    Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him

    Nadya Tolokonnikova
  • Greg Jericho

    Plibersek’s coalmine decision is double trouble for climate and housing

    Greg Jericho
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Multimedia

  • At least 14 killed in Bosnian floods after torrential rainstorm overnight – video

  • Sharks found to be an overlooked predator of sea urchins in accidental discovery by Australian researchers

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    Researchers wanted to study lobsters eating sea urchins. But sharks ate their lunch — video

    Sharks found to be an overlooked predator of sea urchins in accidental discovery by Australian researchers
  • Brown bears look for food in Sarikamis, Turkey.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: bears caught in the act, a glamorous seal and a fugitive emu

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • The stars of 367 Collins Street have welcomed baby birds to the nest

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    Collins Street falcons: two chicks have hatched on skyscraper and are taking meals – video

  • A Komodo dragon up close on Komodo Island, Indonesia

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a penguin ballerina, the spooky spookfish and a sociable octopus

  • The Speed Skater – Stellers Sea Eagle in the drifting sea ice off Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

    Comedy wildlife photography awards 2024 – in pictures

  • Nine protesters jumped on top of a train on Wednesday morning headed to the Port of Newcastle, unfurled a banner and began shovelling coal off

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    Activists board coal train as Albanese government approves three coalmine expansions – video

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