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Environment

  • an aerial view of a city streets by the water

    Florida shaken by 6.1-magnitude earthquake off coast of Cuba

    Earthquake was region’s strongest tremor in nearly 150 years and was also felt in parts of Mexico including Cancún
  • A person adjusting an air sensor on a window grill

    This US neighborhood is full of hazardous air pollution. Can a network of sensors make ‘the invisible visible’?

  • paramedics stand near a person on a stretcher outside of an ambulance

    ‘Woefully unprepared’: extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds

  • People holding signs in protest against a pipeline

    World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds

  • water and fish flowing out of pipe into lake

    Arizona lake closes indefinitely to visitors after all of its fish die

  • a gravel road and inside a data center

    Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

  • river in new hampshire

    double quotation markThe Trump administration wants to kill a rule that protects millions of acres of national forests

    Charles F Sams III

CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • Nesting Ospreys filmed in Daintree Rainforest, Queensland

    ‘Osprey cam’ streams life of nesting seabirds perched at tip of 55 metre-long Queensland rainforest canopy crane

  • A hand holds a scoop of whey protein powder over an open black container

    Whey protein shortage looms as use of weight-loss drugs fuels global demand

  • A woman plugging in an electric car

    ‘Electrify daily life’, urges Cop31 host

  • A large yellow cylindrical structure wrapped in scaffolding and banners under construction at a shipyard

    World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China

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

  • A small monkey swaddled in a cloth looks nervously at the camera. There is ointment on its nose and hand.

    ‘To them a power line is a line of trees’: Costa Rica moves to protect howler monkeys from electrocution

  • 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

Seascape

  • A close-up photo taken from below of a hammerhead shark with a scalloped edge to the wide front of its head

    The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?

  • A hand reaches out to pick up a snail from a line of snails.

    Giving guitarfish a chance: one man’s mission to persuade fishers to farm giant snails instead

  • beluga whales swimming, as seen through glass in tank

    Canada endorses embattled marine park’s plan to relocate 30 beluga whales

  • A person in a white cap and layered clothing jumps on a beach at dusk, with Blackpool tower illuminated in the background

    Deprivation, resilience and a giant bunny: Polly Braden on capturing the ‘beauty and bleakness’ of young lives on the coast

Opinion

  • A person in a wide-brimmed straw hat and long sleeves plants seeds in muddy soil in a field

    double quotation markHere are 10 ways a ‘super’ El Niño could impact the planet

    Benjamin Selwyn
  • Demonstrators protest outside an Apple store in London in September 2024 against the extraction of minerals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for use in products.

    The Guardian view on climate equality: a richer life and real public abundance, not just more stuff

  • Senator David Pocock

    double quotation markIf Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return

    David Pocock
  • People wade through flood waters after heavy monsoon rains in Feni, south-eastern Bangladesh, 24 August 2024.

    double quotation markA good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how

    Thomas Piketty, Lucas Chancel, Cornelia Mohren, Rowaida Moshrif, Moritz Odersky and Anmol Somanchi

Multimedia

  • A red handfish among coral

    Blue mushrooms, shy trees and glowing seas: Beaker Street science photography prize – in pictures

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  • Three black lemurs with bright blue eyes peer out from a circular wooden opening

    Week in wildlife: a lazy sea lion, baby ospreys and rare lemur quads

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