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

    JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
  • 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
  • a ship with research equipment

    Scientists warn Trump plan to axe US ocean monitoring system will leave world ‘flying blind’

  • Three deer walking across a lot of gravel.

    Mule deer already using incomplete $20m wildlife bridge in California

  • workers in heavy machinery transport coal

    Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700m to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal

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Latest news

  • 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

  • Waves crashing over Tynemouth pier on the North East coast of England

    ‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns

  • Gannets with pale yellow heads perch on dark, streaked rock ledges at Bass Rock colony in Scotland

    Call to phase out ‘inhumane’ guga hunt by working with Hebridean islanders

  • An octopus with mottled orange and grey skin rests on encrusted rocks among kelp underwater

    Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds

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 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

  • 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?

Opinion

  • 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
  • Greg Jericho

    double quotation markAustralia’s GDP figures are meaningless when the boom in datacentres means destroying jobs and the climate

    Greg Jericho

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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