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Environment

  • Smokestacks of a coal power plant rise above trees along the Ohio River in Maysville, Kentucky

    US states and cities sue over Trump EPA’s repeal of emissions rules

    Democratic-led coalition says gutting key protections will set US back decades and worsen climate crisis
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Is Trump to blame for Americans getting explosive diarrhea?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Aerial view of a large data centre construction site with cranes and cleared earth

    US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits

  • side-by-side images of an oil refinery and Donald Trump

    Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy

  • Large waves crash over a seawall against Long Beach houses at dusk, palm trees behind

    California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise

  • Two chimpanzees sit close together on the forest floor in Kibale National Park, Uganda

    Insects play critical role in ecosystems beyond just providing food, new research shows

  • a man speaks into a microphone

    EPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contract

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Latest news

  • A woman after dunking her head in a fountain.

    May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future

  • Aerial views of the Hunter Valley Operations in NSW, Australia

    Matt Kean warns climate crisis ‘isn’t someone else’s problem’ as largest coal project in NSW history greenlit

  • Young Country Diarist Etta keeping an eye out for geese.

    Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian

  • Aerial view of the Mucajai river winding through rainforest in the Yanomami territory, Brazil.

    Think more rain means more river water? Not necessarily

America's dirty divide

  • Triptych photo composite of industrial equipment, a woman in glasses and cap and farmland.

    ‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

  • 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’

Our unequal earth

  • A commercial building behind a fence

    This US city only has one supermarket for 45,000 people. New legislation seeks to fix that

  • A person shining a light on a deer that has been killed.

    Destructive and delicious: how an invasive deer in Hawaii is being turned into dinner

  • Split image shows a man in a suit on the left and red petri dishes with bacterial cultures on the right

    Trump’s deep public health cuts hinder response to record US cyclosporiasis outbreak

  • 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

  • Baby orangutan Abu clings to its mother while rescuers check her with a medical monitor

    ‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population

  • Close up of a baby Siamese crocodile held in hands against a Buddhist monk's orange clothing.

    Saving the Siamese crocodile: Cambodia moves to protect one of the world’s last wild populations

  • Two baboons raid food out of bags next to a car on a house driveway on which more baboons are sitting.

    ‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys

  • Hypsignathus_monstrosus_3_Sarah Olson_Wildlife Conservation Society Canada hammer-headed fruit bat, Republic of Congo

    Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals

  • At a herring festival in Achiltibuie, north-west Scotland, a man plays violin as a woman plays harp for seated guests.

    ‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles

  • An African penguin walks towards to camera on a sunny beach.

    Mass sardine die-off pits survival of South Africa’s penguins against fishers’ livelihoods

  • Maybe you’ve been wondering who the poster gal for How Deep Is Your Love documentary @howdeepisyourlovedoc is? Nicknamed ‘barbie pig’ [species unknown] by ecologist @bethfleming154 , this lil fella [ sea cucumber (echninoderm) ] hangs out on the sea floor, 5000m down, munching away on deep sea mud - kind of the vacuum cleaners of the deep.

    Meet Barbie Pig: new documentary reveals the wonders of life on the Pacific seabed

  • A big fin whale swimming in blue sea

    Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters

Opinion

  • An aerial view of oal trucks at work at the Hunter Valley Operations mine

    The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians

    Georgina Woods
  • Flavio BolsonaroOpposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro campaigns in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Sales)

    The Guardian view on Lula v the Bolsonaros: the decision of Brazilian voters will affect us all

  • A dried-up field in Jonggol, Indonesia

    The Guardian view on a supersized El Niño: a natural phenomenon and human folly are a lethal combination

  • Bill McKibben

    The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly

    Bill McKibben

Multimedia

  • King penguins swim underwater near Macquarie Island, with green hills visible above

    The 2026 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures

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  • People wade through flood waters near a petrol station in Bangkok on Saturday

    Bangkok’s flood disaster – in pictures

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