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Environment

  • a sign reads 'Chemours DuPont'

    Three major chemical companies agree to pay $875m to New Jersey over Pfas claims

    Settlement follows another one reached with Ohio in 2023 for similar claims related to ‘forever chemicals’
  • emissions rise from a smokestack

    First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program

  • a fire burns near a firetruck

    Central California issues evacuation orders after wildfire burns 72,000 acres

  • a helicopter flies by a giant plume of smoke

    Canada wildfires prompt severe air quality alerts across country and US

  • a woman sits in a chair on stage

    Michigan’s governor replaces clean energy advocate on utilities board with ‘industry ally’

  • a fire burns in the grand canyon

    Two wildfires in US west spur ‘fire clouds’ with erratic weather systems

  • Search and rescue workers prepare a raft on a flooded river

    Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

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Latest news

  • Single-use disposable vapes among seaweed on a beach

    Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers

  • Houses are engulfed and some swept away after flash floods in Dharali, a Himalayan mountain village in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, 5 August, 2025.

    About 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern India

  • Scientists conduct field work for the coral survey

    Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching

  • Two men standing in front of a garden

    Australian researchers discover two invasive weeds have the potential to be burned as biofuel

America's dirty divide

  • wide shot of an industrial landscape in a city

    Mexico factory that imports US toxic waste to relocate after Guardian report

  • Graphic

    Mysterious bags of ‘hazardous’ materials appeared in Mexico. Then we found more

  • overhead view of cityscape beside icy river

    Canadians protest imports of US toxic waste amid Trump tariff war

  • Smoke from burning rubber lingers in the air at the Portland International Raceway during a drag racing event in 2023.

    Lawmaker seeks ban of toxic fuel at Portland racetrack after Guardian story

Our unequal earth

  • Picture of farm

    Self-imposed lockdowns, surveillance fears and forced separations: life for California’s undocumented farmworkers

  • people grocery shopping

    As food prices rise, Mamdani wants public grocery stores in New York. Can it work?

  • a man in a tractor

    ‘Disgraceful step backward’: USDA ends support for Black farmers, saying it ‘sufficiently’ handled discrimination

  • colorful illustration shows immigrant workers disappearing from their workplaces

    How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry – visualized

The age of extinction

  • A huge expanse of beautiful pink lotus flowers on a lake

    Joy and relief as lotus flowers bloom again in Kashmiri lake after three decades

  • A llama looking out over grasslands with hills in the background

    Tapirs, hummingbirds and a billion-dollar bedrock of gold: the Ecuador reserve that is now a battlefield over a new mine

  • A man sits on a rock that is covered with wild flowers. He is putting plant samples into a collection book

    ‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants

  • A family group of gorillas lounges amid greenery.

    Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids

Seascape

  • People attempt to spray water on a stranded beaked whale

    Experts baffled as rarely seen beaked whales involved in series of strandings

  • A snorkeller in a wetsuit filming above brown seaweed

    I’m obsessed with snorkelling in Scotland: starfish below, sea eagles overhead – and it really isn’t that cold

  • Estepona Town Hall cleaning staff use a JCB to remove Rugulopteryx okamurae from a beach.

    Thousands of tons of invasive seaweed ‘overwhelming’ Spanish beaches

  • A waiter at Chart House restaurant in Boston during a ‘wicked’ high tide.

    How flood-ravaged Boston took on the climate deniers – and won

Opinion

  • Alexandra Water Warriors volunteers clean up plastic pollution from the Jukskei River in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 27 November 2024.

    The Guardian view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge

  • Donna Lu

    It’s winter and respiratory illnesses are everywhere. Will going out underdressed in cold weather make me sick?

    Donna Lu
  • Polly Toynbee

    Pushing airport expansion while rail travel languishes – so much for Labour’s green agenda

    Polly Toynbee
  • A wind farm off the coast of Isle Of Man.

    The Guardian view on the green transition: renewables are the future – but countries’ actions must catch up with their promises

Multimedia

  2. ‘Emotional turbulence’ … Senesence from the book Mythoscape

    Spot the human! Bodies embedded in nature – in pictures

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  3. An aerial view of Governors Island seen at sunset

    This New York City island was once a military base. Now it’s becoming a climate solutions hub – in pictures

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