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Environment

  • honeybees in a hive

    US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

    US Department of Agriculture calls in university to help study decline as Trump administration staff cuts sting
  • aerial view of seaweed bloom over land and sea

    Scientists identify ‘tipping point’ that caused clumps of toxic Florida seaweed

  • An octopus rides on a shark.

    Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back

  • a composite image showing a protest and and an oil refinery

    Greenpeace loss will embolden big oil and gas to pursue protesters: ‘No one will feel safe’

  • people protest at a construction site, one person holding a sign saying 'you can't eat money'

    Greenpeace verdict is ‘weaponization of legal system’, advocacy groups say

  • lava shoots out of volcano

    Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava

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Latest news

  • A vet giving a dog a flea treatment

    Call for pets’ toxic flea treatments to be tightly restricted in UK

  • Anti-salmon farming protestors at Verona Sands in southern Tasmania

    Bill to protect Tasmanian salmon farming passes House despite fears of ‘alarming’ environmental protections rollback

    Environment minister defends ‘balanced and sensible’ changes amid questions of how ‘rushed legislation’ would work
  • Keir Starmer visiting a car mechanics’ workshop in Cambridgeshire.

    No 10 shrugs off Trump envoy’s claim that Starmer’s Ukraine policy amounts to posturing – as it happened

    Downing Street says PM focusing on ‘bringing durable peace in Ukraine’ after Steve Witkoff’s comments
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America's dirty divide

  • 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

  • tractor sprays substance on field of green produce

    US-funded ‘social network’ attacking pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation

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Our unequal earth

  • a group of people work on a farm

    Black farmers face setbacks over Trump budget cuts: ‘We are in survival mode’

  • a child eating food at a school desk

    Local food for schools helps farmers and kids. So why is Trump cutting funding?

  • A large green building with two yellow signs with purple lettering.

    ‘Ghost kitchens’, fast casual and higher prices: how the pandemic changed the US restaurant industry

  • A bearded man pours drinks behind a bar

    Covid-19 took their restaurant jobs. They switched careers: ‘I’m making twice as much money now’

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The age of extinction

  • An older woman in a beekeeper's protective clothing and helmet peering at a wooden tray with honeycomb and bees in a field with hives

    I’m a vet for bees – I think I might be the only one in the US

  • A bull elk with late-stage chronic wasting disease, which is always fatal and has no cure, in Wind Cave national park, South Dakota, US.

    ‘Don’t call it zombie deer disease’: scientists warn of ‘global crisis’ as infections spread across the US

    The contagious, fatal illness in deer, elk and moose must be taken seriously, say experts as it takes hold in the US and reaches other countries. While it has not infected humans yet, the risk is growing
  • A orangutang runs into the forest from a cage. Behind and on top of the cage a group of conservationists watch her go.

    ‘Like kidnapping your grandpa’: why relocating orangutans threatens their survival

    The endangered great apes of Malaysia and Indonesia struggle when translocated despite efforts to protect them, finds research
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Seascape

  • A young beluga whale with its head above water.

    Canada’s Marineland to rehome its whales and dolphins as it seeks a buyer

  • Ahmed Gaz, from Al Max, Alexandria, returns from an early morning fishing trip.

    ‘I trust my eyes, not the forecast’: Alexandria is sinking. Why don’t local fishers believe it?

    • A diver in an underwater cave with lots of stalactites and stalagmites lit by her diving lights

      I’m obsessed with cave diving. This is the closest environment we have to space

    • African penguins at the colony on Robben Island, near Cape Town.

      Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa

    • Illustration of what Deep's subsea complex would look like

      A mysterious millionaire and the quest to live under the sea – podcast

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Opinion

  • Foam on South Australia’s Waitpinga beach

    Mysterious foam on South Australian beaches caused by bloom of tiny but toxic algae

    Shauna Murray and Greta Gaiani for the Conversation
  • Adam Morton

    Australians deserve answers on climate before they vote. Here are five things we still don’t know

    Adam Morton
  • Helen Sullivan

    A swan: ‘I have looked upon these brilliant creatures, and now my heart is sore’

    Helen Sullivan
  • Elon Musk during Tesla meet in Shanghai, China, in 2020.

    The Guardian view on China’s EV breakthrough: helped by the kind of strategic state Elon Musk despises

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Multimedia

  • Footage shows coral bleaching on Ningaloo reef as Great Barrier Reef hit at the same time – video

  • A crumpled union jack in polluted water

    Sewage in England’s rivers and seas – in pictures

    Photographer Dylan Martinez spent years travelling around Britain to capture the story of the country’s broken sewage system
  • March hares boxing.

    Week in wildlife: March hares, a dreaming dormouse and the first chicks of spring

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how foreign multinationals are extracting billions of litres of water from natural aquifers to sell back to the same communities from which it came – for huge profits
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    How bottled water companies are draining our drinking water – video

  • People dancing in bright costumes.

    A spring dance and a fish protest: photos of the day – Tuesday

  • From the series A Fish Called Julie by Jon Tonks. Will, fishing for mackerel, Newlyn, 2023

    Did you catch that? On the boats with Cornish fishers – in pictures

  • A layer of smog hanging over Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.

    Coal pollution chokes Ulaanbataar – in pictures

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