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Environment

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    Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

    Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders
  • Graphic illustration of Donald Trump, RFK Jr, and farm scenes.

    Trump will change the face of US food policy. These are the players to watch

  • An American crocodile.

    The secret lives of Florida’s crocodiles: study reveals long-distance commutes

  • Man and two women in supermarket aisle

    Trump plots healthier America but deregulation likely to feature on menu

  • side by side images of sun panels and California governor Gavin Newsom speaking

    How US states are leading the climate fight – despite Trump’s rollbacks

  • close-up of turtle in water

    Green sea turtles cold-stunned by Florida snow recover at marine center

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  • CFMEU flag

    CFMEU vehicle set ablaze in Sydney, union says – as it happened

  • Hamid with arms folded in front of colourful mural with letters 'OCE' visible

    Environmental groups in UK ‘still very white – especially at the top’

    Greenpeace co-director responds to report finding fewer than one in 20 working in sector identifies as non-white
  • Robert Keldoulis sitting at a desk looking at camera

    Climate 200 backer tops list of Australia’s biggest political donors

    Robert Keldoulis and his investment firm Keldoulis Investments poured $1.1m into the fundraising vehicle last year
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America's dirty divide

  • America's dirty divide: about this series

  • The Zinc Nacional plant in the Monterrey area of Nuevo León, Mexico.

    Shutdown at Mexico toxic waste plant after Guardian investigation revealed pollution in nearby homes

  • An industrial plant spews pollution.

    ‘A trash can for the US’: anger in Mexico and Canada over toxic waste shipments

  • A researcher collects samples of pollution from the windowsill of a house near the Zinc Nacional plant; residents walk just outside the large plant; and a woman who lives near the plant shows X-rays of her lungs.

    Revealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico – where a ‘toxic cocktail’ of pollution emerges

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Our unequal earth

  • a cashier uses a register in a restaurant

    Vegan no more: a beloved Asheville plant-based cafe pivots to stay afloat post-hurricane

  • Color illustration of a plate with food on it labeled with prices.

    Can everyone eat for the planet? I shopped at Dollar Store for a week to find out

  • side by side images of a plate of food, two people and a shelf

    ‘The taste of our home’: inside an Afghan restaurant in Arizona run by former refugees

  • two white turkeys stand on a green lawn

    The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey

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The age of extinction

  • A white stork returns on its nest, as viewed through the window of a disintegrating shed in Tyurkmen, Bulgaria. Photograph: Malkolm Boothroyd

    The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? – podcast

  • A rat

    ‘Perfect rat storm’: urban rodent numbers soar as the climate heats, study finds

    Sharp rise in population in 11 of 16 cities expected to continue as rising temperatures make it easier for the animals to breed, say researchers
  • Amazonian royal flycatcher, a bird with with a striking red crest

    In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why

    Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on
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Seascape

  • Impression of one of Deep's underwater living units, called sentinels

    A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis

  • Four young women aged between 15 and 21 sit in a pale blue wooden boat with one rowing; they all wear grey knitted jumpers with traditional-looking patterns and have long fair or light-brown hair

    ‘Heartbreaking’: Iceland’s pioneering female fishing guides fear for wild salmon

    • Niels Clemensen standing in a snowy Nuuk harbour with one of his company's passenger ships in the background

      ‘The world order could start to evolve from the Arctic’: Trump, thin ice and the fight for the Northwest Passage

    • Yoko the swell shark

      Aquarium surprised by ‘virgin birth’ of swell shark in all-female tank

    • Atlantic Puffins fighting over sandeels fish - Isle of May, Anstruther, Scotland, UK

      Sandeels vs the EU: how the puffin’s favourite food sparked first post-Brexit courtroom trade battle

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Opinion

  • A road closure in Townsville

    What’s behind the deadly, record-breaking floods in north Queensland?

    Steve Turton for the Conversation
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Heathrow expansion puts the government on the flight path to years of trouble and strife

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • A scene from Kyoto, at the Soho Place theatre, London

    How the oil majors sabotaged Kyoto

    Letters
  • Clive Lewis

    I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic

    Clive Lewis
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Multimedia

  • Residents capture footage of severe floods in north Queensland – video

  • Mount Lyell shrew, California.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a new shrew, itchy deer and tortoises on rafts

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • The Hollywood actor was stopped mid-scene as a man and a woman climbed on stage at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane
    1:15

    Just Stop Oil activists interrupt Sigourney Weaver performance in The Tempest – video

    The Hollywood actor was stopped mid-scene as a man and a woman climbed on stage at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane
  • Water brought in by Storm Éowyn floods the car park as strong winds create a fast current
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    Storm Éowyn lashes Galway aquarium in Ireland – video

  • A fur seal rests at Shag Point in coastal Otago, New Zealand.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a drowsy seal, wild kittens and the reddest bird

  • First there was Moo Deng, then there was Pesto the Penguin – but have you met Sydney's Putricia, the corpse flower?
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    Putricia the corpse flower: would you wait 3.5 hours to smell a rotten carcass? - video

  • A topless man with a hat stands holding bags while looking at a dry horizon

    The year the rainforest dried up: how the climate crisis beached Brazil’s floating communities

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