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  • people hold up signs calling for an end to fossil fuels

    Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis

    Among sweeping rightwing electoral victories across the globe, the ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’
  • Two people help each other fill a plastic jug of water from a water tank on wheels

    Asheville restores drinking water 53 days after Hurricane Helene – but not all are ready to sip

  • water droplet coming out of a spout

    California limits on ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS in products are effective, study says

  • A young giraffe interacts with her mother

    US moves to list giraffes under Endangered Species Act for first time

  • Collage

    Revealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis shows

  • Aerial view of a house by itself surrounded by brown water.

    A bomb cyclone looms over California and Pacific north-west – but what is it?

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  • Mukhtar Babayev, the Cop29 president, bangs a gavel during the closing plenary.

    Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided – as it happened

  • Cop29 president Mukhtar Babayevat at the closing plenary meeting

    Cop29 agrees $1.3tn climate finance deal but campaigners brand it a ‘betrayal’

    Deep divisions remain after high-stakes talks end with agreement to help developing world shift to low-carbon economy
  • Wildflowers at Boorhaman reserve, north of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

    Spiky blue devils and chocolate lilies: Victorian grassland bursts with wildflowers after ecological ‘reset’

    Careful management including weed control and a burn laid the groundwork for floral abundance in Boorhaman reserve
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Big oil uncovered

  • smoke coming out of a factory

    Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show

  • a student walks on a university campus

    University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels

  • An aerial view of an oil refinery

    New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters

  • The exterior of the NW Natural utility company, with a grey emblem saying 'NW Natural Sunset Service Center'

    Oregon county sues major gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt

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America's dirty divide

  • A before and after of what an amusement park would look like before and after flooding

    How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater

  • the outside of an apartment building

    Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them

  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller

    Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

  • a brick building with a/c units on the outside

    93F and no electricity: why some US utilities can cut power despite heatwaves

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Our unequal earth

  • people hold signs in protest of H-2A

    Washington state farm workers worry about boom in legal foreign workers

  • a person in a white hazmat suit and yellow hard-hat walks down a road strewn with debris

    Restaurant workers face hard decisions after Hurricane Helene: stay or leave?

  • A long line of people wearing long sleeves and face coverings stand in a rows of low green plants, with hills in the distance under a blue sky.

    ‘Mass deportations would disrupt the food chain’: Californians warn of ripple effect of Trump threat

  • a man fishing by the water

    Florida may enshrine hunting and fishing by ‘traditional methods’ – but what are they?

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The age of extinction

  • Aerial photo of green vegetation being eaten into as gullies form a serrated edge at the coastline

    ‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle

  • Grass mixed with purple, white and yellow flowers can be seen with cars, traffic lights and a high rise shop or office building in the background

    Patches of wildflowers in cities can be just as good for insects as natural meadows – study

    Researchers found no difference in the diversity of species in urban meadows compared with those in rural settings
  • The wetlands and peat bogs of the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland, in Scotland.

    Countries could use nature to ‘cheat’ on net zero targets, scientists warn

    By relying on natural carbon sinks such as forests and peatlands to offset emissions, governments can appear closer to goals than they actually are
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Seascape

  • Steve Ellis stands on a boat on the Thames in a wetsuit

    I’m obsessed with a historic shipwreck: it’s murky and dangerous but diving in the Thames, I feel like a detective

  • A burger bun stacked with cheese, tomato and a patty that looks similar to those made with soya.

    ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts?

    • a parent and baby whale

      Outrage as fifth beluga dies this year at Canada’s Marineland

    • white doughy blob on stony beach

      ‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists

    • A fin whale, balaenoptera physalus, in the Atlantic Ocean off Pico Island, the Azores.

      Iceland’s president urged to intervene over licence for Europe’s last whaler

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Opinion

  • Polly Toynbee

    Look at the farmers’ protest, and then ask yourself: how will we ever make tax fairer amid such grumbling?

    Polly Toynbee
  • AnimalGrudgespixie

    Holding a grudge – is it a petty character flaw or a desire for justice in an unjust world?

  • Paul Daley

    Now is the time to unplug and reset. Next year we enter a more dangerous world – but for now I need the silence of nature

    Paul Daley
  • Activists march in favor of climate legislation in Washington DC in 2021.

    As we wait for national legislation, let’s launch a Green New Deal from below

    Jeremy Brecher
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Multimedia

  • A herd of red deer look out from the bracken on an autumn morning in Richmond Park, London, UK.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a naughty weasel, guard bees and a Sopranos bear

  • Prime minister, Keir Starmer, says lack of Conservative support for climate targets shows 'just how far the party has fallen'

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    'It is a shame': Starmer laments lack of Tory support for climate measures – video

    Prime minister, Keir Starmer, says lack of Conservative support for climate targets shows 'just how far the party has fallen'
  • Warning that water pollutants, forest fires, contaminated rubble and other consequences of war are undermining aims of Paris agreement

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    Cop 29: Ukraine and Palestinian delegates warn of environmental impact of war – video

    Warning that water pollutants, forest fires, contaminated rubble and other consequences of war are undermining aims of Paris agreement
  • Chris Bowen says Australia wants to co-host the 2026 United Nations climate change negotiations 'in partnership with our Pacific family'

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    Australia pledges $50m for climate 'loss and damage' fund, ramps up Cop31 host bid - video

  • A herd of elephants consisting mainly of females and their young arrive at a watering pond for a drink at the Ngutuni wildlif conservancy on the outskirts of Voi in Kenya

    The bee project helping to tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya – in pictures

  • Carlos Mazón rejected calls for his resignation amid growing public anger over his management of the disaster

    1:19

    Valencia's president apologises for handling of deadly floods – video

  • Javan lsow loris at a rebhabilitation centre in Indonesia.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a very lost penguin, cloned baby ferrets and a mystery mollusc

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