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  • Two men hold a reddish hose over a tank outside

    Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta

    New research suggests parasitic infections in US south are far more widespread than previously acknowledged
  • Trump, wearing a suit, speaks at a podium, an American flag behind him

    Republican-run states see opportunity to push extreme policies under Trump

  • Donald Trump at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Arizona, on 22 December.

    Trump aims to crush legal curbs on his climate rollback – but it may not be easy

  • downed trees

    10m trees to be planted in US to replace ones destroyed by hurricanes

  • overhead view of a farmer on a tractor preparing a field for spring planting

    Bleak outlook for US farmers – and Trump tariffs could make it worse

  • Austin, Texas USA: Drivers in two cars confronting each other while in traffic. Road rage. MR ©Bob Daemmrich<br>2B722E1 Austin, Texas USA: Drivers in two cars confronting each other while in traffic. Road rage. MR ©Bob Daemmrich

    How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness

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  • Hadi Nazari

    Searchers find hiking poles of man missing for a week in Kosciuszko national park

  • Fig leaf gourd (cucurbita ficifolia) growing in vegetable garden at RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate.

    Fig and almond trees thriving in UK thanks to fewer frosts, RHS says

    Society to retire plants no longer suited to UK’s changing climate after 14% fewer days of ground frost recorded
  • Climate scientists blamed the continued rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere for driving the bulk of the temperature increases.

    BoM data finds 2024 was Australia’s second-hottest year on record

    Rise in greenhouse gases responsible for average temperatures rising to 1.46C above average, with one climate scientist saying this is ‘the norm now’
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Big oil uncovered

  • A pool of oil surrounded by dry vegetation

    Oil and gas firms operating in Colorado falsified environmental impact reports

  • an industrial facility with trees and a body of water in the foreground

    ‘I have to live in a cocoon’: locals in Pennsylvania feel ‘sacrificed’ for Shell plastics plant

  • 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

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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

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    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

  • 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

  • Aerial view of a container filled with illegally obtained wild bird eggs seized by Essex police, UK

    Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history

  • Two shaggy musk oxen, with big curved horns, look at the camera from a ridge

    They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?

    Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go
  • Two male reindeer locking antlers in a forest clearing

    Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer

    For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests
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Seascape

  • Nathalie Frost holds two broken shells up to inspect them on a beach

    I’m obsessed with broken shells: they are marked by life, like our skin

  • A grey lying on sand with her flipper resting on a pup with streaks of blood on its white fur

    ‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish

    • Mahyuddin and Ema Listyana

      Indian Ocean tsunami: how survivors found love after Boxing Day disaster

    • Five people cluster around a large dolphin-like whale on a beach as breakers crash against the shore

      Dissecting the world’s rarest whale – in pictures

    • Abdul Rahem with his boat in the Aceh province, Indonesia

      ‘If we die, we die together’: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, are we better prepared?

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Opinion

  • A young boy looking out to sea

    Each year I insist we visit the same beach. Repetition tricks the mind into thinking a thing will last for ever

    Jenny Sinclair
  • Rupert Read

    At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won’t happen – so here’s what to do instead

    Rupert Read
  • Helen Sullivan

    A cicada: ‘What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallised memory’

    Helen Sullivan
  • Jeremy Corbyn

    The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them?

    Jeremy Corbyn
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Multimedia

  • Alan Jones walks past waiting media as he leaves a police station in Sydney on 18 November

    Australia’s best agency photography for 2024 – in pictures

  • A picture perfect robin framed in holly puts on a show for the Christmas season in Ipswich, UK

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a seasonal robin and newborn lion cubs in Bedfordshire

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Ailanthus Webworm, Atteva aurea . 2022

    On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect’s flight – in pictures

    Artist Xavi Bou has created an eye-popping series celebrating fascinating creatures that are too often seen only as a nuisance
  • Riley Swanson (left) and Chico Shaw watching the sunset over the Roma Southern Road in Queensland.

    Guardian Australia’s best photos of 2024 – in pictures

  • A marmoset dangles upside down by its hind legs, enjoying a banana at Forte Duque de Caxias in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a dangling marmoset, rare leopard babies and an eyelash snake

  • A modern home in Clapham, London built alongside traditional period townhouses.

    Homes for sale with an air source heat pump – in pictures

  • The spectacular site is home to more than 1,000 species, including the endangered pygmy blue whale. But a Woodside gas project would put it all at risk, conservationists say&nbsp;

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    Rare vision of WA’s Scott Reef shows dazzling ecosystem threatened by gas projects – video

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