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Environment

  • air pollution

    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

    After stories revealed high levels of contamination in neighborhood around factory processing US toxic waste, government announces sweeping array of tactics
  • Illustration of men and climate crisis

    How Trump’s EPA rollbacks could harm our air and water – and worsen global heating

  • doctors examining a mountain lion

    Live TV report on cougar capture in San Francisco neighborhood interrupted by coyote

  • an illustration of the heads of two men against images of pollution clouds and oil

    ‘Shameful’: Trump’s EPA accused of prioritizing big business over public health

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    ‘Abdication’: Trump takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time

  • smoke and lights from emergency vehicles at night

    Six people killed in private jet crash in Maine during snowstorm

  • a photo of a man near piles of snow

    Trump says the big US winter storm is proof of climate hoax – here’s why he’s wrong

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  • People walk along a street destroyed by Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica, in October 2025

    Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax

  • White netting above intensive blueberry farm

    NSW Greens to move bill to let councils better regulate berry industry as it continues rapid expansion

  • 2024 white Kia Niro (II) battery electric crossover car parked next to battery charger at the dealership. Salo, Finland. June 23, 2024.2Y4GMWT 2024 white Kia Niro (II) battery electric crossover car parked next to battery charger at the dealership. Salo, Finland. June 23, 2024.

    UK new car buyers drive a bargain as average discount nears £6,000

  • Person pours the red wine into three glasses – slightly out of focus

    New type of Bordeaux wine to gain official status as result of climate pressure

America's dirty divide

  • A cityscape is seen in the foreground covered in smog with a large mountain seen in the background

    Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

  • 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

Our unequal earth

  • Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland.

    Ex-FDA workers warn Trump cuts will increase risk of food safety lapses in US

  • a composite image showing scientific vials and a plant

    Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing

  • a man holding a tree

    These migrants grow the US’s Christmas trees. Trump’s wage cuts may keep them away

  • people stand in line for free meals

    Hunger’s whip: why connecting US food stamps to work is outdated and ineffective

    Dana Simmons

The age of extinction

  • The landscape flooded by the rising waters of the River Otter after Storm Chandra in Honiton, Devon.

    ‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice

  • A view through a window of a classroom, with books on desks. Trees can be seen reflected in the glass

    The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?

  • A wolf in a white snowy forest

    ‘We cannot say for sure these wolves come from Russia’: Finns try to fathom cause of record reindeer deaths

  • A Tapanuli orangutan, Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia

    Indonesia takes action against mining firms after floods devastate population of world’s rarest ape

Seascape

  • Beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 9 June, 2023.

    Valium, health checks and fabric slings: the complex logistics of moving 30 beluga whales

  • An aerial picture of a huge red and blue ship stacked with red, white and yellow containers. The front of the ship is holding up two collapseed sections of a metal bridge, parts of which are underwater, wile other sections can be seen partially submerged.

    Baltimore bridge collapse: crew members from ship still held by US two years on

  • Painting of Mary Ann Patten, in red dress and dark shawl, captaining the clipper Neptune's Car in stormy seas around Cape Horn.

    Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?

  • Four people in traditional Bolivian dress sit in a boat stranded on the salty desert where Lake Poopó used to be.

    Life with and without water: from riding waves to disappearing lakes – in pictures

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Opinion

  • Upper Chevreuse Valley Regional Nature Park, Rambouillet state forest, France.

    The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late

  • George Monbiot

    The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised

    George Monbiot
  • Adam Morton

    Through the heatwave haze, the hypocrisy of Australia’s fossil fuel policy shines bright

    Adam Morton
  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out

    Aditya Chakrabortty

Multimedia

  1. A woman carrying her son on her back

    Australia’s best photos of the month – January 2026

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  2. A rescued young owl in Costa Rica. This beautiful owl named 'Gandolf' was brought into

    Week in wildlife: a rescued owl, a brave blackbird and Fukushima boar babies

    Gallery19
  3. A new development in Stalbridge, Dorset fitted with both solar panels and air source heat pumps.

    Homes with air source heat pumps or solar panels for sale in England – in pictures

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