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Environment

  • thatched roof gazebo overlooking trees, with a rug on ground marked 'Zoological Wildlife Foundation'

    Animal welfare violations swarm Miami zoo owned by ex-drug kingpin in Tiger King

    Endangered snow leopard had leg amputated and capybara died at Mario Tabraue’s controversial roadside facility
  • A blurred person in the foreground walks near railroad tracks with an industrial facility and fence in the background

    US garbage incinerators are failing to eliminate ‘forever chemical’ air pollution, experts warn

  • Glossy red tomato with a smiling face surrounded by pale pink tomatoes with human-like faces

    ‘Flavor is under siege in this country’: how food in America lost its taste

  • A man holds a solar panel on a balcony.

    Power to the people: how ‘balcony solar’ could help fight rising US utility costs

  • A silhouetted tractor with spray equipment releases a mist over a green field at dusk

    Vermont becomes first US state to ban paraquat herbicide over Parkinson’s fears

  • Close up of a woman's hand filling a glass of filtered water right from the tap in the kitchen sink at home

    Why Trump administration’s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is ‘nonsensical’

  • An illegal immigrant from El Salvador is searched on the tarmac prior to boarding an MD-80 aircraft for a repatriation flight of 80 immigrants to their home country, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operate four to five repatriation flights weekly out of Mesa to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Shackled violent offenders, minors and women are separated on the flight and are turned over to El Salvador's immigration officers upon arrival. (AP Photo/Matt York)

    Revealed: huge climate cost of harmful emissions from US immigration flights

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Latest news

  • People sunbathe on grass and wade in water, with a yellow 'no swimming' sign visible

    Ministers urge City of London to act over swimmers in Hampstead Heath wildlife ponds

  • A blue electric car charging on a residential street with yellow caution signs and cable protectors on the pavement

    On-street EV charging in UK is postcode lottery as drivers face council objections

  • A Dartford warbler with grey head, rust-colored breast and long tail perches on a thorny branch, singing

    Dartford warbler stages a comeback 60 years after almost vanishing

  • An aerial view of a peatland tropical forest in Indonesia.

    Conservationists alarmed by drastic cuts to key UK fund for global nature protection

America's dirty divide

  • Sonora River polluted with sulfuric acid from copper mine leak in Mexico

    US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says

  • air pollution

    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

  • 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

Our unequal earth

  • sheep graze near solar panels

    Solar energy helps US farms stay afloat – but Republicans’ bill could change that

  • Left: An aerial shot of Cooke Aquaculture in Bingham, ME. Right: A live fish is allegedly clubbed with a metal rod.

    Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming

  • Geneva Apple Rootstock Breeding Program at a research station in Geneva, New York.

    Roots of resilience: the experts working to bolster apples against the climate crisis

  • Wheat growing in a field

    ‘The worst time for wheat’: US farmers face losses to extreme heat and drought

The age of extinction

  • Two men look at a dead elephant

    What is killing Sumatra’s elephants? The battle to save one of our rarest animals

  • Someone out of focus lying down and looking at a purple petalled flower with a yellow centre among grass blades

    Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

  • Three mountain bongos drink from a trough in a forested grassland.

    ‘Bringing the boys back home’: how mountain bongos Maue, Fitz, Kudu and Bon64 made their way back to Kenya

  • A bumblebee on a white flower

    Collecting pollen can be as exhausting for bees as flight take-off, study shows

Seascape

  • The Lincolnshire seaside town is often written off by YouTubers as a place defined by deprivation and decline. But for many young people it's a place they love and are proud to call home, even though high unemployment limits their opportunities. As part of the year-long Against the tide project reporting on the lives of young people in coastal communities across England and Wales, the Guardian follows 19-year old Cohen, who is desperate to find a permanent job while running a mascot hire company and chasing his dream of becoming a professional wrestler

    Vape shops but no jobs: one young man’s search for work in Grimsby

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  • A man dressed in a bunny outfit stands in front of what appears to be a fairground under construction

    ‘I’m throwing everything at it’: one young man’s search for a job in Britain’s ‘worklessness capital’

  • A mosasaur skull

    Tentacles, pointy teeth and the T-rex of the sea: the Natural History Museum on beasts that once ruled the oceans

  • A man and a woman with two small children standing on rocks by the sea use nets on poles to scoop up marine creatures. Tankers can be seen in the waterway behind them

    High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England

Opinion

  • Frances Ryan

    double quotation markAir conditioning: the wealthy and well can afford it, but disabled people who need it most can’t

    Frances Ryan
  • The main gas pipeline at the large gas terminal plant in North Norfolk.

    The Guardian view on energy shocks: winter is coming – and Labour needs a plan

  • A computer illustration of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the bacteria that cause diphtheria

    double quotation markDiphtheria is a disease of poverty that has no place in modern Australia. When we talk about Closing the Gap, this is the gap

    Donna Ah Chee
  • Tarik Abou-Chadi

    double quotation markTo reverse the ‘greenlash’, Europe’s Green parties should embrace Polanski’s boldness

    Tarik Abou-Chadi

Multimedia

  • A robber fly with large dark eyes and spiny legs perches on a green leaf

    Week in wildlife: a baby pangolin, a gorilla super-mum and Formula One geese

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  • Snow-covered Puncak Jaya with exposed rock faces and glacial ice surrounding a deep valley

    Mapping the last glaciers in Oceania – in pictures

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