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Environment

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Trash talk: New York City has finally discovered the wheelie bin – and it only cost $1.6m

    Arwa Mahdawi
    After decades of bags lining the streets, the mayor has proudly wheeled out a McKinsey-approved trash can
  • FILE PHOTO: Reuters interviews JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. CEO Jamie Dimon in Miami, Florida<br>FILE PHOTO: Jamie Dimon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., pauses as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida, U.S., February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

    Senators accuse JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon of backtracking on climate commitments

  • People use umbrellas to block the sun

    Las Vegas on track to set record for most consecutive days over 115F

  • A man walks through cooling mist

    Urban heat island effect making temperatures 8F hotter in 65 US cities – study

  • a person splashes water on their head to cool off

    More heat deaths reported in Oregon as US heatwave continues to roast region

  • a sign reads "Volusia County Florida" on a beach

    Shark bites teen training to be a lifeguard in Florida

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  • Pollution and plant debris on the Grand Union Canal at Harefield

    Thames Water fails to complete 108 upgrades to ageing sewage works

  • Woman using Switchee thermostat

    UK tech startup raises £5m to prevent dangerous mould in social housing

    Switchee aims to protect health and cut bills by installing its technology in 1m homes
  • An aerial view of waves hitting the beach at Seatown in Dorset

    Wessex Water’s TV ad banned for omitting sewage record

    Advert trumpeting storm overflow plans should have disclosed past environmental harms, says ASA
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Big oil uncovered

  • Two men in hard hats, jumpsuits and heavy boots work on dark purple painted pipes above, with pink floppy tubes and hard blue tubes.

    Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill

  • An underwater view of a lot of plastic garbage, including a plastic bag, a plastic bottle and small bits of plastic.

    Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study

  • A very thin woman raises a plastic bottle to her lips, in full sun with a blue tarp behind her.

    Lawyers could charge big oil with homicide after 2023 Arizona heatwave

  • A side-by-side image of Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott

    Elected officials in sweltering US states prioritizing fossil fuel cash over people

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America's dirty divide

  • A swimmer learns to float during a free swimming lesson organized by Black People Will Swim at York College in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on Thursday, June 20th, 2024.

    A New York program is helping Black people of all ages enjoy swimming: ‘It’s very empowering’

  • A pregnant woman holds her belly

    Why pregnant people are more at risk during heatwaves – and ways to stay safe

  • a woman speaks into a microphone

    Native tribes on banning Kristi Noem from reservations: ‘She’d be charged with trespassing’

  • a man in a suit speaks near a petroleum refinery

    EPA chief vows to take on Republican-led states over pollution rules rollback

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Our unequal earth

  • A young woman stare exasperatedly at a kitchen setup.

    ‘Buy your back brace now’: The Bear sidesteps the grueling physical costs of restaurant work

  • Students tap a tree for maple syrup in Randolph, Vermont, on 20 May 2024.

    ‘It’s the future of sugar’: new technology feeds Vermont maple syrup boom amid climate crisis

  • signs posted above water fountains read 'do not drink until further notice'

    Kids have a right to water in US schools, but does that water make the grade?

  • Veggies and farmer owners at Choy Commons, a cooperative of Asian-led farms.

    Asian American farm collective targets food insecurity: ‘It’s been really healing’

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The age of extinction

  • Black smoke darkens a red sky above a body of water against a black tree line

    Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

  • Two elephants with tusks walk in a dusty landscape at sunset

    Trophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants

    The lifting of a long-held ban has angered conservationists, but others argue trophy hunting can support local economies and even help protect threatened species
  • Raptor expert George Smith ringing peregrine chicks on a cliff ledge while roped to a tree above

    ‘I’ve known some of these peregrines for 15 years’: protecting Scotland’s raptors – in pictures

    The fastest birds in the world, peregrine falcons are sought after for racing and can sell for up to £250,000 in the Middle East. Poaching is a constant threat, with eggs and chicks stolen to supply the hidden market. Now, there are nationwide efforts under way to ring and take DNA from wild chicks – but just reaching their nests can be perilous
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Seascape

  • A woman wearing a pink rash vest sitting on a surfboard in the sea

    ‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans

  • An employee carries a blue shark into cold storage at Miami Pescado, Cananéia.

    ‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

    • A large sea cow or dugong with its elongated snout stirring up sediment as it grazes the seabed

      ‘We rarely see them now’: just how vulnerable are Vanuatu’s dugongs?

    • Mountain Otemanu in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. There are many colored artificial lights in the shore reflecting in the flat calm sea water.

      Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

    • Richard Forrest walks along Lyme Regis beach in Dorset, where he regularly hunts for fossils.

      The fossil finder: one man’s lifelong search for fragments of Britain’s Jurassic past – photo essay

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Opinion

  • Adam Morton

    Climate protesters won’t be deterred by fines, jail or political mixed messages on the environment

    Adam Morton
  • Dogs are seen near the border wall, on the border between Mexico and US, during a winter storm, in Ciudad Juarez

    Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls

    Jonathan Watts
  • Graham Readfearn

    Dick Smith enters nuclear debate but CSIRO analysis shows his argument in meltdown

    Graham Readfearn
  • Helen Sullivan

    A rat: ‘We can no longer live as rats: we know too much’

    Helen Sullivan
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Multimedia

  • Kestrel chicks look out from their nest on the side of a house in Rochdale, UK. They are about to take flight for the first time

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: joyriding birds, a rare golden cat and a surprise king cobra

  • After his visit to Carriacou, Grenada's prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, described the aftermath of the category 4 storm as 'Armageddon-like'

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    Drone footage shows trail of destruction caused by Hurricane Beryl in Grenada – video

    After his visit to Carriacou, Grenada's prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, described the aftermath of the category 4 storm as 'Armageddon-like'
  • Linda in the laundry room, alongside a picture of linens

    ‘We all need a place to hide’: NHS workers take a breather – in pictures

    From wildflower retreats and Novid rooms to locking yourself in a disabled toilet, hospital staff reveal where they go when they need a moment’s peace
  • Ellen Dwyer, an incident controller in the rescue team, says they are 'pleased' they have been able to remove a significant amount of weight and rope from the whale

    Rescue team cuts 800kg of tangled ropes and buoy from humpback whale off Gippsland coast – video

  • Geese fly past soldiers of an honour guard

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: geese on parade, a radioactive rhino and a lovestruck eagle

  • Greens senator asked whether environment minister cares more about 'letting Gina Rinehart profit from another climate-wrecking coal seam gas mine or protecting our endangered koalas'

    Labor defends approval of Gina Rinehart-backed gas project in Senate – video

  • Tek Prasad Gurung, 64, takes a bite from freshly-harvested honeycomb during honey hunting

    ‘Fraught with danger’: wild honey gathering in Nepal – in pictures

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