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Environment

  • An illustration showing people working at a warehouse directing a freight plane

    Extreme heat
    Smokey air, nonstop nosebleeds. Life as a warehouse worker in a heatwave: ‘Products matter more than people’

    As the Line fire exploded, dense smoke made it difficult to breathe and heat became ‘intolerable’, but work carried on
  • A drilling rig is silhouetted at sunset.

    Explainer
    Fracking explained: why the fossil fuel extraction process became a US election issue

  • Susana Muhamad Rozo 001 in Bogota, Colombia, June 2022

    The age of extinction
    How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil

  • A furry brown tarantula crawls on dirt and gravel

    Arachnids
    Spider lovers scurry to Colorado as tarantula mating season gets under way

  • Two men with glasses of beer standing in front of a Futraheat heat pump

    Brewer to cut emissions by making beer using a heat pump in UK first

  • Young adults in summer wear and baseball caps walk in a group holding handmade signs above their heads.

    Climate crisis
    Trip on psychedelics, save the planet: The offbeat solution to the climate crisis

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CO2 tracker

Spotlight

  • 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

  • Aerial of Clayoquot Sound reserve in British Columbia is home to the last 60 salmon farms

    ‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon?

    • An aerial view of waves washing up tons of disarded clothing

      ‘Because secondhand is feckin’ grand’: how clothes swapping became huge in Ireland

    • A mural depicting a man with his hands in a coffee bag and a woman with one hand on a boy's shoulder and another balancing a basket of coffee beans on her head

      ‘It used to be a farm – now it’s a mall’: how El Salvador’s crisis-hit coffee producers are trying to adapt

    • A smiling South African woman stands before a field of cabbages and other crops

      Africa’s small-scale revolution against big agriculture: five farmers talk greener, better food

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Opinion

  • Nadya Tolokonnikova

    Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him

    Nadya Tolokonnikova
  • Greg Jericho

    Plibersek’s coalmine decision is double trouble for climate and housing

    Greg Jericho
  • Gernot Wagner

    Floods are wreaking havoc around the world. Vienna might have found an answer

    Gernot Wagner
  • George Monbiot

    As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

    George Monbiot
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The age of extinction

  • A spiky agave-type plant on a mountain-side of grass and rocks

    Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants

  • Alistair Boxall, professor in environmental science at the University of York, taking a water sample at Brook Head Beck

    ‘Rivers you think are pristine are not’: how drug pollution flooded the UK’s waterways – and put human health at risk

    High levels of antibiotics and other drugs have been found in water in the country’s most treasured and protected landscapes, raising concerns over antimicrobial resistance
  • A crowd of men looking through binoculars behind a gate

    ‘You could single-handedly push it to extinction’: how social media is putting our rarest wildlife at risk

    From breeding spots overrun by visitors to photographers disturbing endangered species, experts say the rarer the find is, the bigger the problem
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Seascape

  • A cuttlefish amid weed-covered branches of a tree watched by a man in a wetsuit with goggles and snorkel

    ‘We look to the past to move forward’: the ancient method boosting cuttlefish numbers in the Mediterranean

  • 1st Prize Echoing Sigh-lence of Relief inside Cargo Hold by Muara Jawa.

    The Life at Sea 2024 photography awards: a rare glimpse into the highs and lows of seafaring

    • Corallian Energy Drill in Poole Bay To Explore Oil Reserves<br>POOLE, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: ENSCO-72 drilling rig working in Poole Bay for Corallian Energy on February 15, 2019 in Poole Bay, England. The scheme to drill more than 1,000 metres below the seabed to explore oil reserves in the Colter prospect has until February 28. Save Our Shores Bournemouth says the chemical permit issued by government regulator OPRED allows ‘up to 6753 tons of chemicals to be discharged, including eight tons of biocide’. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

      Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group

    • Two divers raise an anchor covered in rust and barnacles towards the surface

      ‘I had found gold before, but not like this’: four of the most splendid treasures salvaged from shipwrecks

    • Composite of a linocut illustration surrounded by photographs of Scottish coasts and wildlife

      ‘The otter came so close I could smell her fishy breath’: scribbles and sketches from Scotland’s wild isles

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Multimedia

  • A Komodo dragon up close on Komodo Island, Indonesia

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a penguin ballerina, the spooky spookfish and a sociable octopus

  • The Speed Skater – Stellers Sea Eagle in the drifting sea ice off Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

    Comedy wildlife photography awards 2024 – in pictures

    A light-hearted look at wildlife with a selection of finalists from the Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards. A winner will be announced on 10 December
  • Nine protesters jumped on top of a train on Wednesday morning headed to the Port of Newcastle, unfurled a banner and began shovelling coal off

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    Activists board coal train as Albanese government approves three coalmine expansions – video

    Nine protesters jumped on top of a train on Wednesday morning headed to the Port of Newcastle, unfurled a banner and began shovelling coal off
  • A ring of hundreds of dead birds which flew into glass buildings

    Bird photographer of the year 2024 winners – in pictures

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton detailed the Coalition’s nuclear power plan in a speech in Sydney, but did not announce its cost, saying it is coming 'in due course'

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    Dutton says Coalition will release nuclear power plan costings 'at a time of our choosing' – video

  • Supermoon rises over a canola field, shown black in the night sky

    Gold rush: harvest moon rises to meet canola season in Riverina – in pictures

  • Anger has been growing over the lack of flood defence planning after the same area of Emilia-Romagna was hit by severe flooding in May 2023

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    People rescued from rooftops as flooding hits northern Italy – video

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