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Environment

  • Jacob Hannah, CEO of Coalfield Development, stands for a portrait inside a large industrial site that was the subject of a redevelopment halted by Trump’s dismantling of Biden-era programs meant to revitalize rural communities in Appalachia.

    ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival

    Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
  • an exterior view of a power plant

    Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m

  • Woman with wide-brimmed hat rakes verge between two bright rows of orange marigolds.

    Food is medicine, and that’s a fact. Why we all need Native American foodways

    Kate Nelson
  • Alan Muskat teaches a group of kids about foraging as part of his afterschool program in fall 2025. Dimitri Magiasis shows off some mushrooms he foraged during the tour.

    ‘Nature feeds us more than it floods us’: Asheville after-school program teaches kids to forage

  • turkeys walk across a field

    Wild turkeys off the menu in Maine after ‘forever chemicals’ found in birds

  • emissions rise from smokestacks

    Trump’s EPA moves to abandon tough standards for deadly soot pollution

  • people wear oversized masks depicting world leaders, including one holding a power drill over a ball representing the earth

    US, Russia and Saudi Arabia create axis of obstruction as Cop30 sputters out

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Latest news

  • A man wades through a flooded street in Wellampitiya, Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka death toll from floods and landslides reaches 153

  • Rescuers evacuating residents from a flood-affected area in Langkat, North Sumatra province, Indonesia, on Friday

    At least 460 killed in south-east Asia floods and landslides, reports say

  • Flooded houses in Black River, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

    UK MPs push for extra aid and visas as Jamaica reels from Hurricane Melissa

  • Parched land at Cueva de Las Niñas reservoir in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain back in March.

    Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown

America's dirty divide

  • 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

  • Smoke from burning rubber lingers in the air at the Portland International Raceway during a drag racing event in 2023.

    Lawmaker seeks ban of toxic fuel at Portland racetrack after Guardian story

Our unequal earth

  • a composite image showing a mother with her two children, and a mother with her son

    ‘Hunger has left its mark on me’: a Native woman reflects on her rich but food-scarce life

  • three people's legs as they sit on curb

    ‘We need this food’: Las Vegas teens on hunger and anxiety amid Snap cuts

  • Composite of five images, all from the body of the story: a woman looking into the wind, bison, young men working with poles and to build a lodge.

    After centuries of trauma, Montana’s Blackfeet Nation turns to an old friend for food sovereignty: bison

  • a man speaking

    RFK Jr railed against ultra-processed foods. Trump’s policies encourage their production

The age of extinction

  • A man and a girl holding phones crouch down to stroke and feed a capybara

    Cuddling capybaras and ogling otters: the problem with animal cafes in Asia

  • A man crouches opposite a large bird, stroking it with one hand

    The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis

  • Huge plumes of grey and orange smoke billow hundreds of feet into the air above a densely forested area.

    Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests

  • Starfish in murky water on a chunk of material on the sea bed

    Nazi bombs, torpedo heads and mines: how marine life thrives on dumped weapons

Seascape

  • Narwhals swim in an clear passage of sea between frozen ice

    ‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

  • The Neoliner Origin ship at sea

    Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?

  • The head of a dolphin-like whale is seen surfacing in water

    These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two

  • A man and women kneel on a sandy beach sifting sand next to plastic buckets. Other people are similarly working on the beach behind them

    ‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands

Opinion

  • Nightcap National Park. NSW, Australia. Labor and the Greens have passed nature laws to protect the environment in Australia

    Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing

    Ken Henry
  • Adam Morton

    Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details

    Adam Morton
  • A large turtle swims among bleached coral

    The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding

    Georgina Woods
  • Peter Lewis

    To defeat the global Goliaths devastating our planet, we must raise an army of Davids

    Peter Lewis

Multimedia

  1. A grey seal pup on grass with a rainbow in the sky above

    Week in wildlife: seal pups, albino turtles and a sleeping tiger

    Gallery22
  2. Komodo dragon resting in shallow coastal water.

    Nature inFocus photography competition 2025: flamingos, foxes and a chilled out chimp

    Gallery13
  3. An emu with orange eyes looks directly at the viewer

    The 2025 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures

    Gallery17

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