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  • aerial view of water sprayed near chemical tank

    Overheated chemical tank in southern California ‘will fail’, EPA chief says

    Lee Zeldin says ‘low-volume release’ of flammable chemicals is most likely amid fears of explosion at Orange county facility near Disneyland
  • A hiking trail with trees and flowers overlooking the ocean.

    This US island is home to flora found nowhere else. Now, a wildfire threatens extinction

  • Water sprayed on chemical tankj

    California: 40,000 people ordered to evacuate over chemical leak fears

  • A large sun rises behind Mexico City mountains with layers of orange haze and church domes in the foreground

    Why an immense marine heatwave off the US west coast has alarmed scientists

  • a person reaches into a refrigerator in a store

    Trump’s EPA to roll back refrigerant rule for grocery stores in push it claims will lower prices

  • cars drive in a city

    Young Americans demand court halt Trump’s biggest rollbacks of pollution protections

  • people look at a decomposing whale

    San Francisco turns to AI to save whales from ship strikes as deaths soar

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  • Datacentre worker walking between stacks of computer equipment

    Scotland’s ‘green datacentres’ policy ignores emissions impact of AI, analysis shows

  • The golden sun rising in the sky behind low cloud over London, viewed from a park

    Hottest May day for nearly 80 years as parts of UK hit heatwave threshold

  • A row of blue EV Power charging stations marked '150kW' with green leaf graphics, parked car visibleChristopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    Treasury rejected ministers’ plan to cut VAT on public EV charging to 5%

  • David Pocock

    Pocock open to independents forming party to counter Hanson – as it happened

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

  • 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

  • A man stands on the front of a green tractor in a freshly tilled field, holding a fuel nozzle.

    Diesel prices squeeze US farmers ‘barely getting by’ amid tariffs and drought

The age of extinction

  • 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

  • A tiny baby ape wearing a hoodie looks at the camera

    For sale: one cute baby gibbon – mother probably killed by poachers

  • A group of penguins in a grassy seaside setting

    How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins

Seascape

  • 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

  • House dust magnified under a microscope showing tangled fibres and strands

    ‘You have to be where the pollution is’: the inventor hoping to fix your washing machine to stop microplastics

  • A video grab of a tanker with its stern on fire and black smoke billowing from it

    ‘Everything went black. Then fire poured down’: one man’s terror onboard a ship hit in the Iran war

Opinion

  • Supermarket Food Prices Increase Due To Cost of LivingNORTHWICH, ENGLAND - JULY 06: In this photo illustration a small selection of essential items sits in a shopping trolley on July 06, 2022 in Northwich, England. The British Retail Consortium recently said food manufacturers and supermarkets are having to pass on some of the cost of soaring raw materials to consumers, leading to the price of basic goods throughout the UK rising at the fastest pace since September 2008. Fresh food prices increased by 6% in the year to June 2022 coupled with an increase in inflation, and fuel and energy prices to create a cost of living crisis. This is leading to millions of low-income households going without essentials items, falling behind on bills and taking on debt. (Photo illustration by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

    The Guardian view on Britain’s coming energy shock: mini-measures won’t suffice

  • Graham Readfearn

    double quotation markOne Nation says it’s the only party in Australia to question climate science. It should ask itself why

    Graham Readfearn
  • Everland store front

    double quotation markI believed sustainable fashion’s hype. But between Everlane and Allbirds, the letdowns keep coming

    Clare Press
  • gas station showing prices over $6 a gallon

    double quotation markThe Iran war reminds us: we’ll never be energy-independent with fossil fuels

    Lloyd Doggett and Michael Shank

Multimedia

  • A Sri Lankan leopard keeps lookout on a tree branch at Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.

    The week in wildlife: a lurking leopard, a lucky fox and a wily coyote

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