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  • Aerial illustartion of a peninsula

    The Big Apple gets a tiny forest: 1,000 native plants coming to New York

    City’s first pocket forest, aimed at increasing biodiversity, will spring up in April on 2,700 sq ft of Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island
  • Under the metal canopy of a gas station, two a beige open-roofed Hummer, which looks like a jeep, and a white Mercedes van both fill up their vehicles.

    Revealed: How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza

  • A photo of East Beach Road in Westport, Massachusetts, battered after heavy storms in January 2024.

    Swept away: $500,000 sand dune built to protect US homes disappears in days

  • A tower burns off leaking gas against a cloudy sky.

    US energy industry gas leaks are triple the official figures, study finds

  • Workers unload fish from the boat before transporting to a fish market on July 13, 2016 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

    ‘A fishing accident blinded me but I was forced to keep working’: abuses faced by workers who catch our fish

  • In this image taken from a video provided by the Richmond Wildlife Center, executive director and founder Melissa Stanley wears a fox mask as she feeds an orphaned red fox kit, March 10, 2024, in Richmond, Ca.. Stanley said the mask creates a visual barrier to prevent animals from imprinting on humans. (Richmond Wildlife Center via AP)

    Virginia wildlife center staff pretend to be giant foxes when feeding cub

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  • A badger rests on a patch of grass at night.

    UK government overturns plans to phase out badger cull

  • Workers cover a glacier with plastic sheets on the peak of Zugspitze mountain in Germany, May 2011.

    Effects of geoengineering must be urgently investigated, experts say

    Impact on ecosystems must be predicted before technology is used, US atmospheric science agency chief says
  • Tesla Model 3 is one of the most popular models of EV available in Australia

    ‘No longer a novelty’: massive rise in Australian EV sales, industry report finds

    EVs represent about 1% of light vehicles in Australia – but Electric Vehicle Council warns there is ‘more work to be done’ to reach 2050 emissions targets
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  • a man speaks into a megaphone while another holds a countdown clock titled "climate clock"

    Film studio from Oscar-winning director aims to stir up ‘populist anger’ over climate crisis

  • Flare stack at petroleum refinery in Port Arthur Texas<br>M31J6P Flare stack at petroleum refinery in Port Arthur Texas

    ‘Explosive growth’ in petrochemical production poses risks to human health

  • man in suit and tie against a red background

    Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures

  • An oil well near Denver, Colorado, in 2015.

    Colorado landowners sue oil company over clean-up of ‘orphaned’ well

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America's dirty divide

  • Blue sign pointing to buildings

    The birthplace of the atomic bomb is booming. Neighbors worry that could make them sick

  • Florida’s outdoor workers demand better working conditions and protection against the extreme heat in June 2023.

    Florida passes ‘cruel’ bill curbing water and shade protections for workers

  • Cars and debris from washed away homes line a canal in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on 5 October 2022 – a week after the passage of Hurricane Ian.

    Hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly – and the most vulnerable communities are hit hardest

  • The 8000' Portal Peak in the Chiricahua mountains, one of the sky islands of the basin and range province of southern Arizona and New Mexico surrounded by clouds.

    ‘We are the guinea pigs’: Arizona mining project sparks concerns for air and water

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Our unequal earth

  • Wettex, the original Swedish dishcloth.

    Are Swedish dishcloths more environment-friendly than paper towels? We investigate

  • A video reel of teenagers wearing T-shirts and gloves serving meals outdoors, and of gardening.

    ‘Hey, I grew that’: the Native American school that’s decolonizing foodways

  • Cows penned in for feeding operations.

    ‘Sad and debilitating’: rural midwesterners contend with well water tainted by livestock waste

  • Two parents and a grown child stand in a field in front of a barn.

    Out with the animal cruelty. In with … mushrooms? These farmers are leaving factory farming behind

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  • Dr Marco Falchieri of the Influenza and Avian Virology team taking samples from a seal on South Georgia

    Bird flu: access to Ernest Shackleton’s grave ‘blocked by dead seals’

  • Heather Middleton looking for fossils on a rocky beach

    I discovered thousands of fossils after retiring. Now I’m nearly 80 and still going strong

    I’ve built up a collection from a beach in Weymouth that could help to establish what biodiversity in the UK was like over the course of millions of years
  • Illegal bird trapping in Cyprus<br>Embargoed to 0001 Thursday March 16 Undated handout photo issued by the RSPB of a trapped robin. More than 800,000 songbirds were illegally killed on a British military base in Cyprus in the autumn to supply restaurants serving a local delicacy, environmentalists said. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday March 16, 2017. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Birds. Photo credit should read: RSPB/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    More than 400,000 songbirds killed by organised crime in Cyprus

    Report links rise in birds trapped for human consumption to cuts in anti-poaching resources in area of British military base
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  • Close up of a Ryukyuan pygmy squid (Idiosepius kijimuna) attached to a blade of seagrass

    Discovered in the deep: tiny ‘sucker-bum squid’ with martial arts moves

  • Marion Stevenson sitting on the rocky coastline of the Isle of Gigha.

    ‘The Vikings looked at this view – can’t they just leave it?’: island split over plans for salmon farm

    • A small fishing community in Negros Oriental from the air.

      ‘If we can’t fish any more, we’re going to die’: the volunteer sea patrols protecting precious Philippine waters

    • Sunken buildings on Batteria, an island in the Po delta, seen from the air

      ‘If the sea rises we’ll have to leave’: plans to restart gas drilling threaten Italy’s sinking delta

    • a male humpback whale penetrating another male

      Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us

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Opinion

  • Graham Readfearn

    Dutton’s blast of radioactive rhetoric on nuclear power leaves facts in the dust

    Graham Readfearn
  • Adam Morton

    We can’t pretend we’re doing enough if we want to give the Great Barrier Reef a chance to survive

    Adam Morton
  • Adam Morton

    EVs are still too expensive for most Australians – so why are some carmakers and the Coalition standing in the way?

    Adam Morton
  • Graham Readfearn

    This is what happens when an uncosted Coalition thought-bubble on nuclear power is presented as a concrete proposal

    Graham Readfearn
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Multimedia

  • Sound from healthy coral reefs could encourage degraded ones to regenerate, experts say – video

  • Parts of WA experienced more than half a year's rain in 24 hours over the weekend, with more than 155mm of rain recorded at Rawlinna

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    Drone video shows parts of Australia's largest sheep station underwater in WA floods – video

    Parts of WA experienced more than half a year's rain in 24 hours over the weekend, with more than 155mm of rain recorded at Rawlinna
  • Greta Thunberg and several other climate activists blocked the entrance to the Swedish parliament building 'to get our voices heard' on the climate crisis

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    Greta Thunberg dragged by police from climate protest outside Swedish parliament – video

    Greta Thunberg and several other climate activists blocked the entrance to the Swedish parliament building 'to get our voices heard' on the climate crisis
  • A white Arctic fox lays in the sun inside an enclosure at the Arctic Fox Captive Breeding Station near Oppdal, Norway

    The week in wildlife – in pictures: a stinky frog, a curious gopher and bald eagle eggs

  • Researchers take a photo with a thermographic camera of a white arctic fox pup.

    Life at Norway’s remote arctic fox breeding station – in pictures

  • Four-month-old brown bear cubs play while their mother eats in Finland.

    The week in wildlife – in pictures: hugging bear cubs, quarrelling birds and London goslings

  • A mother and her three cubs at Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park

    The week in wildlife – in pictures: four rare Amur leopards, perching puffins and a hungry fox

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