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Environment

  • Greenpeace sign on wall

    North Dakota judge finalizes $345m judgment against Greenpeace in pipeline case

    Judge slashed a $667m damages award to Energy Transfer over Greenpeace’s role in Dakota Access Pipeline protests
  • Pedestrians are reflected in a puddle of melting snow

    Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows

  • large amount of smoke rises in air below fire outside

    Trump officials move to kill system that protects US from chemical disasters

  • a coal plant by a house

    Most US coal plants could meet air pollution rules. Trump weakened them anyway

  • Salmon in water

    Judge sides with salmon against Trump administration in hydropower ruling

  • a man and a woman speak with each other

    Democrats urge dropping plan to double gas exports as US energy prices soar

  • People close eyes and chant at protest

    Judge orders Greenpeace to pay $345m over Dakota Access pipeline protest

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  • An Environment Agency worker in protective clothing pumping liquid to treat a contaminated river

    Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests

  • SES personnel at a flooded underpass in South Melbourne

    Last of the summer rain puts southern states on flood watch and Sydney on alert for bull sharks

  • European Lynx (Lynx lynx) adult female in winter birch forest, Bardu, Norway

    Lynx could return to Scotland – but can rewilders win over wary Highlanders?

  • Drax power plant in Yorkshire

    Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year

America's dirty divide

  • 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

  • Graphic

    Mysterious bags of ‘hazardous’ materials appeared in Mexico. Then we found more

Our unequal earth

  • inside a grocery store

    Why food justice isn’t being served in America

    Hanna Garth
  • a man holding Sambusa

    The sambusa underground: how Minneapolis’s Somalis feed community and resistance

  • a composite image showing a sign that reads 'this bar supports its community because decency isn't controversial abolish ice' and people in tactical gear holding weapons

    US restaurants targeted for opposing ICE: ‘I refuse to cook for fascists’

  • person wearing green shirt and hairnet handles meals on a table

    Some experts say the new US dietary guidelines have ‘conflicting messaging’. Here’s who will be affected most

The age of extinction

  • The head of a lizard with orange speckles on its throat

    ‘Who’d guess they’re the same species?’ What Italy’s wall lizards reveal about genetic diversity and why it matters

  • Closeup of an orchid bee visiting an orchid

    Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study

  • A European dark bee feeding from a light pink blossom

    How an annual ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 virgin queens is ensuring the revival of Europe’s dark bee

  • An eastern imperial eagle in flight.

    No trees, no food, shot for fun … yet Serbia’s imperial eagles are making an improbable return

Seascape

  • Underwater Photographer of the Year portrait winner Matty Smith's image of baby elephant seals taken in the The Falklands

    Seals, shipwrecks and a screaming swallower: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026 – in pictures

    Gallery17
  • A man in shorts and a t-shirt stands tying straw-like fibres around the tail-end of a fish-shaped craft made of reeds.

    Riding the wave: can surf tourism save Peru’s ancient reed-boat fishing culture?

  • Matilda Phillips, who helped set up the Young Fishermen Network

    ‘It’s more exciting than Tesco’: can traditional fishing lure Cornwall’s young people?

  • Revellers apply glitter during a carnival street parade on Flamengo Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 14, 2026. María Magdalena Arréllaga / The Guardian

    ‘There has to be glitter’: can the Rio carnival give up its love of beach-polluting microplastics?

Opinion

  • Illustration of a black cockatoo against a yellow background

    A scorching summer has left Australian wildlife on the brink, but it doesn’t have to be this way

    Euan Ritchie and Jess Harwood
  • Paul Daley

    Red Hill, Canberra: its walking tracks, scar trees and ochre earth underfoot will always transport me

    Paul Daley
  • Adam Morton

    Australia’s most costly anti-climate policy hits taxpayers for $30m a day as calls mount to wind back fuel tax credits

    Adam Morton
  • skimo competitors

    Winter Olympics must tackle environmental impact before the snow runs out

    George Timms

Multimedia

  • Common frogs enjoy the spring sunshine in a garden pond in Aberystwyth, UK.

    Week in wildlife: rescued dolphins, a white whale and a precious kākāpō chick

    Gallery19
  • White humpback calf in Vava’u, Tonga

    World Nature Photography awards 2026 – in pictures

    Gallery22

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