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Environment

  • Flames from the French Fire burn on a hillside above Mariposa, Calif., on Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    US
    Fast-moving wildfire erupts near Yosemite amid blistering heatwave

    French fire grows to more than 900 acres, as millions across US west face sweltering temperatures and dry conditions
  • Screenshot of emissions map of the world, showing per capita fossil fuel emissions by country

    Australia
    What’s happening with the climate crisis and heat-trapping emissions in Australia

  • Haymaking at Low Borrowbridge farm.

    Country diary
    Itching and scratching after a day of hay-baling

  • Keir Starmer at a windfarm

    Green economy
    ‘Keir Starmer take note’: UK’s green transition must start now, say experts

  • Compost bins - the hottest biodiversity 'hot-spots' in the garden Phil Gates's Guardian Country Diary for Friday 5th July 2024

    Country diary
    The compost bins are heating up and teeming with life

  • White stork with wings outstretched on grassland with several others in background

    Rewilding
    Plan aims to bring majestic white storks to London

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CO2 tracker

Spotlight

  • The Pine and the Palm along highway 99 in Madera, California.

    A beloved palm and pine tree mark California’s center. Now they’re being cut down

  • king charles and queen camilla cuddle koalas

    Hands off the koala: why cuddling Australia’s iconic marsupial could soon be a thing of the past

    • The Japanese Stonecrop in a pot.

      Houseplant of the week: Japanese stonecrop

    • Close-up of blooming buckwheat in a field

      Weatherwatch: Buckwheat, miracle crop for a future of extreme heat

    • Raptor expert George Smith ringing peregrine chicks on a cliff ledge while roped to a tree above

      ‘I’ve known some of these peregrines for 15 years’: protecting Scotland’s raptors – in pictures

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The Winterkeeper

Steven Fuller has lived and worked at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years, but now faces an uncertain future as the climate crisis intensifies

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Steven Fuller

Opinion

  • Nils Pratley

    Houses and pylons: Labour’s biggest business challenges

    Nils Pratley
  • Damaged houses and buildings along the coast of the island of Carriacou, Grenada, in the wake of Hurricane Beryl.

    The Guardian view on Hurricane Beryl: the west can’t sit this out

  • Stock image of members of a wild swimming group in the UK

    After our first cold water swim our teeth chatter and hands ache – and I imagine the spirit of Mum not far away

    Nova Weetman
  • Graham Readfearn

    Dick Smith enters nuclear debate but CSIRO analysis shows his argument in meltdown

    Graham Readfearn
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The age of extinction

  • A large male moose standing amid foliage in the forest

    ‘No chain stores, but moose on every corner’: as Colorado herds thrive, clashes with people rise

  • Protesters stand outside the Lloyd’s building in the City holding a pink banner that reads: "Insure our future, not fossil fuels"

    ‘Reform or go out of business,’ carbon offsetting industry told

    Study finds carbon credits could raise billions for climate action but only with changes, such as rigorous standards
  • Aerial photo of tiang, a species of antelope, in Boma and Badingilo national parks, South Sudan

    Migration of 6m antelope in South Sudan dwarfs previous records for world’s biggest, aerial study reveals

    The movement is more than double that of east Africa’s renowned ‘great migration’ and has continued despite decades of war and instability
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Seascape

  • Mountain Otemanu in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. There are many colored artificial lights in the shore reflecting in the flat calm sea water.

    Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

  • Richard Forrest walks along Lyme Regis beach in Dorset, where he regularly hunts for fossils.

    The fossil finder: one man’s lifelong search for fragments of Britain’s Jurassic past – photo essay

    • A man on a rock above a beach with a wooden board in his hand

      From swimwear to toys: how to go plastic-free for a day at the beach

    • A puffin with a beak full of sand eels.

      Puffins, catsharks and sea squirts: how to spot wildlife on the British coast

    • Rivers, land and seascape are being rewilded along a 100-mile stretch of coastline in Sussex Bay.

      ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast

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Multimedia

  • Kestrel chicks look out from their nest on the side of a house in Rochdale, UK. They are about to take flight for the first time

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: joyriding birds, a rare golden cat and a surprise king cobra

  • After his visit to Carriacou, Grenada's prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, described the aftermath of the category 4 storm as 'Armageddon-like'

    1:10

    Drone footage shows trail of destruction caused by Hurricane Beryl in Grenada – video

    After his visit to Carriacou, Grenada's prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, described the aftermath of the category 4 storm as 'Armageddon-like'
  • Ellen Dwyer, an incident controller in the rescue team, says they are 'pleased' they have been able to remove a significant amount of weight and rope from the whale

    Rescue team cuts 800kg of tangled ropes and buoy from humpback whale off Gippsland coast – video

    Ellen Dwyer, an incident controller in the rescue team, says they are 'pleased' they have been able to remove a significant amount of weight and rope from the whale
  • Geese fly past soldiers of an honour guard

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: geese on parade, a radioactive rhino and a lovestruck eagle

  • Greens senator asked whether environment minister cares more about 'letting Gina Rinehart profit from another climate-wrecking coal seam gas mine or protecting our endangered koalas'

    Labor defends approval of Gina Rinehart-backed gas project in Senate – video

  • Tek Prasad Gurung, 64, takes a bite from freshly-harvested honeycomb during honey hunting

    ‘Fraught with danger’: wild honey gathering in Nepal – in pictures

  • Some residents welcome the proposal, while others are fuming with outrage. Guardian Australia spoke to Latrobe Valley residents about the Coalition's plans to turn Loy Yang into a nuclear reactor

    3:08

    A reactor in the backyard? What Latrobe Valley residents think of Dutton’s nuclear plan – video

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