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  • a sign reads 'extreme heat stay cool drink water'

    At least three California students taken to hospital for heat-related injuries

    A grueling heatwave resulted in five students being treated for ‘general weakness’ during a sports meet
  • People carry bags of fresh water after filling up at a distribution site in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Asheville, N.C. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

    Hurricane Helene leaves thousands without clean water in its wake

  • Young adults in summer wear and baseball caps walk in a group holding handmade signs above their heads.

    Trip on psychedelics, save the planet: the offbeat solution to the climate crisis

  • a woman pouring a glass of water at kitchen sink

    EPA’s drinking water limits for PFAS are under threat – and that’s nothing new

  • Three people standing tend to man sitting in bus stop.

    San Francisco sees hottest day of 2024 as heatwave scorches US south-west

  • An illustration showing workers installing a roof

    No water, no shade. Life as a roofer in the sweltering Florida heat: ‘It feels like 120F’

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  • Illustration with logos for OpenAI, ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing

    French AI summit to focus on environmental impact of energy-hungry tech

  • Sellafield illustration

    Sellafield ordered to pay nearly £400,000 over cybersecurity failings

    Nuclear waste dump in Cumbria pleaded guilty to leaving data that could threaten national security exposed for four years, says regulator
  • shot from the greater glider live stream

    Cuddles and drama as live stream shows secret life of ‘ridiculously fluffy’ greater glider

    Camera installed inside a tree hollow in NSW forest to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered possum
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  • Donald Trump in Valdosta, Georgia, on 30 September.

    Trump continues to deny climate crisis as he visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia

  • a man looks to the right next to a coal-fired power plant

    Leonard Leo-linked group attacking efforts to educate judges on climate

  • a man in a black shirt stares at camera

    ‘Pessimism is a luxury we can’t afford’: Kumi Naidoo on fighting fossil fuels with art and culture

  • A car drives past a refinery with the sign ExxonMobil

    California sues ExxonMobil over alleged role in plastic pollution crisis

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America's dirty divide

  • the outside of an apartment building

    Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them

  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller

    Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

  • a brick building with a/c units on the outside

    93F and no electricity: why some US utilities can cut power despite heatwaves

  • A yellow and orange illustration of a person, wearing a tank top, pants and shoes, lying in a fetal position within a box.

    ‘Even the breeze was hot’: how incarcerated people survive extreme heat in prison

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Our unequal earth

  • A person standing by a cooler hands another person a styrofoam meal container and a bottle of water

    US farms are forcing workers to buy inedible, expensive meals: ‘It makes you feel enslaved’

  • side by side images of a woman in a patterned shirt and women operating a hose

    Something about the migrant labor camp spooked my mother. Then she learned its dark history

  • Students get lunch

    Why unpaid US school lunch debt can prompt a call to child welfare services

  • Li, a Chinese farmworker in his late 60s and survivor of Half Moon Bay farm worker shooting where he now lives temporarily with his wife. Haunted by the memory, Li said he suffers from insomnia and hasn’t returned to work. Mark Leong/The Guardian

    A mass shooting revealed their brutal living conditions. Will new housing ease these farmworkers’ trauma?

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  • A spiky agave-type plant on a mountain-side of grass and rocks

    Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants

  • Alistair Boxall, professor in environmental science at the University of York, taking a water sample at Brook Head Beck

    ‘Rivers you think are pristine are not’: how drug pollution flooded the UK’s waterways – and put human health at risk

    High levels of antibiotics and other drugs have been found in water in the country’s most treasured and protected landscapes, raising concerns over antimicrobial resistance
  • A crowd of men looking through binoculars behind a gate

    ‘You could single-handedly push it to extinction’: how social media is putting our rarest wildlife at risk

    From breeding spots overrun by visitors to photographers disturbing endangered species, experts say the rarer the find is, the bigger the problem
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  • A cuttlefish amid weed-covered branches of a tree watched by a man in a wetsuit with goggles and snorkel

    ‘We look to the past to move forward’: the ancient method boosting cuttlefish numbers in the Mediterranean

  • 1st Prize Echoing Sigh-lence of Relief inside Cargo Hold by Muara Jawa.

    The Life at Sea 2024 photography awards: a rare glimpse into the highs and lows of seafaring

    • Corallian Energy Drill in Poole Bay To Explore Oil Reserves<br>POOLE, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: ENSCO-72 drilling rig working in Poole Bay for Corallian Energy on February 15, 2019 in Poole Bay, England. The scheme to drill more than 1,000 metres below the seabed to explore oil reserves in the Colter prospect has until February 28. Save Our Shores Bournemouth says the chemical permit issued by government regulator OPRED allows ‘up to 6753 tons of chemicals to be discharged, including eight tons of biocide’. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

      Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group

    • Two divers raise an anchor covered in rust and barnacles towards the surface

      ‘I had found gold before, but not like this’: four of the most splendid treasures salvaged from shipwrecks

    • Composite of a linocut illustration surrounded by photographs of Scottish coasts and wildlife

      ‘The otter came so close I could smell her fishy breath’: scribbles and sketches from Scotland’s wild isles

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Opinion

  • Greg Jericho

    Plibersek’s coalmine decision is double trouble for climate and housing

    Greg Jericho
  • Gernot Wagner

    Floods are wreaking havoc around the world. Vienna might have found an answer

    Gernot Wagner
  • George Monbiot

    As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

    George Monbiot
  • Adam Morton

    Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph

    Adam Morton
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Multimedia

  • A Komodo dragon up close on Komodo Island, Indonesia

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a penguin ballerina, the spooky spookfish and a sociable octopus

  • The Speed Skater – Stellers Sea Eagle in the drifting sea ice off Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

    Comedy wildlife photography awards 2024 – in pictures

    A light-hearted look at wildlife with a selection of finalists from the Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards. A winner will be announced on 10 December
  • Nine protesters jumped on top of a train on Wednesday morning headed to the Port of Newcastle, unfurled a banner and began shovelling coal off

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    Activists board coal train as Albanese government approves three coalmine expansions – video

    Nine protesters jumped on top of a train on Wednesday morning headed to the Port of Newcastle, unfurled a banner and began shovelling coal off
  • A ring of hundreds of dead birds which flew into glass buildings

    Bird photographer of the year 2024 winners – in pictures

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton detailed the Coalition’s nuclear power plan in a speech in Sydney, but did not announce its cost, saying it is coming 'in due course'

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    Dutton says Coalition will release nuclear power plan costings 'at a time of our choosing' – video

  • Supermoon rises over a canola field, shown black in the night sky

    Gold rush: harvest moon rises to meet canola season in Riverina – in pictures

  • Anger has been growing over the lack of flood defence planning after the same area of Emilia-Romagna was hit by severe flooding in May 2023

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    People rescued from rooftops as flooding hits northern Italy – video

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