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  • An electric ferry on the water

    A new wave of electric ferries is here in the US. Some even fly

    Replacing diesel-powered ferries with electric vessels could reduce emissions and improve air quality
  • A resident wades barefoot through floodwaters in Huntington Beach, holding her glasses

    Record-breaking high tides spark chaos – and kayak commutes – across California

  • Man stands behind lectern

    Trump says government to ‘terminate’ Biden-era methane emissions rules

  • Coastal communities across California were preparing for days of flooding amid potentially 'record-breaking tides' this week, as water levels began rising on Monday

    Aerial video shows California flooding amid ‘record-breaking tides’ – video

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  • A large Pacific Ocean wave crashes over a seawall against Long Beach coastal homes

    Trump’s cuts have exposed US to ‘cascade’ of El Niño dangers, experts warn

  • A bright glowing light hovers over a desert plain at night, demonstrating a rescue lighting technology

    Sunlight at night: US startup’s demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws criticism

  • Officials stand in damp road beside 'Road closed' sign

    US south-west braces for more storms after enduring days of rain and flooding

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  • Two Manx shearwaters in flight across the sea

    Why jet lag throws even foraging seabirds off course

  • Thames Water’s Mogden sewage treatment works in west London with TW worker in foreground, back to camera

    Eight of England’s nine water companies still failing on environment, report finds

  • Aerial view of Google's planned data centre site in Muhos, Finland, with cleared forest

    Finland launches criminal investigation into Google’s clearing of forest for datacentre site

  • Miatta Fahnbulleh and John Healey, wearing orange hi-vis jackets and holding green safety helmets, smile as they talk and walk side by side

    Angry Labour MPs urge leadership not to overrule energy secretary on Rosebank

America's dirty divide

  • Triptych photo composite of industrial equipment, a woman in glasses and cap and farmland.

    ‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

  • 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’

Our unequal earth

  • Wendy Rhein poses for a portrait at her farm in Tryon, North Carolina on Sunday, October 4, 2026. The Rheins incorporate their Jewish faith into their farming practices. Mike Belleme for The Guardian

    ‘It’s all God’s creation’: farmers continue a ‘Jewishly inspired’ agrarian tradition

  • restauraIllustration of waiter's hand carrying a tray with bills and invoices stacked on it.ntdebt-01-effectapp

    For restaurants Covid-19 was a crisis – pandemic loans are proving a disaster

  • woman stands and holds man's arms as he sits on couch in home

    Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company

  • A commercial building behind a fence

    This US city only has one supermarket for 45,000 people. New legislation seeks to fix that

  • A large seabird spreads its wings landing near two chicks on Corvo Island's grassy clifftop

    Lights out: the island that goes dark to save young seabirds – in pictures

  • An operative wearing blue rubber gloves uses tweezers to place a sample into a vial

    Big pharma accused of ‘free-riding on nature’ as global fund attracts just $7,000

  • Guards raise the Armenian flag ahead of the COP17 conference in Yerevan

    double quotation markAs a former minister who once climbed a tree to save it, I know there is passion to protect nature. We just have to show it

    Steven Guilbeault
  • A dead fish in a shallow river

    Four years ago countries made a historic deal to save nature. Is it dead in the water?

  • Six swimmers seen underwater through a shoal of fish

    I struggled to come to terms with my mum’s death. Then I swam in the sea and suddenly felt connected to her

  • A distant view of a small settlement in a snowy valley by a frozen lake or fjord surrounded by mountains

    This Norwegian village is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. How can its people save it?

  • A small town in an Arctic landscape

    Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian village as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals

  • A woman leans over the side of a boat to measure a sand shark caught in a net in the water.

    ‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums

Opinion

  • mark carney

    double quotation markMark Carney is celebrated abroad – while he guts hard-won protections at home

    Shiri Pasternak
  • person holds sign saying 'fight datacenters'

    double quotation markWill it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither

    Adam McKay and Philip Eubanks
  • Fiona Harvey

    double quotation markThe climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act?

    Fiona Harvey
  • Antiviral comp on seed oils

    double quotation markAre seed oils unhealthy? Why are so many influencers speaking out against them?

    Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

Multimedia

  • Aerial view of a winding waterway through China's red beach wetland vegetation

    Sea of crimson: vivid ‘red beach’ transforms China’s wetlands and marshes – in pictures

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  • A wild long-tailed macaque poses for its photo while sitting on a roadside barrier along the national highway in South Aceh Regency, Aceh Province, Indonesia.

    Week in wildlife: a bookworm bear, an angelic spider and a bald hedgehog

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  • Video released by Randwick city council shows a whale carcass floating in the water at Lurline Bay

    Whale carcass closes Maroubra and Coogee beaches in Sydney – video

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