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  • A woman looks at a home destroyed by a fire.

    ‘Devastating’: California fire victims return to sift through rubble of homes

    Ten people have been injured so far by the Mountain fire, which was 17% contained by Saturday morning
  • Man talking into cellphone next to steel two-story frame rising out of rubble under clear blue sky.

    California fire crews make progress against wildfire that burned homes to rubble

  • people fish on a beach

    Activists fear Florida enshrining right to fish and hunt will lead to trophy hunting

  • American flag

    With Trump returning to the presidency, everything from abortion to immigration is under threat

  • a raccoon in a tree

    Mayhem at New York airport after raccoon falls through ceiling: ‘The most LaGuardia thing’

  • people walking hand in hand by dried up soil

    Nearly all of US states are facing droughts, an unprecedented number

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  • Volunteers clear a street from mud in flood-hit Paiporta, Valencia

    Deleted tweets, missed warnings and calls for the ‘hangman’: the bitter political fallout from Spain’s floods

  • Claire Coutinho

    Tory former energy secretary facing conflict of interest claim over JCB owner links

    Shadow cabinet secretary Claire Coutinho accepted donation from Lord Bamford while overseeing millions awarded to his family businesses in green grants
  • Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, with Cop29 president Mukhtar Babayev and Brazil’s national secretary for climate change, Ana Toni.

    After Trump re-election, UK will lead efforts to save Cop29, says Miliband

    Energy secretary says Britain must work on vital alliances with other countries following victory of climate-denier Trump
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Big oil uncovered

  • a student walks on a university campus

    University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels

  • An aerial view of an oil refinery

    New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters

  • The exterior of the NW Natural utility company, with a grey emblem saying 'NW Natural Sunset Service Center'

    Oregon county sues major gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt

  • a boat with containers on it

    Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds

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America's dirty divide

  • A before and after of what an amusement park would look like before and after flooding

    How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater

  • 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

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Our unequal earth

  • a man fishing by the water

    Florida may enshrine hunting and fishing by ‘traditional methods’ – but what are they?

  • a group of people gathered around a table outside

    Disaster dining: cookouts became a lifeline in a hurricane-ravaged North Carolina city

  • A muddy field strewn with debris, a house and barn in the background

    North Carolina farms face depleted, toxic soil after historic Helene flooding

  • two people with their back facing the camera in a store with aisle of food behind them

    Project 2025 dietary rollbacks would limit fight against ultra-processed foods

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The age of extinction

  • Melting icebergs in the Ilulissat Icefjord in western Greenland.

    ‘Essential to act now’ to prevent chaotic climate breakdown, warns UN chief

  • Composite image of Ángela Maldonado, Fernando Trujillo, Sandra Bessudo and Rosamira Guillen

    Death threats, bodyguards and a Farc commander called Smurf: living dangerously with Colombia’s nature defenders

    Leading Colombian conservationists share their experiences working in the most dangerous country to fight for wildlife
  • Smoke plume for large forest fire.

    ‘Two sides of the same coin’: governments stress links between climate and nature collapse

    Representatives at the Cop16 summit in Colombia negotiated against a backdrop of extreme weather and ecosystem collapse
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Seascape

  • a parent and baby whale

    Outrage against Canada’s Marineland theme park after fifth beluga dies

  • white doughy blob on stony beach

    ‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists

    • A fin whale, balaenoptera physalus, in the Atlantic Ocean off Pico Island, the Azores.

      Iceland’s president urged to intervene over licence for Europe’s last whaler

    • Small creatures of myriad colours, some translucent, of varied shapes seen on a black background. Some look like jellyfishes, some like fleas, and one is like a tiny shrimp

      Sea angels and devils: could plankton unlock the secrets of human biology?

    • Joe Roman, in mask and snorkel, in the waters of the Bay of Pigs, Cuba

      I’m obsessed with whale poop: ‘It can be neon green, bright red – or even sparkle’

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Opinion

  • Donald Trump meets Kim Darroch in April 2018:.

    PM, it’s far better to stand firm rather than suck up to Trump

    Kim Darroch
  • Simon Tisdall

    Contempt for human rights, trashing allies: the world’s populists are rubbing their hands with glee

    Simon Tisdall
  • A fire helicopter makes a drop over a wildfire in California.

    The Guardian view on Trump’s planet-wrecking plans: the UK government’s resolve will be tested

  • Guy Singh-Watson

    I’m a farmer – and I’m glad to see tax loopholes closing for cynical investor landowners

    Guy Singh-Watson
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Multimedia

  • An abandoned house in Gallo Matese, Campania, 2016 by photographer Vincenzo Pagliuca.

    Homes alone: abandoned buildings of the Italian Apennines – in pictures

  • A pelican walks around Saint-Louis, Senegal.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a strolling pelican, a venomous newt and a psychedelic swamphen

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • A man trudges through a flooded street in Gardi Sugdub. After surviving the Spanish colonisation, the Guna people face another existential challenge as the climate crisis threatens their homeland. Rising sea levels have already forced the relocation of around 300 families from the island of Gardi Sugdub to a new mainland community called Isberyala.

    Vanishing act: Panama’s Guna people forced to move as the sea swallows their island – in pictures

    Earlier this year, families from the Indigenous Guna people on the tiny island of Gardi Sugdub became the first to undergo a climate-related relocation by the Panamanian government because of the threat of rising sea levels. Hundreds of residents moved to Isber Yala, a new town built on the mainland. But many fear that the relocation has put their traditions and culture in peril
  • Former NSW Liberal energy minister debates pro-nuclear senators in a heated exchange

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    'Nuclear will drive up the cost of electricity': Matt Kean clashes with former colleagues – video

  • Hundreds of volunteers walk towards La Torre neighbourhood to help people affected by floods, in Valencia

    The clean-up begins after devastating floods in Valencia – in pictures

  • Hedgehog - New Zealand, Rolleston - 27 Oct 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14828180i) A hedgehog curls up in a garden in Rolleston on the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand, on October 27, 2024. As hedgehogs have no natural predators in New Zealand, they are considered a pest because they kill a variety of insects, lizards, and ground-nesting chicks and damage the biodiversity. Therefore, the Department of Conservation lists hedgehogs as the ''most underrated predator.'' Hedgehog - New Zealand, Rolleston - 27 Oct 2024

    Week in wildlife in pictures: roving parrots, rabid seals and a prickly pest

  • A common noisy miner bird finds a meal in a Jacaranda Tree in the Botanic Gardens.

    Jacaranda season in Sydney – in pictures

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