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‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science

Trump’s executive order on recreational fishing is a ‘giveaway of fish and ocean ecosystem’, advocates warn

Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US

‘Your body fights to stay cool’: workers toil in record heat as federal rule frozen

‘We don’t have time for more promises’: the Croatian town that took on an illegal waste dump

Week in wildlife: a tiny tiger-cat, backyard bears and a frilly pink sea cucumber

Friday briefing: How a grassroots film is turning climate anxiety into action

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The Guardian view on a supersized El Niño: a natural phenomenon and human folly are a lethal combination | Editorial

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Gavin Newsom condemns Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’, predicts Trump’s downfall and expects AOC to run in 2028

Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam

Rescued bears enjoy private piano concert – video

This year’s El Niño just broke a record months before it’s expected to peak

Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call

Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University

Mass sardine die-off pits survival of South Africa’s penguins against fishers’ livelihoods

‘Cash to trash’ levy on house developers too low to offset damage to Norfolk Broads, say critics

‘Hanging on by a thread’: 11th hour decision to protect endangered birds from SA space project plans welcomed

Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore still believes in the climate fight: ‘We are going to win this’

In historic first, tropical turtles spotted nesting on California beaches

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045

Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals

Coogee ranks as Sydney’s worst ocean beach for faecal pollution – again

‘Watermelons’: Zack Polanski and the rise of the ‘green outside, red inside’ eco-populists

At Climate Week, Elmo recalls a storm on Sesame Street: ‘Courage is when you still help others’

The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben

Alpabzug! Swiss mountain alpaca herding – in pictures

Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter

Angus Taylor pledges to repeal swathe of climate policies, saying ‘Australia has done its bit’

What is an El Niño and how could it cause the hottest year on record? – video

Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action

Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months

California and New York sue over Trump push to halt wind energy projects

Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’

Hats, pencils and baby pacifiers: Yellowstone staffers retrieve record amount of trash from hot springs

‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours

Gums, ginkgos and a golden wych elm: which will win Victoria’s tree of the year?

Could you be an ‘autumn spotter’? Public asked to track changing colours of trees in England

High-mileage electric cars are more reliable than petrol ones, study finds

Wasp spider seen in north of England latest ‘climate refugee’ amid global heating

Robot fashion models and freediving with turtles: photos of the day – Tuesday

Prison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentary

Poorer nations will be among the last to benefit if global emissions cut to net zero

Meet Barbie Pig: new documentary reveals the wonders of life on the Pacific seabed

‘Negligent’ to talk about long term risks to Australia without examining cost of climate crisis, experts say

World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El Niño

California braces for record El Niño storms as governor declares emergency

Datacentres in Victoria to be banned in residential areas

‘Short on substance’: Albanese urges climate action on world stage – but advocates say Australia failing on fossil fuels

Key ally urges Trump to back US farmers amid anger over rising prices