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A ‘Godzilla-level’ El Niño is causing extreme weather conditions around the world – put your questions to our environment writers

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‘Lawyers should be running to courts’ to stop coal approvals after landmark ruling, NSW MP says

Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action

Wanted: children to rear harvest mice at home for wild release in Devon

Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine

New Zealand greenhouse gas levels hit record highs threatening catastrophic glacier melts

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Ikea to pilot online buyback service for secondhand furniture

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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’

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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

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US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds

Australia faces summer of extreme weather, Anthony Albanese warns at pre-Cop

🌎 Fervo flips the switch #316

Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

Snakes, bobcats, mountain lions: the secret animal world beneath the Hollywood sign

Man caught with 300 tortoises and 77 parrots bound for Malta at Sicilian port

US supreme court hears big oil’s bid to block climate damage lawsuits

Mixed start for pre-Cop as just two non-Pacific leaders accept Australian invitation to climate summit

Extreme heat warnings issued for parts of southern California

Tory plan to cut energy efficiency rule for builders will cost new home owners £1,000 a year, says thinktank – as it happened

Australia experiences second hottest September on record as El Niño and climate crisis combine

Authorities issue shark warning over whale that swam 11km upstream in Clarence River and later died

To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark

Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Australia and Turkey criticised for hosting UN climate conference while embracing coal

More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate ‘seal’: ‘We’re the ones growing up in this world’

Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires

From urban rooftops to working cattle farms: Australia’s best home gardens – in pictures

The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

‘It’s shocking really’: Devon community tracks River Dart sewage spills

Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms

Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures

Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes

There is a way to look after people, the planet – and Britain’s growth. It’s what we call the ‘wellbeing economy’ | Jamie Driscoll

Eastern Spain braces for torrential rain and flooding

The week in wildlife: a rescued orangutan, the chonkiest bear and a barn owl’s triumph

Increased air pollution linked to more night-time coughing, UK-led study finds

May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future

US states and cities sue over Trump EPA’s repeal of emissions rules

The Colorado River is shrinking. What happens next?

Matt Kean warns climate crisis ‘isn’t someone else’s problem’ as largest coal project in NSW history greenlit

Is Trump to blame for Americans getting explosive diarrhea? | Arwa Mahdawi

US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits

Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy

Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian

Think more rain means more river water? Not necessarily

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population

The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods

The Guardian view on Lula v the Bolsonaros: the decision of Brazilian voters will affect us all | Editorial

New UK gas and oil projects are a ‘no-brainer’, says EDF boss