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Week in wildlife: a wet macaque, four little pigs and a stowaway fox

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot

Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study finds

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?

EPA chief met with Bayer CEO over supreme court fight, agency records show

Republican farm bill criticized as agribusiness giveaway: ‘Pesticide industry wishlist’

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution

‘The last frontier’: how red globules of nickel ore are suffocating an island’s precious wilderness

Quit fossil fuels to stem deadly floods in Brazil’s coffee heartland, say scientists

Queensland floods: police believe bodies found are those of missing backpackers

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds

How Toronto's snow mountains hide a toxic secret – video

Peak interest: Toronto’s snow mountains that refuse to melt are a toxic hazard

‘When I leave, part of me stays’: why Scarborough’s youth won’t turn their backs on the seaside town they love

How nature is being sacrificed for mining across the world – a data visualisation

The Iran oil crisis has proved Ed Miliband right on green energy. But households still need more help | Mathew Lawrence

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Ultrasound repellers could keep hedgehogs off roads, scientists hope

Sale of rat poisons could be restricted to protect Australian wildlife

‘My lovely distraction’: live stream of kākāpō – world’s fattest parrot – and her chicks captivates New Zealand

Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash

Villagers on Príncipe, the ‘African Galapagos’, to be paid for protecting the ecosystem

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds

Scrapping North Sea windfall tax would not reduce UK energy bills, say experts

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn

Bundaberg residents told to evacuate immediately amid major flooding in parts of Queensland

The Guardian view on the Iran crisis exposing Britain’s energy vulnerability: clean power offers protection | Editorial

Lakes are growing in Alaska. That’s not entirely a bad thing

🌎 Inside China’s new Five-Year Plan #286

Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK

How the ‘Galápagos of west Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories

‘A saltwater crocodile on the AFL oval’: worst flooding in decades inundates NT as residents urged to avoid water

Twelve Apostles visitors to be charged entry fee to see natural wonder

The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past | Editorial

Sex and the sea snail: how a plucky marine lab brought a mollusk back from the brink

NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels

How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits

BrewDog sold Highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning its reforestation plans

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

A century of care: Wildlife Trusts mark 100th birthday with woodland project

Week in wildlife: a watchful egret, a sun-seeking swan and a procession of caterpillars

Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod, report finds

Marsupials in the news again? Yes! And this time it’s good news | First Dog on the Moon

Twenty pregnant women evacuated from NT hospital as two states prepare for major flooding

Germany moves to legalise wolf hunting in response to livestock ‘bloodlust’

🌎 Introducing Powerstack from Sightline Climate

‘It creates a sense of belonging’: Brazil bets on hiking trails for conservation