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Famous New Mexico rock formation destroyed after torrential El Niño rains

In Alaska’s capital, food comes by water, air or, most often, community sharing

Australia’s coal and gas approvals are starting to stink ahead of Cop31 | Jess Harwood

Most Europeans want action to tackle climate crisis but not at any cost, poll shows

‘An abomination’: Idaho hunters earned thousands of dollars to kill newborn wolf pups, records reveal

‘Everything is so out of whack’: UK trees experience spring six months early

Low pressure in US midwest brings unseasonable heat to New York and Boston

Week in wildlife: an autumnal deer, golden jackals and an oily-kneed beetle

Delhi braces for ‘pollution season’ as smog shrouds India’s capital – in pictures

More than 40 pilot whales die after mass stranding in New Zealand’s North Island

Peru airport officials discover 3,000 tarantulas smuggled inside dirty socks

How Democrats used the midterms to turn affordability concerns into ‘green populism’

‘It’s kind of a melting pot’: how one US city transformed a highway into a leafy oasis

Trump takes 500 actions to weaken cancer protections, new report says

South West Water’s failure to fix leaks ‘putting customer supplies at risk’

‘No one cares about the little guy’: plastic nurdles still washing ashore in Sri Lanka five years after toxic spill

Warming UK seas could ‘fundamentally reshape marine ecosystems’ – report

World’s wettest rainstorms are getting wetter, affecting flood and drought risk

Little Ice Age cooling in Europe may have raised the risk of rickets

Endangered giant burrowing frog returns to wild after tadpoles rescued from ashes of black summer fires

Firework noise limit should be drastically cut to protect wild animals, UK government told

Funding to help poorer countries cope with climate crisis has stalled, says UN

How a scientist went from hero to traitor in a US water crisis - video

Rogue UK energy bosses and brokers face crackdown on mis-selling

How penguin poo is making Antarctic snow melt faster

The next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it | George Monbiot

Kashmir’s potato pits are vanishing – and generations of knowledge could be buried for ever

UK makes huge aid cuts to Commonwealth nations despite warm words at Chogm

Great Britain’s worst-ever bluetongue season ‘a major animal welfare crisis’

Snowy Hydro 2.0 executives awarded bonuses totalling $751,925 despite cost blowout

New tool will help gardeners move away from thirsty English classics to drought-resistant plants

North America’s most widely distributed game bird is under threat

Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels

UK’s most polluting power plant could power country’s largest AI datacentre

UK ministers told not to engage formally with Indian mega-zoo after lobbying

Red gold from purple flowers: saffron harvest in Kashmir – in pictures

Control of Britain’s 39m smart meters passes to non-profit startup

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‘It’s really, really unusual’: tender bond between male donkey and bull baffles scientists

Rare ant nest stolen from last place in England where species survives

Melting permafrost has birthed a new type of large landslide

Greenpeace activists create ‘boulder barrier’ in North Sea to deter industrial fishing

A lackluster response to North Carolina flooding disasters is eroding Republican support in one county

Europe could face colder weather as polar vortex weakens

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