Australia has just 12,000 sea lions left – and ‘carnage’ may await them as bird flu takes hold, scientists warn

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World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August

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Thames Water creditors accused of ‘shuffling chairs on Titanic’ with plan for new board

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Devastation, doubt and blame: Hurricane Helene looms over North Carolina’s US Senate race

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This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

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Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs

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How do you vaccinate 1,000 tiny penguins against bird flu in the wild? It’s ‘really tricky’ but there is a way

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Wild beaver kits born in Norfolk for first time in more than 500 years

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Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in six European nations, survey finds

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US territories hit out at Trump plan to explore deep sea mining in the Pacific

Hanson-Young says men should ‘call out’ boys’ club culture – as it happened

Fast-moving wildfire in Reno, Nevada, forces thousands to evacuate homes

Ella Baron on AI and the drought – cartoon

The end of Latrobe Valley coal – in pictures

Australia’s marine parks protect ‘places no one goes’ rather than fragile waters near the mainland, scientists say

Stores are selling Halloween stuff in August. Time has lost all meaning | Dave Schilling

Pine-cone grenades and planet-baking carbon: the French fires 170 years in the making – a visual guide

Against the wind: despite Trump’s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?

Onshore windfarm applications hit 10-year high in England

Fur seal’s death marks first Australian mainland mammal fatality from spreading H5 bird flu strain

Heathrow expansion ‘is threat to England’s largest surviving medieval barn’

‘It’s pretty much a guarantee you’ll get stung’: jellyfish keep swimmers off Delaware beaches

Why am I called The Black Farmer? Because there are so few of us in Britain. I’d like that to change | Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

Battery fires at recycling centres are costing UK £1bn a year, figures show

‘We are in the inferno’: diaspora writers lead new movement of nature poetry

The US has a plan to save the Colorado River. Experts say it won’t be enough to stop the crisis

33m tons of toxic seaweed clogs Caribbean beaches – video

Britain’s railway prepares for more extreme weather as intense El Niño develops

First ever Fat Marmot Week to kick off in effort to raise money for research

Brazil’s vast iron mine that supplies the world and fractures the Amazon – in pictures

Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint

Cut cost of loans for solar panels on UK homes, ministers urged

Biggest El Niño for a century forecast to bring UK more autumn rain and storms

Week in wildlife: Bat in a toilet, a speeding gull and a bird with shoes

Eco homes that can stay cool for sale in England and Wales – in pictures

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

Controversial California oil pipeline can continue to operate, judge rules

Trump plan to allow drilling near US world heritage site sparks alarm

Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

PSG’s Ligue 1 home opener moved to Rennes after pitch damaged by heat

How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too

Humans have learned to fear ‘bugs’, but we shouldn’t – life as we know it hinges on invertebrates | Chris Packham

Destructive and delicious: how an invasive deer in Hawaii is being turned into dinner