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Trump’s EPA to claim power-plant emissions ‘not significant’ – but study says otherwise

Israeli forces halt Gaza-bound aid yacht carrying Greta Thunberg – video

What a hoot! Owl sightings increase in London – and not just in the leafy suburbs

Australian government to declare almost a third of its oceans ‘highly protected’ in the next five years

There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot

How the ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis is threatening our oceans

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study

Campaigners hail plan to ban bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas

Manta man: film profiles unlikely bond between diver and giant sea creature

Trying to get rid of noisy, food-stealing gulls is missing the point – it’s humans who are the pests | Sophie Pavelle

David Attenborough tells Prince William he nearly drowned while scuba-diving in 1950s

Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes

The river that came back to life: a journey down the reborn Klamath

Conservationists call for Lake District to lose Unesco world heritage status

Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns

Antarctica ‘too wild for humans to rule’, says Shackleton medal winner

Minnesota’s Boundary Waters are pristine. Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could pollute them forever

New UK AI datacentre could cause five times emissions of Birmingham airport

Labour warned to keep spending review in line with net zero or face legal action

‘It’s goodbye to French fishermen’: Macron under pressure as crucial UN ocean summit opens

Week in wildlife: an elephant goes shopping and a tiger gets a pedicure

I love the graffiti I see in Paris – but tagging is just visual manspreading | Alexander Hurst

Endangered sharks being killed at alarming levels in Pacific, Greenpeace claims, after cutting 20km of vessel’s longline

Bonuses banned for 10 English water bosses over sewage pollution

Dehorning rhinos reduces poaching by 80%, study finds

Norway to set up compensation scheme for 1980 oil rig disaster victims’ families

Australia’s critically endangered alpine tree frogs use sex to fight killer fungus

Rapid snowmelt and Trump cuts compound wildfire fears in US west

For the first time in my life I’m in charge of a garden. Is it too late to plant? | Ashe Davenport

‘Flying blind’: Florida weatherman tells viewers Trump cuts will harm forecasts

Natural England chair rejects ministers’ claim that nature blocks development

UK sales of new Tesla cars slump by more than a third amid Musk backlash

Labour using Brexit to weaken nature laws, MPs say

Labour’s £13.2bn warm homes plan will not face cuts in spending review

‘Really amazing’: joy as 10 Tasmanian devil joeys emerge from Australia’s biggest mainland breeding program

Ten Tasmanian devil joeys discovered during pouch check of endangered marsupials – video

UK MPs call for ban on bottom trawling in protected marine areas

Marine heatwave found to have engulfed area of ocean five times the size of Australia

Push to reopen old mines in NSW in global race for critical minerals

‘Putting profit over people’: big gas is waging war on a California clean air rule

Labour MPs poised to rebel over planning bill amid concerns for nature

Trees ‘remember’ times of water abundance and scarcity

England’s planning bill has many naysayers. I'm not one of them | Nick WIlliams

James Cleverly takes on Kemi Badenoch over decision to ditch net zero targets

Fire stations in England ‘falling apart’ amid £1bn funding cut, chiefs say

Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves

Sellafield nuclear clean-up too slow and too costly, say MPs

Brenda the buzzard terrorises children at Havering primary school

I received a 30-month jail sentence for nonviolent resistance. Why so harsh? Because protest works | Indigo Rumbelow

Caribbean beaches blighted by record masses of stinking seaweed