‘Bringing the boys back home’: how mountain bongos Maue, Fitz, Kudu and Bon64 made their way back to Kenya

Treasury rejected ministers’ plan to cut VAT on public EV charging to 5%

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Squeals of horror over price caps – but how are we going to fix our broken food system?

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Pocock open to independents forming party to counter Hanson – as it happened

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UK records hottest day of year as forecasters warn of more extreme heat

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This US island is home to flora found nowhere else. Now, a wildfire threatens extinction

Multimedia arts project wins Sycamore Gap tree commission after public vote

California: 40,000 people ordered to evacuate over chemical leak fears

The Guardian view on Britain’s coming energy shock: mini-measures won’t suffice | Editorial

‘We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people

Why an immense marine heatwave off the US west coast has alarmed scientists

Number of air conditioned UK homes doubles to more than 4m in three years

The week in wildlife: a lurking leopard, a lucky fox and a wily coyote

Sea foam may look sinister but it is mostly harmless and natural

Melanoma skin cancer cases in UK hit record level, analysis finds

Feral horse numbers surge in Kosciuszko national park after pause in aerial culling, survey shows

Risk of snakebites increasing as reptiles adapt to changing world, says study

One Nation says it’s the only party in Australia to question climate science. It should ask itself why | Temperature Check

Trump’s EPA to roll back refrigerant rule for grocery stores in push it claims will lower prices

‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground

Torrential rain and floods kill at least 25 people in southern and central China – video report

Record number of dams dismantled in Europe in effort to help wildlife thrive

Colombia’s climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle

Ro Khanna, AOC criticize Democrats’ 2024 election postmortem for not mentioning Israel’s war in Gaza – as it happened

Pauline Hanson announces Norway-inspired gas policy as she decries 25% export tax as ‘economic vandalism’

Tentacles, pointy teeth and the T-rex of the sea: the Natural History Museum on beasts that once ruled the oceans

England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn

Toxic chemicals in pet flea treatments harming wildlife, UK study warns

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution

Young Americans demand court halt Trump’s biggest rollbacks of pollution protections

San Francisco turns to AI to save whales from ship strikes as deaths soar

More than 40 arrests made after UK activists target ‘bee-killing’ pesticides

Plastic food and drink packaging ‘world’s most common coastal litter’

The outlook for a climate-regulating ocean current is…not good

Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry

Blinded and broken, Sunny the owl becomes another casualty of Russia’s war

I believed sustainable fashion’s hype. But between Everlane and Allbirds, the letdowns keep coming | Clare Press

Rachel Reeves to protect ‘critical’ clean energy projects from legal challenges

Collecting pollen can be as exhausting for bees as flight take-off, study shows

Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says

Melbourne teenager Bianca Adler becomes youngest Australian to climb Mount Everest

UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns

Spending watchdog warns £38bn cost of Sizewell C nuclear plant is ‘risky’

Aerial footage shows California brush fire spreading across Simi Valley – video

AI-powered whale-spotting tech may help save San Francisco Bay’s gray whales

‘Foolish’ CSIRO job cuts will mean Australia unable to provide climate projections to global reports, scientists warn

Antarctic plants may face a growing fungal threat from warming soils

Orcas could be casualty in Carney’s push for pipeline, environmental groups fear

High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England