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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

Dutton’s energy plan could make Australians pay more for gas, not less, expert warns

Planning bill ‘throws environmental protection to the wind’, say UK nature chiefs

Mackerel stocks near breaking point because of overfishing, say experts

Palau president delivers barb at Peter Dutton over ‘water lapping your door’ hot mic joke

Campaigners find sewage pollution and E coli in Boat Race water

Trump to reportedly cut grant for key US steel project in Vance’s home town

Trump signs orders to allow coal-fired power plants to remain open

Bogong moths and the traditional owners scaling mountains to track them – video

Not enough water available for Coalition’s nuclear proposal to run safely, report finds

It’s up to each of us to help save life on Earth – I love this challenge | Bob Brown

New Liberal candidate for Whitlam claimed ‘Marxist brainwashing’ happening at Australian schools

Coalition releases long-awaited modelling estimating energy plan could drive down household gas bills by 7%

Solar geoengineering moves into the spotlight as climate concerns grow

Albanese accuses Coalition of ‘gaslighting’ public over energy as Dutton touts economic credentials in first leaders’ debate

‘They’re killing you’: US poultry workers fear faster lines will lead to more injury

LNP orders review of Queensland’s emissions reduction target of 75% by 2035

Streams of medicines: what’s hiding in the UK’s waterways? – podcast

Steppes and the city: how smog has become part of Mongolians’ way of life – in pictures

Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds

Many native New Zealand species face threat of extinction, report finds

Earless dragons were presumed extinct in Australia – now Daisy and Kip have sniffed out 13 of them

When sadness strikes I remember I’m not alone in loving the wild boundless beauty of the living world | Georgina Woods

Labor's home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here's how | Adam Morton

Endangered far eastern curlews, and the scientist standing up for them – video

🌎 Tariffs, trade wars, and climate tech #240

Bid to build Europe’s first research station on Atlantic temperate rainforest in Cornwall

Gopher tortoises find new home on Florida coast after astonishing journey to flee hurricane

We passed the 1.5C climate threshhold. We must now explore extreme options | Sir David King

‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears

Labour: changes to EV rules will have ‘negligible’ impact on UK emissions

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year | Patrick Barkham

Poor countries say rich world betraying them over climate pledges on shipping

Scientists target queen bees in search of secret to longer life

‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners

Parrtjima, a festival in light – in pictures

Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery

Unsafe for Russia to restart Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says Ukraine energy chief

Victoria police pay $90,000 to climate protester who claimed head was slammed into wall, door and ground

Endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos, and the teenager building nests for them – video

‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles

Former Tasmania premier Tony Rundle dies aged 86 – as it happened

The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay

King Charles will have to tone down support for net zero after Badenoch says 2050 is ‘impossible’

Millions of Americans believe they’re safe from wildfires in their cities. New research shows they’re not

Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’

‘An exciting moment’: England’s urban and rural trees mapped for first time

Farmers in England fear for nature after sustainable farming funding frozen

My message from prison: Just Stop Oil may be ending civil disruption, but the struggle must go on | Indigo Rumbelow

Jury orders Chevron to pay more than $744m for destroying Louisiana wetlands