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Caribbean beaches blighted by record masses of stinking seaweed

Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals

‘Barbaric’: wildlife advocates criticize Florida bear hunt proposal

Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian

Sizewell C nuclear power plant ‘could get go-ahead within weeks’

Thames Water preferred bidder KKR pulls out of rescue deal

Water industry in England and Wales needs ‘fundamental reset’, review finds

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

Vanuatu criticises Australia for extending gas project while making Cop31 bid

Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining

🌎 OCED’s not-so-clean break #248

Indonesia’s stunning microlibraries draw young readers – in pictures

‘We need new numbers’: Comedian David Cross cracks jokes to spread climate crisis awareness

Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions | Margaret Sullivan

Key US weather monitoring offices understaffed as hurricane season starts

Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing

High electricity bill taxes holding us back, say industry groups

‘This is ground zero for Blatten’: the tiny Swiss village engulfed by a mountain

Natural disasters cost Australia’s economy $2.2bn in first half of 2025, new Treasury analysis shows

How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter

This elusive possum was thought to be extinct outside Victoria. Now ecologists have made an ‘amazing’ discovery

‘Gut punch’: top shark expert quits Queensland advisory panel after LNP expands cull program

Anger as Dorset estate withdraws public entry to ‘stunning’ local landmark

Brazil’s environmental governance is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry

‘Nothing left’: Irish whale-watching company closes amid ‘overfishing’

Australia’s best photos of the month – May 2025

Australia’s emissions up slightly in 2024 as Labor faces heat over ‘climate-wrecking’ gas project

Sussan Ley wants to keep the Coalition together – but caving on net zero won’t help her win back seats | Tom McIlroy

Warning UK-Gulf trade deal could let in low-welfare chicken and undermine farmers

Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten North American air quality for days

Can you live without a car in the mountains? Yes, with planning and a few different bikes

How the US became the biggest military emitter and stopped everyone finding out

Pfas detected in US beers in new study, raising safety concerns

Week in wildlife: a piggybacking mouse, heart-shaped vultures and our smallest otter

Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries

‘Small and mighty, that’s what we are’: the team turning discarded tents into bags

How Labor’s North West Shelf approval further endangers Murujuga’s 50,000-year-old rock art | Benjamin Smith and John Black for the Conversation

Dismay as UK prepares to sign ‘values-free’ £1.6bn trade deal with Gulf states

US woman brings first-ever wrongful death lawsuit against big oil

The Guardian view on social housing: invest boldly to tackle ‘simmering anger’ about substandard homes

UK’s shift on car sales rules may lead to higher emissions, says statutory adviser

US supreme court sides with Utah railway project challenged by environmentalists

UK must consider food and climate part of national security, say top ex-military figures

Drought declared in north-west England amid declining reservoir levels

Trump violating right to life with anti-environment orders, youth lawsuit says

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla

‘Flooding could end southern Appalachia’: the scientists on an urgent mission to save lives

Revealed: Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year

First new major reservoirs in England for more than 30 years given go-ahead

Warm winter forecast for Australia as SA and Victoria face unseasonal fire risk