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Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

AustralianSuper criticised for buying up shares in Whitehaven Coal while claiming to be committed to net zero

Tasmanian leaders struggle with a basic fact: environment laws should protect the environment | Clear Air

🌎 EPA puts corn on the policy menu #251

‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions?

Mosquito colony feeds on blood from scientist's arm – video

UK to cut green levies on businesses in bid to reduce energy costs and boost manufacturing

Tens of millions in US face dangerously hot weather in rare June heatwave

The Guardian view on extreme weather: build national readiness – or let everyday life keep breaking down | Editorial

Economic policymaking needs to adapt to the climate emergency | Heather Stewart

Labour scraps £950m EV rapid charging fund first announced by Conservatives

Thames Water lenders demand government blocks campaigners from legal action

Federal Labor ministers at odds over contentious NT gas pipeline decision, internal document shows

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince

Why the summer solstice is a ‘celestial starting gun’ for trees

The ‘sacrifice zone’: villagers resist the EU’s green push for lithium mining

Millions of people across central and eastern US under ‘heat dome’ warning

The Guardian view on Our Story With David Attenborough and The Herds: a new theatre of the Anthropocene | Editorial

Fuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits, supreme court rules

Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution

White House moves to keep costly, dirty, unneeded Michigan coal plants open

Rare maccoa ducklings hatch at Chester zoo for first time

Conservationists race to rescue England’s turtle doves from extinction

Digested week: Climate warning provides more fuel for Brits to talk about weather | Emma Brockes

Long-beaked echidnas? Yes please! A cartoon for people who cannot bear any more news about anything dreadful | First Dog on the Moon

Week in wildlife: acrobatic dolphins, a lost baby raccoon and a pair of Bambis

Deadly weekend heat in England ‘100 times more likely’ due to climate crisis

Pupils in England face lost learning from flooding and extreme heat, study finds

NSW budget unlikely to allocate extra funding for long-promised great koala national park

Amber heat alert issued across England with warning of ‘rise in deaths’

Flight tax could raise €100bn to tackle climate crisis, study finds

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report

Reeves promised oil industry ‘quid pro quo’ over windfall tax in private meeting

‘This isn’t a gimmick’: the New Yorkers trying to restore the American chestnut

Lithuanian hunters refuse to kill bear that ambled around capital for two days

Labor’s new environment laws won’t be ‘credible’ unless new projects consider climate change, advocates warn

Planet’s reflective cloud coverage is shrinking - and amplifying the climate crisis, research finds

UK ministers reopen door to drilling at two North Sea oilfields as new guidance released

UK air pollution killing more than 500 people a week, doctors say

Rampaging raccoons: how the American mammals took over a German city – and are heading across Europe

Bear necessity: lid stuck around US animal’s neck removed after two years

Flavour of gin and tonic could be impacted by climate change, study finds

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

Climate crisis could hit yields of key crops even if farmers adapt, study finds

Youth-led Sunrise Movement to launch campaign to ‘villainize big oil’ and force climate action

‘Cancer is just everywhere’: could farming be behind Iowa’s unfolding health crisis?

At last, a victory for rivers over megafarms: now councils can’t treat toxic waste as someone else’s problem | Charles Watson

Clothes from UK brands found discarded in Ghana wetland dumps – video

Antarctic seal numbers falling drastically due to melting sea ice, research shows

UK temperatures of 45C may be possible in current climate, Met Office says