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Poop art: animal dung painting competition seeks to break taboo of talking about poo

Thames Water court case shows there are alternatives to massive infrastructure

Week of sweltering US heat – is this the new normal in a warming world?

Europe on alert as first major heatwave of 2025 pushes temperatures to 42C

Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’

Locked playgrounds, broken paddling pools: it's a heatwave, but where will our children play? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say

Harmful heat doesn’t always come in waves

Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green

Australian government loans $100m to install EV chargers and solar panels at Bunnings and Officeworks stores

Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants

Suspend UK from oil oversight body over protests crackdown, say campaign groups

Swimming in urban waterways across the world should be a right, say campaigners

Trump’s tax bill seeks to prevent AI regulations. Experts fear a heavy toll on the planet

Florida plan for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant jail sparks chorus of outrage

Grizzly with checkered past swims miles to Canadian island – and into hot water

Week in wildlife: an orphaned sloth bear, swimming hippos and cheeky New Forest donkeys

Period drama: Here We Flo pulls ‘plastic-free’ pledge amid row over green claims

The green drought: June rainfall has come too late to offer relief to farmers in southern Australia

Labor must protect environment while rewriting laws ‘written to facilitate development’, Larissa Waters says

‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals

Elizabeth Warren presses oil companies on tax break lobbying for Senate bill

Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, say campaigners

On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone

UK schools and offices not equipped for impact of global heating, report warns

Nearly a third of Tuvalu citizens enter ballot for climate-linked visa to relocate to Australia

Australian consumer watchdog takes gas company to court alleging it misled consumers over renewables claim

Shipping is one of the world’s dirtiest industries – could this invention finally clean up cargo fleets?

Overfishing has caused cod to halve in body size since 1990s, study finds

Mexico’s president threatens to sue over SpaceX debris from rocket explosions

Hot asphalt, ‘corn sweat’ and floods: midwest swelters as heatwave grips the US

Mirrors in space and underwater curtains: can technology buy us enough time to save the Arctic ice caps?

‘No end of problems’ for Australia’s south-east coastlines as strong winds and large waves hit again

‘Yuck factor’: eating insects rather than meat to help the planet is failing, study finds

Something fishy: the best of Belfast photo festival – in pictures

Rare heath fritillary butterflies surge in number on Exmoor after sunny spring

Rise in legal challenges over carbon credit schemes

Nairobi’s lions are almost encircled by the city. A Maasai community offers a key corridor out

Judge blocks Trump from withholding EV charger funds awarded to 14 states

More than 150 fall ill from extreme heat at New Jersey graduations

The US’s June heatwave is a dangerous start to summer and about to get hotter

Republican Lisa Murkowski on Trump’s America and the ‘intensity on the security of our democracy’

Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging

‘Extinction crisis’ could see 500 bird species vanish within a century – report

Is selling off Santos to a foreign buyer in Australia’s national interest? First, define national interest | John Quiggin

Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them? | George Monbiot

Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds

New York will build first major new US nuclear power plant in over 15 years

Killer whales seen grooming each other with kelp in first for marine tool use

A vertical forest growing in the Netherlands: in pictures