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Scientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish

Spot the human! Bodies embedded in nature – in pictures

Tuesday briefing: What the fraught talks to reach a ‘Paris agreement for plastic pollution’ could bring

Shein fined €1m in Italy for misleading environmental claims about products

UN plastic pollution talks must result in ambitious treaty, leading expert says

Joy and relief as lotus flowers bloom again in Kashmiri lake after three decades

Central California issues evacuation orders after wildfire burns 72,000 acres

Canada wildfires prompt severe air quality alerts across country and US

🌎 EPA puts emissions rules in danger #257

‘A bellwether of change’: speed of glacier shrinking on remote Heard Island sounds alarm

The mystery of melting sea stars may finally be solved

This New York City island was once a military base. Now it’s becoming a climate solutions hub – in pictures

Tapirs, hummingbirds and a billion-dollar bedrock of gold: the Ecuador reserve that is now a battlefield over a new mine

BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off coast of Brazil

New Zealand to charge foreign tourists to visit most famous sites

Rewilding group to assess possible return of white storks to London

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

Brush-tailed bettongs released into Mount Gibson sanctuary – video

Clean energy subsidies should be replaced with ‘market-based incentives’ from 2030, Australia’s Productivity Commission says

Michigan’s governor replaces clean energy advocate on utilities board with ‘industry ally’

Fewer green energy tariffs offered as British households opt for cheaper deals

Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave

Unusually high number of jellyfish arrive in UK seas

The Guardian view on the green transition: renewables are the future – but countries’ actions must catch up with their promises | Editorial

Two wildfires in US west spur ‘fire clouds’ with erratic weather systems

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance

Joyce and Canavan call for new coal plants to replace renewable energy projects

Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study

He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air | Simon Jenkins

Week in wildlife: a hippo with a hitchhiker, a wallaby jailbreak and a fly on the wall

What will expanding Heathrow do to UK’s net zero plans?

Tourist discovers ‘extinct’ jellyfish while rock-pooling in Outer Hebrides

Wet and wintry weekend in store for NSW, with warnings of heavy rainfall and damaging winds

Heathrow submits ‘shovel-ready’ plans for third runway

Top Texas emergency official says he was sick and asleep as deadly floods hit

Jason White on water management – cartoon

Farmers and scientists join forces in Cornwall to vaccinate badgers against TB

Coalition is wedging itself on climate crisis with net zero debate, warns Liberal MP in Scott Morrison’s former seat

Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations – can anything stop this?

US lightning flash was longest on record at 515 miles, scientists say

A Midwest ‘megaflash’ is the longest lightning on record

Chinese official makes rare admission of failings over deadly Beijing floods

After nearly 100 years, adult winter-run Chinook salmon seen in California river

‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia

Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom

Countries failing to act on UN climate pledge to triple renewables, thinktank finds

The Guardian view on England’s riverbanks: landscapes that everyone should be able to enjoy | Editorial

Four Montagu’s harrier chicks take flight in first UK breeding success since 2019