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Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream

Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn

Best of 2025 … so far: the great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? – podcast

Labor was in a climate crouch. It now has the chance to stand up to News Corp and put the national interest first | Clear Air

Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers

The Guardian view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge | Editorial

About 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern India

It’s winter and respiratory illnesses are everywhere. Will going out underdressed in cold weather make me sick? | Antiviral

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching

Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching event in 2024 most widespread and severe on record - video

Australian researchers discover two invasive weeds have the potential to be burned as biofuel

Three major chemical companies agree to pay $875m to New Jersey over Pfas claims

Rescuers in Norway resume search for journalist missing in wilderness

First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program

Pushing airport expansion while rail travel languishes – so much for Labour’s green agenda | Polly Toynbee

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