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Week in wildlife: a hopeful pelican, peregrine chicks and cute baby numbats

Wood burning and gas cooking hugely costly to healthcare systems, New Zealand study finds

Nearly two dozen states sue to stop Trump ending $7bn solar grant program

Cardiff becomes first UK council to impose higher parking charges on larger vehicles

Indigenous and environmental leaders in Ecuador say they are facing state intimidation

Brazil to ask countries at Cop30 to vastly increase biofuel use, leak suggests

The 2025 Aussie Bird Count is about to start. Here’s how to take part – and why you should

As wildfires worsen, science can help communities avoid destruction

Major airlift evacuations in Alaska after remnants of typhoon decimate villages

A surge of visitors to Yosemite overwhelms a skeleton crew: ‘This is exactly what we warned about’

Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows

Experts urge UK to ban cigarette filters to protect health and environment

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast

Australia’s favourite bird named - as it happened

What will the Australian bird of the year do next? | Fiona Katauskas

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner

Judge dismisses suit by young climate activists against Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies

‘This is bad news’: Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Winner of the Australian bird of the year 2025 to be announced on Guardian live stream

Magnifying the minuscule: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2025 – in pictures

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes

Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures

Watchdog rules Red Tractor exaggerated its environmental standards

Wednesday briefing: The new, devastating flood risk facing nearly all of Britain

‘She died because of the flood’: Filipinos rise up as outrage over corruption scandal grows

Plantwatch: An extraordinary orchid that lives and flowers underground

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told

Newsom vetoes California bill banning cookware with Pfas, ‘forever chemicals’

The Guardian view on the rising risk from flooding: uninsurable buildings should focus minds on climate adaptation | Editorial

How a Yurok family played a key role in the world’s largest dam removal project

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

🌎 OpenAI’s shopping spree #266

Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds

Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops

Rachel Reeves to confirm changes to ‘outdated’ planning system

NSW minister urges people to 'vote early and vote often' in 2025 bird of the year – video

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Matilda Boseley sports homemade pelican outfit to talk bird of the year on ABC – video

It took just 60 years for the red fox, one of Australia’s most devastating predators, to colonise the continent | Sean Tomlinson and Damien Fordham for the Conversation

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told

Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Microplastics are brought into the wilderness on hiking shoes and gear, study shows

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Emissions linked to Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could lead to at least 480 deaths, research suggests

How do you even birdwatch? A comedian and birdwatching champion explain – video