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Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’

Yorkshire Water fined over £700,000 for repeated sewage releases

🌎 The SMR shake-up #284

US supreme court takes up fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case

‘Tinderbox’ UK may be one shock away from food riots, experts say

How an annual ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 virgin queens is ensuring the revival of Europe’s dark bee

Trump approves federal emergency declaration for Potomac River sewage spill

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’

‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air

Chelsea flower show seeks new charity sponsors after mystery donors end support

Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years

Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants

There are problems with a geoengineering techno-fix for the climate crisis | Mike Hulme

Fly-tipping dog caught on CCTV in Sicily – video

Man in Sicily trained his dog to illegally dump rubbish, say police

Week in wildlife: a peek-a-boo fish, dunkin’ frogs and a white crow

How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels

New drone unit to investigate illegal waste dumping across England

Halting irreversible changes to Antarctica depends on choices made today

UniSuper accused of greenwashing after reducing environmental element of investment option

Deer shooting to be facilitated in England to protect woodlands

Trump order seeks to protect weedkiller at center of barrage of lawsuits

New Zealand bug of the year: moth named Avatar after mining threat crowned winner

The Guardian view on Merz and Meloni: an emerging Berlin-Rome axis is threatening the EU’s green deal

Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas

Avalanche risks remain high in California after deaths of skiers

Horse meat set to be banned in Italy amid draft equine bill

‘There has to be glitter’: can the Rio carnival give up its love of beach-polluting microplastics?

MPs in call to halt Drax’s £2m-a-day subsidy over sustainability doubts

‘It’s a catastrophe’: Wellington rages as millions of litres of raw sewage pour into ocean

Trump news at a glance: president’s ‘board of peace’ set to meet, minus some key US allies

Environmental group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation

The sambusa underground: how Minneapolis’s Somalis feed community and resistance

Plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim, analysis finds

Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating | Jamil Smith

Unprovoked shark attacks up sharply in 2025, with 12 human deaths worldwide

Environmental groups sue Trump’s EPA over repeal of landmark climate finding

Second wild beaver spotted living at Norfolk nature reserve

Mazda, Nissan, Hyundai and Subaru face fines after first six months of Australia’s new emissions standards

No trees, no food, shot for fun … yet Serbia’s imperial eagles are making an improbable return

One in nine new homes in England built in areas of flood risk, study shows

Bayer agrees to pay $7.25bn to settle Roundup weedkiller cancer lawsuits

🌎 FEOC in focus #283

Gotta watch ‘em all? Pokémon-style app for birdwatching launches

France issues red flood alerts after ‘exceptional’ rainfall

‘It’s betrayal’: Shetland’s scallop fishers brace for arrival of UK’s largest salmon farm

Gentoo penguins the first birds on Australian territory to contract H5N1 as bird flu spreads

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

‘Landmark’ greenwashing case against Australian gas giant Santos dismissed by federal court

Trump lashes out at California governor’s green energy deal with UK