Opening up Victoria’s Otway basin to offshore gas exploration an ‘environmental betrayal’, Greens say

Coalmine expansions would breach climate targets, NSW government warned in ‘game-changer’ report

Indonesia floods were ‘extinction level’ disturbance for world’s rarest ape

‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution

The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit

EA to spend millions clearing Oxfordshire illegal waste mountain in break with policy

Hightailing along city streets and raiding ponds: otters’ revival in Britain

Week in wildlife: a baby echidna, a 600lb gator and an ‘unbearable’ bear

Air passengers exposed to extremely high levels of ultrafine particle pollution, study finds

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Health and safety rules holding UK infrastructure back, says writer of government report

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Climate protesters win groundbreaking class action against Victoria police over use of capsicum spray

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Changes to polar bear DNA could help them adapt to global heating, study finds

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Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds

Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds

Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry

MP calls for ban on ‘biobeads’ at sewage works after devastating Camber Sands spillage

Snakes, spiders and rare birds seized by Border Force in month-long operation

NSW koala numbers higher than previously thought, but new data may not show true picture

Sea urchin species on brink of extinction after marine pandemic

‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia

Montana youth activists who won landmark climate case push for court enforcement

A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?

Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds

‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake

It’s two years since we were told ‘the age of fossil fuels will end’. When will Australia get prepared for what’s coming? | Clear Air

‘We call him ... unbearable’: California homeowner laments uninvited beast

The Guardian view on waste: the festive season is a good time to think about rubbish | Editorial

Ofgem approves early investment in three UK electricity ‘superhighways’

US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects

Australia’s energy grid must triple capacity by 2050 with major increase to wind and solar, Aemo says

‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’

UK households bin 168m Christmas lights and ‘fast tech’ items a year

Caribbean reefs have lost 48% of hard coral since 1980, study finds

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future

Drinking water contaminated with Pfas probably increases risk of infant mortality, study finds

The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial

‘It’s Scotland’s energy’: SNP to focus on renewables in Holyrood election

Cornish activist injured as police remove her from tree-felling protest

🌎 Ofgem’s £28bn UK grid plan lands #274

White storks to make historic return to London in 2026

Australia’s bushfires were held at bay by five wet years — but experts warn the country is ‘ready to burn’

Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender | Tzeporah Berman

More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters

Drought may have doomed the ‘hobbits’ of Flores

‘Zombie’ electricity projects in Britain face axe to ease quicker grid connections

The restaurateur chronicling hardships of immigrant staff in US kitchens: ‘These are the stories that make it work’

Maha v Maga: feud grows as Trump EPA rolls back rules on toxic chemicals

Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change