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Peru’s penguins are on the brink. A super El Niño could make it worse.

Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says

Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California

The endangered native ponies of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides – a photo essay

‘Thrilled’: huge swarms of bogong moths surprise NSW residents and may point to species’ recovery

Dog dies trying to protect northern California couple from bear attack

Most of UK’s essential food supply grown in drought-risk areas, report warns

Nor’easter storm batters US east coast with heavy winds and power outages

Burnham dodges questions on Heathrow third runway as project faces four-year delay

Datacenter developers accused of skirting key US pollution rules

Grizzly reality: US states grapple with uptick in encounters between bears and humans

‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys

Bangkok’s flood disaster – in pictures

New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer

New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators

‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science

Trump’s executive order on recreational fishing is a ‘giveaway of fish and ocean ecosystem’, advocates warn

Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US

‘Your body fights to stay cool’: workers toil in record heat as federal rule frozen

‘We don’t have time for more promises’: the Croatian town that took on an illegal waste dump

Week in wildlife: a tiny tiger-cat, backyard bears and a frilly pink sea cucumber

Friday briefing: How a grassroots film is turning climate anxiety into action

The Guardian view on a supersized El Niño: a natural phenomenon and human folly are a lethal combination | Editorial

Gavin Newsom condemns Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’, predicts Trump’s downfall and expects AOC to run in 2028

Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam

Rescued bears enjoy private piano concert – video

This year’s El Niño just broke a record months before it’s expected to peak

Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call

Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University

Mass sardine die-off pits survival of South Africa’s penguins against fishers’ livelihoods

‘Cash to trash’ levy on house developers too low to offset damage to Norfolk Broads, say critics

‘Hanging on by a thread’: 11th hour decision to protect endangered birds from SA space project plans welcomed

Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore still believes in the climate fight: ‘We are going to win this’

In historic first, tropical turtles spotted nesting on California beaches

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045

Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals

Coogee ranks as Sydney’s worst ocean beach for faecal pollution – again

‘Watermelons’: Zack Polanski and the rise of the ‘green outside, red inside’ eco-populists

At Climate Week, Elmo recalls a storm on Sesame Street: ‘Courage is when you still help others’

The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben

Alpabzug! Swiss mountain alpaca herding – in pictures

Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter

Angus Taylor pledges to repeal swathe of climate policies, saying ‘Australia has done its bit’

What is an El Niño and how could it cause the hottest year on record? – video

Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action

Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months

California and New York sue over Trump push to halt wind energy projects

Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’

Hats, pencils and baby pacifiers: Yellowstone staffers retrieve record amount of trash from hot springs