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More than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Australian island amid bird flu outbreak

‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies

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Even as Florida moves detainees from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, activists fight for its permanent closure

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Atlantic hurricane season opens with Tropical Storm Arthur inundating Gulf coast

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Honeybees make specialised ‘baby food’ to give larvae balanced diet, study says

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Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto

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Jaguar Land Rover to make more hybrid cars in US sales push

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Rising temperatures may increase flood risk through river ‘whiplash’, study finds

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US public still favours action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive

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The ocean has shielded us from the worst of climate change. Now it is running a fever | Karina Von Schuckmann

As an ocean swimmer, I try not to think of sharks, but we all know that this is their territory | Eleanor Limprecht

Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit

The tide is turning on Thames Water: special administration looks best | Nils Pratley

US lawmakers fight Trump cuts to $386m ocean monitoring program: ‘supreme stupidity’

‘At first, the idea does sound crazy’: meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic

Dartmoor pony cull proposal prompts urgent call for livestock rule change

Retail giants join UK government drive to boost ‘plug-in’ balcony solar panels

Thames Water nationalisation moves closer as government objects to rescue deal

BoM forecasts strong El Niño and warns climate change could amplify effects on Australia

Spanish households save €10 a month thanks to renewables expansion, report finds

The bat that weighs the same as a teaspoon of salt – and the biologist who rediscovered it

AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists

Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says

King tides along California coast prompt advisories following two deaths

Trump wants to put a $75m coal terminal in this liberal California city. Residents aren’t having it

Critics say Trump’s opening of public lands to off-road vehicles is ‘reckless and nonsensical’

State bans on Pfas reduce ‘forever chemicals’ in clothing and textiles, US report finds

‘Life-changing’ injuries: family reels from ‘tragic situation’ as Coogee shark attack victim loses arm

‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance

Shark expert says Tony Abbott ‘doesn’t understand the science’ after former PM calls for cull

Rinehart buys ‘significant’ stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX – as it happened

UK poised to water down 2030 EV sales targets after industry and union pressure

Deadly Philippines earthquake found to have raised seabed by up to 2 metres

Jamaican beach access campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of coast

Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’

‘It’s going to be extremely hot’: workers imperiled as sweltering World Cup temperatures are forecast

Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready | Penny Holliday, Femke de Jong and Sjoerd Groeskamp

Illegal dump becomes ‘symbol of north-south divide’ at heart of Makerfield byelection

Denial is back in vogue. As Australia leads climate talks, it’s beyond time we took the issue seriously

I was a hardcore twitcher. I understand why the Cocos booby has Australia’s birders in a frenzy | Andrew Stafford

Gee, whiz: elephant relieves itself on floor of Texas Republican convention

Tropical heron spotted in UK for first time as more exotic birds arrive to thrill birdwatchers

‘Fast-track’ regulation could expose Britons to harmful chemicals, say campaigners

Trees may store less planet-heating carbon than hoped, study suggests

Australia can switch from fossil fuel exports to renewables, says next Cop president

Meet the people protecting the magic beans of life from extinction | Jess Harwood