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Solar booms in industrial US midwest as energy crisis persists

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Two buses, three hours and 13 miles: how Americans in ‘transit deserts’ get groceries without cars

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‘They don’t belong in our environment’: US vineyards battle spotted lanternflies as invasive insects spread

‘Living in survival mode’: Houston’s embattled immigrant community faces health, climate and petrochemical crises

Rescuers release humpback whale that was stranded off German coast

To give young people wings: The Lost Words duo reunite for book of birds

Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film

Federal government accused of watering down proposal to protect Australia’s threatened species and ecosystems

Octopus Energy boss: some people would accept blackouts if bills cut

Could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels?

Week in wildlife: a clever orangutan, a cheeky frog and a dramatic whale rescue

How LNG interests are seeking to disrupt global talks on decarbonising shipping

Iran war may cause food shortages in Africa, world’s largest fertiliser firm says

Germany’s climate U-turn is the worst possible response to the oil shock | Tania Roettger

Fema employees who criticized Trump cuts reinstated after months on leave

Gen Z leads birdwatching boom as more Britons reach for the binoculars

‘Don’t fall!’: foil boarders describe hair-raising shark chase caught on video off California coast

Democrats say EPA head’s budget cut proposal ‘reads like climate change deniers’ manifesto’

Australians will pay more if Albanese prioritises fossil fuel projects, former oil and gas leaders warn

‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout

Protecting lions and people: the biologist dedicated to tackling human-wildlife conflict

Revealed: British ad firm’s billion-dollar greenwash of US oil industry

Crack and crime to confident and qualified: is the future about to change for Rhyl’s youth?

Sounds of hope in Kent as more nightingales join dawn chorus

Are we being told the truth about a gas profits tax? | Fiona Katauskas

Labor will back fossil fuels in the budget but the gas tax campaign isn’t dead yet | Clear air

Hot weather and hungry datacentres lift Australia’s energy demand to record highs but batteries quell prices

What does the Zoological Society of London do? After 200 years, the answer is still ‘everything’ | Martin Rowson

Timmy the whale rescue attempt begins off coast of Germany – in pictures

Dozens of North Carolina houses have been lost to the sea. Some surviving homes are now being moved on wheels

Critical minerals are ‘oil of 21st century’ as demand fuels poverty and pollution in poorer countries

‘Suicidal’ model of capitalism leading to war and fascism, climate summit told

Older than the dinosaurs: scientists finally unlock secret of the mayfly’s dance

Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds

Urban areas host 80% of England’s homes at high risk of flooding, study finds

Anthony Albanese rules out gas export tax on existing contracts and criticises ‘populist’ campaign

Trump administration blocks US wind energy projects in switch to oil and gas

Stranded whale Timmy swims on to barge in German rescue attempt

Singing activists disrupt NatWest meeting over ‘climate backtracking’

One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

Trump’s attempt to crush clean energy progress not going to plan, experts say

Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds

A new haven for wildlife: London’s Queen Elizabeth II garden opens to the public – in pictures

Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023

Heavy rain not ‘nearly enough’ to tame two wildfires in drought-stricken Georgia

US supreme court weighs blocking lawsuits against Roundup makers alleging weedkiller causes cancer

Clean energy switch must not be excuse to plunder Indigenous lands, say leaders

Record bear sightings in Japan cause alarm as hibernation ends