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Politicians and media can’t imagine a fossil-fuel free world - and it’s holding Australians back from huge EV savings | Adam Morton

Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’

America’s hiking culture is built on ego

‘Nothing but tree skeletons’: record-breaking wildfires devastate US cattle country

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BP’s new boss to overhaul structure after retreat from green strategy

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‘Suddenly, boom, it’s completely warm’: summers are getting longer – especially in Sydney, study finds

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Surrounded by windfarms but out of work: the reality of the green jobs boom on England’s east coast

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‘These flowers have witnessed horrific things’: Steve McQueen’s bountiful Grenada – in pictures

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Giant echidnas weighing 15kg roamed Victoria – and the evidence was hiding in plain sight

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MSPs not told about collapse of funding deal for Scottish nature restoration

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‘Without them there is no life’: the race to understand the mysterious world of Africa’s fungi

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Colombia to cull up to 80 hippos descended from Pablo Escobar zoo

Spring flowers bloom in England after mix of hot and cold weather creates ideal conditions

Bosses of Santos, Woodside, Chevron and Shell asked to give evidence to Greens-led gas tax inquiry

Troubled Lake Erie is being transformed into a vast water research facility

Are we heading for ‘super El Niño’ – and what could we expect?

A messy garden is a glorious garden. We need to stop tidying, titivating and paving them over | Emma Beddington

‘Reverse-gentrify the country’: how Black and Indigenous intentional communities are reclaiming land

Golden eagles could be reintroduced to England after more than 150 years

Madeline Horwath on spring picnics – cartoon

The war over Omagh’s gold: the £21bn mine plan tearing a community apart

An environmental disaster in Moldova has Russia’s fingerprints all over it | Paula Erizanu

Anger as swifts’ nesting holes in Derbyshire rail viaduct ‘blocked up’

‘Illegal’ forest service overhaul risks causing ‘chaos’ across US public lands, union claims

‘An abomination’: the Lancashire town kicking up a stink over reopened landfill

Week in wildlife: an ostrich on the lam, a tortoise crossing a road and surfing seals

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB

Lava bursts forth as Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts

US agency proposes rolling back rules for safe disposal of toxic coal ash

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

US had hottest March on record as nation faced ‘unprecedented’ heat

Argentina approves Milei’s glacier mining bill amid environmental protests

‘A dream come true’: Brazil’s blue-and-yellow macaws return to Rio after 200 years

Doug Allan, cameraman on David Attenborough’s Planet series, dies trekking in Nepal

Bitten by snakes 200 times – on purpose: US man’s quest to help deliver new antivenom

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction

Campaigners demand action to break UK’s ‘addiction’ to controversial herbicide

Ed Miliband hold firm! North sea oil and gas drilling won’t help anyone other than Nigel Farage | Zoe Williams

Abandoned Battle of Britain control tower to become a home for holidaymakers … and six species of bat

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval

Trump’s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event

‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds

How do you convince Americans to eat fish? Disguise it as meat, of course | Arwa Mahdawi

‘The water is no longer our friend’: how dredging is pushing Lagos Lagoon towards ecosystem collapse – photo essay

UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say

Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable | Christiana Figueres

Oil slick from bombed Iranian ship threatens protected wetland

BP shareholders advised to vote against chair over climate resolution exclusion

Scientists develop gene-edited wheat that can make toasted bread less carcinogenic