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London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?

Onshore windfarm applications hit 10-year high in England

Fur seal’s death marks first Australian mainland mammal fatality from spreading H5 bird flu strain

Heathrow expansion ‘is threat to England’s largest surviving medieval barn’

‘It’s pretty much a guarantee you’ll get stung’: jellyfish keep swimmers off Delaware beaches

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Why am I called The Black Farmer? Because there are so few of us in Britain. I’d like that to change | Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

Battery fires at recycling centres are costing UK £1bn a year, figures show

‘We are in the inferno’: diaspora writers lead new movement of nature poetry

The US has a plan to save the Colorado River. Experts say it won’t be enough to stop the crisis

33m tons of toxic seaweed clogs Caribbean beaches – video

Britain’s railway prepares for more extreme weather as intense El Niño develops

First ever Fat Marmot Week to kick off in effort to raise money for research

Brazil’s vast iron mine that supplies the world and fractures the Amazon – in pictures

Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint

Cut cost of loans for solar panels on UK homes, ministers urged

Biggest El Niño for a century forecast to bring UK more autumn rain and storms

Week in wildlife: Bat in a toilet, a speeding gull and a bird with shoes

Eco homes that can stay cool for sale in England and Wales – in pictures

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

Controversial California oil pipeline can continue to operate, judge rules

Trump plan to allow drilling near US world heritage site sparks alarm

Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

PSG’s Ligue 1 home opener moved to Rennes after pitch damaged by heat

How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too

Humans have learned to fear ‘bugs’, but we shouldn’t – life as we know it hinges on invertebrates | Chris Packham

Destructive and delicious: how an invasive deer in Hawaii is being turned into dinner

Burnham says fly-tippers will be forced to pay for the clean-up when they dump waste illegally – UK politics live

More than 1,000 birds found dead in three mass mortality events amid ‘significant’ H5 escalation in Australia

Monstera magic: Barbican hands out cuttings as ‘green lung of the city’ closes

Oxfam ‘can’t guarantee future’ of charity shops as it also reviews warehouse business

From bone-dry to soaked to the bone, welcome to the age of climate whiplash | Aditya Chakrabortty

California becomes first US state to set efficiency rules for replacement tires

Taxpayers to fund clear-up of illegal dumps in West Yorkshire, Surrey and Kent

Human remains again found at Lake Mead as water levels drop amid drought

Otter spotted for first time in 100 years in New York City’s Bronx River

‘Success story’ hailed as bluefin tunas caught off Yorkshire for first time since 1960s

Swimmers warned of toxic algae at newly designated Thames bathing site

Tice should apologise to firefighters for ‘enjoy it’ remark on extreme heat, says Labour

Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It's wrong | Larry Elliott

Calls for urgent law change as UK’s largest water reuse system cannot be switched on

Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’

Hawaii crews work to restore power to thousands after Lala outages

Labour ‘could lose up to 50 seats’ to Greens if new drilling in North Sea approved

UK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report

Carbon pollution has fuelled ‘massive expansion’ of marine heatwaves in Europe, study finds

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Introducing Ulez was my hardest decision as mayor of London – but now we know its astonishing impact | Sadiq Khan

Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests

Rebecca Hendin on Richard Tice and the climate crisis – cartoon

Heavy rain on dry ground may cause UK floods as taps run dry for thousands