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‘Do we really need huge cruise ships here?’: fears £150m Falmouth Docks plan threatens habitats – and town itself

All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows

We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires | Seth Klein

Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds

Winner of Florida python hunting contest nabs 96 snakes: ‘I was on a mission’

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Toronto zoo announces birth of pygmy hippo calf, third for mother Kindia

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NHS must prepare for annual summer heat pressures, says Yvette Cooper

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Adapting to global heating: which UK public services are struggling in hot weather?

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The herbicide haunting a New York farm town

Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert

Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed

Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’

Chris Bowen vows to override Queensland and NT to force renewables-powered AI datacentres

The ‘Cockroach Lord’ who names new species after Tolkien and Pokémon characters

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

‘The bizarreness of many of their reproductive strategies is … incredible’ – Invertebrate of the Year reader Q&A

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

Calls to ban ‘toxic’ pet flea treatments that harm UK wildlife and environment

‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities

Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous | Yiannis Baboulias

Penguins and dolphins among nearly 400 Australian species under threat from bird flu as ‘true extent of disaster’ revealed

Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Extreme heat: why our cities can't cope | Opinion

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem

UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland

Three lions die of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo zoo as Japan swelters

Nine Lives, the feral cat that terrorised New Zealand’s rare ducks, is caught after three years

Tuesday briefing: Inside the right’s heated climate-denial debate

UK plastic manufacturer could face legal action over toxic emissions

Crews building Trump border wall in drought-hit New Mexico ordered to stop drilling wells

Rebecca Hendin on Britain’s air con debate – cartoon

Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years

Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor

From living roofs to rainwater harvesting: the future of sustainable homes

Suspected mass bird flu deaths found in second state as Murray Watt warns ‘this is the beginning’

It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon

Eastern Washington fires destroy 600 structures and force 60,000 to evacuate

The Guardian view on drought: hot, dry conditions make inequality starker | Editorial

Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

Two helicopters collide outside Athens as Greece battles to control wildfires

‘There’s no nurdle fairy’: thousands mobilise to clean up plastic spillage in north-east England

Struggling to get through summer? Treat yourself like a beloved dog – and six other survival tips | Emma Beddington

‘I have an understanding housemate’: the student who makes videos of fungus on faeces

‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk

Heatwave scorching western US ups risk of hazardous fire conditions

The case for a blatantly discriminatory Australian voting system

Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’ prompts activists to turn up the volume