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  • Young girl using asthma inhaler.

    Trump’s environmental rollbacks contradict RFK’s healthy America promise, report finds

    Dismantling rules will make children vulnerable to chronic diseases ‘make America healthy again’ wants to eradicate
  • A fawn with big ears.

    California officials move forward with plans to exterminate mule deer from island

  • A cartoon piece of coal dressed as a miner with a coal background

    ‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel

  • Coal Power Plant in West Viriginaepa11954643 A view of the Harrison Power Station, a coal-fired power plant owned by FirstEnergy that was built in the early 1970s and uses approximately 5 million tons of coal annually, in Haywood, West Virginia, USA, 10 March 2025. President Donald Trump has moved to substantially change the Untied States’ energy policy since taking office in January, including rescinding industry regulations aimed at reducing pollution and promoting coal as potential solution to large energy demands of the Artificial Intelligence computing. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    Why US household energy bills are soaring – and how to fix it

    Mark Wolfe
  • man snowblows sidewalk

    Bomb cyclone brings freezing temperatures and snow to millions in US

  • air pollution

    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

  • Illustration of men and climate crisis

    How Trump’s EPA rollbacks could harm our air and water – and worsen global heating

CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • A flying fox bat with its tongue out after dipping in the water

    More than 80% of flying fox colony wiped out as January heatwaves kill thousands of bats

  • Angela and Todd James, parents of Canadian backpacker Piper James, arrive at Brisbane airport

    Parents of Piper James visit K’gari to farewell daughter and ‘walk where she last walked’ as dingo cull continues

  • A general view of an open-cut coal mine

    Campaign group behind attack ads on Labor, Greens and teal candidates was funded by coal industry lobby

  • Two people sit on grass next to a beach and look out across the Firth of Forth

    Up to half of coarse sediments on UK urban beaches may be human-made, study suggests

America's dirty divide

  • A cityscape is seen in the foreground covered in smog with a large mountain seen in the background

    Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

  • wide shot of an industrial landscape in a city

    Mexico factory that imports US toxic waste to relocate after Guardian report

  • Graphic

    Mysterious bags of ‘hazardous’ materials appeared in Mexico. Then we found more

  • overhead view of cityscape beside icy river

    Canadians protest imports of US toxic waste amid Trump tariff war

Our unequal earth

  • person wearing green shirt and hairnet handles meals on a table

    Some experts say the new US dietary guidelines have ‘conflicting messaging’. Here’s who will be affected most

  • a composite image showing cows and a man in a suit

    Huge amounts of extra land needed for RFK Jr’s meat-heavy diet guidelines

  • Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland.

    Ex-FDA workers warn Trump cuts will increase risk of food safety lapses in US

  • a composite image showing scientific vials and a plant

    Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing

The age of extinction

  • Moehringia hypanica, a plant with small white flowers, grows out of stony ground

    ‘Nothing is sacred to them’: the race to save rare plants as Russian troops advance

  • The landscape flooded by the rising waters of the River Otter after Storm Chandra in Honiton, Devon.

    ‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice

  • A view through a window of a classroom, with books on desks. Trees can be seen reflected in the glass

    The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?

  • A wolf in a white snowy forest

    ‘We cannot say for sure these wolves come from Russia’: Finns try to fathom cause of record reindeer deaths

Seascape

  • A view of Southend pier with a ferris wheel in the foreground.

    ‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

  • Dead Coho salmon floating in a river.

    Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?

  • Beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 9 June, 2023.

    Valium, health checks and fabric slings: the complex logistics of moving 30 beluga whales

  • An aerial picture of a huge red and blue ship stacked with red, white and yellow containers. The front of the ship is holding up two collapseed sections of a metal bridge, parts of which are underwater, wile other sections can be seen partially submerged.

    Baltimore bridge collapse: crew members from ship still held by US two years on

Opinion

  • Upper Chevreuse Valley Regional Nature Park, Rambouillet state forest, France.

    The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late

  • George Monbiot

    The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised

    George Monbiot
  • Adam Morton

    Through the heatwave haze, the hypocrisy of Australia’s fossil fuel policy shines bright

    Adam Morton
  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out

    Aditya Chakrabortty

Multimedia

  1. An ambush bug nymph on a flower

    Wildlife photographer of the year – people’s choice 2026

    Gallery24
  2. A woman carrying her son on her back

    Australia’s best photos of the month – January 2026

    Gallery24
  3. A rescued young owl in Costa Rica. This beautiful owl named 'Gandolf' was brought into

    Week in wildlife: a rescued owl, a brave blackbird and Fukushima boar babies

    Gallery19

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