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‘Someone is going to die’: MPs warned of E coli risk to swimmers in English waters
Clean river campaigner says pollution poses threat as Labour MP calls for water industry to be taken into public ownership A clean river campaigner has warned of a serious risk someone will die...
Canada wildfires: huge queues on highway as thousands evacuate oil town – video
Footage on social media showed roads full of cars evacuating the suburbs of Fort Mcmurray in the western Canadian province of Alberta. A growing blaze threatened the city and its surroundings, wh...
Australia’s budget has ‘gaping hole’ in funds for DV victims, environment and housing, advocates say
Labor touts cost of living package as ‘substantial’ but advocates say changes are inadequate Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The federal governm...
Snakes, donkey heads, a dead cow: the odd things found in recycling – and how they should be disposed of
Most Australians don’t know what to do with their dead pets, vapes and lightbulbs, a waste survey has found Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast While ...
I swapped my south LA lawn for a verdant microfarm - now I feed the neighborhood
Read more from the DIY CLIMATE CHANGERS, a new series on everyday people’s creative solutions to the climate crisis BEVERLY LOFTON’S home in south Los Angeles used to have a water-guzzling ...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/urban-microfarm-farming-environment
House Democrats launch investigation into Trump’s alleged offers to oil executives
Democrats on the House oversight committee sent letters to oil executives asking about alleged $1bn quid pro quo offer House Democrats have launched an investigation into a meeting between oil ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/14/trump-oil-executives-democrat-investigation
Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video
Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, has been slowly swallowed by the sea over the past few decades. This has led to the relocation of the school and many ho...
How do you follow My Octopus Teacher? With crocodiles, otters and a new book
Oscar-winning film-maker Craig Foster on his first octopus encounter, the price of fame and his new video book about the power of connecting with animals When the film My Octopus Teacher aired...
Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ‘taking very serious look’ at whether Mar-a-Lago meeting justifies legal action A powerful watchdog group that has been at the forefront...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/15/ethics-watchdog-investigating-trump-big-oil
The China-linked EV battery mega factory dividing a US township
Michigan factory making battery components for electric cars may offer an economic lifeline, but for some residents there’s a problem: the parent company is in China Set among green rolling h...
Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency
Republican frontrunner vows to put an end to ‘horrible’ wind turbines, pledging to undo yet another key US green policy Donald Trump has vowed to immediately halt offshore wind energy proje...
Hundreds of ‘emaciated’ and stranded pelicans turn up along California coast
State’s department of fish and wildlife says the brown pelicans are showing signs of malnutrition, but that the cause is still unclear Hundreds of starving and stranded brown pelicans have tu...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/sick-pelicans-california
Baby skates on verge of extinction in Tasmania hatched by scientists – video
The ancient fish were successfully hatched by scientists in Tasmania using two adults and 50 eggs. The Maugean skate is thought to be found only in the vast harbour on the state’s west coast. N...
Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds
More than 4,000 species are targeted by traffickers, with illegal trade active in 80% of countries, says Office on Drugs and Crime More than 4,000 species around the world are being targeted by...
Eco-brutalism: when angular concrete meets the wonder of nature – in pictures
On her @brutalistplants Instagram page , Olivia Broome collects photographs that combine the angular shapes of raw concrete with the greenery of the natural world. “I really enjoy the aesthetic...
Bird flu strain found in US cows flown to UK lab for testing
Virus sent to high-security facility so that experts can examine the potential risks to people and livestock Avian flu typically spreads by infecting wild birds and moving along migration route...
A (mostly) scientific ranking of takeout containers – from worst to best for the environment
One way to mitigate the eco-guilt of a to-go habit is to choose restaurants that serve food in sustainable containers Getting restaurant meals to go often comes with a side of guilt: “Did I n...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/10/best-sustainable-food-containers
Week in wildlife – in pictures: an eel gets a shock, bees take Manhattan and a possum on the pitch
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust
Trust aims to boost small pearl-bordered fritillary colonies in Shropshire Hills by planting 20,000 violets this year for their caterpillars A mass planting of marsh violets across England’s ...
‘Sugar is brown!’: there’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version
Sugar’s texture and taste can be as individualistic as coffee beans or wine grapes grown in specific regions, but most of us don’t know that One night, I was preparing steak for dinner and ...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/sugar-origin-history
Cruise ship arrives at New York City harbor with dead whale caught on bow
The 44ft-long whale corpse was an endangered sei whale, which will now be examined to determine how it died A cruise ship has journeyed into New York City’s harbor bearing a gruesome cargo in...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/cruise-ship-dead-whale
Ice dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters: the man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at risk
Andreas B. Heide has been shortlisted for a Shackleton award for his work in the far north, getting up close to nature to connect people emotionally with a fragile ecosystem To say the images o...
Vermont poised to become first US state to charge big oil for climate damage
If passed, the groundbreaking measure could be a model for other states to hold fossil fuel companies liable Vermont is poised to pass a groundbreaking measure forcing major polluting companie...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/vermont-charge-oil-industry-climate-crisis
Labor’s strategy is to reduce emissions from gas – but not if that means doing anything to cut its use
The plan announced on Thursday offers the gas industry – and Western Australia in particular – everything it could want Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news pod...
‘When he is older there will be no rain’: how southern Madagascar is coping in a climate crisis
The island nation is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world, as changing weather patterns bring more dry spells and unpredictable rainy seasons. Sean Smith travelled to the south to me...
Gina Rinehart, One Nation and the Greens all oppose Glencor...e CO2 in the Great Artesian Basin – why? | Temperature Check
The mining company insists the storage hub is safe but many are unconvinced about injecting carbon dioxide into a major Australian water resource Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free ...
Scaling up: the app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities
Abalobi provides a real-time marketplace for fishers to sell their catch, while also monitoring fish populations, and the tech could go global The 59-year-old Wilfred Poggenpoel is a fisher fro...
‘Why doesn’t anybody care?’ Texas-Mexico border devastated by anti-migrant operation
Greg Abbott’s strategy to deter immigration isn’t just harming people and costing billions – it’s ruining the Rio Grande’s ecosystem Strong-arm strategies by Texas along the US-Mexico...
Week in wildlife – in pictures: a giant hamster, a mustachioed deer and a zebra on the run
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
Australia’s best new sustainable homes of 2024 – in pictures
A pocket-sized city terrace extension and a multigenerational riverside property inspired by a country shed are among the innovative dwellings shortlisted in the sustainability category of the Ho...
Is America’s oldest Chinese restaurant in a tiny suburb of Sacramento? Historians investigate
Researchers visited the Chicago Cafe to find out if it’s really 121 years old – and entered a chop suey parlor filled with memories On a warm morning in March, a group of researchers entere...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/oldest-chinese-american-restaurant-chicago-cafe
Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify
US Senate hearing reviewed report showing sector’s shift from climate denial to ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’ The fossil fuel industry spent decades sowing doubt about the d...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/big-oil-danger-disinformation-fossil-fuels
Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds
Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support Big oil has privately acknowledged its efforts to downplay the dangers of b...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/big-oil-climate-crisis-us-senate-report
Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas borderland
The state’s last sugar processing mill closed because there’s just not enough water in the Rio Grande to share between the US and Mexico Tudor Uhlhorn has been too busy auctioning off agric...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/texas-sugarcane-farming
How do we define climate responsibility? Woodside has no answer | Adam Morton
So long as oil and gas companies remain wedded to self-interest, the push against them isn’t going away Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australia�...
Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’
Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice Earlier this month, Brittany Thomas received a call that her 11-ye...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/flint-michigan-water-crisis
Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty
Mona Hanna-Attisha launched a program to provide funds during a newborn’s first year – and wants to replicate it across the country Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: �...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/flint-michigan-child-poverty
Mega-warehouses heap more pollution on hard-hit Illinois neighborhoods
Proliferation of hubs for online shopping disproportionately sited in low-income neighborhoods or communities of color Hundreds of mega-warehouses have been built in Illinois for online shoppin...
Birdsong once signalled the onset of spring on my street – but not this year | Tony Juniper
A dawn chorus of flutes, whistles and chirps once flowed through my Cambridge window, but there has been a shocking collapse in birdlife. What can be done? Every year from February through to J...
Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments
Organizers at Columbia, Tulane and the University of Virginia write to attorneys general arguing schools’ investments are illegal Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaint...