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  • Trump's environmental rollbacks contradict RFK Jr's healthy America promise, report finds

    Dismantling rules will make children vulnerable to chronic diseases 'make America healthy again' wants to eradicate

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

  • 'It's sick': Trump administration uses mascot called 'Coalie' to push dirtiest fossil fuel

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

    Mark Wolfe

  • Bomb cyclone brings freezing temperatures and snow to millions in US

  • Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

  • How Trump's EPA rollbacks could harm our air and water - and worsen global heating

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

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

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

America's dirty divide

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

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

  • Mysterious bags of 'hazardous' materials appeared in Mexico. Then we found more

  • Canadians protest imports of US toxic waste amid Trump tariff war

Our unequal earth

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

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

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

  • Defunding fungi: US's living library of 'vital ecosystem engineers' is in danger of closing

The age of extinction

  • 'Nothing is sacred to them': the race to save rare plants as Russian troops advance

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

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

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

Seascape

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

  • Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?

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

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

Opinion

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

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

    George Monbiot

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

    Adam Morton

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

    Aditya Chakrabortty

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