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How California is bracing for a winter of floods, fires and extreme storms all at once
The strongest El Niño recorded is expected to bring a cascade of hazards to a state still facing wildfire and...
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Country diary: A passing osprey needs to eat – but the local terns won’t let it
Chichester harbour, Hampshire: I witness a battle of wills as this magnificent raptor attempts to fuel up on s...
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Meet Japan’s mythical beast who appears in bolts of lightning
Raijū is normally docile but gets agitated in storms and leaps up to run among the clouds, according to folklo...
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Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire
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Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian
Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children, about their autumn encoun...
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Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy
Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy security
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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely dr...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme wea...
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World’s seas heated by a record 23 zettajoules last year
The injection of thermal energy, 40 times that used by humanity in total, comes amid an increasing rise in sea...
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How Deep Is Your Love review – under the sea at Earth’s last frontier with the Psychedelic Elvis Worm
Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are a...
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Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’
Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by...
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Country diary: The land here is scarred from a year of hard weather – now what will winter hold?
Camborne, Cornwall: There will be more storms like Goretti and more fires next summer, but we can make the lan...