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    California fires live: 6m people under critical fire threat as dangerous winds expected

    Forecasters warn of ‘particularly dangerous weather situation’, while Gavin Newsom hits out at House speaker for ‘politicizing’ tragedy that has killed 25
  • house debris outside after a wildfire

    What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars?

    Judith Levine
  • a freight train moves through a desert

    California pulls diesel phase-out request to EPA ahead of Trump administration

  • firefighters digging

    ‘Running to danger and saving lives’: 1,100 incarcerated firefighters are on the LA frontlines

  • a person wearing neon jacket stands in a creek

    ‘I applaud the EPA’: agency launches formal review of five toxic chemicals

  • An industrial plant spews pollution.

    ‘A trash can for the US’: anger in Mexico and Canada over toxic waste shipments

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    • Police in Brescia, pictured in 2021

      Italian police accused of making female activists remove underwear and do squats

    • A firefighter monitors the spread of the Auto Fire in Oxnard, North West of Los Angeles, California

      Climate ‘whiplash’ events increasing exponentially around world

      Global heating means atmosphere can drive both extreme droughts and floods with rapid switches
    • Luke Evans stands among the burned remains of his research facility

      Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool

      Luke Evans, whose work has been called ‘breathtakingly new’, says he has lost experimental data and all equipment
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    Big oil uncovered

    • white columned building

      US supreme court allows Hawaii lawsuit against fossil fuel firms’ misinformation

    • Donald Trump at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Arizona, on 22 December.

      Trump aims to crush legal curbs on his climate rollback – but it may not be easy

    • A pool of oil surrounded by dry vegetation

      Oil and gas firms operating in Colorado falsified environmental impact reports

    • an industrial facility with trees and a body of water in the foreground

      ‘I have to live in a cocoon’: locals in Pennsylvania feel ‘sacrificed’ for Shell plastics plant

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    America's dirty divide

    • A researcher collects samples of pollution from the windowsill of a house near the Zinc Nacional plant; residents walk just outside the large plant; and a woman who lives near the plant shows X-rays of her lungs.

      Revealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico – where a ‘toxic cocktail’ of pollution emerges

    • Two men hold a reddish hose over a tank outside

      Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta

    • A before and after of what an amusement park would look like before and after flooding

      How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater

    • the outside of an apartment building

      Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them

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    Our unequal earth

    • a cashier uses a register in a restaurant

      Vegan no more: a beloved Asheville plant-based cafe pivots to stay afloat post-hurricane

    • Color illustration of a plate with food on it labeled with prices.

      Can everyone eat for the planet? I shopped at Dollar Store for a week to find out

    • side by side images of a plate of food, two people and a shelf

      ‘The taste of our home’: inside an Afghan restaurant in Arizona run by former refugees

    • two white turkeys stand on a green lawn

      The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey

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    The age of extinction

    • Two dead pelicans washed up at the water's edge next to a pebbly shore

      Age of the panzootic: scientists warn of more devastating diseases jumping between species

    • The Lynx that were successfully captured in the Cairngorms national park on Thursday are seen on snowy ground amid trees

      Fears of ‘rogue rewilding’ in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings

      Environmentalists condemn unauthorised releases as ‘reckless’ and ‘highly irresponsible’
    • Farmer Ruairidh Mackay at Stronmagachan farm at Inveraray with the remains of lambs he believes have been killed by white-tailed eagles

      It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses – podcast

      Biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston hears from farmers on the west coast of Scotland who claim they are losing hundreds of lambs a year in a case of rewilding gone wrong
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    Seascape

    • A beluga whale's head pokes up above the water of an enclosure, which has trees and rocks in the background.

      Five years, multiple deaths: what is happening at the home of the last captive whales in Canada?

    • An aerial view of sea and forested shore, a single boat in the centre heading towards a pier

      Want to sponsor a piece of ocean paradise? How one Pacific island’s novel response to rising seas is paying off

      • Mike Keen sitting in a kayak with antlers in it in front of an iceberg

        Dried halibut and whale jerky: how a traditional Inuit diet fuelled an epic kayak adventure

      • Whales in sea

        Grieving killer whale who carried calf’s body spotted again with dead baby

      • The mouth of a baleen whale emerging from the water, with barnacles visible on its nose

        ‘Extraordinary longevity’: great whales can live a lot longer than we thought – if we leave them alone

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    Opinion

    • Adrienne Buller

      Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’

      Adrienne Buller
    • Pouring a glass of water from a kitchen tap

      The Guardian view on chemical pollution: the UK can’t ignore the risks from PFAS

    • Wildfires in Los Angeles<br>Firefighters extinguish the fire as the Palisades Fire, one of several simultaneous blazes that have ripped across Los Angeles County, burns in Mandeville Canyon, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 12, 2025. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu

      What is happening in Los Angeles is our future

      Francine Prose
    • Smoke from the LA wildfires turns the sun red

      As the world burns, young Australians are feeling disbelief – and looking for answers

      Anjali Sharma
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    Multimedia

    • Fire tornado spotted in Palisades blaze in California – video

    • firefighters walk near a destroyed church

      California wildfire victims pick up pieces as blazes rage on – in photos

      Firefighters battle on as people across Los Angeles struggle to find a way forward on Friday
    • The constant drag of rope and floats slowly causes a whale to succumb to exhaustion and eventually die, marine scientist Olaf Meynecke, says

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      Coordinated effort needed to stop whales getting tangled in ropes and nets, scientists say – video

      The constant drag of rope and floats slowly causes a whale to succumb to exhaustion and eventually die, marine scientist Olaf Meynecke, says
    • A dalmatian pelican

      Week in wildlife in pictures: an entangled elk, a grieving whale and a tortoise on the run

    • Firefighters battle the Palisades fire as it burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles, California

      LA fires: devastation as wildfires rip through Los Angeles – in pictures

    • Karen Bass speaks to the media as Los Angeles crews struggle to contain the deadly wildfires

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      'This firestorm is the big one': LA mayor provides update on California wildfires – video

    • More than 30,000 people were put under evacuation orders in LA, and a state of emergency has been declared as the infernos swept through the Pacific Palisades

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      LA hasn't seen anything like this before: Pacific Palisades residents react to wildfires – video

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