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  • Warrington resident Barbara Gee outside of her home with her possessions that were damaged in the flood

    Flooding
    ‘Everything is destroyed, nothing could be saved:’ anger and despair in communities devastated by North West floods

    After flood defences failed yet again, heartbroken residents of Merseyside and Cheshire now face a painful clean-up and possible financial ruin.
  • Two rainbow trout lying above slices of salmon and next to a small pot of shellfish, all on ice

    Fish
    Chefs and home cooks send trout sales leaping amid farmed salmon fears

  • Three people stood in coats and jackets near water's edge water with bare trees in background.

    Conservation
    Back from the dead: the ‘zombie’ ponds repumping nature into Essex farmland

  • Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal.

    Oil
    ‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows

  • A woman runs against the direction of a crowd of protesters who have their fists raised and are holding placards

    Denmark
    ‘A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion

  • River with tree-lined riverbank

    Rivers
    Researchers seek to expand ‘citizen scientist’ testing of UK river quality

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    Spotlight

    • The film star Brigitte Bardot

      ‘I demand she is spared’: Brigitte Bardot joins campaign to save wild boar

    • Veterinarian Dr Kimberly Vignette Herrin at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital in Sydney

      ‘I sort of fell apart’: black summer bushfires’ toll on the vets and carers helping Australian wildlife

      • Composite image of Christine Lagarde, Allan Leighton, Kelly Ortberg and Carolyn McCall against a blue background

        It’s tough at the top – but which business leader has the most at stake in 2025?

      • people with their arms around each other looking out

        California tribes celebrate historic dam removal: ‘More successful than we ever imagined’

      • A pile of pistachios in a hand

        Is pistachio the new pumpkin spice? Why production of the nut is booming in California

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    Opinion

    • Lucy McCormick

      Lab-grown meat is the future for pet food – and that’s a huge opportunity for Britain

      Lucy McCormick
    • The Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot at night

      The Guardian view on a carbon-free economy: no just transition in sight – yet

    • Nils Pratley

      Early phase-out of full hybrid vehicles may be a political risk too far for UK ministers

      Nils Pratley
    • A young boy looking out to sea

      Each year I insist we visit the same beach. Repetition tricks the mind into thinking a thing will last for ever

      Jenny Sinclair
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    The age of extinction

    • A picture of concentric circles of dead birds arranged according to size and colour, with the largest in the centre.

      Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows

    • Aerial view of a container filled with illegally obtained wild bird eggs seized by Essex police, UK

      Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history

      Part of an international initiative to combat organised wildlife crime, similar seizures in Australia and Norway have recovered more than 50,000 eggs
    • Two shaggy musk oxen, with big curved horns, look at the camera from a ridge

      They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?

      Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go
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    Seascape

    • 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

    • Nathalie Frost holds two broken shells up to inspect them on a beach

      I’m obsessed with broken shells: they are marked by life, like our skin

      • A grey lying on sand with her flipper resting on a pup with streaks of blood on its white fur

        ‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish

      • Mahyuddin and Ema Listyana

        Indian Ocean tsunami: how survivors found love after Boxing Day disaster

      • Five people cluster around a large dolphin-like whale on a beach as breakers crash against the shore

        Dissecting the world’s rarest whale – in pictures

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    Multimedia

    • A young chimpanzee eats on an island during an outing in the Douala-Edea Natural Park in Marienberg, Cameroon.

      Week in wildlife in pictures: a rare warbler, a young chimp and sheltering joeys

    • Alan Jones walks past waiting media as he leaves a police station in Sydney on 18 November

      Australia’s best agency photography for 2024 – in pictures

      Protests, Taylor Swift and chubby penguins are all part of the best images from the wire agencies in 2024
    • A picture perfect robin framed in holly puts on a show for the Christmas season in Ipswich, UK

      Week in wildlife in pictures: a seasonal robin and newborn lion cubs in Bedfordshire

      The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
    • Ailanthus Webworm, Atteva aurea . 2022

      On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect’s flight – in pictures

    • Riley Swanson (left) and Chico Shaw watching the sunset over the Roma Southern Road in Queensland.

      Guardian Australia’s best photos of 2024 – in pictures

    • A marmoset dangles upside down by its hind legs, enjoying a banana at Forte Duque de Caxias in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

      Week in wildlife in pictures: a dangling marmoset, rare leopard babies and an eyelash snake

    • A modern home in Clapham, London built alongside traditional period townhouses.

      Homes for sale with an air source heat pump – in pictures

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