More than 1,000 birds found dead in three mass mortality events amid ‘significant’ H5 escalation in Australia
Environment | The Guardianby Lisa Cox Environment and climate correspondent·20 Aug 2026
The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has declared a “significant escalation” in H5 bird flu in the state after the detection of three mass mortality events involving more than 1,000...
Monstera magic: Barbican hands out cuttings as ‘green lung of the city’ closes
Environment | The Guardianby Helena Horton·20 Aug 2026
Above the waxy monstera leaves and bright pink hibiscus flowers in the Barbican conservatory hangs a giant net to catch the panes of glass that are at risk of falling from the ceiling on the...
From bone-dry to soaked to the bone, welcome to the age of climate whiplash | Aditya Chakrabortty
Environment | The Guardianby Aditya Chakrabortty·20 Aug 2026
This summer could be the hottest, driest and deadliest in English history. Successive heatwaves have so far claimed almost 3,000 lives.
California becomes first US state to set efficiency rules for replacement tires
Environment | The Guardianby Sam Levin in Los Angeles·19 Aug 2026
California has become the first state in the nation to mandate that replacement tires be energy efficient, a major auto industry regulation set to block the sale of older tires and make vehicles on...
Human remains again found at Lake Mead as water levels drop amid drought
Environment | The Guardianby Victoria Bekiempis·19 Aug 2026
Human remains have once again been discovered at Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, Nevada, marking the latest in a line of gruesome discoveries as water levels in the crucial reservoir continue to drop...
Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It's wrong | Larry Elliott
Environment | The Guardianby Larry Elliott·19 Aug 2026
So now we know: the smart response to the UK’s summer of record temperatures is to do precisely nothing.
Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
Environment | The Guardianby Gabrielle Canon·19 Aug 2026
The US has faced a critical shortage of firefighters at the US Forest Service (USFS) this summer as thousands of fires erupted across the country.
Introducing Ulez was my hardest decision as mayor of London – but now we know its astonishing impact | Sadiq Khan
Environment | The Guardianby Sadiq Khan·18 Aug 2026
When I introduced London’s clean air zone – the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) – more than seven years ago, no city had ever attempted anything quite like it.
Gorging on bearcam: the livestream of big beasts eating that draws millions
Environment | The Guardianby Matthew Pearce·16 Aug 2026
One of this summer’s biggest onscreen hits has had big beasts, great escapes and choppy waters, but it’s not Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – it’s a livestream of Alaskan brown bears catching...
Running dry: drought-hit UK sporting venues and parched pitches – in pictures
Environment | The Guardianby Guardian sport·14 Aug 2026
With the UK experiencing the driest summer on record, we look at how the weather is affecting the pitches and courses across the country
Week in wildlife: snake on a car, a careful spider mum and a lazy squirrel
Environment | The Guardianby Pejman Faratin·14 Aug 2026
Week in wildlife: snake on a car, a careful spider mum and a lazy squirrel This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world A female Dolomedes sulfureus is carefully carrying an egg sac...
Killer fungus: how a disease threatening bat species has spread to northern Canada
Environment | The Guardianby Trina Moyles·13 Aug 2026
Crawling through a narrow passage in a cave beneath a boreal forest near Fort Smith in Canada’s Northwest Territories in May, two biologists spotted a lifeless bat on a limestone ledge, its body...
Manila river clogged with rubbish after Typhoon Dolphin floods – in pictures
Environment | The Guardianby Guardian Staff·13 Aug 2026
Manila river clogged with rubbish after Typhoon Dolphin floods – in pictures Days of rain has caused widespread flooding across the Philippines capital, Manila, and filled the city’s waterways with...
Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem
Environment | The Guardianby Stephen Burgen·13 Aug 2026
In 2022 Nueva Pescanova, Spain’s largest fisheries business, announced it was investing €65m (£56m) in the world’s first industrial octopus farm and processing plant near the Canary Islands’ port...
Humpbacks return to Rio: the whales are back from the brink of extinction – but will tourism help or hinder?
Environment | The Guardianby Constance Malleret in Rio de Janeiro·12 Aug 2026
The anticipation is palpable onboard the Boaventura II as the yacht sets off from Rio de Janeiro at sunrise.
Trump’s deep public health cuts hinder response to record US cyclosporiasis outbreak
Environment | The Guardianby Melody Schreiber·18 Jul 2026
As soon as Michigan detected the first sign of cyclosporiasis cases in late June, health officials swung into action, notifying federal agencies and releasing a notice on 1 July ahead of the...
‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
Environment | The Guardianby Erin McCormick in Cass county, Indiana, with photographs by Kaiti Sullivan·12 Jul 2026
The plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a slam dunk for the climate, according to its supporters – all generously funded by US tax dollars.
‘The silence was the worst part’: after culling his entire flock, US poultry farmer now fears bird flu
Environment | The Guardianby Alissa de Chassey·1 Jul 2026
Joshua Beebe often starts his day by cleaning the tires of trucks and cars entering his poultry farm. “We spray them off and scrub them with a brush.
Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto
Environment | The Guardianby Adria R Walker·17 Jun 2026
When Nicole Austin was growing up in Oshawa, Canada, her Jamaican family couldn’t find the foods they enjoyed back on the island. No callaloo, garden eggs or okra.
Bananas could vanish from US school meals. Here’s why
Environment | The Guardianby Lela Nargi·11 Jun 2026
School nutrition workers and advocates have “lots of concerns about bananas”, said Erin Ogden, policy associate for federal child nutrition programs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest...
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