theguardian.comadded August 2026
Environment | The Guardianby Andrew Lawrence25 Aug 2026
Nuclear energy was supposed to be our salvation, humanity’s chance to retool technology first conceived as a weapon of mass destruction into an engine of limitless prosperity.
Environment | The Guardianby Dan Hancox25 Aug 2026
‘Interesting cities can’t be quiet”, runs one of grime DJ and music industry thinker Elijah’s epigrams – and in its essential spirit, he is right.
Environment | The Guardianby Tomé Morrissy-Swan25 Aug 2026
It is the earliest harvest Henry Astor can remember. But walking through the scorched wheatfields of his Cotswolds farm, signs of life are everywhere – swarms of insects, kaleidoscopic wildflower...
Environment | The Guardianby Gabrielle Canon24 Aug 2026
Nevada filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s new plan for the imperiled Colorado River, launching what could become the first of many court battles over the...
Environment | The Guardianby Zoe Williams24 Aug 2026
As it is August, and everyone with stronger opinions is currently on holiday, last week I went on Any Questions?, the BBC Radio 4 panel show.
Environment | The Guardianby Tim Winton24 Aug 2026
Well, there’s no getting around it now. What many of us once feared has become a reality. The dangerous conditions climate scientists long warned of have become our common, if deeply unwelcome...
Environment | The Guardianby Nick Visser23 Aug 2026
Major housing investment near Perth could provide boost to apartment supply Sarah Basford Canales The National Reconstruction Fund will invest $120m into a $240m advanced manufacturing project...
Environment | The Guardianby Dharna Noor23 Aug 2026
Ryan McElroen had spent years repairing the New York City subway underground when he got the opportunity to work in the middle of the ocean.
Environment | The Guardianby Fiona Harvey Environment editor23 Aug 2026
Ten years ago, Alastair Harper was an advocate for young people’s health sitting in a stuffy meeting room in London planning an air pollution campaign. “My phone started buzzing,” he said.
Environment | The Guardianby Maya Yang in Lewes Beach, Delaware22 Aug 2026
An unusually high number of jellyfish are crowding Delaware’s beaches this summer amid climate change and other environmental factors – keeping some beachgoers out of the ocean and stinging...
Environment | The Guardianby Gabrielle Canon21 Aug 2026
It’s official: after years of tense negotiations and missed deadlines, there is finally a plan to govern the future of the imperiled Colorado River - or at least the makings of one.
Environment | The Guardianby Guardian staff reporter21 Aug 2026
33m tons of toxic seaweed clogs Caribbean beaches – video A record amount of sargassum has piled up along coastlines of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
Environment | The Guardianby Priya Bharadia21 Aug 2026
Railway companies are racing to prepare for another brutal summer next year, as a developing El Niño could see 2027 break more heat-related records.
Environment | The Guardianby Matthew Weaver and Damien Gayle21 Aug 2026
The El Niño event developing over the Pacific Ocean is likely to be the strongest for more than a century and make 2027 another record-breaking year for heat, the UK’s Met Office has said.
Environment | The Guardianby All photographs by Ian Guerra in Carajás, Brazil21 Aug 2026
Brazil’s vast iron mine that supplies the world and fractures the Amazon – in pictures The Grand Carajás project has made the country a mining superpower, but communities living in its shadow face...
Environment | The Guardianby Pejman Faratin21 Aug 2026
Week in wildlife: Bat in a toilet, a speeding gull and a bird with shoes This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Give a bird a hand would you please?
Environment | The Guardianby Dani Anguiano20 Aug 2026
A controversial oil pipeline can continue to operate off the California coast after a judge gave it the green light this week, despite the opposition of state regulators and environmental groups.
Environment | The Guardianby Tom Ambrose (now) and Vivian Ho (earlier)20 Aug 2026
National Crime Agency brought in to tackle organised gangs behind illegal dumps Andy Burnham has said fly-tippers will be forced to pay for the clean-up when they dump waste illegally.
Environment | The Guardianby Oliver Milman20 Aug 2026
The Trump administration’s push to expand oil and gas extraction across the US is set to bring drilling near cherished natural and cultural sites, raising alarm among conservationists and prompting...
Environment | The Guardianby Associated Press and Guardian sport20 Aug 2026
Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 opener against Rennes has been relocated at short notice, because of damage to their pitch by the extreme heat.
top 97%