Datacenters are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds

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Datacenters are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds

LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution

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Documenting Ireland’s Vanishing Boglands: ‘They Hold Millennia in Their Layers’

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Documenting Ireland’s Vanishing Boglands: ‘They Hold Millennia in Their Layers’

Photographer Shane Hynan explores the tension between the central role peat bogs play in Irish life and their wider environmental impact

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The Guardian view on extreme heat: as risks escalate, adaptation plans are dangerously lagging

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The Guardian view on extreme heat: as risks escalate, adaptation plans are dangerously lagging

Record-breaking temperatures should focus minds on the UK’s lack of preparedness for the climate dangers ahead

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How the world’s voracious appetite for shrimp is destroying Ecuador’s mangroves

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How the world’s voracious appetite for shrimp is destroying Ecuador’s mangroves

As demand soars, the country’s mangrove forests and the livelihoods of shellfish gatherers are under threat from encroaching farms and unchecked pollution

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Showdown in the desert: the small town fending off a new California gold rush

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Showdown in the desert: the small town fending off a new California gold rush

A prospecting company’s search for gold has the town of Lone Pine and Indigenous leaders on edge, as the Trump administration greenlights new projects across the American west

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‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds

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‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds

Top 10% generate climate and biodiversity damage bill that exceeds economies of most countries, say researchers

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US public still favors action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive

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US public still favors action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive

Two-thirds of Americans say they are worried about climate but level of media coverage does not reflect this

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A rat sighting in New Zealand can trigger an urgent response. Meet the ‘ghostbusters’ hunting them down

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A rat sighting in New Zealand can trigger an urgent response. Meet the ‘ghostbusters’ hunting them down

Detector teams in Wellington react to ‘intel’ from the public about pest sightings as part of the country’s push to eradicate all introduced predators

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‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance

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‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance

Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area

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Freedivers, leftover cables and bits of clay: Cuba gets inventive to save its pristine reefs amid US blockade

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Freedivers, leftover cables and bits of clay: Cuba gets inventive to save its pristine reefs amid US blockade

With limited resources and sanctions tightening, conservationists are forced to find new ways to protect the coral reefs of Ciénaga de Zapata national park

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'The birds will fly away': can Albania’s flamingo revolution keep its wetlands free from Trumps and tourists?

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'The birds will fly away': can Albania’s flamingo revolution keep its wetlands free from Trumps and tourists?

A luxury resort backed by the US president’s family may be built on a wildlife-rich nature reserve in one of Europe’s poorest nations

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Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says

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Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says

Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions

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