Controversial California oil pipeline can continue to operate, judge rules
Environment | The Guardianby Dani Anguiano·14h ago
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.
55%plop scoreUK politics: Burnham says fly-tippers will be forced to pay for the clean-up when they dump waste illegally – as it happened
Environment | The Guardianby Tom Ambrose (now) and Vivian Ho (earlier)·19h ago
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.
61%plop scorePSG’s Ligue 1 home opener moved to Rennes after pitch damaged by heat
Environment | The Guardianby Associated Press and Guardian sport·22h ago
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.
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·1d ago
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...
54%plop scoreMonstera magic: Barbican hands out cuttings as ‘green lung of the city’ closes
Environment | The Guardianby Helena Horton·1d ago
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...
58%plop scoreFrom bone-dry to soaked to the bone, welcome to the age of climate whiplash | Aditya Chakrabortty
Environment | The Guardianby Aditya Chakrabortty·1d ago
This summer could be the hottest, driest and deadliest in English history. Successive heatwaves have so far claimed almost 3,000 lives.
61%plop scoreHuman remains again found at Lake Mead as water levels drop amid drought
Environment | The Guardianby Victoria Bekiempis·1d ago
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...
55%plop scoreReform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It's wrong | Larry Elliott
Environment | The Guardianby Larry Elliott·1d ago
So now we know: the smart response to the UK’s summer of record temperatures is to do precisely nothing.
60%plop scoreRunning dry: drought-hit UK sporting venues and parched pitches – in pictures
Environment | The Guardianby Guardian sport·7d ago
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·7d ago
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...
Manila river clogged with rubbish after Typhoon Dolphin floods – in pictures
Environment | The Guardianby Guardian Staff·8d ago
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·8d ago
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...
59%plop scoreTrump’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...
58%plop score‘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.
62%plop scoreOkra 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.
60%plop scoreBananas 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...
60%plop scoreUS is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says
Environment | The Guardianby Verónica García de León and Erin McCormick·7 Apr 2026
Mexico is facing a “toxic crisis” and has become a “garbage sink” for the US, exposing Mexican communities to dangerous pollution, a UN expert has warned.
56%plop scoreMexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations
Environment | The Guardianby Erin McCormick, The Guardian, and Verónica García de León, Quinto Elemento Lab·1 Feb 2026
The Mexican government has announced it will pursue a sweeping array of tactics to combat industrial pollution, from $4.8m in fines against a plant processing US hazardous waste to the rollout of a...
57%plop scoreRevealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
Environment | The Guardianby Erin McCormick, The Guardian, and Verónica García de León, Quinto Elemento Lab·2 Dec 2025
An industrial boom in a US manufacturing hub in Mexico is contributing to a massive air pollution crisis that is threatening residents’ health, according to new research by the Guardian and Quinto...
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