The frontline thrasher
Environment
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AXA, Liberty Mutual and HDI will not provide future policies to the Carmichael coalmine after previous cover expires
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Environmental groups say Australian government is violating legal obligations to protect reef from global heating and UN committee should hold it to account
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A 60-year-old man has died after being bitten by a shark while surfing at Casuarina Beach near Kingscliff in the NSW northern rivers region
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Communities and advocates decry ‘backflip’ after years of planning for statewide framework to reduce toxic air
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The judgment against the agency could lead to forestry operations being assessed under national environmental laws for the first time in 20 years
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Report also warns Australia will experience more extreme fire seasons due to climate crisis
The frontline: inside Australia's climate emergency
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The sea along the Tasmanian east coast is a global heating hotspot.
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Australia is heating faster than the global average, and extreme heat days are on the rise. Doctors say there’s clear evidence that it’s killing people prematurely
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For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. The long-term impact could be devastating
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In our second episode of The Frontline, we show what daily life looks like in one of dozens of Australian towns that have run out of drinking water
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In this first episode of The Frontline, a new series that shows how everyday Australians are already living with the climate crisis, we go inside the new fire zone: areas of Australia that used to be too wet to burn
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Australia is known for its fresh food and great wine – but that could change as the weather becomes hotter, drier and more unpredictable. One winemaker is racing to adapt
Opinion
Guardian Labs
World news
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A survey of 11 remote western locations found that, over a year, the fragments had traveled through the atmosphere like rain or water particles
Global view
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The US stimulus programme looks to have been a success: one that has political as well as economic consequences
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In pictures
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Since 2014, entomologists have sampled millions of insects around the city, identifying 800 species, including 47 new to science. The most striking of Los Angeles’ miniature inhabitants are showcased in an online exhibition of photographs taken using a special digital microscope
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The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including hugging sloths and a lost whale
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To mark World Environment Day, WWF has selected some snapshots of UK nature and wildlife - from land and ocean species to breathtaking plant life - in an attempt to raise awareness of the ongoing fight for our world and its vital biodiversity, the threat to which is both an urgent and existential concern.
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A bicycle scheme is shaving hours off long journeys to get milk fresh to market, boosting women’s incomes and benefiting their whole community
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The images provide examples where animals are traded for food, entertainment, traditional medicine and as exotic pets.
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Remembering Wildlife, the groundbreaking charity picture book series, has announced the ten winners of its photography competition to appear in its forthcoming book, Remembering Cheetahs
Video
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Researchers find new way to calculate green sea turtle population on Raine Island in the Great Barrier Reef
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Eight houses have been swept into the sea in Norway after a powerful landslide near the town of Alta. The landslide was filmed by a local resident, Jan Egil Bakkedal – one of the houses that was lost belonged to him – who said he ran for his life when he realised what was happening.
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Vladimir Putin ordered a state of emergency as 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel spilled into an Arctic Circle river
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