Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study

‘Megafires’ in California, Canada, South Korea and Europe in 2025, but changes to farming slowed spread in parts of Africa

Chris Bowen says he has made it ‘crystal clear’ to BHP and other big polluters they must cut emissions onsite

Mining giant’s backsliding on climate commitments due to ‘weakness’ of policy, Kate Chaney says

The BHP files: World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal

Exclusive: Cache of internal documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners show multinational has war-gamed ways to massively delay decarbonisation

BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara

Exclusive: Mining giant says technology is not yet advanced enough to run a fully electrified fleet but experts say it is hooked on federal fuel tax credits

BHP quietly scrapped plan to build Pilbara plant that would have drastically cut emissions

Exclusive: Jimblebar processing facility would have produced higher quality iron ore sought by steelmakers around the world – themselves under pressure to curb pollution

Artificial grass and its impact

California: 40,000 people ordered to evacuate over chemical leak fears

Authorities in Orange county say tank holding methyl methacrylate ‘actively in crisis’ and urge residents to leave

UN’s climate crisis vote shows political momentum is growing, say experts

Resolution backed by 141 states hailed as ‘new chapter’ that could improve climate diplomacy and litigation efforts

High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England

Study of Channel finds levels of toxic Pfas in Solent at 13 times safe limits in some places, with much coming from treated sewage

‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area

Public health at risk across Asia as price of gas for cooking soars

Trump’s rollback of toxic gas rules limits EPA’s authority to protect public health, analysis says

Ethylene oxide (EtO) is about 60 times more carcinogenic than believed in 2006, research finds

Advocates decry Trump’s plan to open 24m acres of federal lands to cattle grazing

Opponents say administration’s plan prioritizes big agriculture at expense of wildlife and protected species

Norway puts UN project funding on hold raising fears for plastics treaty talks

Move by largest donor to environment programme poses further uncertainty for already troubled negotiations

Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean

Wastewater from nearly 40,000 people and businesses pumped straight into sea as island still has no treatment plant

Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean

Wastewater from nearly 40,000 people and businesses pumped straight into sea as island still has no treatment plant

Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report finds

Industrial chicken producer hits out over Wye and Usk river pollution claim

Lawyers for Avara Foods and Freemans of Newent say legal claim backed by 1,300 people is ‘entirely inferential’

Largest-ever ban on toxic chemicals in EU hit by ‘extremely frustrating’ delays

Green groups say European Commission is ‘chief roadblock’ to its own plans, as report finds poor progress four years on

Stern warning: one man’s mission to clear the rotting boats poisoning Cornwall’s creeks

Unwanted vessels left to decay release fibreglass shards into the water, harming marine life. Steve Green – with his trusty van Cecil – is determined to clean things up

Pollen season in UK and mainland Europe extended by climate breakdown

Research finds global heating has already lengthened the pollen season in addition to worsening heatwaves and droughts

Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds

Chemicals known to affect brains of common garden birds, and to kill unborn chicks, found in most feather samples

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

Ammonia pollution hotspots found in areas of UK with most pig and poultry factory farms

Map reveals most severe concentrations of ammonia emissions, which are dangerous to health and environment

Over-the-counter pet flea treatments could be banned under new UK rules

Exclusive: ministers consider restricting pesticide-based treatments, which can get into waterways and harm wildlife

Chiang Mai’s New Year revelry hit by smog and war-related price spikes

Air pollution caused by wildfires is another blow to northern Thailand’s tourism industry as businesses suffer amid war in Iran

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US agency proposes rolling back rules for safe disposal of toxic coal ash

Advocates warn changes could increase risks of pollutants contaminating water and exposure to toxic waste

World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’

Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality

EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water

Proposal, a win for RFK Jr’s Maha movement, is a ‘first step’ toward tackling plastic pollution, advocates say

UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying

Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

Sydney playground at centre of asbestos mulch scandal closed again after timber found ‘bleeding black tar-like substance’

Salvaged railway timber removed for testing from Rozelle parklands, which was previously closed in 2024 when asbestos was found in garden mulch

Federal ‘God squad’ exempts oil and gas drilling in Gulf of Mexico from endangered species rules

Critics say exemption exploits White House’s ‘self-made gas crisis’, and could doom the rare Rice’s whale