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Trump’s deep-sea mining plan flouts international law

Letters: Britain and other signatories to the UN convention on the law of the sea should protest against US proposal to lease seabed for mining, says Guy Standing

26 Aug

1.3m plastic bottles collected in a day in global volunteer ocean cleanup

Ocean Conservancy says last year’s cleanup collected 13.9m pieces of rubbish from beaches and rivers worldwide

Matthew Pearce26 Aug

‘National scandal’: extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025

ONS data shows rising toll of climate crisis, with officials warning this summer on track to set further records

Damian Carrington Environment editor26 Aug

Country diary: A farm that’s a pocket rocket of rewilding – and a success in the face of opposition

Asturias, Spain: Wild Finca is thrilling in its ecological abundance, and was created in just eight years despite countless obstacles

Amy-Jane Beer26 Aug

Fears for ‘gregarious’ local celebrity Sammy the elephant seal in Victorian bird flu hotspot

Seals and sea lions often communicate by touch and share spaces with wild birds, placing them at risk of infection from H5N1 virus

Petra Stock26 Aug

Ulez has been a breath of fresh air for London

Letters: Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emission zone in London is celebrated by Lorna Henderson, George Coleby and Leonard Neamtu after a study showed its health benefits for children

25 Aug

NSW’s koala national park will protect threatened species and cap logging. Could the Greens really block it?

The Albanese government approved a proposal allowing the park to create carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars, sparking a schism among environmentalists

Adam Morton25 Aug

‘I love rats but we can’t live with them’: the headache of rising rodent populations around the world

Robert Corrigan has been dealing with the ‘smart’ rodents all his life – and believes there are better solutions to deal with the growing infestation in the world’s cities

Isaaq Tomkins25 Aug

US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages

Analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants

Sara Sneath25 Aug

US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds

There has been a 76% increase in under-construction gas-fired projects amid ‘frenzy’ to build more datacenters

Oliver Milman25 Aug

‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river

A local initiative is testing simple ways to stop algal blooms in the River Fal threatening some of England’s most biodiverse marine habitats

Karen McVeigh25 Aug

Going with the grain: how restoring biodiversity led one farmer back to heritage wheat

Henry Astor looked back to his grandfather’s time for the inspiration to find older varieties that could help nature on his Cotswold farm

Tomé Morrissy-Swan25 Aug

Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

Damian Carrington Environment editor25 Aug

Country diary: A peachy, summer beauty that loves the clean air

Ynys Môn (Anglesey): The rosy footman is a relative newcomer to this part of Wales, bringing with it nectarine tones and markings like hieroglyphs

Nigel Brown25 Aug

At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe’s back-to-back heatwaves

Figure only covers about half of continent and does not include August totals

Jon Henley Europe correspondent25 Aug

Otters may be back in the Bronx River, but it’s still legal to kill them in New York state

Letter: Peter J McKosky celebrates the return of the river otter after a century to New York, but notes that hundreds are violently killed in traps every year elsewhere in the state

24 Aug

Harry Green obituary

Other lives: Expert ornithologist and keen entomologist who strove to save threatened bird colonies

Stephen Moss24 Aug

World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August

Average sea surface temperature outside polar regions was 21.1C on Saturday, latest data finds

Damian Carrington Environment editor24 Aug

How growing up in ‘Chemical Valley’ inspired lawyer to sue industry she used to work for

Hélène Duguy is taking on companies accused of failing to stop Pfas pollution in the area of France she calls home

Pippa Neill24 Aug

Weather tracker: Tornadoes cause flash flooding and power cuts in north-east US

Nassau County and Dover, Delaware, hit by tornadoes, while rain and thunderstorms arrive in drought-stricken UK

Matt Andrews for MetDesk24 Aug

How do you vaccinate 1,000 tiny penguins against bird flu in the wild? It’s ‘really tricky’ but there is a way

Phillip Island’s ‘iconic’ little penguins get first bird flu vaccinations in what is thought to be largest program of its kind

Petra Stock24 Aug