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Man swept away in Wellington flood waters as New Zealand capital hammered by record heavy rain

Wellington residents have shared stories of surviving landslides and rising flood waters caused by severe storm

The Guardian - AU

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025

Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals

The Guardian - UK

Electricity generators threatened with higher windfall taxes in bid to ensure stable prices

Move marks UK government’s most radical attempt to weaken impact of soaring wholesale gas prices on electricity costs

The Guardian - UK

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Letter: Lord Haskins obituary

Derek Spooner writes: He and his wife, Gilda, had campaigned vigorously against apartheid in South Africa

The Guardian - UK

One Japanese town sorts waste into 40 different categories. How does Australia’s recycling compare?

Kerbside wheelie bins have been used in Australia since the 1980s but the recycling rate is stuck at 44%. Will another recycling bin make a difference?

The Guardian - AU

WaterNSW criticised for ‘appalling’ decision after hundreds of turtles left to die in wetlands

River ecologist says ‘classic bureaucratic tangle’ led to government agency stopping flows to Gwydir wetlands region in March

The Guardian - AU

Democrats urged to link clean energy to affordability as Iran war hikes up prices

Climate leaders say Democrats need to extol clean energy as a way to cut costs for Americans as war roils oil markets

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Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices

Data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March, with Norway leading way in terms of switching

The Guardian - UK

Fears more than 1,000 toads may have died after Welsh water firm drains reservoir

Conservationists in Denbighshire ‘angry and heartbroken’ after Nant-y-Ffrith site emptied during breeding season

The Guardian - UK

Weather tracker: temperatures in Spain and Brazil well above late April norm

Seville could see 34C this week and parts of Brazil could hit high 30s, while storms forecast in southern Africa

The Guardian - UK

Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds

Research casts doubt on plans by UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source

The Guardian - UK

Fuel-eating microbes, chemicals and fire: the race to discover new ways to contain Arctic oil spills

As the rising number of vessels in the icy waters increases the risk of environmental disaster, scientists are scrambling to find potential solutions

The Guardian - UK

From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law

Sarah Finch’s fight against drilling led to a landmark ruling on fossil fuel emissions – and a leading environmental prize

The Guardian - UK

Woman who won legal case over greenhouse emissions awarded top environmental prize

Sarah Finch is among six recipients of the Goldman Environmental prize, awarded to honour grassroots activists around the world

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Country diary: Even in tame horses, a wildness remains

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: A large mare is being aggressive not just to the dying deer in its paddock, but also me for trying to save it

Radio France Internationale

Why China’s decades-long ambition to green the desert could run dry

At the edge of China's Taklamakan Desert, rows of trees are slowly edging into one of the world’s harshest landscapes after decades of planting. Scientists say this shows how human action can transform extreme environments – but warn of the cost to water resources, and that such schemes might not…

The Guardian - UK

‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong

Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?

The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts – but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse

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European Union still exporting banned pesticides despite health risks

The European Union continues to export pesticides that it has banned for health and environmental reasons – sending more than 122,000 tonnes abroad in 2024, as a promised EU law to stop the trade remains stalled.

Reason

Leaked Supreme Court Memos Reveal Why Court Stayed Clean Power Plan (Setting Important "Shadow Docket" Precedent in the Process)

A New York Times scoop reveals that Chief Justice Roberts was concerned that the EPA would (again) get away with imposing unlawful burdens on utilities.

The Guardian - UK

A prickle of hedgehogs and an armada of newts: wildlife settles in at London’s new Queen Elizabeth garden

A former horticultural nursery in Regent’s Park has been transformed into a diverse mix of habitats where the public might see some rare species in the heart of the capital

The Guardian - UK

Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled relationship with these sea giants

Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted them to the brink of extinction

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Return of the Manx shearwaters – this island is their home

Langness, Isle of Man: With their epic migrations, they are special birds, but especially so here, the place that coined the name

The Guardian - AU

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands

Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

The Guardian - AU

Victorian councils rubbish statewide mandate that all homes must have four wheelie bins

Local governments have until 1 July next year to introduce a four-bin recycling system, but some councils – and waste experts – say it’s unnecessary

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