environment
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This election year, we can't lose sight of the perils of climate changeCandidates running for Congress and the presidency aren’t offering real solutions, despite growing scientific alarm. That is not acceptable
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Water world: rising tides close in on Trump, the climate change denierClimate change has barely registered as a 2016 campaign issue, but in Florida, the state which usually decides the presidential election, the waters are lapping at the doors of Donald Trump’s real estate empire -
Climate change: the missing issue of the 2016 campaignGuardian US survey reveals anger of voters as election year debate fails to deal with concerns over the gathering global disaster -
Dead whale towed off California beach and back to sea after big stinkAuthorities used boats and ropes attached to tail to pull the humpback far out into the water before Fourth of July weekend crowds began arriving
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Al Gore's daughter arrested at Boston pipeline protestKarenna Gore arrested for trying to block construction activity by lying in a trench dug for the line, which is opposed due to safety and climate concerns
energy
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Leaked TTIP energy proposal could 'sabotage' EU climate policyEU proposal on a free trade deal with the US could curb energy saving measures and a planned switch to clean energy, say MEPs
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Cutting the cable: Kangaroo Island eyes switch to 100% renewable energyAustralia’s third-biggest island could combine wind, solar, PV and battery storage to fuel own electricity needs – and set a blueprint for the rest of the country
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latest news
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Massive mangrove die-off on Gulf of Carpentaria worst in the world, says expertClimate change and El Niño the culprits, says Norm Duke, an expert in mangrove ecology, after seeing 7,000ha of dead mangroves over 700km
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Cathedral on the marsh: Crossness pumping station reopensSir Joseph Bazalgette’s sewage treatment works was the first of its kind in the world and helped eradicate cholera in London
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Great Barrier Reef: government must choose which parts to save, says expertProfessor Hugh Possingham says authorities must confront prospect that some parts of reef are doomed and focus on what to preserve
featured series
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The new bottom lineThe new bottom lineA good job if you can get it: America's solar workforce is heating upThe national solar industry is expected to add 30,000 jobs in 2016, a 14.7% jump from last year. Who are the workers building this new market?
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An apple a dayAn apple a day'He was afraid of having a difficult death' - an assisted dying advocate speaks outA nurse and advocate for physician assisted dying explains her experience watching her dying father unable to get the relief he deserved
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the big picture
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The week in wildlife – in picturesA bald eagle, drought-hit alligators, and a feeding leopard are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
US navy researchers conduct tests to grow vegetables on submarines