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Georgia homeowner finds 3ft tegu lizard hiding under porch
Officials remind residents of rules and say non-native Argentine black and white tegus can pose threat to wildlife and people
How a small airport in rural Colorado became a landing pad for the rich

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Australia’s 2024-25 budget to focus on supporting green energy industries, Chalmers flags
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Cruise ships polluting UK coast as they ignore greener power options
Most liners rely on marine gas oil when docked, despite claims they reduce emissions by plugging into low-carbon electricity
Giving city dwellers access to nature is key aim, says National Trust
Charity to bring its gardens to urban areas to allow nature-deprived communities access to green spaces

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‘Get the right cases to the supreme court’: inside Charles Koch’s network
Halloween-themed climate campaign aims to show horrors of methane gas
Biden administration to award $7bn in grants to create US ‘hydrogen hubs’
California to require big firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind

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‘These levels are crazy’: Louisiana tap water sees huge spike in toxic chemicals
‘Everything out the faucet is salt’: Louisianans struggle as drinking water crisis persists
‘You should be able to have a water break’: US workers fight for extreme-heat rules
UAW says workers at GM battery plants will be covered by contract

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‘Just keep going’: the horse-riding 97-year-old botanist battling for England’s wildflowers
What raising an orphaned owl taught me about our broken bond with nature
Guiding a young bird back into nature showed that, if we want to prevent the world’s destruction, we must value lives that aren’t human
It took years to solve the mystery elephant deaths. Now, the threat is spreading
The 35 elephants that dropped dead in Zimbabwe were victims of an obscure bacteria combined with extreme heat, and more elephants – and other species – could suffer the same fate

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Comeback kipper: the fall and rise of Britain’s favourite breakfast fish
Sea-lice outbreak on Icelandic salmon farm a ‘welfare disaster’, footage shows
- Icelandic surfers fear port development will ruin ‘perfect point break’
- UK backs suspension of deep-sea mining in environmental U-turn
- The last whale hunter in Iceland

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A jacaranda: making the blue summer sky even bluer
Helen Sullivan
The West Australian goes big on Woodside’s ‘keeping lights on’ claim but keeps readers in dark on climate
Adam Morton
Will the Earth breach its 1.5C guardrail sooner than we thought?
Adam Morton
Shoo fly, don’t bother me: Australia’s most common flies and how to keep them away this summer
Thomas White and Tanya Latty for the Conversation

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The week in wildlife – in pictures
A duck’s eye view: how farmyard animals see life … and death – in pictures
On one small Argentine farm, Alessandra Sanguinetti captured the lives of the animals – from birth to their sometimes grisly demise. Warning: graphic content
The 2023 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures
Mid-air fights, jabbering gang-gangs and villainous magpies are some of the 68 finalists of this year’s premier bird shots competition

The week in wildlife – in pictures
Capturing Ecology 2023 – in pictures
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Venezuelans handpick plastic and rake up oil in bid to save Lake Maracaibo – video
Royal Photographic Society awards – in pictures