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• The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late | Editorial

  01-02-2026 18:25
  Inadequate food supplies and collapsing rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issuesEcosystems and national security used not to be mentioned in the same breath all that often – unless environmental campaigners were doing the talking. For years, climate and nature experts have struggled to get across the message that species extinctions, dead rivers and deforestation are an existential threat to people as well as animals and plants. As
  
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• Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

  01-02-2026 18:08
  After stories revealed high levels of contamination in neighborhood around factory processing US toxic waste, government announces sweeping array of tacticsThe Mexican government has announced it will pursue a sweeping array of tactics to combat industrial pollution, from $4.8m in fines against a plant processing US hazardous waste to the rollout of a new industrial air-monitoring system, following investigations by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, a Mexican investigative unit.Those stories
  
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• ‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice

  01-02-2026 14:00
  Events such as Storm Chandra take a terrible toll on ecosystems, but nature can be part of the solution for mitigating flood waters“The flood waters are only good for scavenger species,” says Steve Hussey, searching hard for a silver lining to last week’s deluges brought by Storm Chandra. When the waters recede, crows and ravens will feast on the carrion of hedgehogs, dormice and other small animals unable to escape the rising water, he says.“It sounds very apocalyptic, d
  
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• Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax

  01-02-2026 13:00
  Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climate, and the ultra-rich subjected to a global wealth tax, if new tax rules are agreed under the UN.Negotiations on a planned global tax treaty will resume at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday, with dozens of countries supporting stronger rules that would make polluters pay for the impact of the
  
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