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Environment

  • a flood sign during a storm

    Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear

    Plan to break up Noaa claims its research is ‘climate alarmism’ and calls for commercializing forecasts, weakening forecasts
  • smoke emerging from a plant at sunset

    New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

  • A water tower reads "Flint strong"

    Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists get in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • The Amazon - DIL3 Warehouse at 3507 W 51st St, Chicago, IL 60632 in the Gage Park neighborhood. Zbigniew Bzdak © 2021

    Mega-warehouses heap more pollution on hard-hit Illinois neighborhoods

  • Dozens of tents and young protesters wearing keffiyeh, with a rainbow Pride flag in the foreground.

    How divestment became a ‘clarion call’ in anti-fossil fuel and pro-ceasefire protests

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.1

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 25 April 2024

    72.1

    above safe level,
    passed 1990

    24.9

    increase in past
    10 years

    280300320340360380400420 parts per million1960199020142024Safe level: 350ppmLatest: 422.1ppm

Latest news

  • A sunny empty coast in Tobago with palm trees, beach, boats and huts

    Briton in critical care after ‘unusual’ shark attack on Tobago

  • a woman sneers after sniffing a laundry load straight out of the washing machine

    Remote working and whiffy workout wear fuel laundry revolution

    Home workers aim to tackle smelly athleisure clothing, save money and be kinder to the environment
  • Land crab in defensive posture

    And now for the pinchline: competition crowns world’s funniest crab joke

    Inaugural contest at Crab Museum in Margate allows crustaceans to pick the winner, with the help of tinned fish used as bait
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Big oil uncovered

  • people hold signs calling attention to climate change

    Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments

  • composite image of a university campus with a tower lined up next to an oil refinery spewing smoke

    Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price

  • An employee handles plastic bottles at a facility

    Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report

  • ‘Basically it’s a propaganda campaign.’

    How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics

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America's dirty divide

  • Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha

    Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty

  • Men standing on a platform lowering a wall panel

    ‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes

  • <strong>Rio Costilla NM Comanche Point in the Valle Vidal Geriant Smith</strong>

    New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds

  • triptych crab

    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise – photo essay

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Our unequal earth

  • Guardian Eggs Title Illo

    Egg labels, egg-splained: from cage-free to free-range, how to eat ethically and economically

  • Dr. Noa Lincoln with native Hawaiian sugarcane on the campus of the University of Hawai'i at HIlo. Undergraduate student Quinn Leggett is studying tropical ag plant production and management.

    Hawaiian scientist quests to find and save the state’s distinctive sugarcanes

  • Two hands hold a ramekin and spoon with a creamy dessert inside.

    Can there be delish dessert with less sugar? Absolutely, say these chefs

  • Collage of vegetables, fruits, money and a scale.

    We found unhealthy pesticide levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know

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The age of extinction

  • Tractors in the streets of Krakow, Poland, as part of a protest against the EU's nature restoration law.

    New EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn

  • Tony Juniper

    Birdsong once signalled the onset of spring on my street – but not this year

    Tony Juniper
  • An elderly woman with her hands on an ancient tree killed by Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia.

    Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops

    From ancient olive groves to root vegetables, foreign pests introduced via the bloc’s open import system are causing damage worth billions – and outbreaks are on the rise
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Seascape

  • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

    ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’: animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

  • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

    Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse

    • A display of fresh fish of different sizes lying on a bed of ice

      Goodbye cod, hello herring: why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet

    • Conservation officials shipped Emerson away ‘far from human habitation’ for his peace.

      Elephant seal makes ‘epic’ trek back after Canadian officials relocate him

    • Navagio beach in Zakynthos, Greece

      Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks

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Opinion

  • Graham Readfearn

    Dutton’s plan to save Australia with nuclear comes undone when you look between the brushstrokes

    Graham Readfearn
  • Adam Morton

    Albanese’s promised clean economy act has been a long time coming but it’s the right place to start

    Adam Morton
  • Adam Morton

    A big week for climate policy in Australia: what happened and what to make of it

    Adam Morton
  • Adam Morton

    Forget nuclear: would Peter Dutton oppose a plan to cut bills and address the climate crisis?

    Adam Morton
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Multimedia

  • A giraffe walks through a rainbow at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a lazy leopard, a moonwalking elephant and hitchhiking ducklings

  • Whales have become stranded at Toby Inlet near Dunsborough, more than 250km south of Perth

    160 pilot whales stranded and 26 confirmed dead in Western Australia – video

    Whales have become stranded at Toby Inlet near Dunsborough, more than 250km south of Perth
  • Dead and dying shrubs and trees – some of which are found nowhere else on Earth – line more than 1,000km across the state’s south-west

    Drone video shows Western Australia’s forests dying in heat and drought – video

    Dead and dying shrubs and trees – some of which are found nowhere else on Earth – line more than 1,000km across the state’s south-west
  • A jackal surrounded by doves leaps for a meal, South Africa

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger

  • Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event

    0:47

    Aerial video shows mass coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef amid global heat stress event – video

  • A seven-month-old cheetah in the back of an SUV hisses at a rescuer’s outstretched hand, western Somaliland, 2020

    Exploring why we photograph animals – in pictures

  • Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled

    0:58

    'Only the beginning': Greta Thunberg reacts to court ruling on Swiss climate inaction – video

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