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Environment

  • rainbow over a river

    Biden administration moves to restrict oil and gas leases on 13m acres in Alaska

    Environmentalists celebrate new rules but Alaska politicians call it an ‘illegal’ attack on state’s livelihood and predict lawsuits
  • A researcher pours a PFAS water sample into a container

    EPA moves to make US polluters pay for cleanup of two forever chemicals

  • Man with dogs walks on beach as waves crash nearby

    Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds

  • Nieghborhood House Being Fumigated<br>A house in the nieghorhood, tented for a termite treatment

    California the culprit for spike in little-known greenhouse gas more potent than CO2

  • an Exxon gas station

    ‘Wake-up call’: pipeline leak exposes carbon capture safety gaps, advocates say

  • Parched, cracked earth with dried-out irrigation tubes under sunny, blue sky.

    US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seek to ban trade in water rights

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.0

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 18 April 2024

    72.0

    above safe level,
    passed 1990

    24.9

    increase in past
    10 years

    280300320340360380400420 parts per million1960199020142024Safe level: 350ppmLatest: 422.0ppm

Latest news

  • Unilever sign

    Unilever to scale back environmental and social pledges

  • Beef cattle in a field

    UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts

    Exclusive: Study released at Cop28 misused research to underestimate impact of cutting meat eating, say academics
  • A steel foundry in Jamshedpur, India

    India seeks UK carbon tax exemption in free trade deal talks

    Exclusive: India seeking to use approach of UK election as bargaining chip and any exemption would be controversial
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Big oil uncovered

  • 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

  • Protesters gather in front of the American Gas Association

    Protesters slam gas group’s use of customers’ money to thwart climate efforts

  • Factory buildings with gas coming out from top

    World’s largest oil companies ‘way off track’ on emissions goals, report finds

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America's dirty divide

  • 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

  • On a sunny urban street, a person rides a scooter past two storefronts, one with a red sign that says 'Checks Cashed' and the other with a blue sign that says 'Payday Loans'.

    Climate change driving demand for predatory loans, research shows

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Our unequal earth

  • A collage of vegetables, fruits and a worker with a mask spraying them.

    Blueberries and bell peppers: six fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide risk

  • A collage of a fruit under an open faucet.

    Can you wash pesticides off your food? A guide to eating fewer toxic chemicals

  • bell peppers

    Kale, watermelon and even some organic foods pose high pesticide risk, analysis finds

  • Bags of produce

    What’s safe to eat? Here is the pesticide risk level for each fruit and vegetable

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The age of extinction

  • FEB 2024 - LONDON: Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants. Pictured; Dr Carlos Abrahams listening to the soil. (Photography by Graeme Robertson / The Guardian )

    Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants: how scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil

  • A kākā at Zealandia ecosanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

    Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds

    As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorus
  • Close up of an African elephant, Botswana.

    Europeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana president

    Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangers
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Seascape

  • 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

    • Two fishermen onboard a trawler with nets full of shellfish

      Conservationists condemn France’s protest over UK’s bottom-trawling ban

    • An octopus on an underwater mountain off the coast of Chile

      Dragons, sea toads and the longest creature ever seen found on undersea peaks off South America

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Opinion

  • 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
  • Graham Readfearn

    Dutton’s blast of radioactive rhetoric on nuclear power leaves facts in the dust

    Graham Readfearn
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Multimedia

  • 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

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

    A new book Why We Photograph Animals by Huw Lewis-Jones explores the animal in photography through the work of more than 100 photographers supported by thematic essays that provide historical context. A selection of the images will be on display at the Cheltenham science festival
  • 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

  • Heavy rains inundate roads and rivers near Charleville in rural south-west Queensland

    0:53

    Drone footage captures flooded bridges and roads in rural parts of south-west Queensland – video

  • Polar bears looking in from outside with their noses pressed up against the glass

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: nosy polar bears, a waving seal and blue-footed boobies

  • A group of three blue-footed boobies (Sula nebouxii) pictured on the Galápagos Islands

    Female photographers celebrate Jane Goodall’s 90th birthday

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