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Environment

  • Man shovels small fish into black bucket

    Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon

    Joshua Alexander Heckathorn, 20, arrested and booked into jail for second-degree burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief
  • people hold signs outside a home improvement store

    EPA to ban most uses of chemical linked to dozens of deaths

  • Red Exxon logo against the blue sky

    Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds

  • a wild horse in an open field

    ‘Incredible’ news for bears and wild horses as US shifts preservation plans

  • A satellite map from Google Earth of a Tyson processing plant in Dakota City, Nebraska

    Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes

  • a woman stands in a field

    Activist wins Goldman prize for effort to clean up California trucking and railway sectors

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.1

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 29 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

  • Treasurer Jim Chalmers

    Live
    Australia news live: Chalmers touts India ties despite revelations of ‘nest of spies’; NSW police investigate drive-by shooting

  • Two women ride bicycles in a cycle lane

    Cuts to England’s cycling and walking budget challenged in court

    Campaigners say loss of £200m from active travel budget is illegal and resulted from Treasury pressure
  • Nationwide building society on a high street with pedestrians walking past

    Nationwide stops lending on some flood-risk properties

    Banks may follow suit after UK weather-related claims on home insurance reach new high
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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

  • 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

  • A street strewn with downed power lines after Hurricane Laura passed through the area on 27 August 2020 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

    US seeing rise in climate-related power outages, report says

  • a hazy city skyline

    More than one-third of people in the US exposed to harmful air pollution – report

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Our unequal earth

  • A mountain of raw sugar is stored in a warehouse in Santa Rosa, Texas, in 2005.

    Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas borderland

  • 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

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The age of extinction

  • Tractors in the streets of Kraków, 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

  • 20240309-140 Plastic pollution and wildlife on Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, by Karen

    The stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off the tap? – podcast

  • An Atlantic salmon on a petri dish.

    From petri dish to plate: meet the company hoping to bring lab-grown fish to the table

    • The orphaned two-year-old female orca calf swims in a lagoon near Zeballos, British Columbia, on 11 April.

      Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue in Canada

    • 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

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Opinion

  • Adam Morton

    How do we define climate responsibility? Woodside has no answer

    Adam Morton
  • 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
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Multimedia

  • ‘The Greens are our enemy’: What is fuelling the far right in Germany?

  • Nuclear power may be a climate-friendly energy source compared with coal and gas, but as the Guardian's Matilda Boseley explains, going nuclear isn't practical for Australia

    Should Australia go nuclear? Why Peter Dutton's plan could be an atomic failure – video

    Nuclear power may be a climate-friendly energy source compared with coal and gas, but as the Guardian's Matilda Boseley explains, going nuclear isn't practical for Australia
  • 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

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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