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Environment

  • Whale trainers

    The killer whale trainers who still defend captivity: ‘I’m an endangered species myself’

    The 2013 documentary Blackfish turned orca trainers into pariahs in the US. Now some are hitting it big in China
  • Aerial view of lush valley floor with small, heart-shaped lake in the middle, under bright blue sky with white puffy clouds.

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

  • Researcher Danielle Stevenson lifts fungi material used in her research study in California.

    ‘Solar-powered vacuum cleaners’: the native plants that could clean toxic soil

  • A right whale entangled in rope.

    Rope-entangled right whale spotted off coast of New England

  • A wildfire burns in Western Township, Minnesota, on 3 March 2024.

    Unseasonal wildfires beset midwest: ‘The strangest winter I’ve ever seen’

  • A sweating glass of water that looks cold and delicious next to a table sign that says "Water is Precious - on California's Central Coast' and explains the drought, from 2016.

    EPA has limited six ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water – but there are 15,000

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.0

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 15 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

  • Navagio beach in Zakynthos, Greece

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

  • An electric vehicle charging station is seen at launch of the Team Global Express Battery Electric Vehicle fleet in Sydney, Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

    Australians choose hybrids over EVs as sales of conventional cars decline

    Hybrids outsold pure electrics in the past three quarters, according to new figures, while petrol and diesel sales fell 8%
  • Two men stand with sound booms in a state park in California

    World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts

    Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists
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Big oil uncovered

  • ‘Basically it’s a propaganda campaign.’

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

  • Factory buildings with gas coming out from top

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

  • A blue metal canopy holding four gas tanks, each with a red-and-white sign saying 'Diesel', lies on its side.

    Fossil fuel firms could be tried in US for homicide over climate-related deaths, experts say

  • a man speaks into a megaphone while another holds a countdown clock titled "climate clock"

    Film studio from Oscar-winning director aims to stir up ‘populist anger’ over climate crisis

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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

  • 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

  • a chemical plant

    New rule mandates 200 US plants to reduce toxic emissions linked to cancer

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Our unequal earth

  • A guest uses a mobile phone to take a video of a meal featuring a nugget made from lab-grown chicken meat during a media presentation in Singapore on 22 December 2020.

    ‘Political efforts’: the Republican states trying to ban lab-grown meat

  • Cattle in a feed lot.

    New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company. It might be a tipping point for greenwashing

  • a student holds a lunch tray

    Why are kids being forced to eat lunch in silence?

    April McGreger
  • On a busy Sunday at Compare Foods supermarket in Durham, North Carolina, you’ll find colorful peppers in the produce section, a barber shop where Angelica Díaz cuts hair, a parking lot where Sandra Sosa sells plants and customers lining up at the registers.

    A nimble New York grocery store follows Latino immigration to the south

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The age of extinction

  • Image of green hills and trees overlaid with sound bars

    No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silent

  • A marsh tit perched on a rock (Photgraph: Lisa Geoghegan/Alamy Stock Photo)

    Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world – podcast

    Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about her visit to Monks Wood in Cambridgeshire, where ecologist Richard Broughton has witnessed the decline of the marsh tit population over 22 years, and has heard the impact on the wood’s soundscape
  • Aerial view of a logging road through rainforest

    Network of ‘ghost roads’ paves the way for levelling Asia-Pacific rainforests

    Bulldozed tracks and informal byways in tropical forests and palm-oil plantations ‘almost always’ an indicator of future deforestation, say researchers
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Seascape

  • 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

  • A man in a yellow oilskin jacket on a beach carrying two very huge crabs, while small fishing boats are anchored in an inlet. In the background are snow-topped mountains

    Crabs, kelp and mussels: Argentina’s waters teem with life – could a fish farm ban do the same for Chile?

    • An orca calf breaking the surface of a lagoon

      ‘We’re all cheering for her’: clock is ticking for Canada’s stranded orca orphan

    • The common octopus

      ‘The finger-touch sent shivers down my spine’: my encounter with a common octopus

    • A mangrove forest under threat in Sepaku District, East Borneo.

      Lost homes, lost traditions, lost habitats: the cost of Indonesia’s brand new city

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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

  • 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

    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

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

  • Footage shows a slew of rubbish left behind by members of the public

    1:18

    Welsh 'car grave' cave said to be at risk after social media boom – video report

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