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Environment

  • Image of a wildfire with a temperature gauge graphic superimposed on it

    'I could not feel greater despair'
    World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

    Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet

    ‘Hopeless and broken'
    Why the world’s top climate scientists are terrified

  • Satellite image

    Brazil
    Flooding then and now – in pictures

  • Hands holding an earthworm

    Soil
    UK public invited to dance for worms to help assess soil health

  • An oilfield near Baku

    Exclusive
    Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader

  • Scientists return 18 of the fish to Tasmanian waters after caring for them in captivity for months

    0:36

    Marine life
    Endangered red handfish returned to the wild off Tasmania after heatwave rescue

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.2

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 7 May 2024

    72.2

    above safe level,
    passed 1990

    24.9

    increase in past
    10 years

    280300320340360380400420 parts per million1960199020142024Safe level: 350ppmLatest: 422.2ppm

Spotlight

  • Jeremy Strong wearing a baseball cap and a suit as Kendall Roy in HBO's Succession

    Why regenerative garments are the ultimate status symbol

  • Model dressed in clothes salvaged from waste fashion poses at a vast dump in the desert

    Castoffs to catwalk: fashion show shines light on vast Chile clothes dump visible from space

    • A swift in flight

      Birdwatch: the invincible swift, effortless master of the air

    • A woman stands ankle deep in murky water in a slum alleyway.

      ‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’: lives swept away by floods in Kenya

    • A man lifting a fish from the water with his hands

      Scaling up: the app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities

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documentaries
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The Winterkeeper

Steven Fuller has lived and worked at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years, but now faces an uncertain future as the climate crisis intensifies

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Steven Fuller

Opinion

  • Guy Singh-Watson

    I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops

    Guy Singh-Watson
  • Cardboard paper texture image of polluting chimney

    Buddha taught us to be happy with less. How does this apply to the climate crisis?

    Bhikkhu Sujato and Nadine Levy
  • Oliver Bullough

    All we wanted was to protect the River Wye from pollution. Now we’re stuck in a catch-22

    Oliver Bullough
  • From left; Protest over the then missing journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs specialist Bruno Pereira; Commemoration of journalist Rafael Moreno; Mural of late Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh,

    Across the world, journalists are under threat for sharing the truth

    Jonathan Watts
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Better baskets

Guardian Labs
  • Broadbean salad

    Homegrown goodness
    Why we should all be eating more broad beans

  • Chickpeas

    The humble chickpea is having a moment
    Here’s why they’re here to stay

  • Karen Poole

    ‘We’re doing it by stealth’
    How Tesco is reformulating its much-loved meals to be healthier

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    From ready-meal lovers to at-home chefs
    How Tesco is improving the nation’s nutrition

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The age of extinction

  • The common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) spotted in West Yorkshire.

    Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

  • Indigenous people and human rights activists attend a vigil for justice in the deaths of environmental journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira

    Violent attacks against environmental journalists on the rise, report finds

    Unesco joint research dating back 15 years found violence and intimidation against about 750 reporters and 44 murders
  • Two chimpanzees sitting in the forest

    Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

    Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, it’s a bigger killer than habitat loss or poaching
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Seascape

  • Basking shark

    ‘I’m happy we’re not killing them any more’: Ireland’s last basking shark hunter on the return of the giants

  • 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

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Multimedia

  • A field hamster looks out of its burrow in a field. in Euskirchen, Germany.

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a giant hamster, a mustachioed deer and a zebra on the run

  • Fish River House in Mount Olive, NSW

    Australia’s best new sustainable homes of 2024 – in pictures

    A pocket-sized terrace extension and a multigenerational riverside property are among the dwellings shortlisted in the sustainability category of the Houses awards
  • The Guardian's Europe environment correspondent, Ajit Niranjan, travels to Görlitz, on the German border with Poland, to find out to what extent Germany’s green policies are fuelling the far right

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

    The Guardian's Europe environment correspondent, Ajit Niranjan, travels to Görlitz, on the German border with Poland, to find out to what extent Germany’s green policies are fuelling the far right
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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