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Environment

  • Silhouette of nodding donkey pumping oil with buildings in background

    Cop29
    Summit at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance

    Fossil-fuel dependent country hopes to provide bridge between wealthy global north and poor south at November gathering
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    Herbicides
    High levels of weedkiller found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds

  • Aerial view of an oil platform in the North Sea. Platform is in the centre of the picture, surrounded by sea

    North Sea oil
    Union urges Labour not to ban new licences without plan for jobs

  • A worker is seen during clearing work in front of the destroyed building of the country guest house 'Jaegerstuebchen' in Laach, part of the municipality of Mayschoss, district of Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 23, 2021.

    Europe
    I’ve seen how deadly floods are devastating the continent – we are not prepared for what’s next

  • An oil processing facility outside the Siberian town of Nefteyugansk

    Russia
    Activists sue country over ‘weak’ climate policy

  • Rishi Sunak pointing right hand forward during prime ministers questions

    Green politics
    Net zero U-turns will hit UK infrastructure, say government advisers

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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

  • Inside a Facebook datacentre in Sweden

    Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint

  • Clockwise from top left, The swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor), The Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus), The grey shrikethrush or grey shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica), Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) and a The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) and The lace monitor (Varanus varius)

    A kangaroo, a possum and a bushrat walk into a burrow: research finds wombat homes are the supermarkets of the forest

    • Green frog with inflated vocal sacs mate in a pond in Rosny Sous Bois near Paris, France.

      Week in wildlife – in pictures: amorous frogs, battling stallions and an overaffectionate jaguar

    • A man stands on the roof of a building as smoke billows from the chimney of a power plant at Ennore near Chennai, India, on 8 October 2021

      Targeting India’s most harmful power plants could slash mortality

    • The parade of champion cattle at Beef2024 in Rockhampton

      Hot sauce and a muster dog: on the ground at Beef2024, the southern hemisphere’s biggest cattle industry expo

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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

  • Australian treasurer Jim Chalmers is applauded after handing down the 2024 federal budget

    Hydrogen, solar and batteries – did the 2024 federal budget deliver on clean economy investment?

    Tennant Reed
  • Bill McKibben

    The 1.5C global heating target was always a dream, but its demise doesn’t signal doom for climate action

    Bill McKibben
  • Paul Karp

    Is the Coalition planning to overtake Labor and tax rich inner-city EV drivers?

    Paul Karp
  • Bill McGuire

    The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think

    Bill McGuire
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Better baskets

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    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

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    ‘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

  • A swallow sitting on a tree stump

    Swallow, swift and house martin populations have nearly halved, finds UK bird survey

  • A European bison in a snowy scene

    Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of 43,000 cars, researchers say

    Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth and securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing
  • Two Colombian police officers taking away cages of small birds

    Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds

    More than 4,000 species are targeted by traffickers, with illegal trade active in 80% of countries, says Office on Drugs and Crime
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Seascape

  • Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, has been slowly swallowed by the sea over the past few decades. This has led to the relocation of the school and many homes, resulting in a dwindling population

    6:03

    Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video

  • An octopus on the seafloor wrapped around a camera

    How do you follow My Octopus Teacher? With crocodiles, otters and a new book

    • a large white cruise ship in a body of water

      Cruise ship arrives at New York City harbor with dead whale caught on bow

    • Andreas breaking ice following a freedive in Trollfjorden

      Ice dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters: the man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at risk

    • 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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Multimedia

  • Canada wildfires: huge queues on highway as thousands evacuate oil town – video

  • The ancient fish were successfully hatched by scientists in Tasmania using two adults and 50 eggs

    0:50

    Baby skates on verge of extinction in Tasmania hatched by scientists – video

    The ancient fish were successfully hatched by scientists in Tasmania using two adults and 50 eggs
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    Eco-brutalism: when angular concrete meets the wonder of nature – in pictures

    Olivia Broome’s cult Instagram account pairs the stark architectural style with flowing greenery
  • A shrimp startles a Mediterranean moray in the Marmara Sea in Turkey

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: an eel gets a shock, bees take Manhattan and a possum on the pitch

  • A man with boxes on his head walking among piles of brown boxes in a warehouse

    ‘When he is older there will be no rain’: how southern Madagascar is coping in a climate crisis

  • 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

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