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Environment

  • Smoke fills the sky from concrete towers at the oil refinery.

    Carbon emissions
    Scottish ministers called ‘short-termist’ after scrapping pledge

    Climate campaigners complain of short-termism as country abandons target to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030
  • Diagram showing 20 of the snake's vertebrae.

    Snakes
    Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.0

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 17 April 2024

    72.0

    above safe level,
    passed 1990

    24.9

    increase in past
    10 years

    280300320340360380400420 parts per million1960199020142024Safe level: 350ppmLatest: 422.0ppm

Spotlight

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

  • Collage of vegetables, fruits, money and a scale.

    We found unhealthy pesticide levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know

    • A hand holding shredded pieces of a thin blue material

      Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom

    • A city worker planting trees

      ‘We need more shade’: US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need

    • Richard Broughton has been monitoring and recording marsh tits in Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire, for 22 years.

      ‘These birds are telling us something serious is happening’: the songbirds disappearing from Britain’s woods

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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

  • Greg Jericho

    Funding Australia’s renewable transition isn’t ‘picking winners’ – it’s securing our future

    Greg Jericho
  • Pliberdisgracepixie

    Tanya says the urgent environmental reforms the ALP promised have been put on hold!

  • Adam Morton

    Albanese’s promised clean economy act has been a long time coming but it’s the right place to start

    Adam Morton
  • George Monbiot

    There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook

    George Monbiot
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The age of extinction

  • Two men stand with sound booms in a state park in California

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

  • 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

  • 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

    • 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?

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Animals farmed

  • Food and Agriculture Organization logo on board with blurred people moving in front of it

    ‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change

  • herd of cows

    Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored

  • An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil

    Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land

  • Pig culling at a farm in Lombardy, northern Italy, last week.

    Italy culls tens of thousands of pigs to contain African swine fever

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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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