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Environment

  • Woman in peach dress wipes away tear at home

    Hawaii families complain of sickness nearly three years after Pearl Harbor fuel leak

    Court hears effects of 2021 leak, in which thousand of gallons of fuel seeped into drinking water supply from US navy storage tank
  • A worker cleans a sidewalk during a heat wave

    Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’

  • A Brood X cicada in Washington DC in May 2004 .

    ‘Be in awe’: everything you need to know about the US cicada-geddon

  • ‘It’s moving throughout our whole home much faster than we expected,’ said Rob Jackson, co-author of the study.

    Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study

  • A portion of the Florida wildlife corridor

    Florida sees thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds

  • Record number of sea lions swarm in San Francisco<br>SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 1: A view of sea lions at Pier 39 as officials say a record number of sea lions seeing the largest gathering in 15 years, in San Francisco, California, United States on May 1, 2024. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Pier pressure: more than 1,000 sea lions assemble at San Francisco dockside

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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

Latest news

  • Researchers from Brazil's state-run Fiocruz Institute shine a light on a bat

    Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study

  • Two reddy brown orangutans handing from a perch

    Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

    ‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says minister
  • Close-up of polluted water on the River Thames bank at Maidenhead, with rubbish caught in plants

    England’s rivers to remain in poor state as EU laws ignored post-Brexit, says watchdog

    Government’s failure to match EU measures to improve condition of rivers, lakes and oceans called ‘deeply concerning’
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Big oil uncovered

  • Red Exxon logo against the blue sky

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

  • 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

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America's dirty divide

  • A national guardsman patrols the US-Mexico border atop a shipping container.

    ‘Why doesn’t anybody care?’ Texas-Mexico border devastated by anti-migrant operation

  • A water tower reads "Flint strong"

    Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’

  • 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

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Our unequal earth

  • Two people wearing blue aprons stand back-to-back in a kitchen washing dishes and handling kitchenware

    Is America’s oldest Chinese restaurant in a tiny suburb of Sacramento? Historians investigate

  • 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

  • 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

  • Guardian Eggs Title Illo

    Egg labels, egg-splained: from cage-free to free-range, how to eat ethically and economically

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The age of extinction

  • An older white man talks on a stage

    I discovered hydrothermal vents, but I’m only known for finding the Titanic

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

    Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

    More frequent heatwaves mean bees are unable to thermoregulate their hives – further endangering a species already in decline
  • 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
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Seascape

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

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

  • 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

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Opinion

  • Graham Readfearn

    Gina Rinehart, One Nation and the Greens all oppose Glencore’s plan to store CO2 in the Great Artesian Basin – why?

    Graham Readfearn
  • 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
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Multimedia

  • 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

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

  • 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

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