Environment
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UK petrol station loyalty shifts as Nectar card is criticised for encouraging fossil fuel use -
Two hundred years after the Peterloo massacre, which led to the founding of the Manchester Guardian, protest is shaping our political moment. Where do we go from here?
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Exclusive: Companies bidding for public sector contracts must ‘put people and planet before profit’ -
Severe weather has spawned multiple tornadoes, flooding and even snow across America’s Midwest and Northeast -
England, Scotland and Wales went for two weeks without coal at 3.12pm on Friday -
A frog, an albino panda and a ‘seabed garden’
Spotlight
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The Duke of Burgundy is back from the brink – and the work to conserve it has helped other declining species. Does this mean there is hope in the face of Insectageddon?
Opinion
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Only radical solutions will make us reduce our carbon footprints and help the planet
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Back to back independents have never been elected in Australia, until now
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A pilot scheme launched to promote wild camping in two of England’s national parks is charging £20 a night. So, it’s not really wild or really free
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The weather is wild, the tariffs are rising, and as frustration ripples through the Iowa corn fields, rural America is ready to confront its 2020 candidates -
The climate crisis might be an inconvenience for the resources minister but the election result hasn’t changed basic facts
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Conservative donors and fossil fuel companies have the most to lose from large-scale decarbonization – and they know it
Multimedia
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The Malaysian government says the country has become a dumping ground for rich nations as it announces it will send as much as 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste back to the countries it came from
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Burrowing deep underground, thousands of informal miners risk their lives to find gleaming red gems as a law change spurs opportunity in Myanmar’s “land of rubies”. -
One of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries is already suffering floods, droughts and coral bleaching
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Hundreds of thousands of young people walk out of lessons around the world as the movement snowballs -
Albatross lovebirds, white storks in England and a walrus mother and baby -
On May 1, Princess Anne, patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature, presented the fund’s awards recognising community-based conservation projects. See more at whitleyaward.org
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Highly prized for its swim bladder – served in soups and stews – the fish could disappear altogether from Africa’s Lake Victoria thanks to the lucrative trade -
Crucial wildlife habitats are at risk from the hunger for marine minerals, says Karen McVeigh -
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