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Environment

  • yellow, green, red and blue tubes on ceiling connecting to floor in a grey room

    Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

    Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres
  • Close-up of man wearing white shirt, tie and jacket

    Biden attacks Republican climate deniers as he unveils extreme-heat rules

  • A figure in silhouette drinks from a clear blue-tinted water bottle, with a blazing sun above in a clear sky/

    Brutal heatwave to cook US west as Fourth of July wildfire risks loom

  • Students tap a tree for maple syrup in Randolph, Vermont, on 20 May 2024.

    ‘It’s the future of sugar’: new technology feeds Vermont maple syrup boom amid climate crisis

  • A large tanker with two tugboats.

    Judge halts Biden administration’s delay of consideration of liquefied natural gas projects

  • waves crash into a pier

    Hurricane Beryl: Caribbean leader calls out rich countries for climate failures as ‘horrendous’ storm makes landfall

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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

  • A blackbird (Turdus merula) in an orchard in Norfolk.

    Blackbird numbers plummet in south of England amid potential spread of virus

  • Smoke from the underground Grosvenor coalmine fire.

    Queensland coalmine fire a ‘disaster’ for climate say environmental groups

    The fire at Anglo American’s Grosvenor coalmine in Moranbah broke out after methane ignited
  • the yellow and red shell logo atop a green petro pump nozzle

    Shell to pause construction of huge biodiesel plant in Rotterdam

    Technical difficulties blamed for new blow to firm’s sustainable energy plans
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Big oil uncovered

  • Two men in hard hats, jumpsuits and heavy boots work on dark purple painted pipes above, with pink floppy tubes and hard blue tubes.

    Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill

  • An underwater view of a lot of plastic garbage, including a plastic bag, a plastic bottle and small bits of plastic.

    Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study

  • A very thin woman raises a plastic bottle to her lips, in full sun with a blue tarp behind her.

    Lawyers could charge big oil with homicide after 2023 Arizona heatwave

  • A side-by-side image of Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott

    Elected officials in sweltering US states prioritizing fossil fuel cash over people

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America's dirty divide

  • A swimmer learns to float during a free swimming lesson organized by Black People Will Swim at York College in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on Thursday, June 20th, 2024.

    A New York program is helping Black people of all ages enjoy swimming: ‘It’s very empowering’

  • A pregnant woman holds her belly

    Why pregnant people are more at risk during heatwaves – and ways to stay safe

  • a woman speaks into a microphone

    Native tribes on banning Kristi Noem from reservations: ‘She’d be charged with trespassing’

  • a man in a suit speaks near a petroleum refinery

    EPA chief vows to take on Republican-led states over pollution rules rollback

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Our unequal earth

  • signs posted above water fountains read 'do not drink until further notice'

    Kids have a right to water in US schools, but does that water make the grade?

  • Veggies and farmer owners at Choy Commons, a cooperative of Asian-led farms.

    Asian American farm collective targets food insecurity: ‘It’s been really healing’

  • M Dores Cruz, center, and her team carry out an archaeological dig on Sao Tome in 2023.

    White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world

  • a glass of soda with ice and a straw

    Is aspartame bad for you? What we know about the sweetener’s health risks

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The age of extinction

  • A large male moose standing amid foliage in the forest

    ‘No chain stores, but moose on every corner’: as Colorado herds thrive, clashes with people rise

  • Protesters stand outside the Lloyd’s building in the City holding a pink banner that reads: "Insure our future, not fossil fuels"

    ‘Reform or go out of business,’ carbon offsetting industry told

    Study finds carbon credits could raise billions for climate action but only with changes, such as rigorous standards
  • Aerial photo of tiang, a species of antelope, in Boma and Badingilo national parks, South Sudan

    Migration of 6m antelope in South Sudan dwarfs previous records for world’s biggest, aerial study reveals

    The movement is more than double that of east Africa’s renowned ‘great migration’ and has continued despite decades of war and instability
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Seascape

  • Richard Forrest walks along Lyme Regis beach in Dorset, where he regularly hunts for fossils.

    The fossil finder: one man’s lifelong search for fragments of Britain’s Jurassic past – photo essay

  • A man on a rock above a beach with a wooden board in his hand

    From swimwear to toys: how to go plastic-free for a day at the beach

    • A puffin with a beak full of sand eels.

      Puffins, catsharks and sea squirts: how to spot wildlife on the British coast

    • Rivers, land and seascape are being rewilded along a 100-mile stretch of coastline in Sussex Bay.

      ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast

    • Jayson Byles forages on a beach in Scotland.

      ‘Otters pop up beside your kayak’: six coast fanatics reveal their favourite UK beaches

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Opinion

  • Helen Sullivan

    A rat: ‘We can no longer live as rats: we know too much’

    Helen Sullivan
  • Adam Morton

    The Coalition says the rest of the G20 is powering ahead with nuclear – it’s just not true

    Adam Morton
  • Karen Middleton

    There is no shortage of Coalition U-turns on nuclear. But this Aukus example might be the most remarkable

    Karen Middleton
  • Graham Readfearn

    There’s a yawning Coalition credibility gap on the cost of renewables and nuclear

    Graham Readfearn
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Multimedia

  • Rescue team cuts 800kg of tangled ropes and buoy from humpback whale off Gippsland coast – video

  • Geese fly past soldiers of an honour guard

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: geese on parade, a radioactive rhino and a lovestruck eagle

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Greens senator asked whether environment minister cares more about 'letting Gina Rinehart profit from another climate-wrecking coal seam gas mine or protecting our endangered koalas'

    Labor defends approval of Gina Rinehart-backed gas project in Senate – video

    Greens senator asked whether environment minister cares more about 'letting Gina Rinehart profit from another climate-wrecking coal seam gas mine or protecting our endangered koalas'
  • Tek Prasad Gurung, 64, takes a bite from freshly-harvested honeycomb during honey hunting

    ‘Fraught with danger’: wild honey gathering in Nepal – in pictures

  • Some residents welcome the proposal, while others are fuming with outrage. Guardian Australia spoke to Latrobe Valley residents about the Coalition's plans to turn Loy Yang into a nuclear reactor

    3:08

    A reactor in the backyard? What Latrobe Valley residents think of Dutton’s nuclear plan – video

  • bears eye a salmon in Alaska, US

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: bears’ dinner party, a Kentish wildcat kitten and racing marmots

  • A boy with a colourful umbrella in front of some cattle

    ‘I fear when we stop, no one will replace us’: Madagascar’s forest guardians – in pictures

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