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Environment

  • An oil pump jack silhouetted against a dramatic orange sunset in a sky with grey clouds

    Fossil fuels
    UK ‘helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine’ via loophole on refined oil imports

    £2.2bn-worth of oil processed in China, India and Turkey – to whom Russia supplies crude – was imported in 2023, data shows
  • Police officers stand near activists from Just Stop Oil taking part in a blockade by lying in the road at the Kingsbury oil terminal, Warwickshire

    Environmental activism
    Doctors condemn suspension of retired GP over UK climate protests

  • An elderly woman with her hands on an ancient tree killed by Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia.

    Plant apocalypse
    How new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops

  • Four climate activists wear aprons bearing facts about the decline in the number of birds

    Birdsong once signalled the onset of spring on my street – but not this year

    Tony Juniper
  • A small fishing boat navigating a complex pattern of rivulets in a grassy and partially submerged estuary

    'Nurseries of the sea'
    Estuaries are disappearing fast

  • A giant redwood, or sequoia, in Crichton Campus in Dumfries.

    Country diary
    Standing in the shadow of a giant

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.1

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 23 April 2024

    72.1

    above safe level,
    passed 1990

    24.9

    increase in past
    10 years

    280300320340360380400420 parts per million1960199020142024Safe level: 350ppmLatest: 422.1ppm

Spotlight

  • pine trees against a blue sky

    Repeated periods of heat and drought causing some trees to die – study

  • Dozens of tents and young protesters wearing keffiyeh, with a rainbow Pride flag in the foreground.

    How divestment became a ‘clarion call’ in anti-fossil fuel and pro-ceasefire protests

    • Street art mural honoring Flaco, an Eurasian Eagle-Owl, in New York's Freemans Alley<br>A spray-painted mural of Flaco, an Eurasian Eagle-Owl who died just over a year after his escape from a vandalized Central Park Zoo enclosure, by Colombian artist Calicho Arevalo, is seen in the street art destination of Freemans Alley in New York City, U.S. February 25, 2024. REUTERS/Bing Guan NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

      ‘We all connected over Flaco’: artists turn beloved animals into symbols of their US cities

    • Tim Dowling’s trout lasagne

      ‘The trout lasagne is very good!’ How I recreated six classic beef dishes – with oily fish

    • A bristlecone pine tree, one of the oldest living organisms on Earth.

      Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

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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

  • An aerial photo shows residents of Akwidaa fishing village in Ghana erecting a makeshift sea defence

    Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires

    Svenja Schulze, Fernando Haddad, Enoch Godongwana, Carlos Cuerpo and María Jesús Montero
  • A cattle-drawn hay-laden cart move down a dusty road in Segou Region, Mali, West Africa.

    The Guardian view on the Sahel and its crises: the west can still make a difference

  • Graham Readfearn

    Dutton’s plan to save Australia with nuclear comes undone when you look between the brushstrokes

    Graham Readfearn
  • Only the route and ruins remain from the Denniston Incline which transported coal from a 600 meter high plateau to the coast.<br>HEH7T4 Only the route and ruins remain from the Denniston Incline which transported coal from a 600 meter high plateau to the coast.

    New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous

    Nicola Wheen and Andrew Geddis
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The age of extinction

  • A wooden bench in the Sonian Forest in Belgium.

    ‘You can’t love something that isn’t there’: readers on how the sounds of nature have changed around them

  • FEB 2024 - LONDON: Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants. Pictured; Dr Carlos Abrahams listening to the soil. (Photography by Graeme Robertson / The Guardian )

    Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants: how scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil

    More than 50% of the planet’s species live in the in the earth below our feet, but only a fraction have been identified – so far
  • A kākā at Zealandia ecosanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

    Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds

    As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorus
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Seascape

  • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

    Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse

  • A display of fresh fish of different sizes lying on a bed of ice

    Goodbye cod, hello herring: why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet

    • 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

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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

  • 160 pilot whales stranded and 26 confirmed dead in Western Australia – video

  • Dead and dying shrubs and trees – some of which are found nowhere else on Earth – line more than 1,000km across the state’s south-west

    Drone video shows Western Australia’s forests dying in heat and drought – video

    Dead and dying shrubs and trees – some of which are found nowhere else on Earth – line more than 1,000km across the state’s south-west
  • A jackal surrounded by doves leaps for a meal, South Africa

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event

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    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

  • 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

  • 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

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