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Environment
  • Early morning image of bright orange or red ship lit by rising sun, with two men in equally bright coats walking by.

    Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments

    Operations at a cold war lab exposed at least 1,073 people to radiation. Risks to the nearby communities persist
  • people hold up signs calling for an end to fossil fuels

    Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis

  • Two people help each other fill a plastic jug of water from a water tank on wheels

    Asheville restores drinking water 53 days after Hurricane Helene – but not all are ready to sip

  • water droplet coming out of a spout

    California limits on ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS in products are effective, study says

  • A young giraffe interacts with her mother

    US moves to list giraffes under Endangered Species Act for first time

  • Collage

    Revealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis shows

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CO2 tracker
Latest news
  • Rising Tide protestors have been removed by police during a climate protest outside parliament house in Canberra.

    Rising Tide protesters arrested in Canberra for blocking road to Parliament House

  • Nils Pratley

    Will Labour’s 2030 green energy goal cost more than 2035? They should come clean

    Nils Pratley
  • Rows of photovoltaic panels on a hill.

    China’s CO2 emissions have peaked or will in 2025, say 44% of experts in survey

    Research reflects rising optimism about country’s green transition as it takes leading position on climate action
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Big oil uncovered
  • smoke coming out of a factory

    Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show

  • a student walks on a university campus

    University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels

  • An aerial view of an oil refinery

    New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters

  • The exterior of the NW Natural utility company, with a grey emblem saying 'NW Natural Sunset Service Center'

    Oregon county sues major gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt

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America's dirty divide
  • A before and after of what an amusement park would look like before and after flooding

    How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater

  • the outside of an apartment building

    Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them

  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller

    Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

  • a brick building with a/c units on the outside

    93F and no electricity: why some US utilities can cut power despite heatwaves

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Our unequal earth
  • two white turkeys stand on a green lawn

    The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey

  • people hold signs in protest of H-2A

    Washington state farm workers worry about boom in legal foreign workers

  • a person in a white hazmat suit and yellow hard-hat walks down a road strewn with debris

    Restaurant workers face hard decisions after Hurricane Helene: stay or leave?

  • A long line of people wearing long sleeves and face coverings stand in a rows of low green plants, with hills in the distance under a blue sky.

    ‘Mass deportations would disrupt the food chain’: Californians warn of ripple effect of Trump threat

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The age of extinction
  • An aerial view of farms amid forest

    Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the world

  • Aerial photo of green vegetation being eaten into as gullies form a serrated edge at the coastline

    ‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle

    On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as melting permafrost ice leaves little behind
  • Grass mixed with purple, white and yellow flowers can be seen with cars, traffic lights and a high rise shop or office building in the background

    Patches of wildflowers in cities can be just as good for insects as natural meadows – study

    Researchers found no difference in the diversity of species in urban meadows compared with those in rural settings
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Seascape
  • A collection of images showing building work and how one of the beaches will look, with a huge cruise ship behind it.

    Paradise lost? How cruise companies are ‘eating up’ the Bahamas

  • Tourists taking pictures and selfies during sunset in Santorini, Greece

    Selfies and surf simulators: the young cruisers driving boom in sea holidays

    • A man stands on land in front of a cruise liner at sea

      ‘I feel guilty and angry’: the captain turned campaigner trying to keep cruise ships at bay

    • Top deck of a cruise ship with smoke coming out of a funnel

      Carnival cruise line emitted more CO2 in 2023 than Scotland’s biggest city – report

    • A fisherman picks though huge amounts of plastic waste washed up on the shore of a beach

      World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

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Opinion
  • Three cruise ships docked at Galataport, Istanbul

    The Guardian view on cruise ships: a licence to pollute

  • Aaron Thierry

    In Wales, we’re one more flood away from another disaster like Aberfan

    Aaron Thierry
  • Ed Miliband

    Here’s what I learned at Cop29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening

    Ed Miliband
  • Mukhtar Babayev

    I’m glad we got a deal at Cop29 – but western nations stood in the way of a much better one

    Mukhtar Babayev
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Multimedia
  • A herd of red deer look out from the bracken on an autumn morning in Richmond Park, London, UK.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a naughty weasel, guard bees and a Sopranos bear

  • Prime minister, Keir Starmer, says lack of Conservative support for climate targets shows 'just how far the party has fallen'

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    'It is a shame': Starmer laments lack of Tory support for climate measures – video

    Prime minister, Keir Starmer, says lack of Conservative support for climate targets shows 'just how far the party has fallen'
  • Warning that water pollutants, forest fires, contaminated rubble and other consequences of war are undermining aims of Paris agreement

    1:56

    Cop 29: Ukraine and Palestinian delegates warn of environmental impact of war – video

    Warning that water pollutants, forest fires, contaminated rubble and other consequences of war are undermining aims of Paris agreement
  • Chris Bowen says Australia wants to co-host the 2026 United Nations climate change negotiations 'in partnership with our Pacific family'

    2:04

    Australia pledges $50m for climate 'loss and damage' fund, ramps up Cop31 host bid - video

  • A herd of elephants consisting mainly of females and their young arrive at a watering pond for a drink at the Ngutuni wildlif conservancy on the outskirts of Voi in Kenya

    The bee project helping to tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya – in pictures

  • Carlos Mazón rejected calls for his resignation amid growing public anger over his management of the disaster

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    Valencia's president apologises for handling of deadly floods – video

  • Javan lsow loris at a rebhabilitation centre in Indonesia.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a very lost penguin, cloned baby ferrets and a mystery mollusc

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