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Environment
  • Series of trucks driving along a winding road at an open-pit copper mine

    Mining
    UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’

    Panel of nearly 100 countries to draw up guidelines for industries that mine raw materials used in low-carbon technology
  • Pearson’s aloe growing on a hillside

    Plants
    British succulent society chair quits over row about taking specimens from wild

  • Frogspawn

    Young country diary
    What’s that droning noise coming from the river?

  • Tractors in the streets of Krakow, Poland, as part of a protest against the EU's nature restoration law.

    Europe
    New nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn

  • Discharge flowing into the River Thames, London, in March 2024.

    How the overseas owners of the UK’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers

    George Monbiot
  • A zebra finch perches on a branch while looking to the side

    Birds
    Noise from traffic stunts growth of baby birds, study finds

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.1

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 26 April 2024

    72.1

    above safe level,
    passed 1990

    24.9

    increase in past
    10 years

    280 300 320 340 360 380 400 420 parts per million 1960 1990 2014 2024 Safe level: 350ppm Latest: 422.1ppm

Spotlight

  • Wildside Exotic Rescue’s Lindsay McKenna with a rescued wallaby.

    ‘It was wet. It was filthy. It was aggressive. I said, I’ll take the racoon. But keeping exotic pets is cruel’

  • visitors pore over an orange MG 4 EV electric sports car on display at the Beijing Auto Show.

    Tesla among electric carmakers forced to cut prices as market stalls

    • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

      Weather tracker: heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

    • 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

    • Jo Brand

      Scientists and comedians join forces to get climate crisis message across

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documentaries
Documentary link

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

  • Maddie Thomas

    How to ditch disposable cups – and transform the way you enjoy coffee

    Maddie Thomas
  • Hussein Julood

    I’m asking BP to take its share of responsibility for my son’s death, and will take it to UK court if I have to

    Hussein Julood
  • 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, María Jesús Montero and Carlos Cuerpo
  • Tony Juniper

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

    Tony Juniper
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The age of extinction
  • 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

  • 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

    Swallows, cuckoos, curlews – so many species have dwindled or disappeared completely, and people are mourning their loss
  • 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
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Seascape
  • 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

  • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

    ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’: animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

    • 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

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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

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    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

    0:47

    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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