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Environment

  • A person wearing a neon jacket stands between trees in a forest

    Little sign of rain to alleviate drought and wildfire risks in US north-east

    Ongoing dry conditions threaten to aggravate blazes in New York and New Jersey as wildfire seasons grow in intensity
  • A man with disheveled long hair in a tuxedo.

    Environmental groups alarmed as Doug Burgum picked for US interior secretary

  • a long fish on a surfboard with people surrounding it

    Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California

  • a man in a suit stands next to a US flag

    Fears grow that Milei will withdraw Argentina from Paris climate accord

  • An electric car plugged into a charging port

    Trump transition team plans to kill Biden’s electric vehicle tax credit

  • A transparent creature in a dark part of ocean

    Marine biologists discover new sea slug species off Pacific coast

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CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage Project<br>Storage tanks at the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage project, controlled by Equinor ASA, Shell Plc and TotalEnergies SE, at Blomoyna, Norway, on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. Part of a $2.6 billion network, the facility is set to pump climate-warming carbon dioxide from manufacturing sites in Europe into an untouched saline aquifer deep below the seabed. Photographer: Andrea Gjestvang/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Almost 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit

  • The COP29 conference venue in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Fossil fuel bosses get ‘red carpet’ at Cop29 despite concerns over influence

    Revealed: more than 100 executives given special guest badges as activists challenge role of oil and gas firms at talks
  • Environmental activists protest against oil and gas lobbyists at the summit.

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    Cop29: oil bosses given red carpet treatment at climate summit – as it happened

    At least 123 oil and gas bosses and staff invited as ‘guests’ by Azerbaijani government and given host country badges, the Guardian has learned
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Big oil uncovered

  • 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

  • a boat with containers on it

    Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds

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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

  • 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

  • a man fishing by the water

    Florida may enshrine hunting and fishing by ‘traditional methods’ – but what are they?

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The age of extinction

  • Hundreds of people sit at desks looking towards the stage, were a row of people sit behind microphone in front of a screen showing them in closeup ad the Cop16 logo.

    Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16

  • Tree-planting at Great Avon Wood, in the west of England.

    Global biodiversity offsetting doesn’t work – keep schemes local, say experts

    Voluntary standards proposed at Cop16 focus on local like-for-like habitat projects, while critics call the issue a ‘distraction’
  • Melting icebergs in the Ilulissat Icefjord in western Greenland.

    ‘Essential to act now’ to prevent chaotic climate breakdown, warns UN chief

    On the eve of Cop29 in Baku, António Guterres says dangers are underestimated as irreversible tipping points near
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Seascape

  • A burger bun stacked with cheese, tomato and a patty that looks similar to those made with soya.

    ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts?

  • a parent and baby whale

    Outrage as fifth beluga dies this year at Canada’s Marineland

    • white doughy blob on stony beach

      ‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists

    • A fin whale, balaenoptera physalus, in the Atlantic Ocean off Pico Island, the Azores.

      Iceland’s president urged to intervene over licence for Europe’s last whaler

    • Small creatures of myriad colours, some translucent, of varied shapes seen on a black background. Some look like jellyfishes, some like fleas, and one is like a tiny shrimp

      Sea angels and devils: could plankton unlock the secrets of human biology?

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Opinion

  • Delegates, including Keir Starmer (front row, third from left) at Cop29 in Baku on 12 November 2024.

    The Guardian view on UN climate talks: rich and poor nations can strike a win-win deal

  • George Monbiot

    Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29

    George Monbiot
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    My moth hell has given me sympathy for all fellow sufferers – even the 1%

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • A ripped American flag amid damage from Hurricane Helene

    Survival of the richest: Trump, climate and the logic of the doomsday bunker

    Jonathan Watts
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Multimedia

  • 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

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Starmer also said the British government was due to launch the CIF Capital Markets Mechanism, a climate finance scheme on the London Stock Exchange to help developing countries

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    Starmer confirms that the UK has committed to an 81% cut to emissions by 2035 – video

    Starmer also said the British government was due to launch the CIF Capital Markets Mechanism, a climate finance scheme on the London Stock Exchange to help developing countries
  • UN secretary general António Guterres opens his address to world leaders at Cop29 with a stark warning about the climate crisis

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    2024 has been ‘masterclass in climate destruction’, says UN chief – video

  • The so-called corpse plant takes a decade to flower – and when it does, the blossom smells of rotting flesh

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    'A horrific smell': Geelong's corpse flower blooms – video

  • Authorities have been racing to evacuate people reluctant to leave villages affected by the erupting Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano on the Indonesian island of Flores

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    Indonesia volcano: authorities race to evacuate remaining villagers amid eruptions – video

  • An abandoned house in Gallo Matese, Campania, 2016 by photographer Vincenzo Pagliuca.

    Homes alone: abandoned buildings of the Italian Apennines – in pictures

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