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Environment

  • A section of the BP Eastern Trough Area Project oil platform in the North Sea

    Energy industry
    Former BP boss calls for end to new North Sea drilling licences

    John Browne appears to back Labour energy policy as he underlines need for green transition
  • Campaigners holding up a protest banner saying 'solar belongs on roofs' with Big Ben in background

    ‘It’s just too big’
    Division over plans for UK’s biggest solar farm

  • Person wearing brown pith hat stands in dappled shade in orange long-sleeved shirt and blue neck covering, drinking from clear bottle of water.

    Extreme heat
    Brutal heatwave cooks US south-west, an early sign of sizzling summer ahead

  • Three people paddle down a river in two canoes with trees on either side

    Access to green space
    Communities will be given right to turn eyesores into parks, says Labour

  • workers unload a freight ship

    ‘All these problems are solvable’
    Great Lakes shipping fights to cut emissions

  • Northern elephant seals huddle together at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center's temporary field hospital in Laguna Beach, California.

    The week in wildlife
    Puffins on the rebound, a sticky turtle and a joey named Sprout

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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

Spotlight

  • Fox with a turtle in its mouth

    Hungry foxes are having a ‘catastrophic’ impact on Australia’s juvenile freshwater turtles. There’s a push to change that

  • Bristol Central

    ‘People feel betrayed by Labour’: Bristol’s Green surge continues

    • Andrew Watts on his farm

      ‘Cannot be trusted’: traditional farming voter base turns away from Tories

    • Central Europe on a mostly cloud-free day is seen in a Eumestat satellite image.

      Weatherwatch: satellite weather data plays growing role in saving lives

    • A selection of ultra-processed foods – fries, pizza, hot dogs, burgers

      The man who warned us about UPFs: Michael Pollan on his 25-year fight with the food industry

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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

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    The planet is in a spin. What is it trying to say?

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    In Tory England, the Lib Dems can smell revenge in the air – and sewage in the rivers

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Nils Pratley

    Great British Energy will be welcome – but Labour risks over-selling it

    Nils Pratley
  • Nils Pratley

    Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford

    Nils Pratley
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  • Broadbean salad

    Homegrown goodness
    Why we should all be eating more broad beans

  • Chickpeas

    The humble chickpea is having a moment
    Here’s why they’re here to stay

  • Karen Poole

    ‘We’re doing it by stealth’
    How Tesco is reformulating its much-loved meals to be healthier

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    From ready-meal lovers to at-home chefs
    How Tesco is improving the nation’s nutrition

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The age of extinction

  • A brown booby perched on the end of a spinnaker pole of a sailboat

    More intense, frequent tropical cyclones may devastate seabird colonies – study

  • A brown trout swimming among rocks in clear water

    Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study

    Addiction, anxiety and sex reversal have been reported in species by researchers as a range of substances contaminates ecosystems
  • A man in glasses wearing camouflage, with a camera around his neck. He's standing outside in front of some shrubs.

    ‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’: Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies

    In the West Bank and Gaza, a growing number of birdwatchers are pursuing their hobby despite the violence surrounding them
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Seascape

  • Dr Alex Hearn and his colleagues in a boat in fading light tagging a shark in the Galápagos marine reserve.

    ‘Where do sharks hang out?’: the race to find safe spaces for the Galápagos’ ocean-going predators

  • Charles Saunders shows off an enormous dungeness crab, caught as part of a population survey by the Nuxalk Guardian Watchmen.

    ‘It was like the wild west’: meet the First Nations guardians protecting Canada’s pristine shores

    • A view shows Anemones at the Jan Mayen Vent Fields on the Arctic Mid-Oceanic Ridge at a depth of around 500m, in this undated handout picture. University of Bergen, Centre for Deep Sea Research

      Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans

    • Jackass Penguin, Stony Point, Betty's Bay, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa / (Spheniscus demersus)<br>FKNHCP Jackass Penguin, Stony Point, Betty's Bay, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa / (Spheniscus demersus)

      Penguins in peril: why two bird charities are taking South Africa’s environment minister to court

    • Two small Korean girls and a woman stand in front of an aquarium as a white whale looks at them through the glass

      ‘Free Bella’: campaigners fight to save lonely beluga whale from Seoul mall

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Multimedia

  • Aerial pictures show Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupting – video

  • BLAZE #28 From the series BLAZE

    Australian photography auction – in pictures

    The Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), the proud custodian of more than 3,860 photographs, is holding a fundraising auction in Melbourne, with the proceeds of the sales shared equally with the contributing artists
  • Claude was caught eating 4,050 food tree seedlings at Eastern Forest Nursery near Lismore in 2023

    0:54

    Notorious seed-stealing koala caught in brazen daylight robbery in northern NSW – video

    Claude was caught eating 4,050 food tree seedlings at Eastern Forest Nursery near Lismore in 2023
  • A black-and-white ruffed lemur pup hanging off a branch.

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: playful baby lemurs, kingfisher tug-of-war and a beautiful bee-eater

  • A man looks through the window of a property which has the slogan and logo of a political party painted on it and a bicycle resting against it

    India’s ‘sinking island’ looks to election for survival – in pictures

  • Hundreds of Indian farmers who have been protesting outside Delhi endured a savage heatwave

    Protesting Indian farmers endure severe heatwave – video

  • Three young parrots patiently wait for their parents to return with food in Chandigarh, India.

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: dormouse gets a checkup, a lucky kingfisher and a waving seal pup

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