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Climate crisis

  • smoke emerging from a plant at sunset

    Coal
    New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    Climate crisis
    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists get in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

    As the climate crisis has deepened, protesters have become more confrontational – and their ambitions have grown
  • A family amid the corrugated iron shanty house slums of Nairobi

    Inequality
    World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

    Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis

  • Conservation
    Nature destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK than 2008 crisis, experts warn

  • Africa
    Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist

  • Climate crisis
    Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert

  • European Union
    MEPs vote to leave treaty used by investors to sue over climate policies

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

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

  • America's dirty divide
    US seeing rise in climate-related power outages, report says

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, María Jesús Montero and Carlos Cuerpo
  • Tony Juniper

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

    Tony Juniper
    • 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

    • Workers installing solar panels

      A heedless dash for net zero will waste cash and, later, votes

      Phillip Inman
    • George Monbiot

      Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name

      George Monbiot
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Features

  • pine trees against a blue sky

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

  • Portrait photograph of UK climate activist Trudi Warner

    Environmental activism
    ‘I felt this was an abuse of power’: the climate activist who took on the law and won

    • Flooded fields in Powys in Wales, after Storm Babet battered the UK, causing widespread flooding and high winds in October 2023

      Farming
      ‘Fields are completely underwater’: UK farmers navigate record rainfall

    • Fishers working with a net

      Climate crisis
      ‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims

    • Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica's minister of environment and energy, during an interview

      Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      ‘This country is what the world would like to be’: can Costa Rica’s environment minister keep the country’s green reputation intact?

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