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Climate crisis

  • Scottish Green party co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater listen to net zero secretary, Màiri McAllan, on 18 April as she announces scrapping of 75% carbon cut pledge.

    Scottish politics
    Scottish Greens to vote on power-sharing deal with SNP after carbon goal ditched

  • The volcano in Grindavik erupts beneath the northern lights.

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, floods in Dubai, the knife attack in Sydney and the Grand National at Aintree: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • Unilever sign

    Unilever
    Unilever to scale back environmental and social pledges

    Environmental groups say bosses should ‘hang their heads in shame’ as firm bows to pressure from shareholders to cut costs

  • Iceland
    Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up

  • Alaska
    Biden administration moves to restrict oil and gas leases on 13m acres in Alaska

  • Climate crisis
    UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts

  • Louisiana
    ‘Wake-up call’: pipeline leak exposes carbon capture safety gaps, advocates say

  • Politics
    UK politics: Tory HQ resists calls to refer Menzies allegations to police – as it happened

  • Greenhouse gas emissions
    ‘Reprehensible retreat’: fury as Scottish ministers scrap carbon emissions pledge

  • Water
    US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seek to ban trade in water rights

Opinion

  • George Monbiot

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

    George Monbiot
  • Greg Jericho

    Funding Australia’s renewable transition isn’t ‘picking winners’ – it’s securing our future

    Greg Jericho
    • Adam Morton

      Albanese’s promised clean economy act has been a long time coming but it’s the right place to start

      Adam Morton
    • Natasha Walter

      Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressed

      Natasha Walter
    • 240411 Green future Fortune teller thumbnail

      Looking forward to a bold green future? Just don’t forget the here and now

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Features

  • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse

  • Caroline Lucas wearing a brown patterned scarf, waistcoat and trousers over a long-sleeve white T-shirt

    The Q&A
    MP Caroline Lucas: ‘My biggest disappointment? Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet’

    • A city worker planting trees

      The alternatives
      ‘We need more shade’: US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need

    • Image of green hills and trees overlaid with sound bars

      Soundscapes
      No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silent

    • Adrian Pike, winemaker with wife Galia at their vineyard and winery near Ashford, Kent.

      Food & drink industry
      ‘It’s a sun trap’: climate crisis brings boomtime for British wine

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