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Environment

  • Smoke billowing from a coal-fired power station chimney.

    Climate crisis
    Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions

  • Earth mover on a landfill site

    Pollution
    More than 100 landfills in England may be leaching ‘highly hazardous’ waste

  • Ed Miliband gives a speech during the two-day Future of Energy Security summit in London.

    Energy
    Britain will find ‘common ground’ with US on energy policy, says Miliband

  • Climate activists and supporters sitting and standing in the road with a large banner and many signs

    The 89% project
    Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say

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CO2 tracker

Spotlight

  • Row of men and women with smokey chimneys for heads

    Why Australia’s most prominent climate change deniers have stopped talking about the climate

  • Bunhill 2 energy centre.

    ‘Smart, green thinking’: four innovative London council carbon offset projects

    • The Mutehekau Shipu river in Quebec

      Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

    • Musician and singer Anohni of Anohni and the Johnsons

      ‘People can’t imagine something on that scale dying’: Anohni on mourning the Great Barrier Reef

    • Composite for Change by Degrees: home batteries

      Is it still worth getting a home battery in Australia if I can’t install solar panels on my roof?

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Opinion

  • illustration of side-profile silhouettes of people filled in with space-related art

    How space exploration can improve life on Earth

    Leigh Phillips
  • Nils Pratley

    Drax needs a better policeman

    Nils Pratley
  • George Monbiot

    Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime

    George Monbiot
  • Adrian Chiles

    I loathe pigeons. You wouldn’t believe what they do to my downpipe

    Adrian Chiles
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The age of extinction

  • An extreme closeup photograph of a black ant

    Two teens and 5,000 ants: how a smuggling bust shed new light on a booming trade

  • Aerial view of tree trunks being loaded on to a barge

    Sanctioned Russian and Belarusian wood smuggled into UK, study suggests

    ‘Chemical fingerprint’ shows 46% of wood samples certified as sustainable did not come from labelled country of origin
  • A man stands in front of an old wall with plants growing from it

    Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating Britain’s ancient hedges

    Up and down the country, volunteers are coming together to plant more of these nature-rich reserves
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Seascape

  • An image of the grooves created using 3D seismic reflection data

    Giant icebergs once drifted off the coast of Britain, scientists find

  • A woman's hands hold a paintbrush and a pot of ink over a half-finished painting of an octopusCaragh is creating an original artwork for AFYO. "Art For Your Oceans" (AFYO), a collaborative project between WWF and Artwise, aims to raise funds and awareness for ocean conservation through a selling exhibition of specially commissioned artworks, featuring 16 international artists, and utilizing OCEAN INK, a sustainable ink made from seaweed.

    ‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

    • Two men in white snowsuits and gloves stand near a large drone

      On thin ice: the brutal cold of Canada’s Arctic was once a defence, but a warming climate has changed that

    • Two polar bears on an ice floe

      Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved

    • Author and naturalist Andrew Cleave sat on a group of rocks at Portland Bill, Dorset, UK on a blue-sky day.

      I’m obsessed with coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions

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Multimedia

  • Two bear cubs who were rescued in Bursa, Turkey.

    Week in wildlife: wild ponies, a playful jaguar and penguin chicks taking their first swim

  • Two years into the worst coral bleaching event on record, more than 80% of the planet's reefs have been affected
    2:03

    Tracing the worst coral bleaching event in recorded history – video

    Two years into the worst coral bleaching event on record, more than 80% of the planet's reefs have been affected
  • A runner runs with a black pony in a forest

    Miniature horses race in New Zealand’s big wilderness – in pictures

    In the Great Northern Gallop, participants run 100km alongside miniature horses through rugged beaches and dense forests
  • Two wild elephants entering the gates of an army base in India

    Week in wildlife: elephants on parade, a rescued serval and wandering bears

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why it is important for consumers to know where their salmon comes from, and examines the gap between the marketing of farmed salmon and the reality for our health, the environmental and animal welfare
    6:10

    How the truth about supermarket salmon is being hidden – video

  • The opposition leader demurred on whether climate change was exacerbating weather events
    1:52

    'I'm not a scientist': Dutton responds to climate change question in ABC leaders' debate – video

  • Prepare to dive … research engineer Aurore Molé in a survival suit.

    Underwater Argonauts! The deep-sea scientists logging Med pollution – in pictures

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