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Climate crisis

  • A man walks down a street covered in mud after flood waters receded

    Climate crisis
    ‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia

    Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’
  • A protester holds a placard with the words: Tax the super-rich; End extreme wealth

    Inequality
    Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

  • Parsnips, lettuce, celery and tomatoes in plastic pa

    Pfas
    Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds

  • A farm worker plows fields overlooking Grangemouth petrochemical and refining plant in Scotland.

    Climate crisis
    ‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’

  • John Lohan NPWS Firefighter family supplied pic. The statement reads, 'The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service is sad to confirm the name of our firefighter who was killed by a falling tree at a fireground at Nerong, south of Bulahdelah, on the NSW Mid North Coast, on Sunday night (7th December, 2025). John Lohan, aged 59, was a treasured and long-serving member of our staff who was based at the Lake Munmorah depot for almost 30 years.'

    Bushfires
    NSW fires: firefighter killed in blaze named as arson squad investigates if bushfire that destroyed 16 homes deliberately lit

Opinion

  • Adam Morton

    It’s two years since we were told ‘the age of fossil fuels will end’. When will Australia get prepared for what’s coming?

    Adam Morton
  • The seventh United Nations Environment Assembly opens in Nairobi, Kenya, on 8 December 2025.

    The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology

  • Mark Carney and Danielle Smith smile and hold up signed documents

    Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender

    Tzeporah Berman
  • A large turtle swims among bleached coral

    The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding

    Georgina Woods

Features

  • A snow-covered peak

    The age of extinction
    ‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake

  • Artist Olafur Eliasson, in his studio in Berlin

    Olafur Eliasson
    ‘I’m a prisoner of hope’: Olafur Eliasson on using art to bring us together to save the world

  • A family sits in the shade while waiting for a ride during a heatwave in Phoenix, Arizona, in July 2023.

    Down to Earth newsletter
    What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat

    Newsletter
  • collage of woman and man in cowboy hat

    Building power
    Inside the climate group working everywhere but DC: ‘You can still have huge wins’

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