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Environment

  • A large pollution-spewing oil refinery.

    Majority of US voters support climate litigation against big oil, poll shows

    And almost half of respondents back the filing of criminal charges against oil companies that have contributed to the climate crisis
  • US map of this summer's forecasted temperatures from the National Weather Service.

    Millions in US face extreme-heat threat as experts urge better protections

  • The Caribbean spiny lobster leaves the reef at night to feed.

    ‘Knight in spiny armor’: could lobsters help save Florida’s dying corals?

  • debris from the aftermath of a tornado

    ‘Kitty cat’ storms hitting US heartland are growing threat to home insurance

  • A man wearing a navy blue suit, yellow tie and white shirt speaks

    Senate Democrats to investigate Trump’s reported big oil ‘deal’

  • TOPSHOT-US-CUBA-MEXICO-WEATHER<br>TOPSHOT - A flooded house is seen in Crystal River, Florida on August 31, 2023, after Hurricane Idalia made landfall. Idalia barreled into the northwest Florida coast as a powerful Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday morning, the US National Hurricane Center said. "Extremely dangerous Category 3 Hurricane #Idalia makes landfall in the Florida Big Bend," it posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that Idalia was causing "catastrophic storm surge and damaging winds." (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Above normal’ hurricane season could bring summer of natural disasters to US

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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

Latest news

  • Protesters holding banner reading 'Climate emergency'

    No Tory MPs voted positively on climate issues since party took power, study finds

  • Children fetch water using a wheelbarrow in Lilanda township in Lusaka, Zambia

    ‘Crippling’ drought in Zambia threatens hunger for millions, says minister

    Collins Nzovu says country’s plight is foretaste of disasters that will increasingly afflict region as climate breakdown takes hold
  • The billboard opposite Tanya Plibersek’s office in Redfern calling on the environment minister to remove Tasmanian salmon from Macquarie Harbour.

    Salmon v skate: environmentalists take fish fight to Tanya Plibersek’s door

    Campaigners urge Australians not to buy Tasmanian farmed salmon to avoid ‘extinction event’ for Maugean skate
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Big oil uncovered

  • California Governor Newsom Proposes Penality for Oil Companies for Excessive Profits<br>epa10353097 The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery Wilmington Plant operates in Wilmington, California, USA, 06 December 2022. California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a proposal that would penalize oil companies for 'excessive profits' in the state of California following ongoing gas price hikes at the pump. EPA/CAROLINE BREHMAN

    Investigate fossil fuel industry, top Democrats urge justice department

  • Sun sets behind smoke rising at oil refinery

    Top oil firms’ climate pledges failing on almost every metric, report finds

  • graphic illustration with overlaid pictures of a house, construction workers, a gas plant, a $100 bill and a man in a suit

    A new project promised low-income families ‘zero net energy homes’ – but they still rely on gas

  • Older white man, dark blue suit, red tie, looking off from a stage lit in red.

    Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds

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America's dirty divide

  • A man in a T-shirt stands in a kitchen with a chair on a table and mud on the floor

    Displaced by climate disasters, ageing Americans struggle to find housing

  • a sign reads "warning restricted area"

    EPA announces $300m funding to clean up US former industrial sites

  • Brandon Johnson, the Chicago mayor

    Wealthy residents of Chicago may live 30 years longer than poorer ones. Can a new mayor help close the gap?

  • A national guardsman patrols the US-Mexico border atop a shipping container.

    ‘Why doesn’t anybody care?’ Texas-Mexico border devastated by anti-migrant operation

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Our unequal earth

  • A selection of junk foods

    I went a week without ultra-processed foods. Here’s what I learned

  • Piles of red paper bags with black hexagons on them.

    Latin America labels ultra-processed foods. Will the US follow?

  • Four grocery-store shelves filled with brightly colored bags of Doritos, mostly in shades of orange.

    The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?

  • danish hanging in a vending machine

    Ultra-processed US foods are ultra-bad for you. Here’s what to know

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The age of extinction

  • A line of people walk along the edge of a filed thickly planted with sunflowers. People can be seen among the flowers taking pictures.

    Nature’s ghosts: how reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

  • Two people in blue protective overalls and masks use absorbent pads to wipe oil from a small mangrove on a beach

    Half of world’s mangrove forests are at risk due to human behaviour – study

    The loss of the ecosystems, which are vast stores of carbon, would ‘be disastrous for nature and people across the globe’, says IUCN
  • A salmon leaping as it tries to get past a weir in full flow

    Migratory freshwater fish populations ‘down by more than 80% since 1970’

    ‘Catastrophic’ global decline due to dams, mining, diverting water and pollution threatens humans and ecosystems, study warns
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Seascape

  • 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

    • A middel-aged white woman sits on a rock by the sea, wearing a wetsuit and surrounded by other wetsuits

      The search for the perfect wetsuit: is there one that doesn’t harm the planet?

    • Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video

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Opinion

  • Adam Morton

    On Australia’s climate and extinction crises, the major parties both have questions to answer

    Adam Morton
  • Graham Readfearn

    The claim of a $600bn carbon capture windfall for Australia is based on heroic assumptions and selective analysis

    Graham Readfearn
  • Adam Morton

    Labor’s strategy is to reduce emissions from gas – but not if that means doing anything to cut its use

    Adam Morton
  • Graham Readfearn

    Gina Rinehart, One Nation and the Greens all oppose Glencore’s plan to store CO2 in the Great Artesian Basin – why?

    Graham Readfearn
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Multimedia

  • 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

  • Gliese 12b is the size of Earth, or slightly smaller, like Venus. And its surface temperature is estimated to be a balmy 42C

    Australian student helps discover potentially habitable planet the size of Earth – video

    Gliese 12b is the size of Earth, or slightly smaller, like Venus. And its surface temperature is estimated to be a balmy 42C
  • Fulani families of semi-nomadic herders in a tent

    ‘I pray to you not to shoot us’: Mali’s Fulani herders languish in camps after violence – in pictures

    After old rivalries between Dogon farmers and Fulani herders erupted into violence, exacerbated by Islamist rebels, thousands of the semi-nomadic pastoralists have fled to camps in towns, leaving their cherished animals and way of life. Many must beg to survive at sites lacking food and clean water, with no end in sight to the conflict
  • Building surrounded by flood water

    The flooded buildings of Porto Alegre, Brazil – in pictures

  • A 50-year-old Auckland man has been fined $600 after he was filmed&nbsp;in what appeared to be an attempt&nbsp;to body slam an orca, which is a protected species in New Zealand

    0:48

    ’Shocking' and 'stupid': New Zealand man fined after attempting to 'body slam' an orca – video

  • Green frog with inflated vocal sacs mate in a pond in Rosny Sous Bois near Paris, France.

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: amorous frogs, battling stallions and an overaffectionate jaguar

  • Cars block roads in Alberta as a wildfire spreads towards Fort McMurray

    0:50

    Canada wildfires: huge queues on highway as thousands evacuate oil town – video

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