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Climate crisis

  • BP’s chair, Helge Lund, speaks during an interview in London, wearing a dark navy blue suit and matching tie

    BP braces for investor rebellion at first AGM since climate strategy U-turn

  • The leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton insists he ‘believes in climate change’ after refusing to say if impacts of global heating worsening

  • A team of firefighters face a wall of flames in grasslands

    Whole ecosystems ‘decimated’ by huge rise in UK wildfires

    Blazes in some parts of the country are up by 1,200% since last year, as charities warn about effects on wildlife
  • A worker inspects an air conditioning unit outside a building

    Number of UK homes overheating soars to 80% in a decade, study finds

    Researchers say urgent action needed to inform people about risks of heatwave temperatures and adapt homes
    • The great Mississippi tops list of most endangered rivers amid fears over Trump rollbacks

    • ‘Let Rome burn’: Coalition MP says allowing blackouts the only way to turn voters off renewable energy

    • China to snub UK energy summit amid row over infrastructure projects

  • Katy Perry after the Blue Origin mission  on 14 April 2025

    Brief letters
    Katy Perry’s blast-off was a waste of space

  • A man in overalls turns a red valve wheel

    Trump tariffs will mean world uses less oil this year, IEA says

  • Breakout Creek at the western end of Adelaide’s River Torrens in March 2025

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Parched waterways, dead fish and trees ready to give up: historic big dry grips South Australia

  • people hold a sign that reads 'a healthy home world is job #1 nothing works without it there is no planet b'

    Democracy and justice
    Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals

  • Our unequal earth
    ‘Shock to the system’: farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs and cuts say they need another bailout

  • RFK Jr urged to release nearly $400m allocated to help families combat heat

  • Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures

  • Science Weekly
    What 40 years as Observer science editor has taught Robin McKie – podcast

  • Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024

  • Bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef

    Climate crisis has tripled length of deadly ocean heatwaves, study finds

    Hotter seas supercharge storms and destroy critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs
  • A businessman's fist striking the Earth like a meteor, scattering debris.

    The featured essay
    The rise of end times fascism

  • Man in a spacesuit-like jumpsuit stands, hands on hips, in from of hexagonal shapes in a metal tunnel that form part of the James Webb space telescope

    What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor

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    Last chance
    I’ve seen Australia’s beloved gumtrees dying and it makes me wonder: if they can’t survive, how can we?

    Jess Harwood
    Even the hardy eucalypts are finding their limits as we experience more frequent bushfires, heatwaves and droughts
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