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

  • The leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton

    Australian election 2025
    Peter Dutton insists he ‘believes in climate change’ after refusing to say if impacts of global heating worsening

    Climate scientists, environmentalists, Labor and Greens condemn opposition leader for comments at Wednesday election debate
  • A team of firefighters face a wall of flames in grasslands

    UK news
    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

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

  • Trump administration
    The great Mississippi tops list of most endangered rivers amid fears over Trump rollbacks

  • Australian election 2025
    ‘Let Rome burn’: Coalition MP says allowing blackouts the only way to turn voters off renewable energy

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

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

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

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

Opinion

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

    Jess Harwood
  • The shadow minister for climate change, Ted O'Brien (R), debating Chris Bowen (l) yesterday.

    Australian voters are left in the dark on climate targets as they head to the ballot box

    Tony Wood for the Conversation
    • An African worker walks by pipes and chimneys that have steam bellowing out of them

      Africa is proof that investing in climate resilience works – and that it makes good business sense

      William Ruto and Patrick Verkooijen
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      Young people! What are they doing? It’s none of your business. (But they’re not doing great)

    • Tall trees in a NSW state forest

      When sadness strikes I remember I’m not alone in loving the wild boundless beauty of the living world

      Georgina Woods
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Features

  • 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

  • silhouette of person walking outside

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

    • 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

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

    • A woman blows her nose next to branch of a tree laden with pollen

      The age of extinction
      How heat, thunder, smog and new species are making hay fever worse

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