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Climate crisis

  • An Afghan girl walking towards a flooded village in the mountains of Afghanistan

    Afghanistan
    At least 50 dead after flash flooding in northern Afghanistan

  • Aerial view of a football stadium where the pitch and all but the highest rows of seats are covered with muddy flood water. The water is also flooding the area outside the stadium,

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, floods in Kenya and Brazil, the Olympic flame in Marseille and the Met Gala in New York: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • A woman in a Just Stop Oil T-shirt stands alongside another woman holding a sign reading 'The government is breaking the law'

    Just Stop Oil
    Two Just Stop Oil protesters attack Magna Carta’s glass case

    Group says two women in their 80s took hammer and chisel to protective glass at British Library

  • Climate crisis
    ‘No alternative’: EU climate chief urges MEPs not to use crisis as political tool

  • Butterflies
    Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

  • Nuclear power
    Fixation on UK nuclear power may not help to solve climate crisis

  • Climate crisis
    ‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families

  • Farming
    UK farmers consider quitting after extreme wet weather and low profits

  • Greenhouse gas emissions
    Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere

  • Climate crisis
    ‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

Opinion

  • 240409 CC stay positive thumbnail

    It’s not all doom and gloom when it comes to the climate

  • Bill McGuire

    The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think

    Bill McGuire
    • Christiana Figueres

      I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

      Christiana Figueres
    • Reef scientist Prof Terry Hughes dives over bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island.

      I weep for the corals, but what I saw on the Great Barrier Reef gives me hope

      Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
    • FILE - Streets are flooded after heavy rain in Sao Sebastiao do Cai, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

      The Guardian view on the climate emergency: we cannot afford to despair

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Features

  • DIY Climate Heroes Editors Notes 2

    The DIY Climate Changers
    Why we’re publishing a series on DIY climate solutions

  • Aerial view of the Mathias Velho neighbourhood in Canoas, a suburb of Porto Alegre, showing extensive flooding.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Brazil is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold?

    • Andreas breaking ice following a freedive in Trollfjorden

      Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Ice dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters: the man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at risk

    • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet

      Climate crisis
      ‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

    • Two large vessels sit at an angle with their hulls out of the water behind a group of small wooden fishing boats

      Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: can Jamaica adapt to the Caribbean’s increasingly unpredictable weather?

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