Workers lift a solar panel on to a roof during a residential solar installation in Scripps Ranch, San Diego, California. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed…
‘Ever since red and processed meat was linked to an increased risk of cancer a decade ago, people have been advised to limit their daily consumption of these to a maximum of 70g.’ Photograph: Alamy
Dr Adi Paterson, pictured when chief executive of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, accused Nasa of ‘confusing public understanding by publishing ground surface…
African penguins, seen here on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa, could be extinct by 2035. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
South Africa’s new environment minister has said he wants to stop…
A male bear shot in Ljusdal, 200 miles north of Stockholm. Licences to kill 486 of Sweden’s 2,400 or so brown bears were issued this year. Photograph: Adam Ihse/TT News Agency/Alamy
More than 150…
Less than 10% of the world’s population take a plane in any one year. Photograph: Gary Stedman/Alamy
At this peak holiday season the contrails crisscross the skies, and greenhouse gas emissions…
China added as much new clean energy generation in the first half of this year as the UK produced from all sources in the same period last year, data shows, as wind and solar power generation…
Solly the sheep, who died at a Mallorcan animal sanctuary after contracting a mosquito-borne disease. Photograph: Ana Palacios
Solly the sheep had not had an easy start to life, but his prospects…
A giraffe in Nairobi national park, where Kenya’s expanding capital is fragmenting and degrading wildlife habitats. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
Over the next 50 years, people will push further…
‘We are moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world, one of multiple, competing centres of power.’ A Cop29 sign in Azerbaijan. Photograph: Aziz Karimov/Getty Images
Susana Muhamad is Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the biodiversity Cop16 conference in Cali. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
Humanity risks catastrophic global…
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Mauve stinger jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) off the Catalan coast. Tarragona beaches were closed in July after highly venomous Portuguese man o’ war were seen. Photograph: Seaphotoart/Alamy
Costa…
Workers sorting electronic waste at a factory in India. Photograph: Elke Scholiers/Getty Images
Scientists have formed an unusual new alliance in their fight against climate change. They are using…
An elderly woman protects herself from the sun in Toulon, France, on 27 July 2024. Photograph: Magali Cohen/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images
The dangers of extreme heat can be amplified by social…
Fixed and floating: a swimmer relaxes within sight of a conventional offshore wind installation off Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Head 10 miles out from the coast of…
The outcome of an international court case on climate change obligations could strengthen the legal position of Caribbean islands claiming damages from developed countries after natural disasters,…
Debt for Climate activists block an entrance to the German finance ministry during the 2022 G7 summit in Berlin. Photograph: Christian Mang/Reuters
Reducing the debt payments made by poor countries…
Sea-surface temperatures in the south-west Pacific have risen three times faster than the global average since 1980. Photograph: Christopher Malili/The Guardian
Pacific island nations are in “grave…
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