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27 06 2024 | 11:21

The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered

Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-…

27 06 2024 | 11:21

EU-regulated ‘sustainable’ funds invest £14bn in biggest polluters

Fast fashion labels, fossil fuel companies and SUV-makers are present in EU-regulated “sustainable” funds that tout their ethical credentials in their names, the Guardian and media partners can…

27 06 2024 | 11:18

Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds

Sea level rise driven by global heating will disrupt the daily life of millions of Americans,

27 06 2024 | 11:14

Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise

A newly identified tipping point for the loss of ice sheets in Antarctica and elsewhere could mean future sea level rise is significantly higher than current projections.

27 06 2024 | 11:09

US pledges to be a climate finance leader but defends gas expansion

The US will “continue to be a leader” in climate finance, the White House’s top climate official has promised, though without specifying how much it would provide to poor countries. John Podesta,…

27 06 2024 | 11:00

‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

At least 97% of corals on a reef in the Great Barrier Reef’s north died during one of the worst coral bleaching events the world’s biggest reef system has ever seen, according to new analysis.…

27 06 2024 | 10:58

‘Reform or go out of business,’ carbon offsetting industry told

The carbon-credit market must reform or “go out of business”, leading scientists have concluded in an international review of the offsetting industry. The market for carbon offsets shrank…

27 06 2024 | 10:52

Lawyers could charge big oil with homicide after 2023 Arizona heatwave

Prosecutors in Arizona could reasonably press homicide charges against big oil for deaths caused by a July 2023 heatwave, lawyers wrote in a new prosecution memorandum.

27 06 2024 | 10:52

Belching livestock to incur green levy in Denmark from 2030

Farmers in Denmark will have to pay for planet-heating pollutants that their cattle expel as gas, after the government agreed to set the world’s first emissions tax on agriculture.

27 06 2024 | 10:45

Millions of mosquitoes released in Hawaii to save rare birds from extinction

Millions of mosquitoes are being released from helicopters in Hawaii in a last-ditch attempt to save rare birds slipping into extinction. The archipelago’s endemic, brightly coloured honeycreeper…

27 06 2024 | 10:42

Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study

Protecting just 1.2% of the Earth’s surface for nature would be enough to prevent the extinction of the world’s most threatened species, according to a new study. Analysis published in the journal…

27 06 2024 | 10:27

The Coalition says the rest of the G20 is powering ahead with nuclear – it’s just not true

So much has been said by the Coalition about what nuclear energy could do for Australia, with so little evidence to back it up, that it can be hard to keep up with the claims.

27 06 2024 | 10:24

The nature march had a huge turnout – so why didn’t it make bigger news?

When Just Stop Oil covered Stonehenge with orange cornflour last week, Keir Starmer was called upon to decry the act, which he dutifully did, even though anyone with even a very slight knowledge of…

27 06 2024 | 10:20

It doesn’t make sense: why US tariffs on Chinese cleantech risk the green transition

With historic heatwaves sweeping across the US and other parts of the northern hemisphere, June is expected to be the 13th consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures. The primary cause…

27 06 2024 | 09:51

As the Coalition goes nuclear, Labor is free to ensure fossil fuels are burned with abandon and little scrutiny

The sham of Australia’s climate change policy has been made clear in the past two weeks. No, not nuclear power. Last Friday, while everyone was racing down nuclear-powered rabbit holes, the…

27 06 2024 | 09:46

Sarah Finch: climate activism ‘early adopter’ behind supreme court win

Sarah Finch considers herself an early adopter of environmentalism, even if she is not quite sure what the initial spark was. “I was only ever interested in the environment,” she says. “That’s all I…

27 06 2024 | 09:43

Air freight greenhouse gas emissions up 25% since 2019, analysis finds

Air freight operators have increased their greenhouse gas emissions by 25% compared with 2019, analysis has found. In 2023, air freight operators ran about 300,000 more flights than in 2019, an…

27 06 2024 | 09:40

German activists take government to court over climate policy

German climate activists are taking the government to court for “unconstitutional” climate policy, seeking to build on a landmark victory three years ago that they had hoped would force Europe’s…

27 06 2024 | 09:38

Deaths mount as Pakistan swelters in heatwave

As the temperatures rose in southern Pakistan, so did the body count. The Edhi ambulance service says it usually takes around 30 to 40 people to the Karachi city morgue daily. But over the last…