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Climate crisis

  • Houses are engulfed and some swept away after flash floods in Dharali, a Himalayan mountain village in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, 5 August, 2025.

    India
    About 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern India

    Large-scale search and rescue operation under way after at least four people killed in Himalayan region
  • emissions rise from a smokestack

    US news
    First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program

  • a helicopter flies by a giant plume of smoke

    Canada wildfires
    Canada wildfires prompt severe air quality alerts across country and US

  • Train travelling next to a sea wall

    Rail transport
    Rail services in parts of England are cut as tracks disturbed by lack of moisture

  • A waddle of king penguins standing on the shores of Corinthian Bay on Heard Island

    Antarctica
    ‘A bellwether of change’: speed of glacier shrinking on remote Heard Island sounds alarm

Opinion

  • A wind farm off the coast of Isle Of Man.

    The Guardian view on the green transition: renewables are the future – but countries’ actions must catch up with their promises

  • Rebecca Solnit

    The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology

    Rebecca Solnit
  • A illustration of scenes of science, nature, and technology. At the center, a silhouette of a human head contains a DNA helix, surrounded by a robot reaching toward a butterfly, a rocket launch, an astronaut floating in space, a scientist looking into a microscope, and hands conducting experiments with plants and pills. Smaller vignettes depict trees, molecules, and scientific tools.

    We face daunting global challenges. Here are eight reasons to be hopeful

    John D Boswell
  • Zoe Daniel

    The attack on Australia’s net zero target is reckless and gutless. Voters expect more than ‘intergenerational bastardry’

    Zoe Daniel

Features

  • The aftermath of a landslide in Switzerland’s Maggia valley in June 2024.

    Extreme weather
    ‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain

  • Two tourists walk past a homeless man lying on the ground, with temples in background

    Environment
    ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

  • Donald Trump golfs at Turnberry.

    Down to Earth newsletter
    The week the US president’s vendetta against renewables went global

    Newsletter
  • a red admiral butterfly on a buddleia

    Butterflywatch
    Butterflywatch: A very good summer for butterflies or a return to average?

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