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Climate crisis

  • An offshore oil rig in the Caspian Sea near Baku, Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan
    Cop29 host Azerbaijan seeks $1bn from fossil fuel producers for climate fund

  • Former president Donald Trump is rushed off stage by secret service personnel after being shot at during a campaign at the Butler Farm Show.

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

    The Pennsylvania rally shooting at Donald Trump, the global IT outage, Rwanda’s general election and England’s Harry Kane at Euro 2024: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, Cressida Gethin, Louise Lancaster and Daniel Shaw and Roger Hallam

    Just Stop Oil
    ‘Not acceptable in a democracy’: UN expert condemns lengthy Just Stop Oil sentences

    Michel Forst, UN special rapporteur, joins growing chorus of voices criticising jail terms handed to five defendants

  • America's dirty divide
    Car camping and fighting wildfires: what are the new US climate jobs?

  • Joe Biden
    Some climate groups urge Biden to stand down, fearing a Trump win

  • Bird flu
    Extreme heat may be crucial factor in human spread of bird flu

  • Extreme heat
    Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns

  • Big oil uncovered
    US oil company ran 1977 article predicting climate crisis could cause starvation

  • New Zealand
    New Zealand will fail to meet 2050 net zero targets, data shows, after climate policies scrapped

  • Extreme heat
    US government urged to declare wildfire smoke and extreme heat major disasters

Opinion

  • A group of six people standing in front of Southwark crown court. A few protesters sit in the background, holding signs such as 'Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth'.

    You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison

    Chris Packham and Dale Vince
  • Are things getting better or worse, quiz 2024 pixie

    Do you think things are generally getting better or worse? Are you a Pollyanna or a Misery Kevin?

    • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

      A few days of sunshine won’t fool me – we’re in the UK’s worst summer ever

      Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    • Richard Wilson

      Citizens’ assemblies could work wonders for Labour and Britain – but only if they’re more than a talking shop

      Richard Wilson
    • Girls carrying water buckets in Malawi.

      David Lammy must lead the way on access to clean water

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Features

  • A large grassy field with three robotic weedkillers moving through openings

    Our unequal earth
    Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?

  • A movie still of three young, good-looking people - one woman and two men, one Latino and two white - looking in concern out a door.

    Film
    ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

    • Scientist examining hamburger with lab-grown meat sitting at his workplace in lab.

      Food & drink industry
      Cultivated food: from lab grown burgers to medicinal berries

    • Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, marshals a plane during a visit to Stansted airport in May.

      Green politics
      Buses, trains and bicycle paths: Labour’s mission to decarbonise UK transport

    • US-WEATHER-HEATWAVE<br>A dog lies on the sidewalk by a shop on Madison Avenue on July 19, 2013 in New York as a heatwave continues in the northeast. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo by STAN HONDA / AFP) (Photo by STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)

      Dogs
      ‘I couldn’t get him to move’: dog owners struggle through US heatwave

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