Environment
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Prevalence of plastic grass and rising levels of nitrates blamed for absence of many species in urban gardens -
Demonstrations from Falmouth to Whitstable to demand water firms do more to reduce pollution
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After childhood dreams of working outdoors, many farmers struggle with the reality of today’s indoor intensive farms. Could murals and diversification help?
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‘Sustainability incentive’ aims to cut emissions on farms of its 8,900 European members. including in UK -
A heatwave that began in March led to the country receiving almost triple its average rainfall from June to August
CO2 tracker
Spotlight
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There are strong synergies between the solutions needed to the climate crisis and the cost of living crisis, but are the campaigns talking to each other? We spent time with people most affected by austerity, strikers on the picket lines and disruptive climate campaigners to find out if their messages are aligning or if there is still work to do
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From solar farms to floating arrays, from Australia to Bedfordshire, Lightsource BP is ramping up its renewable energy push -
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Ministers rebuke ‘shameful’ failure to meet promises of funding to help poorer countries cope with climate crisis ahead of UN Cop27 summit -
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate speaks about climate injustice – and what must be done
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Young campaigners from the continent most affected by the climate crisis face financial and accreditation difficulties for Cop27 -
Coal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels and investors must stop funding it, say campaigners
Opinion
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He’s spent his life sniping from the sidelines. Now he has the power to make radical environmental reforms, says former Guardian environment editor John Vidal -
Environmental issues in low-income areas have long been ignored by activists, says Julian Agyeman, a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning
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The Australian conference supposedly devoted to ‘bold action’ from the right spent much of its time pouring scorn on any form of climate action
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Ahead of the UN biodiversity conference, our reporter reflects on lessons of hope and change in three years reporting with the Guardian’s age of extinction team
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African Parks, of which the royal is president, is one of three parties accused of rushing a mass translocation of the mammals -
Figures likely to be an underestimate, says Global Witness, as land defenders are killed by hitmen, crime groups and governments
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Campaigners say marine protected area set up to save UK’s only fan mussels exists merely as a ‘paper park’ -
Competition illuminates beauty of ocean and threats it faces. Ben Thouard’s winning image of surfer chosen unanimously by the six judges -
Multimedia
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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a swimming sea cucumber, flying flamingoes and magpies hitching a ride -
A large, dark fish with distinct dorsal fins was filmed thrashing around an inundated Fort Myers back yard during Hurricane Ian’s assault on south-west Florida
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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including an injured pangolin, a trapped dragonfly and a sneaky pig
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On Mongolia’s coal highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial security for her three children. However, the road from the mines to China is riddled with accidents, toxic pollution, poor hygiene and now, amid the Covid crisis, drivers face days of quarantine on the border. Trapped in a hazardous industry, Maikhuu's journey reflects the human and environmental costs of Mongolia’s mining boom
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Labour leader Keir Starmer promises to set up a publicly owned company, Great British Energy, in the first year under a Labour government
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Super Typhoon Noru tore its way out of the northern Philippines on Monday, leaving casualties, floods and power outages. Government work and classes at schools have been suspended in the capital and beyond
Energy crisis? It isn’t that we have too little oil and gas. It’s that we have too much