Holding politicians accountable is a necessity as essential as clean running water to a functioning democracy

Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers The UK has warned countries around the world that the climate and nature crises and the coming El Niño threaten their national security and defence, presenting foreign ministries with the findings of an explosive report suppressed under Keir Starmer. Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, made a presentation to the foreign ministers of the EU as well as Kenya and other countries on Wednesday night at a private meeting during the UN general assembly in New York, based on the report by the UK’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of natural systems around the world would lead to conflict, migration and food shortages. Continue reading...

‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world

North Carolina Justice Anita Earls, a former voting rights lawyer, and Sarah Stevens, a longtime legislator, have been on opposite sides of election issues for over a decade.

Beavers have been successfully reintroduced across the Midlands and are benefiting the wider environment

Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?

Scam emails are increasingly using psychological tricks, such as using near-identical URLs such as miсrosoft.com

Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals

The Trump administration has been leading an unprecedented campaign to undermine Americans’ right to vote. Luckily, his legislative attempts and executive or...

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Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Christopher Harborne reportedly matches Ben Delo’s £36 million Reform UK gift, bringing the two donors’ payments to £72 million in 48 hours.

Many members of the Israeli establishment vehemently oppose what is happening in the West Bank. You wouldn’t know it from the criticism aimed at Ed Miliband

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot

‘We just don’t have British-resident donors,’ a top Nigel Farage ally told an undercover US reporter on camera. Isn’t now a good time to get big money out of UK politics?

With location regulations no longer in force, fishing boats are harvesting thousands of tons of krill from very few areas, increasing competition with penguins, seals, whales and other marine life.

Investors in Emblehope Moor will get their financial returns – and then it will be given to community or charity owners