The Guardian’s environment correspondent at a time when international concern over the climate began to take hold

Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes

Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds

From Europe’s deadly heat to floods in Asia, it’s been a terrifying summer. Environment writers Jonathan Watts and Ajit Niranjan answered Reddit users’ questions about their work – and their sources o...

“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...

Despite desperate efforts by the oil industry and its captive U.S. government, the epoch of oil is collapsing.

Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon

Greenpeace petitions Dutch courts to order JBS to disclose how its aims are compatible with responsibilities to climate and human rights

With some still unable to accept humanity’s role in climate chaos, we tackle common misconceptions and deceptions

The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing results, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

Ted Lasso will deliver a message of hope before the USA’s first game, in an America that is not a fit or desirable host right now

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

US military officials briefed on investigation make disclosure, while Pentagon has confirmed only that inquiry is under way

Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say

People in Niscemi struggle to comprehend loss of homes and businesses and feel disaster could have been avoided

This episode of Panda and Hotpot takes listeners on a comprehensive journey through the critical issues of climate change, featuring insights from Adriana Gonzalez of EcoCitizen Luxembourg and Jonatha...

Spain will ban access to social media for minors under 16 and platforms will be required to implement age verification systems, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

Outcome of aggression will determine whether rare earths and other resources drive energy transition – or strengthen US military power and oil interests

Venezuela's president claims the Obama administration is fomenting unrest with the aim of provoking a Ukraine-style 'slow-motion' coup

Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies

Today, President Lula issued a directive for the government to develop, within 60 days, a proposal outlining guidelines for a national roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just and or...

Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place in

Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now

Jonathan Watts sets off on a three-day boat trip down the Amazon – with indigenous leaders, scientists, artists and more – to report on Cop30, the climate summit taking place this year in Brazil

UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’

Scheme aims to disrupt deforestation by raising $125bn, investing it in bonds, with returns used to reward tropical forest nations for good behaviour

Residents of Vila Cruzeiro gather bodies after more than 130 were killed in pre-dawn assault

Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence and an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

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Beijing has realised that reckless America First policies are alienating old and new friends alike, creating a vacuum it can fill, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide

Critics say referendum on rewriting country’s eco-friendly constitution is president’s latest pro-extractivist move