Volunteers call for Prime Minister Andy Burnham to intervene and declare it a "national disaster".

This is the one-hundredth essay at Meditations in an Emergency. Thank you everyone who has joined me here. A while back I bought a first edition of a Willa Cather novel for nothing much at a library ...

Claims that our prosperity depends on oil and gas are bunkum – unless you’re a Reform backer with fossil fuel interests, of course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Ministerial hopeful backs calls to stop billionaire donors from buying our politics, putting him at odds with Keir Starmer's Government

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De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump wil landen 1 miljard dollar (zo’n 860 miljoen euro) laten betalen voor een „permanent lidmaatschap” van de door hem in het leven geroepen Vredesraad. Dat melden n...

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Immerse yourself in light, the most essential element of the seasons, with this interactive film featuring five experiential studies on light’s physical properties, created by Studio Airport and Dutch...

Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

Explore the puzzling reasons why the 1918 flu disproportionately affected healthy young adults, delving into both biological and circumstantial factors.

Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

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First they rewrite the past. Then they sell off the future. The NHS is next

We have distant enemies, the enemies of truth, justice, human rights, and environmental protection, and they are easy to recognize and oppose. We also have near enemies, the cynics and defeatists amon...

“Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in…

Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair

Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Conservationists urge action to reverse a

You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibi...

The glamour, bullying and violence of the libertarian alt-Right has a direct political ancestor, and it’s not Nazi Germany