Ukraine, Iran, Palestine and Sudan: it has so many problems to confront and fails to do so. Seen up close, it is a study in stasis and decline, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

In Indonesia’s Kalimantan, fires have ravaged tens of thousands of acres, with suffocating smoke reaching Malaysia and putting Singapore on alert

Move comes as fourth heatwave of summer intensifies, edging temperatures in some areas close to 40C

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

Oxford researchers develop the jab in record time

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

The  Global Health Security Conference 2026 took place in Kuala Lumpur from June 9-12th. The timely event,  especially in the wake of recent Ebola and Hantavirus outbreaks , brought together a large n...

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts

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

“No Safe Path Home: Victim-activated explosive devices in West Papua in light of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention”

De film gaat over de kap van oerbos op Papoea. Het leger, zakenlui en politici zouden daar veel aan verdienen. Veel voorstellingen gaan in het geheim door.

A passenger from Congo should not have been aboard, authorities said. Under new DHS rules, people who recently visited any of three African countries must enter the U.S. via Dulles.

Experts say the unseasonably hot weather across south Asia shows the impact of the climate crisis

The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) announced a "strategic partnership" with Nestlé to establish the World

The world’s economy is completely dependent on petrochemicals. Is there any way to avoid them?

Ministers and officials are gathered in Colombia for a high-level conference aimed at accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels, with financing emerging as a key challenge.

Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Those facing the earliest and harshest consequences are, overwhelmingly, those who did the least to create them

Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

Tiny plastic particles may be quietly threatening brain health. New research suggests microplastics—now widely found in food, water, and even household dust—could trigger inflammation and damage in th...

Researchers project that reduced activity could contribute to half a million additional premature deaths annually by 2050

The war is deeply unpopular, and the spike in oil prices will mean long-term high prices across the board for Americans

Greater Global South solidarity is the only viable solution in the face of the seismic political shifts in the West.

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times Confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects. UK Biobank, which holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, is one of the world’s most comprehensive stores of health information and is credited with driving breakthroughs in cancer, dementia and diabetes research. But scientists approved to access Biobank’s sensitive data appear to have sometimes been cavalier about its security. Continue reading...

Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.

De retoriek rond de geopolitieke spanningen heeft een opvallend religieuze component gekregen.

Mood among some in Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and lives

Three-day workshop in Timor-Leste strengthened collaboration between climate and health sectors to improve early warning systems and climate services.

In war, a weaker opponent will often resort to asymmetric warfare, a tactic Iran is likely to exploit against the US.

Iran’s new supreme leader has been selected not to break with the regime but to preserve it.

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The government has signaled that it will refrain for now from any decisive follow-up to its new bilateral trade deal with the United States after a US Supreme Court ruling raised questions over the le...

Opinion: A systematic analysis of the U.K.'s decision to slash its aid budget one year on shows that none of the original justifications for the cuts stand up to scrutiny.

The issue of police brutality has returned to the harsh spotlight following the death of a 14-year-old student in Tual, Maluku, as National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo pledged a transparent...