Can renewables ease Africa’s energy access crisis?

Three journalists take a look at the obstacles – and benefits – to attaining universal energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa

Doctors condemn suspension of retired GP over UK climate protests

Doctors groups are calling for urgent consideration of the rules for medical professionals who take peaceful direct action on the climate crisis, which they say is the “greatest threat to global health”, after a GP was suspended from the register for non-violent protest.

Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops

An ancient tree killed by Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia.Photograph: Agostino Petroni/The Guardian

Birdsong once signalled the onset of spring on my street – but not this year

‘What might be done?’ Extinction Rebellion climate activists wear aprons bearing facts about bird decline during a protest on the sidelines of the Cop26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, November 2021. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Im

Estuaries, the ‘nurseries of the sea’, are disappearing fast

Estuaries – the place where a river meets the ocean – are often call

Repeated periods of heat and drought causing some trees to die – study

Climate change is causing apparently healthy trees to die after peri

How divestment became a ‘clarion call’ in anti-fossil fuel and pro-ceasefire protests

Cameron Jones first learned about fossil fuel divestment as a 15-year-old climate organizer.

Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

There are a lot of humans.

Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires

When the governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund convened for the spring meetings last week, it was all about the really big questions.

The Guardian view on the Sahel and its crises: the west can still make a difference

Two apparently separate developments in the Sahel are linked by more than geography.

New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous

New Zealand’s parliament is considering a law that would allow major development projects to bypass environmental approvals – and that should be a cause for extreme alarm.

Goodbye cod, hello herring: why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet

In the first of a new series, we look at why people reject so much of the bountiful catches from our seas in favour of the same few species, mostly imported – and how to change that

DR Congo demands answers from Apple over ‘blood mineral’ supply chain concerns

Nestlé adds more sugar to baby food in poorer countries, report finds

Nestlé adds more sugar to baby food sold in lower- and middle-income countries,

Kenyan government rejects calls to ban TikTok, recommends tighter control over

Kenya has joined a growing list of nations seeking to regulate TikTok in a bid to combat false information, fraud, and the distribution of sexual content.

Athens sky turns orange with dust clouds from Africa

G7 Countries Task IRENA to Monitor Group’s Renewable Energy Progress

The worrying drop in global investment in off-grid solar energy

While off-grid solar power is seen as the ultimate solution for accelerating rural electrification in Africa, analysis of data from the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) reveals that investment in these sectors slowed sharply in 2023 worldwi

KENYA: organic waste will soon be collected using biodegradable bags

From 8 July 2024, organic waste, including food scraps, will have to be collected using 100% biodegradable bin bags in Kenya, rather than plastic bags.

GLOBAL: World’s largest economies agree to phase out coal power before 2035, but miss the opportunity to reject fossil fuels at the scale and speed necessary to meet climate targets

The G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministerial held in Turin, Italy released its final text on Tuesday with all seven member states committing to phase out domestic coal power gener