It doesn’t make sense: why US tariffs on Chinese cleantech risk the green transition

With historic heatwaves sweeping across the US and other parts of the northern hemisphere, June is expected to be the 13th consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures.

The nature march had a huge turnout – so why didn’t it make bigger news?

When Just Stop Oil covered Stonehenge with orange cornflour last week, Keir Starmer was called upon to decry the act, which he dutiful

The Coalition says the rest of the G20 is powering ahead with nuclear – it’s just not true

So much has been said by the Coalition about what nuclear energy could do for Australia, with so little evidence to back it up, that it can be hard to keep up

Happy 200th anniversary climate change – thank goodness for Peter Dutton First Dog on the Moon

Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study

Protecting just 1.2% of the Earth’s surface for nature would be enough to prevent the extinction of the world’s most threatened species, according to a new study.

Millions of mosquitoes released in Hawaii to save rare birds from extinction

Millions of mosquitoes are being released from helicopters in Hawaii in a last-ditch attempt to save rare birds slipping into extinction.

Lawyers could charge big oil with homicide after 2023 Arizona heatwave

Prosecutors in Arizona could reasonably press homicide charges against big oil for deaths caused by a July 2023 heatwave, lawyers wrote in a new prosecution memorandum.

Belching livestock to incur green levy in Denmark from 2030

Farmers in Denmark will have to pay for planet-heating pollutants that their cattle expel as gas, after the government agreed to set the world’s first emissions tax on agricultur

‘Reform or go out of business,’ carbon offsetting industry told

The carbon-credit market must reform or “go out of business”, leading scientists have concluded in an international review of the offsetting industry.

‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

At least 97% of corals on a reef in the Great Barrier Reef’s north died during one of the worst coral bleaching events the world’s biggest reef system has ever seen, according to new analysis.

US pledges to be a climate finance leader but defends gas expansion

The US will “continue to be a leader” in climate finance, the White House’s top climate official has promised, though without specifying how much it would provide to poor countries.

Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise

A newly identified tipping point for the loss of ice sheets in Antarctica and elsewhere could mean future sea leve

Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds

EU-regulated ‘sustainable’ funds invest £14bn in biggest polluters

Fast fashion labels, fossil fuel companies and SUV-makers are present in EU-regulated “sustainable” funds that tout their ethical credentials in their names, the Guardian and media partners can reveal, with $18bn (£14bn) of their investments going to the 200 biggest polluters.

‘Time is life’: the Delhi clinic treating the city’s heat stroke victims

As Dr Amlendu Yadav flicks the switch, the large pipe starts gushing water while he shovels ice into the tub. In two minutes, it is full, ready for the next patient in his newly created emergency heatstroke unit at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in the Indian capital.

Kenya’s parliament compound stormed, building set ablaze: Witness

Kenyan police fire rubber bullets, tear gas at protesters after Ruto urges talks

Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters Thursday in Nairobi where groups of demonstrators rallied despite President William Ruto's decision on Wednesday to withdraw a controversial finance bill.

UK ‘tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE role in arming Sudan’s RSF militia

UK government officials attempted to suppress criticism of the United Arab Emirates and its alleged role in supplying arms to a notorious militia waging a campaign o

Dangote accuses IOCs of crude oil price manipulation, claims firms sabotaging refinery

Devakumar Edwin, the Vice President of Oil and Gas at Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), has accused International Oil Companies (IOCs) in Nigeria of actively trying to undermine the Dangote Oil Refinery and Petrochemicals.

Obama's sister teargassed as she shows solidarity with Kenyan youths

Auma Obama, sister to former US president Barack Obama teargassed during Kenyan protest Kenyan youths protesting against new tax proposal, sparking widespread resentment Government set to discuss and vote on modifications to the draft bill imposed on basic