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Caribbean islands hope UN court will end ‘debt cycle’ caused by climate crisis

The outcome of an international court case on climate change obligations could strengthen the legal position of Caribbean islands claiming damages from developed countries afte

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Bacteria helping to extract rare metals from old batteries in boost for green tech

Workers sorting electronic waste at a factory in India. Photograph: Elke Scholiers/Getty Images

Climate

Resorts on Spain’s Costa Brava struggle with invasion of jellyfish as seas warm

Mauve stinger jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) off the Catalan coast. Tarragona beaches were closed in July after highly venomous Portuguese man o’ war were seen. Photograph: Seaphotoart/Alamy

Environment

It’s August 2024 – and our world is at a turning point. Here’s what we should do now

‘We are moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world, one of multiple, competing centres of power.’ A Cop29 sign in Azerbaijan. Photograph: Aziz Karimov/Getty Images

Pacific nations aren’t asking for favours. They just want Australia to meet the moment on climate justice

In the Marshall Islands, rising sea levels threaten to engulf entire communities, writes Tim Flannery. Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

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The Guardian view on meat: we need to eat less of it

‘Ever since red and processed meat was linked to an increased risk of cancer a decade ago, people have been advised to limit their daily consumption of these to a maximum of 70g.’ Photograph: Alamy

Massive Attack castigate music industry over climate inaction: ‘We don’t need to talk. We need to act’

As pop stars fly on private jets and haul stage sets around the world, with their fans collectively generating significant emissions via their own travel to gigs, Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja has said “it’s time to act” and address the environmental damage wreaked by live music.

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Environmental activists urge Kamala Harris to go big on climate: ‘She’s got to seize the moment’

Kamala Harris during a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. Photograph: Kyle Mazza/Rex/Shutterstock

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Prozac in waterways is changing how fish behave, research finds

Research into guppies has found that pharmaceuticals like Prozac in waterways are affecting fish bodies and behaviour. Photograph: Alice Chaos

Environment

Hot and alone: how US cities work to protect isolated people in heatwaves

An elderly woman protects herself from the sun in Toulon, France, on 27 July 2024. Photograph: Magali Cohen/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images

Climate

‘This is the future’: why turbines that float could be the new wave in British wind power

Fixed and floating: a swimmer relaxes within sight of a conventional offshore wind installation off Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Energy

We must restore nature to avoid global catastrophe, warns biodiversity summit president

Susana Muhamad is Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the biodiversity Cop16 conference in Cali. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images

Environment

Humans to push further into wildlife habitats across more than 50% of land by 2070 – study

A giraffe in Nairobi national park, where Kenya’s expanding capital is fragmenting and degrading wildlife habitats. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

Environment

Swedish hunters kill more than 150 brown bears in first days of annual cull

A male bear shot in Ljusdal, 200 miles north of Stockholm. Licences to kill 486 of Sweden’s 2,400 or so brown bears were issued this year. Photograph: Adam Ihse/TT News Agency/Alamy

Environment

Minister seeks legal settlement in case of South Africa’s imperilled penguins

African penguins, seen here on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa, could be extinct by 2035. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Environment

Why the oceans are on the frontline of the climate crisis

Jervis Bay in Australia. Photograph: Cavan Images/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Climate

Can climate stripes change the way we think about air pollution?

The climate stripes reveal the change in air quality when governments are forced to act. Photograph: Beijing Youth Daily/VCG/Getty Images

Climate

Great Britain on track to generate record levels of summer solar power

Shotwick solar farm in Deeside, Wales. The government plans to triple the UK’s solar energy capacity by the end of the decade. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Energy

Australia could save thousands of bats a year with simple tweak to wind turbines, study says

Experts say increasing the wind speed at which turbines begin to spin could help reduce bat deaths. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian

Energy

The Coalition has turned its renewable energy denial into a nuclear roadmap to nowhere. It’s exhausting

Opposition leader Peter Dutton speaks to shadow climate change and energy spokesman Ted O’Brien in June, when the pair announced seven sites where they say the Coalition would build nuclear generators if it regained power. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

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