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Climate crisis

  • A Victoria police officer uses capsicum spray against protesters in Melbourne

    Victoria
    Concerns new police powers in Victoria could be used to target climate movement

  • A car drives through a flooded street at dusk

    Flooding
    More than 6m homes at risk of flooding in England, says Environment Agency

    Report says rivers, the sea and surface water endangering properties and that number could hit 8m by 2050
  • Destroyed homes in Mayotte.

    Mayotte
    Mayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach survivors

    Medical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead

  • Africa
    Mayotte: drone footage shows cyclone damage as French official tells rescuers not to panic – video

  • Birds
    ‘Increasingly worried’: more than a quarter of a million waterbirds disappear from eastern Australia

  • Nuclear power
    Coalition’s nuclear plan will hit Earth with 1.7bn extra tonnes of CO2 before 2050, experts warn

  • Washington DC
    Anxious scientists brace for Trump’s climate denialism: ‘We have a target on our backs’

  • Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Australia news
    Senate committee recommends national hate crimes database and tougher laws – as it happened

  • International court of justice
    ‘A human face on an abstract problem’: ICJ forced to listen to climate victims

Opinion

  • Gabrielle Chan

    Farming has always been gambling with dirt – but the odds are getting longer

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Engineering teams use the world's largest crane - Big Carl - to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C's first reactor building, at the nuclear power station construction site in Bridgwater, Somerset

    The Coalition’s nuclear costings and their rubbery assumptions take us back to being a climate pariah

    Nicki Hutley
    • Eamon Ryan

      I regret none of the climate policies we pushed in Ireland. But we underestimated the backlash

      Eamon Ryan
    • Gaby Hinsliff

      Storm Darragh showed me how unprepared my family – and Britain – are for disaster

      Gaby Hinsliff
    • An artist's impression of the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Stadium, which Saudi Arabia plans to build on a cliff near Qiddiya for the 2034 World Cup and Gianni Infantino.

      Female footballers have shown us how – let’s build a sport free of fossil fuel deals

      David Wheeler
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Features

  • A group of volunteers shovel show into drifts on the shore of a frozen lake

    The age of extinction
    ‘Like a giant bird box’: the volunteers building huge snowdrifts for Finland’s pregnant seals

  • a women speaking to people

    Los Angeles
    LA tree enthusiast shares her love for the city’s canopy: ‘Something we took for granted’

    • Film director Asif Kapadia photographed in London for the Observer New Review by Phil Fisk, November 2024.

      Asif Kapadia
      ‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

    • View of the drained Ancipa Lake

      Italy
      ‘The water war’: how drought threatens survival of Sicily’s towns

    • an industrial facility with trees and a body of water in the foreground

      Pennsylvania
      ‘I have to live in a cocoon’: locals in Pennsylvania feel ‘sacrificed’ for Shell plastics plant

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