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  • Emissions from an oil refinery

    Fossil fuels
    Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals

  • The French president, Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the Brazil-France economic forum in São Paulo on Wednesday

    Emmanuel Macron
    Macron calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’ lacking strong climate commitments

    French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be ‘much stronger’ on biodiversity and climate
  • A mosquito in close-up and backlit by a LED lamp

    The rural network
    Ross River virus: more than 1,500 cases recorded in Queensland as mosquito numbers spike

    Easter long weekend campers warned to cover up to avoid bites, with cases also recorded in NSW and Victoria
  • Food waste
    Millions go hungry as a billion meals binned every day, says UN report

  • Extreme heat
    Extreme heat summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures

  • Retail industry
    Secondhand clothing on track to take 10% of global fashion sales

  • Tuvalu
    Tuvalu accepts security and climate pact, says Australia’s Pacific minister

  • Fossil fuels
    ‘Tone-deaf’ fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists

  • Climate crisis
    Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds

  • Western Australia
    Kim Beazley urges Tanya Plibersek to reject Woodside LNG plant extension

  • Simon Jenkins

    Does China spy on Britain? Of course. But we have more important things to discuss with them

    Simon Jenkins
  • Greg Jericho

    Blaming John Howard is easy, but his government helped shape the world we live in – now and for future generations

    Greg Jericho
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Features

  • Bushes and trees burn with a church and telephone poles in the background

    Weatherwatch
    Copernicus online portal offers terrifying view of climate emergency

  • Villagers line up at the top of the mud wall they built.

    Global development
    It takes a village: the Indian farmers who built a wall against drought

    • Person holds bag of vegetables and fruit and picks up a vegetable from a crate

      Our unequal earth
      Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?

    • A meat stand.

      The alternatives
      ‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health diet

    • People in Central Park, New York

      Sea level
      Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levels

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