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  • Pedestrians are reflected in a puddle of melting snow

    US weather
    Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows

    Researchers find that across 195 US cities, winters are on average nine days shorter than they were in 1970-1997
  • large amount of smoke rises in air below fire outside

    US Environmental Protection Agency
    Trump officials move to kill system that protects US from chemical disasters

  • A cargo vessel stacked with shipping containers lies docked at Cristobal port on the Panama canal.

    Shipping emissions
    US ‘bullying’ could scupper carbon levy on shipping, warn experts

  • People walk up a steep, narrow, flooded street. Water is flowing down the street

    Extreme weather
    ‘A devastating force’: how recent storms turned to tragedies across the western Mediterranean

  • Closeup of an orchid bee visiting an orchid

    The age of extinction
    Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study

  • Illustration of a black cockatoo against a yellow background

    A scorching summer has left Australian wildlife on the brink, but it doesn’t have to be this way

    Euan Ritchie and Jess Harwood
  • Adam Morton

    Australia’s most costly anti-climate policy hits taxpayers for $30m a day as calls mount to wind back fuel tax credits

    Adam Morton
  • Planet Earth from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASAFY8DTX Planet Earth from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

    Injecting particulates into the atmosphere isn’t a magical fix for the climate crisis

    Mike Hulme
  • Jamil Smith

    Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating

    Jamil Smith

Features

  • Spring rainfall after a dry winter increases the risk of sinkholes in KonyaKONYA, TURKIYE - MAY 15: A view of Yarimoglu sinkhole (obruk), caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer in 2009, in Konya province, Turkiye on May 15, 2025. The gigantic pit formed between the fields where intensive irrigation activities are carried out is expanding and growing every year. (Photo by Abdullah Dogan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Sinkholes
    ‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers

  • Men walk in a line while linking arms

    View from the Amazon
    ‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway

  • The inside of the ice cave, with storage containers

    Antarctica
    Frozen in time: Antarctic ice cave to be used to save melting glacier samples

  • A large three-storey space in a city, below ground level but open to the skies and lit up

    Global development
    Ancient stepwells brought back to life as India begins to run out of water

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