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The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production
As the world swelters in ever more dangerous heat, why are oil companies being allowed to turn up the gas instead of paying for the consequences of their greed?
That ought to be the question on everyone’s minds amid baking heat domes over much of the northern hemisphere, temperature records being smashed day after day, children dying in locked cars, hospitals filling with heatstroke victims and emergency services tackling wildfires.
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Exclusive: Campaigners argue news channel’s attacks on climate action ‘work in financial interests’ of Sir Paul Marshall
The hedge fund run by the co-owner of GB News almost tripled its investments in fossil fuel companies in the first quarter of 2026 to $2.8bn (£2.1bn), the Guardian can reveal.
Critics have accused Sir Paul Marshall of “cashing in on climate chaos” and have claimed the news channel, which frequently attacks climate science and action, was “working in its owner’s financial interests”.
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Finding that Norfolk butterfly has been distinct subspecies for 200,000 years could transform conservation approach
The endangered swallowtail butterfly Papilio machaon britannicus, which is only regularly found breeding in Britain on the Norfolk Broads, has been a distinct subspecies for at least 200,000 years, according to a study.
Smaller, darker in colour and much rarer than the continental swallowtail, britannicus was previously considered to have developed its distinctive form during its confinement in the wetlands of eastern England over the last 8,000 years, after the flooding of Doggerland.
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Workers proud of their efforts to grow renewable energy say US president pursuing ‘personal vendetta’ at their expense
Donald Trump has blamed everything – from “national security” issues, the deaths of birds and whales, and cancer – in his decades-long campaign against windfarms. But as the Trump administration continues to undermine the industry, what worries workers most are their jobs.
Since taking office for a second term, Trump has issuedan executive order aiming to halt all wind-energy leases and permits, attempted to issue stop-work orders on wind projects under construction, and paid more than $2.6bn in settlements to buy out wind energy leases. And hundreds of workers have been affected.
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Ailsworth, Cambridgeshire: It’s hard enough to find the crested cow-wheat, it would be even harder were it not for one far-sighted warden
Before 7am, the heat is already pressing down. I’ve come out early for my annual pilgrimage to a local colony of crested cow‑wheat, Melampyrum cristatum. On each side of the narrow path, orchids stand among the grasses, overtopped by the pale pink froth of common valerian flowers, whose scent always puts me in mind of sugared almonds. Stock doves call gently from an oak. Around my boots, grasshoppers and crickets fizz and spring aside.
In among it, to my excitement, is a tangled abundance, thousands of plants jostling with mats of wild liquorice. The flowers repay close attention – soft primrose-coloured tubes with plush mouths, stacked one above another, flushing magenta with age, each held in a purplish bract, elegantly curved and sharply toothed. This is the crest that gives the plant both its common and scientific names.
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Cooling down has become political amid record highs, as experts say row is distracting from work of protecting lives
As the afternoon heat rose to a dizzying 41.7C (107F) in eastern Brandenburg on Sunday, taking German temperatures to unprecedented highs, Mario, 65, took precautions but did not panic. Two years ago, a fierce heatwave had prompted him to buy a powerful device that few Germans own: an air conditioning unit.
“The summers are slowly getting warmer,” says the retired handyman in Neuzelle on the German-Polish border, whose bungalow is now among the 6% of German homes with fixed air-conditioning. “And as you get older, the heat gets harder to endure.”
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Huge numbers of blackchin tilapia, a fish native to west Africa, are wreaking havoc among Thailand’s river ecosystems. Experts – and some chefs – are seeking sustainable solutions
The menu at Kor-Tae seafood restaurant, in Thailand’s Samut Prakan province, is filled with Thai classics – from tom yum talay, a fragrant hot and sour soup, to spicy larb salads. But the restaurant’s chef is also experimenting with a more controversial ingredient: blackchin tilapia.
“People are hesitant, but once they try it – [they say] it’s delicious,” says owner Adisorn Jamsuksaward, who has been offering the non-native fish free of charge to friends who request it.
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You can keep temperatures down without the cost – or environmental price – of air conditioning. Here’s some tips and tricks
In the UK we are used to worrying about our homes being warm enough, but after struggling to cope with high temperatures in May and June the race is on to cool them down before the next heatwave hits.
And while it might be tempting to swap your desktop fan for a portable air conditioner, there are lots of low-cost, more sustainable ways to stop rooms overheating.
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Jodie Heenan says her award-winning short film, Guardians of the Burrow, ‘looks and feels’ real
Scene: a dimly lit underground burrow. A giant Amazonian tarantula and a tiny dotted humming frog share the space, an unlikely duo captured in extraordinary detail.
Except, they haven’t been. Guardians of the Burrow, a short “wildlife documentary” by the Australian digital content designer Jodie Heenan, is entirely AI generated. At the weekend it won a prize in the Omni international AI film festival, adjudicated by a panel led by The Crow and Dark City director – and AI advocate – Alex Proyas.
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Villagers in Awoye in the Niger Delta say the ongoing pollution is causing sickness and environmental destruction, while pleas for help go unanswered
Perched on a narrow hospital cot across from her son, Bodunwa Orugbemi can hear the distant Atlantic Ocean and smell the stench of crude oil on the air drifting in from the shore. For days, her 21-year-old son has been lying in this hospital in the Niger Delta, swallowing small spoonfuls of food without being able to speak.
Seventy‑year‑old Orugbemi says Ijadopin started coughing one evening in May, inside their small wooden home in Awoye on Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline. After a few days his cough intensified, then he developed a skin irritation, followed by difficulty breathing.
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Osobe s endometriozom imaju poseban obrazac hormona koji se može identificirati krvnim testom, s potencijalom da revolucionira dijagnozu stanja, sugerira novo istraživanje. Naime, znanstvenici su otkrili da osobe s endometriozom imaju razlike u prethodno zanemarenoj skupini androgena - takozvanih muških hormona, koji su prisutni i kod žena - u usporedbi s onima bez stanja.
Ljudi koji su skratili san za oko 80 minuta noću tijekom šest tjedana dobili su na težini - u prosjeku pola kilograma - i bili su više sjedilački orijentirani, pokazuje nova studija. Ova studija pokazuje da dovoljan san može pomoći u smanjenju rizika od debljanja i stanja povezanih s pretilošću poput srčanih bolesti i dijabetesa. Ljudi imaju tendenciju debljanja tijekom odrasle dobi, a pretilost je glavni faktor rizika za srčane bolesti.
Novo istraživanje koje su vodili znanstvenici Mass General Brigham sugerira da cjepivo Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) - koje se primjenjuje kroz kožu kako bi se spriječila tuberkuloza - može preoblikovati imunološki okoliš ljudskog mozga, nudeći potencijalno biološko objašnjenje za prethodno uočene veze između BCG cijepljenja i nižeg rizika od Alzheimerove bolesti.
Dnevne snimke glasa pametnim telefonima otkrile su suptilne promjene od prvog dana pogoršanja astme ili kronične opstruktivne plućne bolesti (KOPB), ističući obećavajući novi pristup daljinskom praćenju koji bi jednog dana mogao omogućiti raniju intervenciju i poboljšati skrb o pacijentima, pokazala je nova studija.
Nova studija sugerira da lipofilni statini mogu nositi veći dugoročni genetski rizik od erekcijske disfunkcije, dok se čini da rosuvastatin ima neutralan učinak. Naime, pokazalo se, da određeni statini za snižavanje kolesterola, posebno atorvastatin i simvastatin, mogu povećati dugoročni rizik od erekcijske disfunkcije.
Rezultati nove studije ukazuju na statistički značajnu, no umjerenu povezanost između alergijskih bolesti i ukupne incidencije raka. Iako je ukupni porast rizika bio malen, pojavile su se važne razlike među geografskim regijama i vrstama alergija, s najjačom povezanošću uočenom u regiji zapadnog Pacifika i među osobama s astmom.
Ciljana terapija osmišljena za blokiranje jednog od najčešćih genetskih pokretača raka gušterače pokazala je obećavajuće rane rezultate u kombinaciji sa standardnom kemoterapijom prve linije, pokazuje nova studija.
Dodatak prehrani za spavanje, melatonin, također bi mogao biti koristan u liječenju kronične boli, pokazuje nova studija. Izgleda da melatonin smanjuje kroničnu bol u mišićima i zglobovima jednako kao i lijekovi protiv bolova poput opioida, acetilsalicilatne kiseline, naproksena i paracetamola.
Krvni test može pomoći u identificiranju pacijenata s kolorektalnim karcinomom koji se proširio na jetru koji će najvjerojatnije imati koristi od kemoterapije nakon operacije, tvrdi nova studija.
Više od polovice kalorija koje konzumiraju mala djeca u SAD-u dolazi iz ultraprerađene hrane. Sada nova studija upozorava da bi ta hrana, uključujući slatke žitarice, pakirane grickalice, brzu hranu i prerađeno meso, mogla biti povezana s mjerljivim razlikama u strukturi mozga do 6. godine.
