Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Climate crisis

  • The record-breaking warm weather is expected to continue this weekend with the Bureau of Meteorology also issuing severe weather warnings for damaging winds across Victoria and Tasmania

    Australia weather
    More August temperature records expected to fall amid warm weather and winds across east coast

  • Friday afternoon at Bondi beach in Sydney, where the temperature reached 30C – the hottest August day since 1995.

    Australia weather
    Alarm as Australia records ‘gobsmacking’ hot August temperatures

    Heat building up in country’s centre and driving south-east is causing ‘really unusual’ heatwave that is breaking winter records
  • Revellers throw tomatoes at each other during the Tomatina fiesta in the village of Bunol.

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

    The evacuation of Pokrovsk, the Israeli raid in the West Bank, the Paralympic Games in Paris and the Notting Hill carnival: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

  • Climate crisis
    Emissions from Australian coal-fired power stations rise as wind and hydro dip

  • US elections 2024
    Kamala Harris defends policy stances and shares plan for office in first major interview

  • Extreme heat
    Millions swelter as central and eastern US placed under excessive heat watch

  • Green politics
    UK may unveil tougher emissions targets at Cop29 climate summit

  • First Thing newsletter
    First Thing: the Democrat ticket’s first major interview of the campaign

  • Canada
    Canada’s 2023 wildfires released more greenhouse gases than most countries

  • South Korea
    South Korea’s climate law violates rights of future generations, court rules

Opinion

  • 240831 Broken records no chill thumbnail

    Which multiple record breaker is so hot right now?

  • Paul Daley

    Winter’s unseasonal warmth and clear skies are glorious – but a forbidding sign of danger to come

    Paul Daley
    • George Monbiot

      Dear ministers, I am a climate crisis campaigner: nationalise me right now

      George Monbiot
    • In the Marshall Islands, rising sea levels threaten to engulf entire communities, writes Tim Flannery

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

      Tim Flannery
    • Gordon Brown

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

      Gordon Brown
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Features

  • side by side images of two men in t-shirts and shorts on a road and an aerial view of a flooded neighbourhood

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    A brutal hurricane razed their town. Five years later, they’re still searching for home

  • Man seen from back wades through water in dark kitchen with low ceiling.

    America's dirty divide
    ‘I panic when I hear rain’: New York’s deadly basement apartments face growing flooding risk

    • White and yellow buildings with blue sea and sky in background

      Greece
      ‘Everywhere jam-packed’: mayor of Santorini warns of overtourism crisis

    • Raw sewage, River Thames, Datchet, Berkshire, UK - 15 Jan 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock (13715737j) A swan covered in sewage. The disgusting sight of raw sewage on the River Thames at Datchet in Berkshire. An interactive map by Thames Water shows that they have emitted sewage into the River Thames in nearby Windsor. Environmental A swan walks through raw sewage and near to empty cans as it leaves the River Thames.

      Climate crisis
      Aquatic life under threat as pollution and warmer waters wreak havoc

    • A Black couple wearing head wraps and purple t-shirts that say 'Afrodisiac' pose together in a restaurant that has a colorful wall mural featuring Black women and Jamaican Creole food ingredients

      Our unequal earth
      New Orleans solar panel program turns eateries into hurricane shelters

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Most viewed