Environment
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Toxic formations across the US and the Baltic are part of a worrying trend linked to the climate crisis and farming methods -
Dozens dead in Indonesian capital and surrounds as role of global heating is acknowledged in ‘extreme’ event -
Millions of animals have been killed in the fires but the impact on flora and fauna is more grim even than individual deaths
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The pick of the best flora and fauna photos from around the world, from baby beavers to a coyote on camera -
Research from a now defunded Australian adaptation centre has found social barriers are the biggest obstacle to effective action
The polluters
Sunday
5 January 2020
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Exclusive: analysis reveals lenders provided $700bn to expand sector since Paris climate pact -
After almost 1,000 days camping out in a field near Blackpool and obstructing fracking operations, the ‘Nanas’ have seen off energy company Cuadrilla. James Cartwright meets the fearless female activists behind the yellow pinnies
Around the world
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Illegal dumping has surged by 50% since 2012 but powers to issue big fines are going unused
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Discover Australia’s threatened plant species, as well as their major threats -
The incoming environment minister has a clear opportunity to tackle this debilitating disease. Wildlife carers and conservationists want it to be a priority
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Special investigation: During the 1990s workers were told not to worry about breathing in the poison – but years later they suffer debilitating illnesses
This year, in collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian will attempt to record all of the deaths of people who are killed while defending their land, forests, rivers or wildlife
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Nation replaces Brazil for first time in annual list of murders compiled by Global Witness -
Environmental campaigners against electric plant and pipeline say Samir Flores Soberanes’s murder is a ‘political crime’ -
Trial is notable for highlighting land and nature defender murders that ordinarily go unpunished -
Verdict against eight men accused in the murder of Honduran indigenous environmentalist will be handed down on Thursday
In pictures
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Homes turned to rubble, dead livestock and burnt-out primary schools confront locals returning home after massive blazes swept through parts of New South Wales and Victoria -
Australia’s south-east devastated by fires that have left nine people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed since Christmas
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Winning images from the year’s national and international wildlife photography competitions -
Thousands were evacuated on the New South Wales south coast and Victoria’s East Gippsland region on New Year’s Eve -
Labor lost the election, Australia was hit by a punishing drought and the nation mourned Bob Hawke -
The pick of the best flora and fauna photos from around the world, from fighting sloths to rescued orangutans
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Opinion & analysis
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The government has an opportunity to pivot in 2020 – to actually do something rather than pretending to
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PM should use his majority to push for investments, but he may lack the political bravery -
Key issues
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The big cats’ resourceful new behaviour was recorded by a WWF study on a remote island off the coast of Brazil -
Claims that koalas are ‘functionally extinct’ after the bushfires are overstated. But there are very real threats to their future
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Malaysia and Indonesia produce more than 85% of the world’s palm oil, which cultivation and production have caused deforestation, water pollution, air pollution, land degradation and human-wildlife conflict. Deforestation has endangered the Borneo elephant, isolating it from large foraging grounds. Now, some plantations are working with WWF-Malaysia to create ecological corridors to enable elephants to travel between forest patches -
Landowners were painted as battling victims of heartless bureaucrats by the Sydney broadcaster. But was he telling the whole story? -
An epidemic of land clearing is sabotaging efforts to address climate change. Farming communities are bitterly divided over the issue – but it also has global consequences -
Little more than two years of land clearing will cancel out the $1.5bn in taxpayer funds that goes towards protecting native habitat
Video
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Despite mounting criticism the Australian prime minister maintained his government's current policies struck the right balance and urged Australians to remain calm
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A crane tips over as it lowers a generator containing 2,000 litres of oil onto a barge in the Galápagos, causing the vessel to sink
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Extinction Rebellion protesters dressed as bees 'swarm' Lib Dem battlebus in south London demanding more ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions
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