Welcome to our new climate change project
This week we begin a major new series on climate change. Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, explains why
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Read an exclusive extract from Naomi Klein’s book, This Changes Everything:
‘Climate change could become a galvanising force for humanity’
Environment news
- Industry lobbyists weakened Europe’s air pollution rules, say Greenpeace
- Prince William in China: illegal wildlife trade a ‘vicious form of criminality’
- Health costs of hormone disrupting chemicals over €150bn a year in Europe, says study
- Indigenous Peruvians win Amazon pollution payout from US oil giant
- Air pollution will kill thousands in Europe, EEA warns
- Great Barrier Reef lobbying: Australian government offers junkets to journalists
- Peregrine falcon found shot dead at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s headquarters
- Infrastructure boom threatens world’s last wildernesses
- Sellafield cleanup costs rise by £5bn in year, says watchdog
- El Niño finally arrives but is weaker than expected, says US agency
On the blogs
- Ecologically disastrous dams may get the go-ahead
- Doubt over climate science is a product with an industry behind it
- Canadian government pushing First Nations to give up land rights for oil and gas profits
- Viral China pollution film is brave, personal and powerful
Multimedia
- Lewis Pugh’s Antarctic swim – in pictures
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- International Polar Bear Day - in pictures
- Underwater Photographer of the Year 2015 winners – in pictures
Features and comment
- Fairies’ woodland homes face planning control
- Lifespan of consumer electronics is getting shorter, study finds
- Would a Labour or Tory government be better for the environment?
- Five things we’ve learned about the state of the UK’s environment
- Should the UK be subsidising the world’s first tidal lagoons?
- Bay of Whales is a terrifying place to swim, says oceans campaigner
