It might be time to turn off a few more lights. In China. Or India. Or Brazil.
Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, and most of the rise came from the developing world. The worst recession in 80 years had only a minimal effect on carbon dioxide output, according to estimates from the International Energy Agency, which show that hopes of holding global warming to safe levels are now all but out of reach.
Not a very upbeat front page, but a highly relevant one, especially as developed nations such as Germany and Switzerland reassess nuclear energy in light of the still unresolved situation at the crippled Fukushima facility in Japan. The world's news organisations seem to have forgotten that radiation continues to leak into the air, the soil and the water from this nuclear plant, with no solution swiftly at hand. We haven't. The story is on page 13.
On the inside news pages, we bring you some fine writing from the Guardian's diplomatic editor, Julian Borger, on the detention of Ratko Mladic. Ed Vulliamy provides analysis, in which he calls the arrest a hollow victory in a country that refuses to come to terms with its past.
On the comment pages, Madeleine Bunting finds herself critical of the financial sector and Timothy Garton Ash challenges Barack Obama to do away with the G8.
Our main feature piece, the review front, looks at the slap that supposedly sparked the Arab revolution. Writer Elizabeth Day finds a reality that's not quite so simple. Culture looks at Bobby Fischer, from prodigy to pariah, and science considers a new way of collaboration: online.
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