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Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

EU officials warn climate breakdown and wildlife loss ‘are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy’ […] The European way of life is being jeopardised by environmental degradation, a report has found, with EU officials warning against weakening green rules. The continent has made “important progress” in cutting planet-heating pollution, according to the European Environment Agency, but the death of wildlife and breakdown of the climate are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy.

The planet is nearing dangerous limits. Yet progress on clean energy shows what’s possible. With political will, cooperation can still avert the worst of the climate crisis

Une commission d’enquête des Nations unies a désormais confirmé ce que les organisations israéliennes, palestiniennes et internationales de défense des droits humains, ainsi que de nombreux spécialistes du génocide, affirmaient déjà : la guerre menée par Israël à Gaza équivaut à un génocide. La commission estime que les massacres, les attaques contre les infrastructures vitales, la famine, les déplacements de population et le refus de soins médicaux répondent à la définition juridique du crime le plus grave de l’histoire. Elle conclut que l’intention génocidaire est « la seule conclusion raisonnable » à tirer des déclarations des dirigeants israéliens et du comportement de leurs forces à Gaza.

Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages, and calls on member countries to punish those responsible

Legal analysis has accused Israel of committing genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention

A UN commission has found Israel’s war in Gaza ranks among history’s greatest crimes. The UK government must stop hiding behind legal fictions and recognise the reality

Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded missionEarlier this summer, access to climate.gov – one of the most widely used portals of climate information on the internet – was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process.

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is

Gains in cutting deaths from tuberculosis at risk as health officials warn clinics forced to ration drugs and testing

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction

The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

Some experts tee up public comment on EPA report calling fossil fuel concerns overblown, as others fast-track review

Almost 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’

Exclusive: Increasingly extreme weather a threat to production and supply chains in Britain and elsewhere

Exclusive: Study claims sites previously ranked first can lose 79% of traffic if results appear below Google Overview

Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling

António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels

Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say

Research in Chile suggests climate crisis makes eruptions more likely and explosive, and warns of Antarctica risk

Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the Pfas iceberg

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings

Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

For more than three decades, Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre has warned that deforestation of the Amazon could push this globally important ecosystem past the point of no return. Working first at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and more recently at the University of São Paulo, he is a global authority on tropical forests and how they could be restored.

The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the next generation may not see their glory because so many reefs are now “flickering out across the world”.

The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton