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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust.
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Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors
Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed. Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany and Norway appear to have installed technology that could stop researchers from identifying methane, …
My friends are passionate about politics – but they don’t vote. There’s no sense in that | Joyce Yang
Local elections are coming this week. After receiving far-right leaflets (“Close the borders! Pause all immigration!”) through my letterbox and paying taxes to an underwhelming council, I can’t wait to vote – except that I’m not eligible. As an immigrant with no settled status, voting isn’t one of my rights. …
I made my own wedding dress – and learned to embrace imperfection
They say it’s unlucky to make your own wedding dress. They say the same about receiving knives as gifts, brides wearing pearls or getting married on a Saturday. So much of wedding culture is built on fear. But wearing my homemade wedding dress was a moment of courage.
A progressive congresswoman made history in 2022. Can a billionaire stop her re-election?
Summer Lee, Pennsylvania’s first Black congresswoman, has expanded her base. Her primary is a test case in a year progressive candidates face a challenge from pro-Israel funds.
A progressive congresswoman made history in 2022. Can a billionaire stop her re-election?
Summer Lee, Pennsylvania’s first Black congresswoman, has expanded her base. Her primary is a test case in a year progressive candidates face a challenge from pro-Israel funds.
The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate
In the 1960s the birthrate in Greenland was one of the highest in the world. Then it plunged. Decades later, women have finally begun speaking out about what happened.
Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom
Under the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the semi-arid landscape. Pavagada, 100 miles north of Bengaluru in southern India, is the world’s third-largest solar power plant, with 25m panels across a huge 50 sq km site, and a capacity of 2,050MW of clean energy. India has …
‘Why didn’t I fight? Why didn’t I run?’: 10 things we learned from Salman Rushdie’s Knife
‘At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate New York, I was attacked and almost killed by a young man with a knife,” begins Salman Rushdie’s new memoir. The book, titled Knife, reflects on the attack at the Chautauqua Institution, where the …
Meet the art detectives
At least 2,000 items from the British Museum were reported missing, stolen or damaged last year. When that happens, who do they call?
‘So it’s you. Here you are’: Salman Rushdie describes moment he was stabbed
Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August 2022 was: “So it’s you. Here you are.” “It felt like something coming out of the distant past and trying to drag me back in time, if you like, back …
Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill
More than 100 Indigenous people in Brazil’s Javari valley have been diagnosed with flu-like symptoms, raising fears that the situation could escalate into an epidemic.
Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed?
It’s a decade since the first same-sex marriages were performed in England and Wales. What have they meant for LGBTQ+ people?
How gangs took control of Haiti
Haiti has erupted into violence after gangs laid waste to the capital and forced the prime minister to resign. But Haitians are wary from bitter experience of outside forces intervening to find a solution to the crisis
Not just cheap beer and old buildings: an arty weekend in Prague
A new sleeper train from Brussels is bringing the Czech capital’s contemporary art scene within easy reach of rail travellers.
The murder of women is an Australian scandal. So how do we defeat the monster tormenting our nation’s soul? | Kristine Ziwica
This year alone, 19 women have been killed in Australia, according to the Australian Femicide Watch. The majority of those women, just like the 74 women murdered in 2023, were allegedly killed by someone known to them. Fifty years ago a group of Sydney feminists broke into two adjoining vacant …
So long Cornwall, Cheddar and the Cotswolds: discover the UK ‘destination dupes’ to beat the crowds
If you’re not one for travel cliches, these alternative travel spots could be just the ticket...
Gove says three Muslim-led groups and two far-right to be assessed for extremism
Three Muslim-led organisations and two far-right groups will be assessed under the government’s controversial new extremism definition, Michael Gove has told MPs. The communities secretary named the Muslim Association of Britain, Mend and Cage as groups with “Islamist orientation and beliefs” that would be held to account following the launch …
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prize
The Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland. Murray was announced as the winner at a ceremony in London on Thursday. “This is a wonderfully ambitious and entrancing novel about a family imploding …
Joanne Harris: ‘Some of us don’t see the line between the books and the world’
When Joanne Harris wrote Chocolat, her novel of morality and magic set in a cloistered French village, she did not expect it to be published, let alone succeed. Her agent thought that it was “very unfashionable writing” and “wasn’t at all the kind of thing he felt would be commercial”. …
How I stopped comparing my appearance to my identical twin’s – and healed our relationship | Lara Rodwell
“Why are you fat, and why is she thin,” a puzzled middle-aged man asked, as my identical twin Katy and I strolled into a restaurant in central Mumbai for a post-yoga samosa. It wasn’t the first time we had been asked this question – but each time it hurt just …