Wednesday briefing: The new, devastating flood risk facing nearly all of Britain | Climate crisis
Good morning. For years, whenever I read about parts of Britain being wrecked by flooding, it always felt like something…
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The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.
The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny organisms…
It’s an exciting week for the penguin community, we’re all waiting to see who is the winner … I mean loser | First Dog on the Moon
Bird of the year? Hell no! Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get…
‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures | Art and design
Manuel and Janet’s daughters playing, c 1984-1985 Lanre Bakare, Guardian writer and author of We Were There, a cultural history…
Candid New York: George Bradford Brainerd’s pioneering early work – in pictures | Art and design
In the 1870s, a civil engineer devised early handheld cameras able to capture scenes with more detail than ever. He…
Paradigm Shift review – loud and immersive video art to make your brain fold in on itself | Video art
Do exhibitions have to make sense? The people in charge at the vast, subterranean video art wonderland at 180 the…
Striking gold: gilded portraits of Black beauty and belonging – in pictures
Inspired by Gustav Klimt’s ‘golden phase’ and the religious icons of medieval Europe, US photographer Tawny Chatmon reimagines Black identity…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures | Environment
The winner of the Photojournalist Story Award category A black-tailed rattlesnake outside Fort Davis, Texas, US. For centuries, rattlesnakes have…
Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser review – painfully clunky lessons in art | Fiction
The complaint that cynics often make about modern art is that most of it looks as though it were made…
‘I’m all for instilling more playfulness’: the unusual musical world of Stephen Prina | Music
On a recent Friday night in the vast atrium space of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, six…