This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a project by Vox, Grist, and The 19th that examines how climate change impacts reproductive health — from menstruation to conception to birth. Explore the full series here. Climate change poses unique threats to some of the most...
Plastic pollution is toxic and everywhere. Now, legal experts say it’s a human rights violation.
Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and environmental groups are using in conversations about a proposed United Nations treaty to “end plastic pollution,” which is undergoing...
Health was supposed to be central to the UN plastics treaty. Now it’s up for debate.
Since negotiations for a United Nations treaty to address plastic pollution began more than three years ago, protecting human health has risen to the top of many countries’ priority lists. This is partly because the science on the issue has evolved so rapidly. There are now thousands of scientific papers...
Rashford status shows Barça plight before La Liga’s English-tinged title race
Forward has not yet been registered by financially troubled club in a summer when Real Madrid have spent €200m La Liga begins again in Girona on Friday evening, a five-day weekend to start it off, and for the first time the division’s biggest clubs, every side competing for the title,...
Indian Super League in turmoil with domestic game on brink of collapse
Dispute between governing body and commercial partner has forced top-flight clubs to suspend player salaries Crystal Palace may be disappointed the court of arbitration for sport ruled against them on Monday but at least they now know their fate. Imagine if all Premier League clubs were waiting for a court...
‘I don’t want to be Gary’: Kelly Cates on Sky, Match of the Day and social media
Presenter on mixing Sky and BBC duties, the benefits of a conversational style and replacing a legend Kelly Cates is about to begin the busiest year of her career. That, to be fair, is an estimate, because the football presenter and broadcaster has always been a grafter. From Setanta Sports...
My punishment for calling the Hundred the worst thing in cricket? A day at the Hundred | Barney Ronay
Crowding out every other format from the centre of summer for this still seems odd, but if you sell it they will come and this was a good day “That was SO COOL!” What’s cool around here? The aggressively upbeat DJ box? The handsome supply teacher type with the roving...
‘I always loved a camera’: Maud Muir on life through a lens in England women’s rugby team
Red Roses prop on her creative endeavours and England expectations before the Rugby World Cup on home soil “I like capturing people’s laughs; I think being able to hear it through the picture is so cool,” Maud Muir says as she discusses her favourite photographs from hundreds she has taken...
Manchester United show patience and hope for big things from Benjamin Sesko | Andy Brassell
After the club’s two previous attempts to sign the forward, Ruben Amorim will be hoping they have found the real deal It has, for a while, appeared to be destiny. Benjamin Sesko’s arrival at Manchester United was third time lucky for last season’s Europa League finalists, having attempted to make...
Premier League 2025-26 preview No 17: Sunderland
Re-establishing themselves in the top tier will be tough but the Wearsiders are throwing everything at the challenge Guardian writers’ predicted position: 19th (NB: this is not necessarily Louise Taylor’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 4th in the Championship Continue reading...