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We’re likely to breach 1.5C. What happens next is still in our hands

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Labour’s new powers for water customers are a ‘stitch-up’, say campaigners

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Weather tracker: Typhoon Saudel causes mass evacuations in south-east China

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Woman laid to rest in coffin made from mushrooms in Australian first

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Volcanic eruption halts flights at Jakarta and seven other Indonesian airports

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‘I could watch her for hours’: the woman who rescued a bee and created a buzz

Sat

Reform continues to cast doubt on climate science. Do its supporters agree?

Sat

Beekeepers warn of Asian hornet threat and call for UK awareness campaign

Sat

Sydney set to hit 33C in warmest start to spring since mid-1800s, while snow forecast in southern NSW

Sat

Trump order directs officials to consider stripping protections for gray wolves

Sat

Jackdaw gasfield set to be approved by ministers this month, sources say

Fri

Week in wildlife: a hitchhiking crab, a shy wallaby and penguins in little jackets

Fri

Australian ski resorts to close up to a month early due to global heating and El Niño

Fri

Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England

Fri

What went right this week: the good news that matters

Fri

EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costs

Fri

Your Home is Crawling With Microplastics

Thu

Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning

Thu

Hundreds gather outside Holyrood to call for pause on Scotland’s datacentre boom

Thu

BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence

Thu

Canadian citizen confirmed safe after Nepal floods but 29 still missing

Thu

Invasive tropical mosquito found breeding in east London

Thu

From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves

Thu

There’s a quick way to slow climate change. Why isn’t everyone doing it? – podcast

Thu

Australia’s new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups

Thu

‘We have to move quickly’: Canadians lend a hand as massive relief effort in Nepal begins

Thu

China’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershed

Wed

Patagonia sues Trump over slashing of protected areas in Utah

Wed

An island is floating around a B.C. reservoir — and it keeps disappearing

Wed

Mass breeding of game birds without welfare checks may be curtailed in England

Wed

Thunderstorms, rain looming for Toronto as heat warnings hit southern Ontario

Wed

Blackout risk rises as heatwave stresses largest US electric grids

Wed

Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest

Wed

Britain is OK with public ownership, but only by foreign powers. Why?

Wed

Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find

Wed

Wednesday briefing: What’s behind the global backlash against datacentres?

Wed

Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’

Wed

Federal government commits $29M to north Calgary water main project

Wed

Sydney’s beaches enter the drone age to get swimmers back in the water after spate of shark attacks

Tue

High winds during El Niño could be deadly for England’s stressed trees, say experts

Tue

Summer of 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, Met Office says

Tue

London’s Ulez linked to healthier lung growth in children

Tue

Forest Service chief faces scrutiny over logging ties as Trump plans to scrap protections

Tue

‘The mountains are changing’: What the floods tell us about the future of India’s Himalayas

Tue

Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny

Tue

Clicks, grunts and squeals: the wonders of whale communication – podcast

Tue

Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot

Tue

Remote Grand Canyon lodge hit by deadly flash flood boasts fabled history

Tue

Rising microplastics in soil a threat to UK food security, MPs and campaigners say

Mon

How intense rains in the Grand Canyon turned into a deadly disaster

Mon

Border area between Nepal and China where 33 Australians are missing still almost entirely cut off

Mon

Cross-party talks needed to tackle climate crisis, say Lib Dems

Mon

US man says ‘hold tight’ to loved ones after wife and toddler killed by lightning

Mon

Ecocide in Iran

Mon

Bhutan hosts first ‘conscious food summit’ amid threats to global supplies

Mon

Weather tracker: Warm Yellow Sea strengthens storms in South Korea

Mon

‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks

Mon

At least 15 people may be missing after flash flood in Arizona’s Grand Canyon

Mon

Flooding devastated swathes of Indiana but response is hampered by politics

Sun

‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution

Aug 30

South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows

Aug 30

Fire in California’s Big Sur region doubles in size overnight, forcing evacuations

Aug 29

US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths

Aug 29

Trump administration pushing to hand parcel of Yosemite land to private developer – report

Aug 28

London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership

Aug 28

Louisiana gears up for first recreational alligator hunt in more than 50 years

Aug 28

Labour rejects Zack Polanski’s call to ‘slam brakes’ on building AI datacentres

Aug 28

Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species

Aug 28

The chefs turning down the heat by switching from gas to electric

Aug 28

Weather tracker: More extreme rain in Japan and a tornado in France

Aug 28

What went right this week: the good news that matters

Aug 28

Dolphin dies from H5 bird flu in SA as researchers withdrawn from sub-Antarctic island over ‘psychosocial risk’

Aug 28

‘No precedent’: Lorde and Little Simz to star at world-first festival run on clean power

Aug 28

‘Nature thrives when given a chance’: restored Cheshire wetland now a haven for rare grebe

Aug 28

This Is What Happens When 1,000 People Bury Their Underwear for Science

Aug 27

How a collapsing glacier may have caused the catastrophic Nepal floods

Aug 27

Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn

Aug 27

El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds

Aug 27

Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Aug 27

One of east coast’s largest datacenters accused of ‘violating federal law’

Aug 27

How Much of a Problem is AI’s Water Use?

Aug 27

Hiker reunited with backpack 60 years after he fell into a glacier in Austria

Aug 27

How decoding beluga whales’ chitchat may save them – and teach us more about ourselves

Aug 27

Life after: oil

Aug 27

‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought

Aug 27

‘Sad moments ahead’: Kew Gardens to fell rare trees in race to save Victorian greenhouse

Aug 27

France to relax cheese production rules after drought takes toll on grazing land

Aug 27

Plug-in balcony solar panels to go on sale in UK for first time

Aug 26

How the Heat is Messing with Your Sleep

Aug 26

Girl, 13, among missing British citizens after flash flood in Nepal

Aug 26

South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs

Aug 26

Why are European leaders staying silent after our summer of climate shock?

Aug 26

Groups sue Trump’s EPA over fast-track approval of toxic datacenter chemicals

Aug 26

‘Major casualties’ feared after flash floods along Nepal-Tibet border

Aug 26

Extreme heat linked to deaths of over 40,000 people in England between 1988 and 2025

Aug 26

Heatwaves show UK must do more to promote cycling and walking, campaigners say

Aug 26

Putting slugs on the map: farmers pioneer precision crop protection 

Aug 26

Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars

Aug 26

Call to ban marmot hunting in France as campaigners say they are ‘killed for fun’

Aug 26

Fears for ‘gregarious’ local celebrity Sammy the elephant seal in Victorian bird flu hotspot

Aug 26