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  • A Coles checkout terminal in Canberra affected by the Windows outage

    Australia news
    Windows outage live: Albanese government holds emergency meeting as airlines, supermarkets and banks affected; PM says ‘no impact’ to critical infrastructure

  • A pair of men with one carrying a boxed up standing fan.

    Extreme heat
    Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns

    Friends of the Earth says older people and young children are most at risk in heat-vulnerable neighbourhoods
  • A Guardian collage of images from industry 1970s industry periodical Marathon World published by a corporate predecessor of Marathon Petroleum

    Big oil uncovered
    US oil company ran 1977 article predicting climate crisis could cause starvation

    Marathon Petroleum predecessor warned of potential for ‘social and economic calamities’ in decades-old publication
  • New Zealand
    New Zealand will fail to meet 2050 net zero targets, data shows, after climate policies scrapped

  • Extreme heat
    US government urged to declare wildfire smoke and extreme heat major disasters

  • King's speech
    From green energy to rivers, environment at heart of nine plans in king’s speech

  • Environment
    UK first European country to approve lab-grown meat, starting with pet food

  • Canada
    Record rainfall hits parts of Toronto – video

  • Climate crisis
    Londoners should be charged for paving gardens, says climate resilience report

  • Hawaii
    Firefighters contain wildfire threatening 200 homes on Hawaiian island of Kauai

  • Are things getting better or worse, quiz 2024 pixie

    Do you think things are generally getting better or worse? Are you a Pollyanna or a Misery Kevin?

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    A few days of sunshine won’t fool me – we’re in the UK’s worst summer ever

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    • Richard Wilson

      Citizens’ assemblies could work wonders for Labour and Britain – but only if they’re more than a talking shop

      Richard Wilson
    • Girls carrying water buckets in Malawi.

      David Lammy must lead the way on access to clean water

    • Tony Juniper

      Where are all the butterflies this summer? Their absence is telling us something important

      Tony Juniper
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  • Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, marshals a plane during a visit to Stansted airport in May.

    Green politics
    Buses, trains and bicycle paths: Labour’s mission to decarbonise UK transport

  • US-WEATHER-HEATWAVE<br>A dog lies on the sidewalk by a shop on Madison Avenue on July 19, 2013 in New York as a heatwave continues in the northeast.    AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo by STAN HONDA / AFP) (Photo by STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Dogs
    ‘I couldn’t get him to move’: dog owners struggle through US heatwave

    • Flamenco dancer El Yiyo and guitarist Rafael Andújar perform at the Sala de las Musas hall in the Prado Museum in Madrid this week.

      Spain
      ‘Beat the heat’: Madrid looks to cool off with culture amid climate crisis

    • Period colourised photograph of agricultural labourers in a field, including two sitting on a piece of horse-drawn agricultural machinery

      Agriculture
      ‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists say

    • Blockade Australia protesters at a Newcastle rail line

      Protest
      Climate activists have received months-long sentences. Are tougher laws eroding Australians’ right to protest?

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