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Australians value batteries and EVs, but renewables industry must earn trust of regions, summit told

Bird flu is spreading locally and Australia faces more wildlife deaths. How bad could it get?

A decade on the Iberian frontline has shown me that Europe’s climate emergency is impossible to deny

Next 12 hours ‘decisive’ for wildfire near Madrid, says Spanish PM

Repeated use of saunas could help people cope better in heatwaves, scientists say

Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought

Hotter summers may force RHS to move hydrangeas to north of England

Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands

‘I’m super proud of him’: father of teen lifeguard recounts dramatic ocean rescue

Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire

Spain faces ‘complex’ three days with risks of heatwave and strong winds reigniting some fires – as it happened

Ships stuck in strait of Hormuz pose ‘super-spreader’ biodiversity threat, scientists warn

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Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

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Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy

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The Guardian view on noise pollution: keep it down | Editorial

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It’s time to prosecute climate crimes – with laws that already exist | Aaron Regunberg

Almost 4,000 people evacuated from tourist sites near Bordeaux as wildfires rage in France and Spain

‘Forever chemicals’ could be aging dolphins beyond their years

Could ‘Godzilla’ El Niño bring the hottest year on record? – video explainer

How one man’s near-death experience led to the discovery of the first Jurassic sea dragon in Wales

‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons

What do the heatwaves in Europe and North America tell us about our future? | Fiona Katauskas

Industrial chicken farming accelerating spread of diarrhoea bacteria, study finds

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The Guardian view on Europe’s wildfires: politics must catch up with the new reality | Editorial

Ben Jennings on southern Europe’s wildfires – cartoon

France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins

Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires

Britain braces for fourth heatwave of year as fire chiefs issue public appeal

When it comes to predicting the future, why are TV writers better than politicians? | Zoe Williams

‘It came out of real frustration’: the 90s activist network that set fires to save a burning planet

US environmental groups urge EPA to reject new Pfas to cool datacenters

PM urged to uphold climate pledges made as mayor and ban new North Sea oil drilling

Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85

Europe wildfires: Officials warn that wildfires could still be burning in November – as it happened

Uganda begins emergency food handouts after 19 die from hunger

Seven suspected new bird flu cases are ‘evidence of spread’ into Australian wildlife, experts warn

Heathrow expansion would take thousands of jobs from other UK regions, report finds

‘Extraordinarily hot’: US heatwave stretches on with millions still under warnings

Ella Baron on the wildfires in France and Spain – cartoon

Every new UK home should have air conditioning, say Liberal Democrats

Ed Miliband indicates development and climate will be at heart of UK foreign policy

Pedro Sánchez says Spain is suffering effects of climate crisis as firefighters battle wildfires in France

‘Scandalous, irrational and irresponsible’: French beekeepers’ fury at lifting of pesticides ban

Scorching US heatwave to hit 70 million people with third ‘heat dome’ in month

New North Sea oil drilling faces delay after gear accidentally dropped in sea

Firefighters in Spain and France battle raging wildfires – video

Almost 75% of England’s riverbanks ‘off limits’ to public, figures show

France and Spain race to control wildfires as more than 250,000 evacuated – as it happened

Herbicide banned in 70 countries to be pulled from sale in Australia by chemical maker