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

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

1.3m plastic bottles collected in a day in global volunteer ocean cleanup

‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital

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

Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border leave scores dead and hundreds missing

‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations

‘National scandal’: extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025

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

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

Mood-boosting benefits of birdsong drowned out by traffic noise, study finds

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

Record-breaking heat dome expected to bring dangerous temperatures to US south-west

London bus drivers resume strike over heatwave working amid fears over air con deal

NSW’s koala national park will protect threatened species and cap logging across the state. Could the Greens really block it? | Adam Morton

‘I love rats but we can’t live with them’: the headache of rising rodent populations around the world

US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn

Fishy business: who really profits when sardines go viral? - video

US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds

‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground

From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar

‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river

The war on ‘loudcasting’ phones can be won, but it will take some very British nudging | Dan Hancox

Going with the grain: how restoring biodiversity led one farmer back to heritage wheat

Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

Heatwave health risks threaten insurer earnings, rating agency S&P warns

At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe’s back-to-back heatwaves

Nevada files lawsuit challenging federal plan for Colorado River revival

French tourist dies in California’s Death Valley after being stranded in heat

Fast-moving Hawk wildfire is about 27% contained in Reno, Nevada, officials say

Our climate is changing rapidly – and our politicians sound increasingly surreal | Zoe Williams

Australia has just 12,000 sea lions left – and ‘carnage’ may await them as bird flu takes hold, scientists warn

🌎 Volts meet midterm votes #310

World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August

Thames Water creditors accused of ‘shuffling chairs on Titanic’ with plan for new board

Devastation, doubt and blame: Hurricane Helene looms over North Carolina’s US Senate race

This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs

How do you vaccinate 1,000 tiny penguins against bird flu in the wild? It’s ‘really tricky’ but there is a way

Wild beaver kits born in Norfolk for first time in more than 500 years

Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in six European nations, survey finds

US territories hit out at Trump plan to explore deep sea mining in the Pacific

Hanson-Young says men should ‘call out’ boys’ club culture – as it happened

Fast-moving wildfire in Reno, Nevada, forces thousands to evacuate homes

Ella Baron on AI and the drought – cartoon

The end of Latrobe Valley coal – in pictures

Australia’s marine parks protect ‘places no one goes’ rather than fragile waters near the mainland, scientists say

Stores are selling Halloween stuff in August. Time has lost all meaning | Dave Schilling