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Snake in a chain: lucky escape for Australian woman after bite from deadly eastern brown caught in bike wheel

Emergencies on planet Earth: images from the climate crisis – in pictures

Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences

How global heating supercharged floods in West Africa, displacing thousands

My neighbours and I were left with no water this week. Why was I the only one who seemed annoyed?

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Wildfires in Ontario make Toronto air quality worst in world

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Greater gliders not as great at gliding as thought – but still look like magic carpets, experts say

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Australia has a love-hate relationship with cats – but under all the emotion is a fascinating history | Jodie Stewart

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‘I’ve never worked with so many conservatives’: the Texans fighting the Big Bend border wall

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Surviving extreme heat increasingly boils down to this: access to air conditioning | Mark Wolfe

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Sadiq Khan backs calls for maximum workplace temperature in UK

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US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics: ‘on the edge of our seats’

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Shipwrecks of Shackleton and Scott recreated in 3D digital form after deep sea expedition

England risks building new ‘death traps’ as experts warn of overheating crisis

‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says

Seven Britons among 12 foreign nationals killed in Spain’s deadly wildfires

Andy Burnham must act fast on the climate – or risk getting stuck in a ‘derailment’ doom loop | Laurie Laybourn

A new map traces the sky’s water highways

Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030

Coalition and One Nation’s plan to ditch net zero would not lower power prices, CSIRO report finds

California faces highest shark numbers in years as great whites head north

Inside the secret Laos shops selling pangolin scales, bear bile and tiger bones to tourists

Undercover in Laos: how Chinese tourism fuels animal trafficking – video

South East Water to pay £30.5m penalty after multiple supply failures

Giving nature a say: why Scottish marine scientists appointed the ocean to their board

Can you spot the poacher’s handprint? Earth Photo award winners – in pictures

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

North Sea oil industry urges Burnham to approve new drilling in UK waters

Lancashire chemicals factory facing potential legal claim announces closure

British couple named among 13 killed in Spanish wildfires

🌎 H1'26 climate tech funding up 55% to $26bn, thanks to data centers

Dolphin deaths in South Australia spike after algal bloom decimates food sources

Hello from the outside: heat domes impeding radio and other signals in US midwest

‘As if a hurricane had passed’: Puerto Ricans at breaking point after weeks without water

A journey down one of the last wild rivers in the American west: ‘The bullseye will always be on its back’

Keystone pipeline operator agrees to pay $26.9m penalty over Kansas oil spill

Plan to restore nature in England by 2030 criticised as ‘completely insufficient’

Zaghari-Ratcliffe condemns Iran’s ‘cruel’ rearrest of wildlife activist couple

Firefighting planes scrambled from south of France to tackle huge wildfire near Paris

Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar

UK couple found burned and semi-conscious in Almería amid Spanish wildfires

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears

Flash flooding in Missouri leaves one person dead as 200 campers are rescued

‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

Experts warn of ways screwworm could spread in the US and new difficulties in keeping it at bay

‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say

In my years of spearfishing, I’ve never encountered more sharks than now. But I know where I stand in the underwater pecking order | Clarke Gayford

‘A slap in the face’: small farmers say Trump is turning his back on them

Drones are detecting more sharks at US beaches, but do they make the public safer?

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France