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Unions in Europe press for new worker protections to counter heat stress

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UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levels

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Health risk fears for storks in Europe over ‘junk food’ from landfill

Britons to buy 8m mini fans this year – but almost half will end up in landfill

A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilous ice sheets

Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds

Washington records world’s worst air quality for a city after 850,000 Fourth of July fireworks

M&S invests in fridges that can cope with weather as hot as 45C

Lake Powell, a vital reservoir, plunges toward unprecedented low levels as water crisis deepens in US west

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What does China’s long-range missile test in the South Pacific mean for Australia? | David Vallance

Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy

Air pollution linked to DNA changes in sperm, research shows

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Extreme high temperatures double young people’s risk of mental health admissions, Australian research shows

GB News co-owner ‘cashing in on climate chaos’ after leap in fossil fuel investments, critics say

Air pollution may cause childhood obesity by disrupting impulse control, study finds

‘Why take those jobs away?’: the unionized workers decrying Trump’s war on wind

Wildfires rage across southern Europe, forcing thousands to flee homes

EV charger rollout in UK slows amid political uncertainty and rise in installation costs

‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

At least 25 people die in US as record heatwave scorches swaths of country

Fears Queenslanders could be forced to pay for mine cleanup as LNP reviews environmental ‘red tape’

Mass fish deaths feared as Minns government promise to restore Murray-Darling rivers in doubt

Empty reservoirs, ladybirds and sunstroke: remembering the UK heatwave of 1976

British swallowtail split from European cousins much earlier than thought, study finds

‘They ate the shrimp, they even ate the crab’: Thai fishers count the cost of a voracious invader

Norfolk Island’s unique corals under triple threat from disease, El Niño and now government-approved dredging

Overcrowded and underfunded: Trump’s cuts to national parks threaten the US’s ‘best idea’

Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project

As auto costs rise, will the US miss the golden age of electric vehicles?

Labour MPs call on water firms to save Britain’s lost lidos

Sydney records hottest June since 1859 as expert warns new high a ‘signature’ of global warming