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Climate sceptics cheering as they melt in record temperatures? This heatwave is where satire has come to die | Jonathan Freedland

‘We feel like the peasants’: women and low-income families bear brunt of heatwave

Why is alcohol dangerous in a heatwave, and should I cut it out completely?

UK June heat record broken for third day in a row as ministers urged to act

Spain's military firefighters battle wildfire in Huesca province – video

Rotisserie chickens in the trash: I worked in a supermarket and saw shocking food waste every day | Ann Larson

In pictures: a San Antonio land bridge designed for wildlife and people

California’s landmark anti-plastics law sparks anger as 17 states move to sue

‘Chock full of incredible animals’: marine expedition uncovers 31 new species in two weeks

Great Britain’s grid operator warns again over power supplies in heatwave

First hydropower projects in Great Britain in 40 years given go-ahead

Park to protect 12,000 koalas to go ahead via contentious carbon credit deal by Albanese government

Hot stuff: players and fans have to adjust to sport’s new normal and sweat it out | Emma John

‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering

Week in wildlife: paddling deer, a spring-loaded penguin and a rare sand cat

A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

UK June heat record broken again, France postpones Pride and Poland warns of wildfires as heatwave grips Europe – as it happened

Migrating swifts loyally return every year to nests in buildings, study finds

Too hot for work: why extreme heat is a threat to Europe’s productivity

European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say

‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con

New science on algae die-offs is too late for the Reflecting Pool

Tarmac playgrounds and windows that don’t open: why hot spells turn our schools into heat traps | Harry Paticas

Ben Jennings on a new idea for ‘carbon capture’ – cartoon

City of Paris achieves partial victory over TotalEnergies in climate risks case

Unions urge teachers to strike as French school exams go ahead in up to 40C heat

US supreme court blocks thousands of lawsuits over Roundup maker’s pesticide warning labels

Polanski and unions warn Burnham against backsliding on climate action

‘Act on the evidence outside the window’: Andy Burnham urged to stick to net zero targets if he becomes PM

UK records its hottest ever June day as health emergencies surge across Europe

Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat

Datacentres facing increase in global climate-related legal cases, report finds

Has Cornwall’s housing crisis created a van life generation?

Hot Mess and Acid’s Reign: the romcom and queer cabaret spotlighting climate crisis

Extreme heat grips Europe as UK hits new June record, France shuts down nuclear reactors and deaths rise across continent – as it happened

‘It can flip quickly from being idyllic’: the reality of life for young van dwellers priced out of Cornwall’s housing market

Papua New Guinea at risk of food shortages as El Niño brings frost and drought

Exploit last North Sea oil and gas or risk mass job losses, Andy Burnham urged

Farmers criticise government plan to counter threats to UK food security

US says chemical giant Chemours to pay $450m to settle ‘forever chemicals’ case

UK records its hottest June day and France its hottest day ever as heatwave sweeps Europe

‘Instant connection to the past’: how the Major oak affected those who saw it

Farm workers at higher risk amid screwworm outbreak in US south-west

‘No one believed it’: how a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya’s sand cat really does exist

‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds

24-hour parks and alcohol bans: what cities could learn from Paris’s ‘heatwave mode’ | Helen Massy-Beresford

Wednesday briefing: How can the UK protect its landscape in an increasingly hot world?

Europe heatwave live: UK breaks temperature record for June as parts of France hit 40C – as it happened

Different sperm whale ‘dialects’ detected on separate sides of the Mediterranean

Woman attacked by shark at Coogee beach wakes briefly from coma to say three words