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Plastics contamination an ‘overlooked’ concern in food waste schemes, experts say

‘Super El Niño’ could bring wet winter and flooding to western US, climate scientists warn

The ornithological artist drawing 1,000 birds by hand – all for an app that wants you off your phone

Nazi shipwrecks emerge from the depths as Europe’s Danube dries up

Christopher Harry on a summer of devastating wildfires – cartoon

Scratch of the day: local football season postponed due to ‘rock hard’ pitches

Sadiq Khan calls on Andy Burnham to commit to climate action as pressure grows over North Sea oil

Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

Scientists create OnlyFans account for marmots to fund research – video

Is the promise of AI living up to the hype? | Fiona Katauskas

Capybaras caught roaming government building in Brazil – video

Trump orders new 15% tariff on key material for solar panels and microchips

Trump faces calls for windfall tax on big oil’s profits from Iran war

Europe’s dry riverbeds and scorched earth – in pictures

‘Waste colonialism’ – the Turkish city carrying the weight of Britain’s pollution problem

Week in wildlife: a tiger release, an Exmoor eagle and Pallas’s kittens

Extreme heat breaks temperature records in central and eastern Europe

July’s heatwaves kept UK shoppers away from high street

Le Corbusier’s social housing was meant to be the dream. In a summer of extreme heat, it is a nightmare | Anna Richards

Accused arsonist studied how to maximize Washington wildfire’s harm, police say

Australia’s best sustainable architecture for 2026 – in pictures

Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases

‘We expected it, but now it’s here’: on the frontline of Australia’s bird flu outbreak, people are distressed

‘Do we really need huge cruise ships here?’ Fears £150m Falmouth Docks plan threatens habitats – and town itself

All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows

We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires | Seth Klein

Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds

Winner of Florida python hunting contest nabs 96 snakes: ‘I was on a mission’

Toronto zoo announces birth of pygmy hippo calf, third for mother Kindia

NHS must prepare for annual summer heat pressures, says Yvette Cooper

Adapting to global heating: which UK public services are struggling in hot weather?

The herbicide haunting a New York farm town

Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert

Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed

Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’

Chris Bowen vows to override Queensland and NT to force renewables-powered AI datacentres

The ‘Cockroach Lord’ who names new species after Tolkien and Pokémon characters

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year