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How can we talk about this extreme weather now that it’s a battleground in the culture wars? | Andy Beckett

Bird flu is a huge disaster and it’s normal to find it distressing and sad. How can we deal with this grief? | First Dog on the Moon

Searches for UK homes with air conditioning more than double

Week in wildlife: snake on a car, a careful spider mum and a lazy squirrel

‘Unprecedented’ rain kills five in Japan as thousands stranded at airport

Indonesia wildfires threaten orangutans rescued from animal traffickers

Romania shuts its last nuclear reactor as drought-hit Danube river drops to record low

Fossils show huge carbon emissions harm forests, not ‘green the planet’

New UN plastic treaty is going backwards, experts say

UK records hottest day of year as fifth summer heatwave reaches peak

Piranha drama: boy, 8, hooks fearsome exotic fish in Pennsylvania lake

Killer fungus: how a disease threatening bat species has spread to northern Canada

California bans paraquat, highly toxic herbicide outlawed in more than 70 countries

Severe storms cut power supply to 540,000 homes in US midwest

Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich

How to keep babies and children safe in heatwaves

Water customers are not a ‘blank cheque’, Burnham tells suppliers

UK sees temperatures of 38.1C, the hottest day of 2026; Greece battles wildfires after gale force winds – as it happened

Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot

Manila river clogged with rubbish after Typhoon Dolphin floods – in pictures

Australia’s largest aluminium smelter to run on renewables by 2033 after Rio Tinto strikes $2.5bn taxpayer bailout deal

Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem

India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production

Nurses fainting in ‘inhumane’ conditions due to extreme heat, union warns

EJ Swift wins the 2026 Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction

Trump administration pulls support for annual Arctic environmental report

Greenland forces Trump-linked US oil firm to delay drilling

Coalition plan to scrap energy rules for new houses condemned as ‘cost-of-living timebomb’

Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK

Too many holes! Why badgers are digging up Britain’s lovingly maintained golf courses

Powerful storms in US midwest leave three dead and 800,000 without power

Top chefs find grouse in short supply as wildfires add to heat over shoots

Humpbacks return to Rio: the whales are back from the brink of extinction – but will tourism help or hinder?

A huge AI datacenter is planned near Mar-a-Lago. The Everglades could pay the price

Halting the march of the African armyworm: a natural cure offers hope to farmers

Drone footage shows rare bird’s-eye view of stingrays off New York coast

I was enjoying growing vegetables. Then the climate crisis raised its ugly head | Bim Adewunmi

Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Andy Burnham to chair emergency Cobra meeting amid extreme heat

All-British chocolate bar made by scientists using Reading-grown cocoa

Massive bailout for Australia’s largest aluminium smelter to be announced by PM and NSW premier

UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds

Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say

Male redback spiders invite cannibalism through a ‘self-sacrificial somersault’ during sex – but why?

Households near new pylons to get £250 taken off annual energy bills

The Guardian view on wildfires: firefighters can’t handle this crisis alone | Editorial

Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows

‘Real struggle’ to tame New Forest blaze as UK set for hottest summer on record

Drought, water rationing and dry rivers: our water crisis is here | Peter Gleick

Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel