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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

New pipeline in Canada to proceed after C$150bn pledged to ease BC and First Nations concerns

Week in wildlife: Neil the seal, a pink grasshopper and condors in love

Ruined utopias: the afterlife of the Amazon’s forgotten company towns – in pictures

‘Scavenger’ dolphins increasingly rely on trawlers for food in overfished Adriatic, say scientists

Race to control wildfires in southern France – in pictures

NSW records first suspected case of deadly H5 bird flu as virus reaches Australia’s east coast

As seas rise, American history could be washed away

Giant trees have tricks to work around drought

Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says

Donald Trump is the accidental hero of a real-life feelgood climate tale even as a creeping horror story plays alongside | Clear Air

The animal behind most aggressive wildlife encounters may surprise you

‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks

Forecasters warn of record-breaking US summer heat amid intense El Niño

Côte d’Ivoire floods kill 59 as west Africa endures torrential rains

Voyage to the end of the world: floating lab to explore life in Arctic adrift in ice

Fans in short supply as next UK heatwave approaches, says Currys

‘Exploratory and curious animals’: mysterious rise in orca sightings off Northumberland coast

Global boom in livestock farming since 2006 is piling pressure on nature, report finds

Can Bolivia’s historic big cat release help change jaguar conservation in the country?

Scientists fear seabird die-off as El Niño looms: ‘We don’t know how bad this will get’

‘The silence was the worst part’: after culling his entire flock, US poultry farmer now fears bird flu

England has just had its hottest June on record, Met Office data shows

New Orleans residents on warning to abandon sinking city: ‘Nobody wants to leave home’

Trump to attend opening of Roosevelt library amid overturning conservation efforts

What is the United States of America now? | Rebecca Solnit

When the right denies the true danger of heatwaves, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk? | George Monbiot

Neil the seal wreaks beautiful havoc in southern Tasmania – video

Specieswatch: How heatwaves play havoc with bees’ fertility

Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June

World Cup matches played in potentially dangerous heat as players’ union makes climate warning

Labour MPs tell Burnham to ignore ‘deluded’ calls for more North Sea drilling

Delhi plans to ban petrol rickshaws and scooters in effort to cut toxic fumes

NSW’s deadly one-in-100-years floods could have been slashed by two metres using dams, CSIRO finds

‘Is there a way out of this mess?’: Your questions answered on Europe’s week of hellish heat

Cost to rewire Great Britain’s electricity network could reach £90bn in 2030s

Australia’s next summer isn’t guaranteed to be the hottest yet – but it’s looking likely | Milton Speer and Lance M Leslie

🌎 Taking the temperature at LCAW #302

Dangerous temperatures forecast for parts of Europe as heatwave moves east