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Climate crisis

  • People use umbrellas to block the sun

    Las Vegas
    Las Vegas sets record for number of days over 115F amid its ‘most extreme heatwave in history’

  • Lonely person standing by the sea, looking out into the distance in Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

    New Zealand
    New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages

    Experts say the new figures dispel the notion that the country is protected from extreme temperatures and raise fears for local marine life
  • Chris Stark, wearing glasses and a suit, smiling at the camera in a posed photograph

    Energy
    Climate expert Chris Stark appointed to lead UK clean energy taskforce

    ‘Mission control centre’ to work with energy companies and regulators towards goal of clean and cheaper power by 2030

  • Republicans
    James Inhofe, former Republican senator who called climate change a ‘hoax’, dies aged 89

  • Florida
    Florida: tree cactus becomes first local species killed off by sea-level rise

  • Hurricanes
    Hurricane Beryl supercharged by ‘crazy’ ocean temperatures, experts say

  • Nato
    Nato’s 2023 military spending produced about 233m metric tonnes of CO2 – report

  • Texas
    Three dead and millions without power as Tropical Storm Beryl hits Texas

  • Extreme heat
    US heatwave tied to four Oregon deaths as temperature records are shattered

  • New South Wales
    Blockade Australia climate activist sentenced to three months in jail over Port of Newcastle protest

Opinion

  • ProtestLaws2024pixie lump of coal with panicked look

    Protesting stuff is your democratic right – or is it?

  • a home damaged from a hurricane

    ‘Antidotes to despair’: five things we’ve learned from the world’s best climate journalists

    Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
    • 240709 Climate scientists' lament thumbnail

      Why does being right on climate feel so wrong?

    • Damaged houses and buildings along the coast of the island of Carriacou, Grenada, in the wake of Hurricane Beryl.

      The Guardian view on Hurricane Beryl: the west can’t sit this out

    • Dogs are seen near the border wall, on the border between Mexico and US, during a winter storm, in Ciudad Juarez

      Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls

      Jonathan Watts
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Features

  • People cool themselves during a hot day in Athens, Greece.

    Greece
    ‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat

  • Black smoke darkens a red sky above a body of water against a black tree line

    The age of extinction
    Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

    • A hedgehog in an urban garden in Manchester. Photograph: Whittaker Geo/Alamy

      The Audio Long Read
      Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies – podcast

    • Karen Mansbridge with her horse

      The rural network
      ‘Every step of the way, no one cared’: Queensland pensioner says solar farm next door has left her unable to sell her property

    • Blockade Australia spokesperson Brad Homewood with climbing apparatus

      New South Wales
      Blockade Australia plans more climate protests disrupting Newcastle trains, saying disobedience is the only option

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