Tourists evacuated from Pescara as Italy records more than 800 wildfires | Italy
At least five people have been wounded and holidaymakers evacuated after wildfires devastated a pine wood near a beach in Pescara, Italy, as
UK’s net zero goal ‘too far away’, says No 10 climate spokesperson | Climate change
The UK’s goal of tackling the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 is “too far away”, the prime
The Guardian view on adapting to global heating: risks must be faced | Editorial
Nothing about the climate crisis is easy. The challenge of adapting to global heating and the climate disruption it causes is particularly hard.
Adapt or die. That is the stark challenge to living in the new world we have made | David Wallace-Wells
It won’t be enough. It can’t be. From here, even an astonishing pace of decarbonisation will still deliver us a warmer world than
Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets | Neanderthals
The idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells
Brexit and Covid have created the perfect moment for the politics of crackdown | John Harris
If you were wondering when the widely predicted post-Brexit dystopia might move beyond the imaginings of TV scriptwriters and into the real world,
Ana Raquel Nunes: ‘Extreme weather reveals the fragility of people and places’ | Climate change
Ana Raquel Nunes is a senior research fellow at Warwick medical school who studies the links between global heating and human health. She
The oldest tree in eastern US survived millennia – but rising seas could kill it | Trees and forests
A wizened eastern bald cypress dwells in an expanse of North Carolina’s wetlands. It lives among a cluster of eastern bald cypress trees
Converted offices pose ‘deadly risk’ in heatwaves, experts warn | Housing
The conversion of offices into flats in urban centres poses a “potentially deadly risk” to occupants as the intensity of heatwaves rises, experts
Baked barnacles, scorched cherries: the disastrous impact of heatwaves on plants and animals | Climate crisis in the American west
When forecasts foreshadowed the Pacific north-west’s devastating heatwave at the end of June, marine biologist Christopher Harley was alarmed and intrigued. Then came