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  • A map showing the development of the El Niño in the tropicalPacific.Red areas are where sea surface temperatures are warmer than average.

    Environment
    ‘We are waiting with bated breath’: Super El Niño forecast could make 2027 hottest year on record, BoM says

    Most Australian capital cities have at least 80% chance of unusually warm and dry spring as climatologists watch developing system with increasing alarm
  • Warnings about dangerous, unhealthy air also extended from Minnesota to New York as wildfires rage in Toronto

    Toronto
    Wildfire smoke engulfs Toronto as unhealthy air reaches New York - video

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  • More than 100 wildfires are currently burning in Canada, with winds carrying the smoke southeast

    Toronto
    Train crew in Canada 'encased' by intense flames amid wildfires - video

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  • Rescue workers guide a boat carrying evacuees through flooded streets in Accra past damaged buildings

    Extreme weather
    How global heating supercharged floods in West Africa, displacing thousands

  • The sky over Toronto turned a sickly yellow

    Toronto
    Wildfires in Ontario make Toronto air quality worst in world

  • Multiple air conditioning units mounted below windows on the facade of a residential apartment building

    double quotation markSurviving extreme heat increasingly boils down to this: access to air conditioning

    Mark Wolfe
  • Laurie Laybourn

    double quotation markAndy Burnham must act fast on the climate – or risk getting stuck in a ‘derailment’ doom loop

    Laurie Laybourn
  • John Crace

    double quotation markKemi declares war on net zero – and what remains of her party

    John Crace
  • Chloe Mac Donnell

    double quotation markThere is a way to dress for the office in a heatwave – but leave the Paul Mescal short shorts at home

    Chloe Mac Donnell

Features

  • Interior of the sauna at R-Urban Poplar, showing wooden benches

    The alternatives
    Food scraps and mushrooms: the closed-loop garden behind the world’s first community-powered sauna

  • A group of people holding tools walking across a peat bog

    Environment
    The battle over peat: why do some gardeners still insist on using it?

  • Three men and a woman bend down to deal with weeds in a wood on a sunny day

    Immigration and asylum
    ‘We plant belonging’: how nature charities and asylum seekers work together in UK countryside

  • Triptych photo composite of industrial equipment, a woman in glasses and cap and farmland.

    America's dirty divide
    ‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

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