The datacentre power spat highlights a hidden truth: we’re not building renewables fast enough to meet our needs | Alison Reeve
Environment | The Guardianby Alison Reeve·31 Aug 2026
Anthony Albanese has been clear that he wants a set of national standards to ensure datacentre growth accelerates Australia’s push to renewables and keeps a lid on power prices.
Flooding devastated swathes of Indiana but response is hampered by politics
Environment | The Guardianby Stephen Starr in Cambridge City, Indiana·30 Aug 2026
It’s been 10 days since the floodwater receded from Cambridge City’s main street and yet signs of disaster are all around.
‘The world needs to pay attention’: Nepalis and Tibetans in New York respond to the Himalayan disaster
Environment | The Guardianby Lok Darjee and Catherine Guerrero Knight in New York·29 Aug 2026
Geeta Tamang was getting ready for bed when her aunts shared news that upended her world. “My aunts came into my room and told me what had happened,” said Tamang, a 24-year-old computer science...
Trump administration pushing to hand parcel of Yosemite land to private developer – report
Environment | The Guardianby Dani Anguiano·28 Aug 2026
The Trump administration is reportedly pushing to give a parcel of land inside Yosemite, the country’s first national park and one of its most popular, to a Nevada-based private developer.
London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
Environment | The Guardianby Pippa Neill Environment reporter·28 Aug 2026
The London Science Museum has ended its decades-long partnership with the oil and gas company BP in what has been described as a “seismic shift” for the museum.
Labour rejects Zack Polanski’s call to ‘slam brakes’ on building AI datacentres
Environment | The Guardianby Robert Booth UK technology editor·28 Aug 2026
Labour has rejected calls to pause construction of major AI infrastructure in Britain after the Green party leader, Zack Polanski, said it was time to “slam the brakes on these energy-guzzling...
This US city only has one supermarket for 45,000 people. New legislation seeks to fix that
Environment | The Guardianby Lela Nargi·28 Aug 2026
Jeannine Johansen remembers the halcyon days of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, when so many of its steep streets were punctuated by grocery stores: Almacs, A&P, Piggly Wiggly and Star Market.
Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn
Environment | The Guardianby Jonathan Watts·27 Aug 2026
The devastating flash flood that has ripped through the border communities of Nepal and Tibet has heightened fears that the climate crisis is destabilising the geology of mountain and polar...
El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds
Environment | The Guardianby Oliver Milman·27 Aug 2026
A series of strong El Niño climatic patterns in recent decades, such as the “Godzilla” event currently brewing that is set to warp weather around the world, have been supercharged by the broader...
The Guardian view on the Nepal-Tibet floods: prepare for more climate-linked disasters | Editorial
Environment | The Guardianby Editorial·27 Aug 2026
Thousands of people in Nepal and Tibet are in desperate need of emergency assistance following Wednesday’s disaster.
The Guardian view on energy costs: vulnerable households need help with their bills | Editorial
Environment | The Guardianby Editorial·27 Aug 2026
Fuelled by the consequences of Donald Trump’s disastrous war on Iran, household energy debt in Britain is continuing to soar, rising to a record £6bn by the end of June.
One of east coast’s largest datacenters accused of ‘violating federal law’
Environment | The Guardianby Evan Simon of Floodlight·27 Aug 2026
The largest planned AI datacenter in New Jersey is being accused of violating federal law after a visual investigation found the site running dozens of unpermitted gas-powered generators.
Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border leave scores dead and hundreds missing
Environment | The Guardianby Hannah Ellis-Petersen and agencies·26 Aug 2026
At least 95 people have died and hundreds are missing after flash floods hit the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and Tibet in China, with officials saying areas of India were also at risk.
1.3m plastic bottles collected in a day in global volunteer ocean cleanup
Environment | The Guardianby Matthew Pearce·26 Aug 2026
More than 1.3m plastic bottles were collected from beaches, rivers and waterways last year during the world’s largest single-day volunteer ocean cleanup.
‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital
Environment | The Guardianby John D Sutter with photographs by Ricardo Nagaoka·26 Aug 2026
Driving into the county, you can’t miss the sign. “IT’S THE CLIMATE”. The letters are so big they form an arch over 6th Street in Grants Pass.
‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations
Environment | The Guardianby Oliver Milman in New York, with photos and video by Thalia Juarez·26 Aug 2026
On a recent August day in the subterranean furnace of New York City’s subway, one bearded, curly haired man was studying his phone for different reasons than the other wilting passengers – to track...
Record-breaking heat dome expected to bring dangerous temperatures to US south-west
Environment | The Guardianby Keely Aouga·25 Aug 2026
Surging temperatures are expected to broil more than 45 million people as a heat dome settles in across the south-western US through the end of August and into early September, according to the...
London bus drivers resume strike over heatwave working amid fears over air con deal
Environment | The Guardianby Joanna Partridge·25 Aug 2026
London bus drivers have resumed strike action over having to work in high temperatures, amid fears that proposed improvements to air conditioning will not be complete by next summer.
NSW’s koala national park will protect threatened species and cap logging across the state. Could the Greens really block it? | Adam Morton
Environment | The Guardianby Adam Morton·25 Aug 2026
What qualifies as a win in environmental campaigning? Is it when a huge forest area that is home to a stack of threatened species, including koalas, and has been the focus of years and years of...
From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Environment | The Guardianby Devi Sridhar·25 Aug 2026
Every few months, there are more shocking headlines about the behaviour of England’s water companies.
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