theguardian.comadded August 2026
Environment | The Guardianby Damien Gayle7 Sept 2026
Big increases in wildfires and heatwaves supercharged by the climate crisis are hindering improvements to air quality around the world, UN experts have said.
Environment | The Guardianby Emmanuel Grégoire, Giuseppe Sala and Kate Gallego7 Sept 2026
This summer, mayors met in London during the heatwave that ironically threatened to derail London Climate Action Week.
Environment | The Guardianby Fiona Harvey in Birmingham5 Sept 2026
On the second day of the Reform UK conference, in the wake of an undercover investigation alleging party officials plotted to evade the law on foreign donations, the deputy leader, Richard Tice...
Environment | The Guardianby Julia Kollewe5 Sept 2026
UK insurers are experiencing a surge in the number of homeowners making claims for subsidence after the hottest summer on record, with Hastings Direct reporting a near 140% jump to an all-time high...
Environment | The Guardianby Natalie Wint5 Sept 2026
British beekeepers have called for a national awareness campaign about the impact of Asian hornets as they warned the invasive species was creating “pollinator deserts” and threatening food...
Environment | The Guardianby Graham Readfearn4 Sept 2026
Major Australian alpine resorts are closing their ski operations up to a month early after a winter that broke multiple records for heat with limited snow falls being washed away by rain.
Environment | The Guardianby Rachel Salvidge4 Sept 2026
Less than 1% of businesses in England use more water than the daily needs of 10 million people, as millions of households face hosepipe bans and three-quarters of the country is in drought.
Environment | The Guardianby Adam Morton4 Sept 2026
A giant chunk of glacier-covered mountain has collapsed with catastrophic effect and, whatever the mechanics of the disaster in Nepal’s Langtang national park, this is what human-caused climate...
Environment | The Guardianby Photo essay by Bryan Anselm, words by Dharna Noor3 Sept 2026
In New York City, the plastic we discard has a way of remaining in plain sight. There are few alleys to hide residents’ refuse, and the clear recycling bags leave their contents on full display.
Environment | The Guardianby Words and pictures by Jimmy Thomson in Nunavut, Canada3 Sept 2026
Electric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry Noah’s snowmobile as he races across sea ice extending out from Canada’s northernmost public community: Grise Fiord in Nunavut, a hamlet of 144 people...
Environment | The Guardianby Graham Readfearn3 Sept 2026
Australia’s new national agency for environmental protection has approved its first coal project, allowing a Queensland open-cut mine to keep digging until 2055 while clearing threatened woodland...
Environment | The Guardianby Oliver Milman2 Sept 2026
Online prediction markets, saturated by money staked on sport, crypto and politics, have now set their sights on a promising new area of growth: betting on the future livability of the planet...
Environment | The Guardianby Pippa Neill Environment reporter2 Sept 2026
The UK government does not know what the country’s datacentres are being used for despite fears over the growing environmental impact of the AI boom.
Environment | The Guardianby Reuters2 Sept 2026
The risk of power outages is expected to escalate across a broad swath of the United States on Wednesday as intense heat will test the capacity of electricity supplies serving millions of homes and...
Environment | The Guardianby Jenny Jones2 Sept 2026
I can’t even remember when I decided to stop paying the sewage element of my Thames Water bill. It might have been after reading this headline from the Guardian in July 2025: “Serious pollution...
Environment | The Guardianby Dharna Noor1 Sept 2026
A federal judge has struck down a landmark New York law that forces major polluters to pay climate damages.
Environment | The Guardianby Gabrielle Canon and agencies1 Sept 2026
A US border patrol technical search team is expected to deploy in the Grand Canyon, as authorities continue the search for at least one missing person after a fatal flash flood washed through the...
Environment | The Guardianby Pippa Neill Environment reporter1 Sept 2026
High winds associated with El Niño could cause widespread mortality among tree species already weakened by a prolonged period of extreme heat and drought, experts have warned.
Environment | The Guardianby Eva Corlett in Wellington1 Sept 2026
The population of the world’s heaviest parrot, the kākāpō, has surpassed 300 birds for the first time in 75 years, after a record breeding season triggered by the mass fruiting of a native New...
Environment | The Guardianby Cait Kelly in Kathmandu31 Aug 2026
It has been almost a week since the catastrophic floods in Nepal and not even a vehicle can get into the area where the majority of missing Australians were last heard from.
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