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Flash flooding

Causing travel chaos

Two dead in New Jersey as soaked US northeast braces for more rain

The tree at Sycamore Gap had stood for nearly 200 years in northern England

'Deliberate and mindless'

Two men who chopped down iconic UK tree handed jail sentences

This screen grab from a NASA+ broadcast on June 26, 2025, shows the Axiom Mission 4 crew inside the International Space Station's Harmony module

22-hour journey

Astronauts from US, India, Poland, Hungary on SpaceX capsule return to Earth

Plaintiffs Pabai Pabai (L) and Paul Kabai (R) said they were devastated by the Federal Court's decision

Lacklustre emission targets

Indigenous Australians lose landmark climate court case against government

Raspberry pickers scour the fields for fruit that have not withered in the heat

Drought-hit Serbian raspberry farmers fear 'catastrophic' future

(L/R) Food and Drug Administration Commissioner (FDA) Martin Makary and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., eat ice cream at the end of a news conference at the USDA headquarters building in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2025

Petroleum-derived synthetic colouring

US ice cream makers to scoop out synthetic dyes under RFK Jr. push

Volunteers hand out anti-data center signs at a public meeting in Canaan Valley, West Virginia, June 30, 2025

Rapidly rising needs

W. Virginia villagers take on AI-driven power plant boom

A huge column of smoke rises from the Grand Canyon

Popular tourist site

Spreading Grand Canyon fire destroys historic lodge

Speaking during a visit to Beijing ahead of a major EU-China summit in the city this month, Teresa Ribera dismissed China's claims that the bloc was engaging in

Deep frictions exist

EU climate VP seeks 'fair competition' with China on green energy

The report found that last year was the UK's fourth warmest since 1884

Way of life 'under threat'

New UK weather records being set 'very frequently': report

Eyes on the sky

From comet debris to night show: what are meteor showers?

Some visitors have been evacuated from the Grand Canyon in Arizona

Dragon Bravo Fire

Tourists, residents evacuated from Grand Canyon due to wildfires

US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott meet local emergency services personnel as they survey flood damage along the Guadalupe River on July 11, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas

During State visit

Trump voices shock at devastating scale of Texas flood damage

Some visitors have been evacuated from the Grand Canyon in Arizona

Visitors to remain calm

Part of Grand Canyon evacuated as wildfire spreads

People cool off in front of Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, as the Russian capital sweltered under record heat

Hottest since 1996

Moscow sizzles in record-breaking heatwave

The seals have been nurtured at a rehabilitation centre in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda

Imperilled by climate change

Lithuania bids to save Baltic seals as ice sheets recede

Shark attacks are rare in ocean-loving Australia, and most serious bites are from three species: bull sharks, great whites, and tiger sharks, according to a national data base

Migratory predators

Bull sharks linger in warming Sydney waters

Solar had never before been Europe's top energy source, consultants say

According to energy think tank

Solar becomes Europe's main energy source in June: consultants

A search-and-rescue helicopter flies over Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, where severe flash flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend left more than 120 people dead and another 170 missing

Early alerts could have saved lives

Scrutiny over Texas flood response mounts as death toll hits 120

Recoolit began working in Indonesia in 2021 to tackle what it considers an often-overlooked contributor to climate change: refrigerants

'Preserving nature'

In Indonesia, a start-up captures coolants to stop global warming

Moo Deng at two months old on September 15, 2024

Four-day festival

'Hippo Birthday': Thailand's Moo Deng marks one year old

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has been tapped to serve as interim administrator of US space agency NASA

Trump taps transport chief to be interim NASA administrator

Fishermen are helping researchers to try to save an endangered salamander from extinction in Mexico's Lake Patzcuaro

Lake Patzcuaro salamander

Mexican fishermen join fight to save extraordinary amphibian

In an interview, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island blamed the sweeping rollback of environmental protections on a flood of unlimited, anonymous corporate political spending, and said exposing the scale of this

Occupying instead of governing?

US senator warns of fossil fuel coup, economic reckoning

Drought-stricken south

Marseille residents return to burnt out homes after wildfire

The Texas floods death toll still risks surging as rescuers try to account for large numbers of unaccounted people

Fears grow that Texas floods death toll could surge

Scientists say climate change is making heatwaves longer and stronger, and Europe is particularly at risk

Deadly territory for vulnerable people

Climate change made European heatwave up to 4C hotter: study

Millions of people were exposed to high heat stress across the south and west of Europe

Copernicus report

Deadly temperatures blasted western Europe in record hot June

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