Suffolk wildfire near Sizewell nuclear plant ‘stabilising’ after 24 hours
Suffolk wildfire near Sizewell nuclear plant ‘stabilising’ after 24 hours More than 100 firefighters remain at scene after Dunwich Heath…
‘It’s all right for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans
The playing fields at St Paul’s school in Barnes. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The GuardianView image in fullscreenThe playing fields at St…
Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought
Parched parkland at Greenwich in London, one of seven areas declared to be officially in drought by the Environment Agency.…
Why is Uganda experiencing a food crisis?
At least 19 people have died of starvation in the country and 1.5 million are at risk of malnutrition, experts…
Macron calls crisis meeting of French cabinet as blaze approaches Bordeaux
The situation in France is currently stable, authorities say, but another heatwave is on the way.
More than 360,000 evacuated as wildfires rage in France and Spain
French and Spanish authorities are struggling to contain the blazes, which are partly caused by successive heatwaves.
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe
Barren, salt-damaged soil in a sunflower field in Scardovari, north-east Italy. Low water levels and prolonged hot, dry conditions in…
It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone?
The canal taking water from the São Francisco River to Monteiro, north-east BrazilDespite official claims that the São Francisco River…