Liam Dutton
India has hottest day on record as temperature hits 51C
India has its hottest day on record, with 51C (123.8F) in the north west of the country.
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Uprooted by the Climate Crisis
Our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos followed one Guatemalan farmer desperately trying to make the journey of a lifetime – travelling into the US and placing his life in the hands of human smugglers.
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Beavers given flood defence job in Somerset
A pair of beavers have been released on a National Trust estate in Exmoor – as part of efforts to improve biodiversity and help tackle flooding.
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Australia hit by dust and hail storms after wildfires
As if Australia hasn’t had enough extreme weather – now huge dust storms are sweeping across drought-ravaged parts of rural New South Wales.
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‘Catastrophic’ fires threaten Sydney, Australia
Despite briefly boasting more than 50% renewable power generation on its national grid this year, Australia is struggling to move on from an energy, labour and political market built on a 1950s coal-based model.
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‘Mother’s Rise Up’ marches call for dramatic action on climate change
Mothers, fathers and children have taken to the streets to call for urgent action on climate change.
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Rain brings relief after protracted heatwave
Britain’s heatwave, the most protracted since 1976, is over – for now at least. There’s been glorious sunshine and unbearable heat throughout the last few weeks, but now rain is falling over a large part of the country and normal summer service, including travel disruption, has been resumed. It’s not just Britain that’s been affected…
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Water crisis looms in South Africa
The embattled South African President Jacob Zuma could be out of power within days, but residents in Cape Town are facing uncertainty of another kind: their water supply is fast running out. After three years of relentless drought, a rapidly expanding population and accusations of poor planning by authorities, day zero, when the taps are…
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Millions face water shortages in Cape Town
What would happen if the water simply ran out? That’s the nightmarish reality facing four million people in Capetown, which may soon be forced to turn off its taps after drought and population growth brought reservoir levels dangerously low. Officials say supplies could dry up by mid April.
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Thousands evacuated as wildfires spread in France
Around 12,000 people on the south-east coast of France have had to abandon their homes and hotels to escape wildfires. The alarm was raised in the middle of last night, and many holidaymakers and locals were forced to sleep on the beach. Wildfires are also raging in parts of southern Italy, Portugal and Albania, fanned…
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Europe wildfires warning for holidaymakers
Southern Europe is still sweltering in the grip of a heatwave, which has sparked wildfires in the south of France and Corsica, near popular tourist spots along the Cote d’Azur. Thousands of firefighters have also been battling blazes in Portugal, while Italy’s drought is so severe that the Pope has shut down the Vatican’s historic…
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Four ways Brexit has already made you worse off
The cost of holidays and your weekly shop have gone up. But is it all doom and gloom? FactCheck investigates.
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UN says scale of disaster is unprecedented
The problems are huge, they are complex. It is climatic, it is climate change, it is severe drought. But it is also politics. The figures are mind boggling.
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Alex Thomson
Heatwave? It’s all Johnny Foreigner’s fault!
The tabs rave about hot air coming maliciously in ‘from the continent’ where ‘continental air pollution’ will be dragged here resulting in the current mass death threat.
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Liam Dutton
El Nino’s influence: more Pacific hurricanes likely this year
Yesterday, the National Hurricane Center issued its eastern Pacific hurricane outlook, saying that there’s a 70 per cent chance of an above-normal number of storms this year – largely due to El Nino.