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Climate crisis

  • Extended Heat Wave Sets In Throughout California<br>PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA - JULY 05: People walk through sideway misters as the temperature reaches 119 degrees on July 5, 2024 in Palm Springs, California. The official temperature is 124 degrees at the nearby regional airport.The National Weather Service predicts similar daily high temperatures for the next several days and has issued an Extensive Heat Warning through July 10. Extreme heat is baking most of the state, threatening health and heightening the danger of wildfires. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

    US weather
    ‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130m across US

  • David Lammy arrives in Downing Street.

    Politics
    David Lammy faces a world in turmoil: five key concerns for foreign secretary

    Challenges include two wars and global inertia on the climate crisis as hard-right populists from France to the US flex their muscles
  • a digital billboard reads '106 degrees'

    Phoenix
    Heat-related deaths in Phoenix, Arizona, have nearly doubled this year

    The city just had its hottest June on record, with 175 possible heat deaths so far this year – an 84% increase

  • Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • General election 2024
    Greens to push Labour to ‘be braver’ on climate, sewage and cost of living

  • Cayman Islands
    Hurricane Beryl barrels through Cayman Islands after battering Jamaica

  • Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    The summer of green music festivals

  • Caribbean
    Homes wrecked as Hurricane Beryl hits south-east Caribbean – video

  • France
    Far-right win in French election could deal blow to climate policy, say experts

  • Farming
    Disastrous fruit and vegetable crops must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, say farmers

Opinion

  • Damaged houses and buildings along the coast of the island of Carriacou, Grenada, in the wake of Hurricane Beryl.

    The Guardian view on Hurricane Beryl: the west can’t sit this out

  • Dogs are seen near the border wall, on the border between Mexico and US, during a winter storm, in Ciudad Juarez

    Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls

    Jonathan Watts
    • Caroline Lucas

      After asking ‘What about the climate?’ for 14 years, I’m standing down as an MP. But I have reasons to be hopeful

      Caroline Lucas
    • Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak in the final televised party leader debate, chaired by Mishal Husain.

      The Guardian view on Britain’s green future: where was the debate?

    • Acitivists in black stand next to oil slicks on the pavement, and others hold a banner that reads 'largest shareholder of Shell'

      Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly

      Daniela Gabor
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Features

  • Close-up of blooming buckwheat in a field

    Farming
    Weatherwatch: Buckwheat, miracle crop for a future of extreme heat

  • Devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl in St Vincent and the Grenadines

    Caribbean
    ‘Please send help’: Caribbean reels from Hurricane Beryl devastation

    • Smoke rising from mutual aid wildfire HTZ001 which flared due to strong winds, near Indian Cabins, Alberta, Canada, in May 2024.

      Canada
      As Canada braces for a raging summer, Indigenous communities remain displaced

    • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and wind turbines

      Donald Trump
      ‘It’s nonsensical’: how Trump is making climate the latest culture war

    • Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy/The Guardian

      The Audio Long Read
      From the archive: Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope – podcast

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