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Millions gather to watch as solar eclipse plunges swathe of Spain into darkness

Millions of spectators – tourists and locals alike – gathered in parks and cities across Spain to see Wednesday's total solar eclipse, the first of its kind in the country in more than a century.

Radio France Internationale

Country diary: This is how bad the heatwave has got for us arable farmers – I’m going on holiday

Brigg, Lincolnshire: I should be busy, but the boom-bust climate has upset all my usual routines

The Guardian - UK

Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem

As a controversial Spanish plan for sustainable meat on an industrial scale is dropped, it has revived the ethical debate over farming these intelligent wild animals

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India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production

Rise in new mine proposals, mainly in states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite plateau in global demand

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Permian Basin Community Seeks Fix for Radium in Its Drinking Water

Utilities serving thousands of Texans exceed legal limits for radium.

Texas Observer

Too many holes! Why badgers are digging up Britain’s lovingly maintained golf courses

Thanks to the drought, these black-and-white beauties are struggling to catch worms in the rock-hard earth. But there’s still good foraging on well-watered fairways and greens

The Guardian - UK

From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now

Rejecting North Sea drilling licences and protecting nature are just some measures Andy Burnham must implement to ready country

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Humpbacks return to Rio: the whales are back from the brink of extinction – but will tourism help or hinder?

The gigantic aquatic acrobats are exciting Brazil’s tourists as numbers recover from whaling. But some marine biologists question how booming tourism and conservation can coexist

The Guardian - UK

‘Like an alien invasion’: the neon flying squid that can fly in formation above the ocean

Smart, sociable squid use funnel-like organ to force water to jet propel themselves along in and out of sea

The Guardian - UK

Invertebrate of the year 2026: vote for your favourite

We’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose

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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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UK heatwave: Burnham considers ban on disposable barbecues to prevent wildfires – as it happened

Prime minister suggests possible measure as he prepares to chair emergency Cobra meeting in response to extreme heat

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s been a revelation’: how heat pumps can cool your home as temperatures soar

It might seem an unlikely way to stop overheating, but many owners have found the tech a lifeline in hot weather

The Guardian - UK

Signs of a house sparrow comeback in the UK after decades of decline

Populations starting to stabilise but much still needs to be done to reverse loss of 30m that almost led to species vanishing

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Country diary: One flower here is thriving, defying the drought

Frome, Somerset: While other plants are withering or skeletal, tansy is growing in great profusion, and it rewards close observation

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Male redback spiders invite cannibalism through a ‘self-sacrificial somersault’ during sex – but why?

New research sheds light on the genetic basis of the venomous arachnid’s ‘weird mating behaviour’

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Big polluters make small cuts under climate scheme

Australia's biggest polluters have reduced emissions by less than one per cent in two years and an environmental group is calling for reforms.

Texas Observer

Who Pays for the High-Powered Grid that Data Centers Need?

Texas would make large AI hyperscalers pay for the wires that connect them. Whether they must also pay directly for the broader grid work needed to serve them is still an open question.

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As heatwaves hit Britain, spare a thought for farm animals

Letters: Claire Bass says animal welfare is a blind spot for the government. Plus, Chris Phillipson on the libraries operating as ‘cool spaces’, Mick Beeby on lido restoration, and Dr Julian McDonough on NHS pressures

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Despite the drought, don’t give up on our native plants

Letters: Martin Sullivan and Lorraine Du Feu respond to a recent letter suggesting that we should focus on planting non-native species that can tolerate extreme heat

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Droughts were predicted decades ago – yet water companies did nothing

Letters: Water boards in the south of England should have paid attention to scientific models and built reservoirs, writes Steve Lindsay, while Martin Gray suggests turning salt water into drinking water is the answer

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‘I feel motherly towards them’: the nature reserve manager sharing her office with a wasp nest

Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was to get rid of the wasps entering her converted shipping container in Norfolk. Now she enjoys their constant hum

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‘Living fossil’: the blue-blood arthropod that has changed little in 445m years

Tenacious and confounding, the horseshoe crab pre-dates dinosaurs and has copper-based blood vital to vaccine safety

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The return of the caspian tiger: how a species feared extinct has come back to Kazakhstan

The wild capture and release of a female big cat into a nature reserve is the first step towards reintroducing a population that hasn’t been seen for 70 years

The Guardian - UK

Summer 2026 on course to be UK’s hottest on record, says Met Office – as it happened

Prediction comes amid warning of ‘extreme heat’ this week with temperatures of 38C possible

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