UNBELIEVABLE: 34 - The Untold Story

New campaign urges public to reduce water use as UK emerges from heatwave

Exclusive: £75m publicity drive will ask people to treat water as precious resource and cut daily use by 28 litres

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29

Country diary: There’s no blackbird song like the one on my street

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: With summer’s great silence coming, we must enjoy the birdsong while we can – as I have done with my local conifer crooner

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29

‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres

In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29

Pacific ocean a 'forever chemical' hotspot for whales

Widespread, long-living and top of the food chain, dolphins and other toothed whales are thought to be ideal indicators of forever chemical exposure in oceans.

AAP · Jun 27

The secret life of birds on river's precious wetlands

New footage from a carefully preserved wetland shows an abundance of wildlife, in a project ecologists hope will reveal the beauty of the Murray-Darling Basin.

AAP · Jun 27

‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?

Scorching summer of 2003 triggered first efforts to deal with the problem but heatwaves still have devastating impact

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27

Marine biobanks: the science of 'stopping time' for an ecosystem under pressure

In labs around the world, the ocean is being kept in jars. Some of it is alive, bubbling in flasks, while some lies frozen in liquid nitrogen. These marine biobanks are collections of coral cells, algae, bacteria and other living materials that scientists are working to preserve before warming seas…

Radio France Internationale · Jun 27

Parents booking air-conditioned hotels to keep babies safe in UK heatwave

Hotels report increase in last-minute bookings, including from families attempting to escape hot homes

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27

Fourth toddler dies in France as Europe’s brutal heatwave forecast to shift east

Scientists say hot spell is worst ever, with nearly half of region’s 850 largest cities facing unprecedented heat stress

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26

Death of the Major oak should spur tree protection

Letters: Prof Rebecca Clifford outlines step we might take towards a fitting memorial for this remarkable tree

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26