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Texas schools that became flood ‘relief hubs’ welcome students back: ‘It’s OK to not be OK’

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:00:09 +0000

Educators across the country confronted with how to deal with children in their schools who experienced tragedy

Schools in parts of Texas reopened their doors two months earlier than planned this summer. But the reason was tragic.

Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office says

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:46:37 +0000

Mean temperature is tracking at 16.13C after four heatwaves, significantly above current record of 15.76C

This summer is set to be the warmest on record for the UK, the Met Office has said, after the country experienced four heatwaves.

The mean temperature for summer is tracking at 16.13C (61.03F), which is significantly above the current record of 15.76C set in 2018.

Oregon wildfire begins stabilizing as California blaze threatens vineyards

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:32:25 +0000

Rain helped cool Flat fire that destroyed homes in Oregon, while the Pickett fire has charred 10 sq miles of Napa county

A wildfire that destroyed four homes in central Oregon has started to stabilize, while a blaze in northern California wine country has so far spared some of the state’s most famous vineyards.

‘You had to fend for yourself’: Hurricane Katrina haunts New Orleans as Trump guts disaster aid

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:30:00 +0000

As survivors and experts reflect on the storm 20 years on, fear is growing that the US is just as unprepared to take on extreme weather amid cuts to Fema

Darren McKinney grew up in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. When Hurricane Katrina struck 20 years ago this week, he watched his neighborhood wash away. From his second-floor apartment, he saw flood waters rise up to his window.

Fossil fuel extractors bend the world to their will – help fund the journalism that exposes them

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:00:03 +0000

Across the globe, oil, gas and coal companies use an ever-widening set of tactics to crush competition and opposition. With the world’s most powerful man helping them at every turn, it’s critical we reveal their full impact

Today the Guardian launches its annual environment support campaign. To back our vital climate journalism, please click here

India’s supreme court orders inquiry into giant zoo run by son of Asia’s richest person

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:37:50 +0000

Activists claim Anant Ambani’s Vantara facility has no plan to return its endangered species to the wild

India’s supreme court has ordered an investigation into a vast private zoo founded by the son of Asia’s richest person over allegations of illegal wildlife imports and financial misconduct.

Tuesday briefing: How ‘climateflation’ is pushing food prices ever higher – and changing how we eat

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:43:57 +0000

In today’s newsletter: Extreme heat, droughts and floods are proving disastrous for farmers on the frontline of climate change, and consumers in the supermarket, too

Good morning. My mum is a livestock farmer in Kent. This year her hay crop was down by 50% because the spring rains never came. She’s not alone – up and down the UK, farmers have watched their fields turn brown and their hay crops collapse.

Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:00:21 +0000

Views of forward-thinking artist and writer who lived off land in national park celebrated at museum in Glastonbury

She was considered an eccentric by some, eking out a frugal existence on a wild English moor, surviving off the land and exchanging her sketches of the countryside for meals.

But the first museum exhibition on the life and work of the largely forgotten nature writer and artist Hope Bourne highlights that her views on the environment, recycling, access to the countryside – even rewilding – were ahead of her time.

Nature loss will cut UK GDP by 5% without action from private sector, say experts

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:18 +0000

Report finds regenerative approach could yield economic benefits while helping to meet environmental targets

The degradation of nature in the UK will lop nearly 5% off the country’s GDP if the private sector does not make a greater effort to halt the decline, experts have warned.

Marks & Spencer to open secondhand clothing store on eBay

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:01:12 +0000

Customers to get £5 vouchers for donating M&S clothes to Oxfam, which will get 15% of profits from eBay sales

Marks & Spencer is opening a secondhand clothing store on eBay to find new homes for “old favourites” as the household name taps into booming demand for preloved clothing.