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‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:00:08 +0000

Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest

The occupants of the vinyl-coated military tents at this remote jungle camp in Brazil’s wild west compare the hellscape surrounding them to catastrophes old and new: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the bombardment of Gaza, the obliteration of Hiroshima during the second world war.

One year of Guardian Europe: different stories through a new lens

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:00:07 +0000

On 20 September 2023, the Guardian launched a new digital edition for a continent in the grip of dramatic political and social change. This is what we’ve learned so far – and how you can help us do more

Weather tracker: Shanghai hit by its ‘strongest typhoon in 75 years’

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:05:49 +0000

More than 400,000 people evacuated, hundreds of flights cancelled and many roads shut due to flooding and winds

Typhoon Bebinca struck the east coast of China this week, making landfall near Shanghai, a city of almost 30 million people, on Monday. Bebinca developed into a typhoon to the east of the southern Japan islands late last week, before traveling westwards through the East China Sea and making landfall in Shanghai at approximately 7.30am local time (00.30BST).

Week in wildlife in pictures: Hampshire beaver babies, bubbly lizards and a shopaholic koala

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:00:04 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Fish! Do they have feelings? Now everyone wants to know about the emotional lives of fish! | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:34:19 +0000

Do fish feel despair or longing? Do they yearn for a simpler time?

Wildfires ravaging northern Portugal – in pictures

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:00:05 +0000

Since last week, wildfires have been raging in central and northern Portugal. At least seven people have died and 50 have been injured. More than 5,000 firefighters have been mobilised to battle the blazes

UK’s first ever bison bridges under construction in Kent woodland

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:00:01 +0000

Four bridges will allow herds to pass beneath public footpaths while visitors may catch glimpse of bison from above

When Europe’s heaviest land mammals were introduced into a woodland on the edge of Canterbury, it was hoped they would flourish and make space for other wildlife.

But the European bison have been so successful in West Blean and Thornden Woods that more space must be made for them – in the form of Britain’s first ever bison bridges.

‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:00:04 +0000

The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sun’s energy

The Thriamvos company truck pulls up at noon outside the four-storey building in the heart of Nicosia.

It’s the third rooftop installation of a solar-powered water heating system that Petros Mihali and his assistant, Soteris, have made in the Cypriot capital since their working day began at 7am.

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:00:01 +0000

In a Guardian interview, Tony Juniper says housebuilding plans could be an opportunity to create ‘wild belts’ around cities to help habitat and species recovery

The collapse in British butterfly populations is a “warning from nature” about the resilience of the UK’s ecosystems, says England’s nature chief, raising concerns about threats to national food security as the planet continues to heat.

Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds

admin — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:00:49 +0000

Student-led analyses raise concerns of conflict of interest at six universities, including Princeton, Columbia and Cornell

Prestigious US universities are raking in millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests, raising concerns about conflicts of interest. And one university even appears to have owned a petroleum company from which it has earned millions of dollars, according to a spate of new reports produced by student organizers.