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Super Typhoon Bavi Pummels Guam, Northern Mariana Islands
Super Typhoon Bavi, packing 290 km/h winds, made landfall on Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands on Monday, triggering catastrophic damage warnings, widespread power outages, and emergency evacuation
Kent mink cull targets 90% population cut
A Kent conservation project aims to slash invasive American mink numbers by 90% within two years, expanding trapping across the county with funding from a national shooting association.
Farnham Backs Public Ownership of Jersey Golf Course
Jersey's Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham has backed the idea of publicly acquiring Les Mielles Golf & Country Club, a £9.95m site in St Peter that a 600+ signature petition wants returned to nature.
Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate
Tim Flannery surveys five outlandish 20th-century geoengineering schemes — from a 1930s plan to dam the Mediterranean to Soviet proposals to melt the Arctic with nuclear bombs — arguing humanity's lon
The grid was melting down in last week’s heat – until EVs came to the rescue
During last week's heat wave, roughly 230 electric school buses with vehicle-to-grid technology fed 8 MWh of stored battery power back to overtaxed utilities, helping prevent blackouts and demonstrati
UK records 37.7C as readers recall 1976 heatwave
A provisional 37.7C reading in Lingwood, Norfolk broke the June record set during the 1976 UK heatwave, prompting readers to share memories of that drought — shared baths, rationed water, and swarms o
Solar Panels Over Car Parks: Reader Asks Why Not
The Guardian's reader-answer column asked why the UK builds solar farms on green space instead of covering car parks, citing a viral meme, and opened submissions from readers for publication next Sund
Los Angeles turns ‘most polluting’ World Cup into Olympic rehearsal in bid for climate legacy
Los Angeles is hosting eight World Cup matches at SoFi Stadium as a stress test for the 2028 Summer Olympics, while the city contends with displaced wildfire survivors, a budget deficit, and transit i
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Hurricanes, heat domes, and holding up the grid with home batteries [update]
The case for virtual power plants has strengthened significantly over the past year as home battery adoption accelerates, with Tesla Powerwall paying owners $9.9 million in 2024 for grid contributions
Aldi Cloned in Fake Air Conditioning Scam Sites
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has uncovered sophisticated fake retailer websites — including a clone of Aldi — that lure UK heatwave shoppers with steeply discounted air conditioning units before steal
Europe's AC Culture War Turns Political
Europe's record heatwave has turned air conditioning into a political flashpoint, with far-right parties reversing earlier dismissals to attack climate policy while health experts warn of mounting dea
‘They ate the shrimp, they even ate the crab’: Thai fishers count the cost of a voracious invader
Blackchin tilapia, a west African fish first spotted in Thailand in 2011, has spread to at least 19 provinces, devastated shrimp farms, and triggered a lawsuit against agribusiness giant Charoen Pokph
Kalmar is building – and selling! – these massive electric reach stackers in China
Swedish heavy-equipment maker Kalmar has secured four orders for its 45-ton ERG450 electric reach stackers from customers across China, with the units marking the first deployment of its next-generati
CATL is building more than 200 battery swap stations EVERY MONTH
CATL's Choco-SEB battery swap network deployed its 2,000th station on June 30th, averaging more than 200 deployments per month in 2026 while expanding into UK and European markets through a new partne
Overcrowded and underfunded: Trump’s cuts to national parks threaten the US’s ‘best idea’
Trump administration budget cuts and mass firings have stripped the National Park Service of nearly a quarter of its permanent staff and slashed non-DC park project spending by 70%, leaving America's
GM Floods Dealers With Bolt EVs as Production Wind-Down Nears
GM's decision to produce the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt for only one model year has left dealers with 118 days of inventory — nearly double the industry norm — but the conspicuous dealer silence suggests the
Estancia Wells Dry as Detention Center Tops Water Use
Estancia, New Mexico declared a water emergency after its wells ran dry from years of drought, forcing the town to cut supplies to the Torrance County Detention Facility — its largest commercial water
Record Heat Hits US as July 4th Holiday Begins
Record-breaking temperatures are gripping the United States as the 4th of July holiday period gets underway, raising heatwave and severe weather concerns.
France Heatwave Deaths Jumped 29% in One Week
France recorded 2,025 excess deaths during the hottest week of June's record-breaking heatwave — a 29.1% jump over the prior week — with health authorities warning the toll will rise as Belgium and th
Canada's C$150bn Pipeline Deal Keeps BC Tanker Ban
Canada and Alberta will move forward on a new oil pipeline along the Trans Mountain route, with PM Mark Carney announcing over C$150bn in investments to preserve BC's tanker ban and offer Indigenous o
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