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Extreme rainfall inundates South Africa and Mozambique

Flood warning raised to highest level with roads washed away and rain forcing evacuation of Kruger national park

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s anti-climate agenda won’t just hurt the planet, but American incomes too

In this week’s newsletter: US earnings would be 12% higher without the climate crisis, a study reveals – and the hotter the world gets, the greater the economic losses

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: The new year shopping centre is packed – with hundreds of pied wagtails

Whiteley, Hampshire: It’s a remarkably mundane place for a large communal roost, but these birds are here for good reason

The Guardian - UK

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‘If you’re flushing the toilet with grey water, people should know’: how China turned rain into an asset

Architects and designers have recycled ancient practice of collecting rainwater to make buildings ecologically friendly

The Guardian - UK

Pesticides may drastically shorten fish lifespans, study finds

Even low levels of widely used agricultural chemicals were linked to accelerated ageing, research suggests

The Guardian - UK

Drams, dams and endangered salmon

Letter: Charlie Whelan argues argues that aluminium, produced using power from the Spey dam, is not a green alternative to glass bottles for whisky

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: A chilly tour of our historic churches (while the tourists are away)

St Kew, Cornwall: Midwinter is the best time for us to visit heritage sites and speculate on legends, starting at the secluded St Winnow’s church

The Guardian - UK

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Traces of cancer-linked pesticide found in tests at UK playgrounds

Pressure mounting for use of glyphosate, listed by WHO since 2015 as probable carcinogen, to be heavily restricted

The Guardian - UK

Bushfires spark inquiry call as funding debate rages

Underfunding has been blamed for the scale of losses from ferocious bushfires but state authorities insist conditions made containment impossible.

AAP

Ice core 'vault' preserving climate history opens in Antarctica

The Ice Memory Foundation on Wednesday opened the world’s first sanctuary for mountain ice cores in Antarctica, aiming to preserve crucial records of Earth’s climate for centuries.

Radio France Internationale

Earth records third-hottest year in 2025 as global heat streak grows

Earth logged its third-hottest year on record in 2025, figures released on Wednesday showed, extending an unprecedented run of global heat and pushing the planet closer to a key warming limit.

Radio France Internationale

Solar grazing: ‘triple-win’ for sheep farmers, renewables and society or just a PR exercise for energy companies?

For Hannah Thorogood, a first-generation Lincolnshire farmer, grazing her sheep on solar land gave her a leg-up in the industry

The Guardian - UK

New estimates show France still off track on climate goals

France's cuts to greenhouse gas emissions slowed for a second straight year in 2025 and remain well off track to meeting its climate goals, according to provisional government-commissioned estimates published Tuesday.

Radio France Internationale

Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction

Subsidies awarded to eight new projects help keep UK on track to decarbonise by 2030

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Birdwatch: Cold snap brings fieldfares and redwings to the fore

Britain’s winter thrushes, the swallows and swifts of the season, were strangely absent until recently

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Country diary: Which is the ‘fast sinker’ out of me and the grebe?

Waresley, Cambridgeshire: In a near-freezing lake, I’m treated to an up-close view of one of my favourite birds

The Guardian - UK

Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say

Data leads scientists to declare 2015 Paris agreement to keep global heating below 1.5C ‘dead in the water’

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Third hottest year notched as fires, floods hit at home

The world clocked its third hottest year on record in 2025 and is on track to surpass the 1.5C Paris Agreement threshold by the end of the decade.

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Fate of many species rests on stemming bush bulldozing

Australia has rubber-stamped thousands of hectares of threatened species habitat for development, but reworked protections could start to reverse the trend.

The Guardian - UK

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

The Guardian - AU

Ten Sydney Harbours’ worth of threatened species habitat approved for destruction in 2025, report finds

ACF analysis finds amount of habitat approved by Albanese government for land-clearing hit a 15-year high last year

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Hooray for the hard, frozen ground – life on Earth depends on it

Blacka Moor, South Yorkshire: The very cold daytime temperatures should be welcomed, and the reason is right beneath our feet

The Guardian - UK

He invented mini saunas for frogs – now this biologist has big plans to save hundreds of species

A deadly fungus has already wiped out 90 species and threatens 500 more but Anthony Waddle is hoping gene replacement could be their salvation

The Guardian - UK

Government’s wildlife targets will be missed in England, watchdog says

Seven out of 10 targets have little likelihood of being met by 2030, Office for Environmental Protection says

The Guardian - UK

US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit

Exclusive: ClimatePartner analysis shows how move would risk plunging Earth further into climate catastrophe

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