The unnerving sight of New York City’s skies turning a dystopian orange from wildfire smoke is just the latest in a barrage of recent distress…
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Can board games teach us about the climate crisis? Game creators say yes
Europe is planting trees to offset its emissions but is swiftly hit with massive wildfires. The United States is investing in mining operations abroad to…
View More Can board games teach us about the climate crisis? Game creators say yesBiggest climate toll in year of ‘devastating’ disasters revealed
The 10 most expensive storms, floods and droughts in 2022 each cost at least $3bn (£2.5bn) in a “devastating” year on the frontline of the…
View More Biggest climate toll in year of ‘devastating’ disasters revealedEurope’s climate warming at twice rate of global average, says report
Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average in the last 30 years, according to a report from the World Meteorological…
View More Europe’s climate warming at twice rate of global average, says report‘Part of the same land’: Lebanese and Syrians join forces to fight wildfires
Some of the trees in Akkar province are more than 100 years old, says Mohammed Abdallah. A refugee from the war just over the border…
View More ‘Part of the same land’: Lebanese and Syrians join forces to fight wildfiresCountry diary: The land is scarred from a summer of wildfires
Late summer always opened the front door to an aroma of toasted wheat and barley. Long after the crops had been harvested, the aftermath lingered…
View More Country diary: The land is scarred from a summer of wildfires‘It’s much easier to stop someone lighting a match than to put out a 1,000-acre fire’
Peru’s Sacred Valley, the breathtaking landscape between Cusco and Machu Picchu, has always had a few conventional fire brigades, but anyone who has ever witnessed…
View More ‘It’s much easier to stop someone lighting a match than to put out a 1,000-acre fire’More wildfires across UK feared as temperatures forecast to reach 35C
Wildfires could continue to break out across the UK this weekend, as the Environment Agency (EA) warns that the drought in England could persist into…
View More More wildfires across UK feared as temperatures forecast to reach 35CEurope’s record summer of heat and fires – visualised
Europe has already endured a record amount of fire damage in 2022, as the continent has baked in extreme – and in some cases, unprecedented…
View More Europe’s record summer of heat and fires – visualised‘You can’t take risks’: Portugal’s lonely lookouts stand guard against wildfires
There’s smoke on the horizon. From inside a small tower, perched on the summit of the Serra de São Mamede mountain in eastern Portugal, Anacleto…
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