Weather tracker: France hit by severe thunderstorms
Low-pressure system tracking over intensely heated land results in large hailstones and frequent lightning After several days of intense heat, large parts of France were...
Category : Environment
Europe on alert as first major heatwave of 2025 pushes temperatures to 42C
Authorities in Spain, Portugal, Greece and France issue extreme heat, wildfire and health warnings Authorities across Europe are on alert as the first heatwave of...
The ‘sacrifice zone’: villagers resist the EU’s green push for lithium mining
Residents of a Portuguese rural idyll where four vast mines are planned are among those who feel they will pay too high a cost for...
Weather tracker: Europe and China in midst of record-breaking heat
Temperatures over 40C recorded in Portugal and Spain, while China endures heatwave conditions in high 40s Temperature records for early June are being broken across...
World must move from ‘plunder to protection’ to save oceans, UN chief warns
Speaking at France summit, António Guterres called for bold pledges to stop deep sea from becoming ‘wild west’ Nations must move from “plunder to protection”...
I love the graffiti I see in Paris – but tagging is just visual manspreading | Alexander Hurst
Call me a middle-class ‘bobo’, but inspired street art has nothing in common with sprayed-on assertions of ‘me, me, me’ Among the layers of life...
Weather tracker: Fierce thunderstorms and big hailstones hit parts of Europe
France particularly badly hit, while rainfall across southern China triggers landslides and widespread disruption This week, large parts of Europe have been affected by a...
The Swiss village buried by a glacier collapse – podcast
Tess McClure reports on a landslide in Switzerland that left one person missing and destroyed a village The Swiss village of Blatten was wiped out...
Norway to set up compensation scheme for 1980 oil rig disaster victims’ families
Parliament backs scheme for relatives of 123 men who died in worst disaster in Norway’s waters since second world war Forty-five years after the Alexander...
Irish whale-watching company ends tours on south Atlantic coast and blames overfishing
Sprat fishing has disrupted the food chain and diverted humpback, minke and fin whales as well as dolphins A whale-watching company has abandoned tours off...
