31 h. ago ‘A common enemy beyond ideologies’: Spain’s PM announces plan to tackle climate crisis

Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate actionSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced a 10-point plan to prepare the country for the climate emergency, warning that “if we don’t want to bequeath our children a Spain that’s grey from fire and flames, or a Spain that’s brown from floods, then we need a Spain that’s greener”.Sánchez said August’s heatwave-fuelled wildfires – which killed four people, burned through an area six times the size of Ibiza, and required “the biggest human and technical deployment” ever seen in Spain – showed immediate action must be taken to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis

Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate actionSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced a 10-point plan to prepare the country for the climate emergency, warning: “If we don’t want to bequeath our children a Spain that’s grey from fire and flames, or a Spain that’s brown from floods, then we need a Spain that’s greener.”Sánchez said August’s heatwave-fuelled wildfires – which killed four people, burned through an area six times the size of Ibiza and required “the biggest human and technical deployment” ever seen in Spain – showed that immediate action must be taken to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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61 h. ago Minister bats away demands for Rayner probe after it emerges deputy PM used top wealth protection firm in house deal

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted the embattled Deputy PM had been 'clear she has followed all the rules and requirements asked of her'.

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5 d. ago Bad news for nervous fliers! Severe turbulence is set to get even WORSE thanks to climate change, scientists warn

It's every nervous flier's worst nightmare, but severe air turbulence is set to get a lot worse, a new University of Reading study shows.

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6 d. ago Sharks are losing their deadly teeth thanks to climate change, scientists warn

They're among the top underwater predators, but even sharks are not immune to the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, report scientists in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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7 d. ago Angela Rayner's three homes row is a 'danger' for Labour and 'risks pushing more voters to Reform', says pollster

The Deputy Prime Minister has been dubbed 'Three Pads Rayner' after it emerged she had shelled out £800,000 on a luxury flat in Hove, East Sussex.

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7 d. ago Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved at the last bellOn 15 March 2022, I was on a video call with a dear friend when I experienced a twitching on the left-hand side of my face and a slurring of my speech. My wife, Fiona, took me to hospital because we both thought I was having a stroke, and I spent the journey in the car adjusting to my probable death. Interestingly, I did not feel fear or anger; only sadness and disappointment that it was all going to end sooner than I had expected. I survived: but six days later, we learned that the cause of my condition was a particularly aggressive form of brain tumour called a glioblastoma.Since then I have read a number of accounts written by cancer sufferers. Many of them start with an uncertain diagnosis, often with a reasonable percentage chance of survival. But unlike these accounts it was absolutely clear that the tumour would ...

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9 d. ago Heatwave that fuelled deadly wildfires was Spain’s ‘most intense on record’

Country’s weather agency says 10-day period from 8-17 August was hottest since at least 1950, as fires still rageA 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was “the most intense on record”, the country’s state meteorological agency (AEMET) has said.Provisional readings for the 3-18 August heatwave exceeded the last record, set in July 2022, and showed an average temperature 4.6C higher than for previous such phenomena, the agency said on X. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Watch Spanish army tackle devastating wildfires from the sky in plane cockpit footage

Watch as the Spanish army use planes to pick up water from a nearby lake and dump it on wildfires savaging the country.

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1 week ago Dengue fever warning as climate change to 'drive mosquitoes with disease to UK'

Dengue fever could be infecting people in Britain soon as Asian Tiger mosquitoes migrate to new areas as a result of climate change, according to a new scientific study

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1 week ago Wildfires in Spain are setting an alarming new record, according to EU data

Wildfire carbon emissions in Spain rose almost vertically on monitoring charts during the first two weeks of August, overtaking all previous years in their dataset

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1 week ago Spain wildfires LIVE: Foreign Office's new advice amid 'very high' fire threat

Soldiers continue to help firefighters across Spain, including in and around the Galicia and Extremadura regions, following several major wildfires - and more are feared

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2 w. ago Spain suffers its worst wildfires on record as deadly infernos ravage area twice the size of London after two

Official figures from the Carlos III Health Institute show there were 1,149 excess deaths in Spain from August 3-18.

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2 w. ago Spain battles record wildfires even as temperatures begin to fall

The country is facing one of its most destructive fire seasons in recent decades

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2 w. ago Harrowing moment Portuguese pensioner is dragged away as she watches her house burn in ferocious wildfires

Some 216,000 hectares of land has burned in Portugal and two firefighters have died, while deadly wildfires have ravaged 348,000 hectares in Spain, bringing the death toll up to four.

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2 w. ago Spain suffers worst wildfires on record as area twice the size of London burns

Spain suffers worst wildfires on record as area twice the size of London burns  The Telegraph

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2 w. ago Spain wildfires: Urgent warning with 'extreme danger' in tourist hotspots

Locals and tourists in Spain have been warned about dangerous wildfires across the country - with popular tourist spots at risk

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2 w. ago Ukraine live updates: Trump and European leaders press Putin to agree to Zelenskyy meeting

US president says arrangements being made for bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy and that US will help guarantee Ukraine’s security if a deal is reachedFull report: Trump arranging Zelenskyy-Putin meeting as European leaders push for US security guaranteesSketch: All smoke and no fire as Zelenskky emerges unbruised after Trump meetBritish prime minister Keir Starmer has described the talks at the White House as “good and constructive” and said they produced “real progress”.Speaking after the summit, Starmer said: “There was a real sense of unity between the European leaders that were there and President Trump and President Zelenskyy.”The other material outcome was the agreement that there will now be a bilateral agreement between President Putin and President Zelenskyy, that was after a phone call between President Trump and President Putin during the course of this afternoon, followed by a trilateral that will add in Trump.That is a recognition of the principle that on s...

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2 w. ago Four dead as Spain hit by worst wildfires on record in 45C heatwave

Temperatures have soared to 45C in Spain in the past fortnight - so far fires have burned over an area the size of Mallorca

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2 w. ago Camino de Santiago pilgrims voice shock as devastating Spanish wildfires force route closure

‘This is a fire situation we haven’t experienced in 20 years’ - Spain’s Defence Minister Margarita Robles

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