91 m. ago Air pollution in Amazon rainforest worse than big cities like London and Beijing, new data shows

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings

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92 m. ago The US hurricane season that wasn’t: Experts explain why we’ve had a lucky break

The Atlantic season wraps in under a month but no hurricanes have directly struck the contiguous U.S. in 2025

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1 hour ago 'Hero' railman who fought off knifeman in train mass stabbing pictured for first time

Samir Zitouni, 48, is fighting for his life after "undoubtedly saving many lives" in Saturday's mass stabbing attack on a train from Doncaster to London King's Cross.

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3 h. ago ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisisIn 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage ($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains. Cities instituted water restrictions. That summer, unrelentingly hot temperatures killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and Yellowstone national park suffered the worst wildfire in its history.Amid the disaster, George HW Bush, then Ronald Reagan’s vice-president, met with farmers in Michigan reeling from crop losses. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, consoled them: if elected, he would be the environmental president. He acknowledged the reality of intensifying heatwaves – the “greenhouse effect”, to use the scientific parlance of the day – with blunt clarity: the burning of fossil fuels contr...

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11 h. ago It's beached Wales! Prince William has a ball on Rio's Copacabana as he goes barefoot for a sunset game of volleyball

The royal was joined by Cafu - the most capped Brazilian player ever - for his trip to the sporting arena, where they met children learning about the environment and climate change

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15 h. ago Prince William has a ball on Rio's Copacabana as he goes barefoot for a sunset game of volleyball

The royal was joined by Cafu - the most capped Brazilian player ever - for his trip to the sporting arena, where they met children learning about the environment and climate change

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15 h. ago More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn

Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20More than $70tn (£53tn) of inherited wealth will pass down the generations across the world over the next decade, widening inequality and highlighting the need for intervention by the G20 group of leading nations, a group of economists and campaigners have warned.In a report ahead of the G20 meetings in Johannesburg, hosted by the South African government later this month, the expert panel said the gap in global wealth between rich and poor will widen over the next decade without a permanent monitoring group such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Prince William given keys to city of Rio de Janeiro as he arrives for Earthshot awards

The Prince of Wales is starting a five-day visit to Brazil to stage his Earthshot Prize and attend the Cop30 UN climate change summit

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17 h. ago Prince William praises inspirational young leaders during poignant engagement in Brazil

The Prince of Wales has told young people in Brazil that he wants to harness their 'courage and passion' for climate change, with the Earthshot Prize to 'be their legacy'

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18 h. ago Hero train driver whose quick thinking 'saved many lives' as knifeman rampaged through carriages speaks out for the first time

Andrew Johnson was driving the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train from Doncaster to King's Cross when knifeman Anthony Williams, 32, went on a rampage and injured 11.

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20 h. ago Away from Brazil’s ‘forest’ Cop30 – the fate of the Congo Rainforest hangs in the balance

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has opened bids for oil and gas drilling across huge swathes of the country, raising fears that the world’s last great rainforest carbon sink could be destroyed, Nick Ferris reports

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21 h. ago Prince William given keys to city of Rio de Janiero as he arrives for Earthshot awards

The Prince of Wales is starting a five-day visit to Brazil to stage his Earthshot Prize and attend the Cop30 UN climate change summit

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22 h. ago Sadiq Khan uses Rio speech to rekindle war of words with 'climate wrecker' Donald Trump

London mayor makes 12,000-mile round trip to Brazil - his fifth foreign visit of 2025 - after clocking up £84,000 bill in Africa

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26 h. ago Man due in court after mass stabbing on train in Cambridgeshire

Suspect charged with attempted murder after incident on Doncaster to London King’s Cross serviceA man is to appear in court charged with attempted murder after a mass stabbing on a high-speed train in Cambridgeshire, in which 10 people were injured, and a separate incident on London’s public transport network that left another person hurt.Anthony Williams, 32, from Peterborough, has been charged with 11 counts of attempted murder, one count of actual bodily harm and one count of possession of a bladed article in relation to the two incidents, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal

Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty processExxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty processThe documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between the Texas-based fossil fuel company and Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks and other partners worldwide. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Nightmare on platform two: Terrifying new video shows train knifeman following screaming passengers as they run for their lives in Cambridgeshire attack that hurt 11

Harrowing new footage has emerged showing the aftermath of stabbings on a rail service between Doncaster and London King's Cross train on Saturday evening.

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41 h. ago Nightmare on platform two: Terrifying new video shows train knifeman following screaming passengers as they run for lives in Cambridgeshire attack that hurt 11

Harrowing new footage has emerged showing the aftermath of stabbings on a rail service between Doncaster and London King's Cross train on Saturday evening.

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43 h. ago Nightmare on platform two: Terrifying new video shows train knifeman following screaming passengers as they run for lives in Cambridgeshire attack that hurt 10

Harrowing new footage has emerged showing the aftermath of stabbings on a rail service between Doncaster and London King's Cross train on Saturday evening.

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44 h. ago The Guardian view on art and health: the masterpiece can cure the body as well as the soul | Editorial

From a Van Gogh self-portrait to Gauguin’s dreamscapes, new studies show that seeing original art can calm stress and boost healthIn an era characterised by burnout and doomscrolling, a therapeutic alternative is hanging on a gallery wall. When volunteers at London’s Courtauld Gallery stood before Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear, Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Bergère, and Gauguin’s Te Rerioa, their stress and inflammation levels dropped compared with those of volunteers viewing reproductions. Science suggests that original art is a medicine that one can view rather than swallow.That art can lift spirits is well known. But that it calms the body is novel. A study by King’s College London asked participants to look at masterworks by 19th-century post-impressionists – Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet and Gauguin – while strapped to sensors. Half the group saw the originals in the gallery, half viewed copies in a lab. The results were clear: going to art galleries is good f...

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46 h. ago Heroic Nottingham Forest fan 'confronted knife maniac' before being stabbed in train attack

Alistair Day, 58, was travelling back from Nottingham Forest's match against Manchester United when he missed his connection and boarded the 6.25pm LNER service from Doncaster to London King's Cross

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