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Climate crisis
Heat plans won’t save us while fossil fuels stay untouched
Governments are rolling out heat-health plans and cooling centres as Europe burns. What they’re still avoiding is the fossil-fuel expansion driving the crisis in the first place, says Rob Dyer.
Green groups call on Burnham to end silence on climate change
More than 50 organisations, from Greenpeace to Friends of the Earth, have written to the prime minister demanding he name fossil fuels as the cause of this summer’s extreme weather.
July’s heat was unrelenting. Union leaders aren’t fighting it
Copernicus data shows July 2026 among the hottest on record, with Arctic ice near historic lows. The technology to fix this already exists – but union leaders defending fossil fuel jobs are standing in the way, says Brian Green.
No longer someone else’s problem: Europe burns while governments rearm
As wildfires rage north of Madrid and across south-west France and around 300,000 people are evacuated, the climate emergency has stopped being a distant headline and become a European reality.
NATO plotted war in Ankara while the heat kills tens of thousands at home
As NATO leaders gathered in Ankara to plan for war with Russia, tens of thousands are already dying from extreme heat across Europe.