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Outback kaleidoscope: Australia’s fabled desert lake bursts to life in rare sight
A prodigiously wet monsoon season has brought damaging floods to parts of Australia, but transformed Kati Than...
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Storm Boelo to bring 80mph gusts and heavy rain to parts of UK
Second named storm will hit northern parts of UK as thousands remain without power after Friday’s Storm Austen
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Hurricane Isaias live updates: hundreds of thousands without power as storm batters US Gulf Coast
First Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season makes landfall in the US
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How California is bracing for a winter of floods, fires and extreme storms all at once
The strongest El Niño recorded is expected to bring a cascade of hazards to a state still facing wildfire and...
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Country diary: The land here is scarred from a year of hard weather – now what will winter hold?
Camborne, Cornwall: There will be more storms like Goretti and more fires next summer, but we can make the lan...
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Tokyo succumbs to ‘rain fatigue’ after a record 35 consecutive days of showers
The record rainfall has been blamed on a combination of climate change and El Niño, which has created a prolon...
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Thai downpours shift north-westwards after Bangkok declared a disaster zone
Capital city submerged in waist-high flood water, while elsewhere Hurricane Nolo threatens Hawaii’s Big Island
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Babies ‘will face almost twice as much’ extreme fire weather in Europe than great-grandparents
Children born after 2025 will experience three more years of brutally fire-conducive weather as global heating...
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Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in...
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Weather tracker: Thunderstorms hit Spain as Japan braces for typhoon
At least one person dead as stormy weather causes severe flooding in Barcelona and Valencia
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The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it
One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leader...
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The world’s rivers are at breaking point. Can we save them before it is too late?
In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issu...