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The foreign minister claims public interest immunity over Dfat advice. This blog is now closedDisability advocates urge faster phase-out of segregated education following royal commission reportGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or dai…
Commission report gives 222 recommendations including introduction of disability rights act and end to segregated education. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRishworth won’t confirm adop…
Wildfires and soaring temperatures around Mediterranean have damaged harvests and forced producers to import supplies from South AmericaEurope has almost run out of local olive oil supplies and is set for more shortages, after extreme weather around th…
Danger-to-life warning issued as first named storm of autumn damages buildings and disrupts travelGusts of 70mph were recorded as the first named storm of the autumn, Agnes, swept across Britain and Ireland, damaging buildings, causing travel delays an…
More than 4,500 people died due to hot temperatures, ONS data reveals, as rate increases over recent yearsMore than 4,500 people died in England in 2022 due to high temperatures, the largest figure on record, with the number of heat-related deaths incr…
Country imposes first total fire ban in three years amid record-breaking September heatwave Australia has declared the start of an El Niño weather phenomenon, with a record-breaking September heatwave gripping the south-eastern region that has prompte…
Exclusive: wildfires, once rare in the UK, more than doubled last year to nearly 24,000 with devastating effects on wildlife habitatsWildfires recorded by UK fire brigades surged in 2022 amid extreme heat and droughts, new figures show, as a growing nu…
Hundreds of traumatised children are thought to have lost their families in disasterPeople in western Libya have rallied round to provide care and breastmilk for young children orphaned by the devastating floods that hit the coastal city of Derna on 10…
Ian Sample hears from the Guardian’s Europe environment correspondent, Ajit Niranjan, about the reporting he has been doing for the launch of our new Europe edition. He talks about Osijek, a Croatian city that has the highest heat mortality rate in Eur…
Severed fibre-optic cables hamper search for survivors in eastern Libya where thousands died after dams collapsedA daylong communication outage in the flood-stricken city of Derna in eastern Libya has further complicated the work of teams searching for…