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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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

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 issues facing waterways around the world

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds

Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

From Peru to the Philippines, defending the land comes at a deadly cost

People defending their land, forests and communities continue to face killings, arrests and intimidation around the world – with Latin America by far the most dangerous region, the environmental campaign group Global Witness has found. In the Philippines, one community resisting a mining project has told RFI of arrests, injuries…

Radio France Internationale · Sep 17

Solar panels going to landfill while Labor’s $25m recycling scheme on hold

Australian Council of Recycling says it has had ‘no clarity about the nature of the complaint’ that delayed program announced in January

The Guardian - AU · Sep 17

El Niño and global heating pushes water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to record levels in August

Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say

The Guardian - AU · Sep 17

Dry rivers and shrinking glaciers deepen global freshwater decline

Rivers around the world are running unusually dry as freshwater reserves continue to decline, leaving less water stored away to help countries through drought, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned. Glaciers and groundwater are also shrinking, while in Switzerland the retreat of Alpine ice is already forcing changes to…

Radio France Internationale · Sep 17

Andy Burnham: UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050

Exclusive: PM, who is facing pressure over whether to approve North Sea oil and gasfields, makes strongest comments yet on issue

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17

‘It’s beautiful when it’s clean’: the Argentine neighbourhood saving a contaminated river

Sewage, dog carcasses and industrial waste clog Argentina’s second most-polluted river. Meet the activists cleaning it up

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17

Access-to-nature crisis ‘on par with that of Victorian Britain’s filthy air’

Research finds many in England lack proximity to green and blue spaces as Labour urged to speed up manifesto pledge

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17