• Australia’s early spring brings budding flowers, chirping birds – and climate alarm

    Australia’s early spring brings budding flowers, chirping birds – and climate alarm
    The end of winter tends to lift spirits as colour returns to gardens. But the early blooms have become worryingly consistentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKangaroo paws normally flower in late September in Cranbourne, south-east of Melbourne. This year, they bloomed in July.The Western Australian plant has since been joined by a host of spring-blooming flowers, attracting animals who would typically wait for warmer months.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free mo
  • Hot and alone: how US cities work to protect isolated people in heatwaves

    Data shows people living alone were more likely to die in recent periods of unusually intense heat around the worldThe dangers of extreme heat can be amplified by social isolation, experts have warned, with those living alone found to be most likely to suffer.“Heatwaves are deadly,” Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University who studies climate disasters, once said. “Cold societies make them far more lethal.” Continue reading...
  • ‘Check on your neighbors’: how isolation makes extreme heat more deadly

    Data shows people living alone were more likely to die in recent periods of unusually intense heat around the worldThe dangers of extreme heat can be amplified by social isolation, experts have warned, with those living alone found to be most likely to suffer.“Heatwaves are deadly,” Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University who studies climate disasters, once said. “Cold societies make them far more lethal.” Continue reading...
  • Forget the moths that eat your clothes. Most are beautiful and deserve to be loved | Tim Blackburn

    Forget the moths that eat your clothes. Most are beautiful and deserve to be loved | Tim Blackburn
    From the merveille du jour to the burnished brass, Britain’s 2,500 species of moths are all special in their own wayTim Blackburn is professor of invasion biology at UCL and author of The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden RulesLet me start with a confession: I love moths. If your instant reaction to that statement is a shudder and expression of dislike (or worse), be assured that you’re not alone. It is the commonest response I get. But before you scroll on or tur
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  • Which Conservative leadership hopeful is best hope for UK’s climate goals?

    Which Conservative leadership hopeful is best hope for UK’s climate goals?
    None of the candidates may seem like a good option, but some pose a greater danger to net zero than others Out of power, and with no one paying them much attention at the moment, the Conservative leadership contest may seem fairly irrelevant to UK climate policy.But the winner could make a significant difference. Continue reading...
  • Country diary: A host of treasures in my moth box | Jan Miller

    Holywell, Flintshire: While butterflies seem to be struggling this summer, the cooler and wetter season can be good for moths – including this pale-blue rarityThrough wet grass on an unusually warm morning this “year without a summer”, I approach the treasure chest of my moth trap. Underneath the Perspex lids, I can see many live jewels; mother-of-pearl, swallow prominent, brimstone, copper underwing, phoenix, flame shoulder and footman. Then, amazingly, as I carefully lif
  • A poem by Ali Cobby Eckermann: ‘The entire continent is sacred land’

    A poem by Ali Cobby Eckermann: ‘The entire continent is sacred land’
    Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here the Yankunytjatjara poet reflects on the complex history of countryGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailBlood Stained Hills (present tense)And we forage here on these blood stained hills Continue reading...

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