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• Australia faces summer of extreme weather, Anthony Albanese warns at pre-Cop

  06-10-2026 13:24 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister tells delegates in Tuvalu and Fiji that ‘super El Niño’ brewing in the Pacific shows climate change is ‘here right now’Anthony Albanese has warned Australia faces a hazardous summer, likely including floods, cyclones and extreme heat, due to the immediate threat of the climate change and a rising “super El Niño”.Speaker alongside national leaders at a climate summit in Fiji, the prime minister said the expected nasty summer and the
  
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• Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

  06-10-2026 12:27 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a yearDrax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown.Campaigners say this would make it “one of the dirtiest datacentres out there”. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina

  06-10-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The country’s far-right president is courting billionaire investors by removing a block on foreign ownership of land and natural resourcesOn 19 September, Marta Sahores, an 84-year-old chemistry professor and activist who has mobilised against mega-mining projects for more than two decades, took to the streets in Argentina. Alongside workers, retirees, students, Indigenous groups and human rights organisations, Sahores was there to protest against the country’s far-right president, J
  
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• The pest I’ll never forget: the cockroaches I still dream about

  06-10-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  My student house in Manchester had several thousand other occupants. Despite pest controllers regularly dousing the property, the glossy, greasy, relentless insects marched onwards, endlessly reproducing‘You do know about the cockroaches?” I’ve forgotten most things people said to me in the 80s, but never that. It was said by one of the occupants of the student house in Longsight, Manchester, that I had signed up to live in the following year. When the landlord had shown me and
  
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• Agreement to transition away from fossil fuels ‘not open for renegotiation’, Pacific leader tells pre-Cop

  06-10-2026 07:01 via theguardian.com
  International leaders visit Tuvalu as part of climate talks co-hosted by Australia ahead of Cop31 conferencePacific island leaders have urged a promised global transition away from fossil fuels must not be left open to renegotiation as they gather in tiny Tuvalu in a bid to build momentum before a major climate summit.About 50 dignitaries – 14 national heads including Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, a list of climate change ministers and the heads of global agencies &nd
  
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• Country diary: On the bluest of days, the plaintive call of a pipit | Mark Cocker

  06-10-2026 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Combs Moss, Derbyshire: There is plenty to be gloomy about, but today was not the day for it up on the moorThe morning was sunlit and the sky the sort of deepest blue dome that makes your heart sing – and all the louder for being at the time of least natural sound.Autumn is the most silent season for birds, but at least I could hear the passing meadow pipits more clearly as they came out the blue in small numbers and crossed overhead on migration. There is something inherently melanch
  
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