‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population: The global climate phenomenon has triggered devastating infernos in the ape’s Indonesian heartlands, with long-term effects on the animals still unknown The mother’s hands were peeling from walking on...

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual monitoring report, after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow. The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%. Continue reading...

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years: Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic ...

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Watchdog apologises for the timing of the inspection, as campaigners demand that the deferral request system for small schools be changed

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In its final report the High Pay Centre says the median remuneration of a FTSE 100 CEO has risen to a record £5.06m The bosses of Britain’s largest listed companies received record pay last year, fuelling the widest earnings gap with workers in eight years. Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives hit £5.06m in the last financial year, according to data released by the High Pay Centre, an 8.6% increase on £4.66m the previous year and the highest level on record. Continue reading...

The Government’s impact assessment estimates that, when legally recognised, around one in five couples in England and Wales could choose a humanist wedding, more than 50,000 ceremonies every year. It ...

The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here:

Emily Maitlis interviews the joint winners of this year’s Freedom to Publish prize at the British Book Awards, but has to go to extreme methods to avoid breaking a META gag order on whistleblower…

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He insists he is so right but gets so much badly wrong, not least the absurdity that the UK should have joined Donald Trump in the quagmire that is Iran, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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