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Barclays seeks climate director after protests over fossil fuel finance

Communications role follows year in which campaigners targeted bank over environmental stance

Hundreds of people rescued from flooded villages in Greece

Officials say many people are still trapped in central areas of the country hit by Storm Daniel

Global push for commitment to phase out fossil fuels gathers pace ahead of Cop28

UN hopes to galvanise summit talks by persuading world leaders to commit to stop burning coal, oil and gas, despite industry lobbying

Rishi Sunak avoiding UN summit after being warned about potential rejection

Rishi Sunak avoiding UN summit after being warned about potential rejection. Exclusive: PM risked embarrassment of downgraded status if UN deemed UK’s climate policies lacking ambition

NHS website records 552% surge in heat exhaustion queries

Figures from NHS England reveal people seeking heat-related health advice as temperatures surpass 32C

Our environmental laws are failing us in the face of the climate crisis

If we don’t stop rampant approvals of fossil fuel projects, by 2073 we will be living through the large-scale destruction of our planet

What’s worse than Burning Man? A burning planet

We are burning a lot more than just effigies Illustration: Fiona Katauskas/The Guardian

Heat denial: influencers question validity of high temperatures

Tweet viewed millions of times claimed ground temperature was being confused with air temperature

She kills to be kind: the mastermind ecologist eliminating invasive predators

Honed in New Zealand and exported globally, Elizabeth Bell’s techniques for creating predator-free zones are allowing native species to thrive again on islands from the Caribbean to the UK

Deadly humid heatwaves to spread rapidly as climate warms – study

Small rise in global temperatures would affect hundreds of millions of people and could cause a sharp rise in deaths

Shell signals retreat from carbon offsetting

Oil company is latest firm to act amid indications that carbon credits do nothing to mitigate global heating

Former rubbish dump in Essex becomes UK’s third largest solar farm

Ockendon solar farm to generate enough clean electricity to power the equivalent of 15,000 homes

Instead of tilting at turbines we should see them for what they are: beautiful

Britons should learn to love onshore renewables as part of a long tradition of robust, practical, rural structures

Sun Cable: Mike Cannon-Brookes takes charge of ‘world-changing’ solar project

Billionaire says renewables will drive Australia’s next commodities boom as his Grok Ventures finalises acquisition

Biden to cancel oil and gas leases in Alaska issued by Trump administration

Seven oil and gas leases canceled by interior department, which said sale during final days of Trump administration were flawed

Martin Rowson on the changes to windfarm planning policy in England – cartoon

The de facto ban on building onshore wind sites has been lifted, but experts say they remain at the whims of ‘quixotic decisions by local councils’

Megacities in the desert: the human cost of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s bold new projects

In their rush to claim the future and concrete over the past, these vast rebrands are demolishing people’s homes and their heritage