Environment
Enough ice melted in Greenland on Tuesday to cover Florida in two inches of water
According to Polar Portal there was a "massive melting event in Greenland" this week as temperatures picked up in the Arctic.
New Zealand is the best place to survive the apocalypse – but Britain isn’t far behind
The UK is a "collapse lifeboat", researchers said - and apparently that's a good thing.
Queen’s exemption from green energy laws an ‘affront to democracy’
A draft law in the Scottish Parliament was amended after the Queen’s lawyers raised “concerns”, with the changes exempting her land from measures to encourage greener energy.
Didn’t PM fly to Cornwall! Govt climate change advice raises peoples’ temperatures
"How much are we paying Allegra Stratton for these pearls of wisdom?" wrote one disgruntled Twitter user.
Italy could pay millions in damages to UK oil company after drilling ban
This means the UK government is also under threat from being slowed down from acting on the climate crisis.
Hundreds evacuated as wildfires rage on Sardinia
Firefighters said almost 400 people have been evacuated and several homes were damaged.
California’s largest fire torches homes as blazes lash western US
Global warming has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years.
Four of the world’s richest countries could cause disastrous global warming
“In many cases, G20 countries are leaving us on track for a world of more heatwaves, flooding and extreme weather events."
Bezos gets almost as much TV coverage in one day as the climate crisis has received in 2020
Only a few days before Bezos' space trip, more than 150 people lost their lives during a tragic flooding in western Europe.