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Australia anti-lockdown rallies: protesters violently clash with police in Melbourne
Protests in Pakistan erupt against China’s belt and road plan
‘America first’ again? Is Biden echoing Trump on Afghanistan and vaccines?
Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record
9,000 Covid cases linked to Euro 2020 games in mass events scheme
Serious child harm cases in England rose by 20% during pandemic
Blow for Uber as judge finds California’s gig-worker law unconstitutional
Prince Andrew’s reputation damaged for ever by Giuffre claims, experts say
BBC inquiry dismisses Rupert Murdoch complaints about documentary series
Humanoid ‘Tesla Bot’ likely to launch next year, says Elon Musk
Disinfection robots and thermal body cameras: welcome to the Covid-free office
‘No second chances’: Can New Zealand beat Delta?
‘They worry they will never get better’: a day in Bolton’s long Covid clinic
Breakthrough infections and booster shots: what you need to know
Can ‘smart thinking’ books really give you the edge?
Blind date: ‘We talked about The Twits, nits and taxidermy’
My dad, Mr Nice: life as the daughter of Britain’s best-known cannabis smuggler
From Turkish lamb to corn dogs: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for holiday food
Levelling up Pompeii: grave shows how a former slave went far
The ‘pin top’: latest summer trend suggests it’s curtains for modesty
UK security watchdog could demand access to intelligence on Afghan crisis
Roaming charges return: how will the dreaded charge affect UK travellers?
Our art deals with real injustices, some in Palestine: no wonder we faced opposition « Forensic Architecture
Container ship Ever Given back in Suez canal for return trip
This entire midwestern town moved uphill to escape flooding. Can others do the same?
World weatherwatch: Peru’s saint of storms brings salvation to cities and ski slopes
‘This isn’t surprising’: Jacinda Ardern warns New Zealanders to remain calm as Covid cases rise
Australia records highest number of new cases in a day – as it happened
Zimbabwean man charged with rape after girl, 15, dies giving birth
In New Zealand, it has been easy to forget Covid – now we are too complacent | Brian Ng
Why not all Islamist extremists are buoyed by the Taliban’s victory
How racist propaganda inspired riots in America's biggest cities
Joe Biden gives update on situation in Afghanistan – video
Afghanistan: chaos and gunshots outside Kabul airport during evacuations – video report
The climate science behind wildfires: why are they getting worse? – video explainer

Australia anti-lockdown rallies: protesters violently clash with police in Melbourne

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 12:51 AM PDT

Thousands march through streets of Melbourne and Brisbane, as police try to prevent Sydney rally

Anti-lockdown protesters clashed violently with police as thousands of unmasked people marched through the streets of Melbourne on Saturday.

Victoria police said they had made 218 arrests and that six officers were hospitalised during a series of altercations. Police said in a statement the majority of the estimated 4,000 demonstrators "came with violence in mind".

Protests in Pakistan erupt against China’s belt and road plan

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 07:27 AM PDT

Demonstrations shut down Gwadar, where Chinese are blamed for lack of water and electricity and threat to local fishing

Protests have erupted in Pakistan's port city Gwadar against a severe shortage of water and electricity and threats to livelihoods, part of a growing backlash against China's multibillion-dollar belt and road projects in the country.

This week, demonstrators including fishers and other local workers blocked the roads in Gwadar, a coastal town in Balochistan. They burned tyres, chanted slogans and largely shut down the city, to demand water and electricity and a stop to Chinese trawlers illegally fishing in the nearby waters and then taking the fish to China. Two people were injured when the authorities cracked down on the protesters.

‘America first’ again? Is Biden echoing Trump on Afghanistan and vaccines?

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT

The president's pushing of a US-centric agenda has dismayed many but his defenders say it is 'progressive nationalism'

For Donald Trump, the former US president, beating the drum of "America first" was something of an obsession. "The future doesn't belong to the globalists," he once told the UN. "The future belongs to patriots."

Last year, he was rejected by voters in favour of Joe Biden, a committed internationalist who vowed: "America is back." Yet the past week has shaken the faith of old allies and led some to question whether a strain of the "America first" mantra lives on.

Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 05:08 AM PDT

Precipitation was so unexpected, scientists had no gauges to measure it, and is stark sign of climate crisis

Rain has fallen on the summit of Greenland's huge ice cap for the first time on record. Temperatures are normally well below freezing on the 3,216-metre (10,551ft) peak, and the precipitation is a stark sign of the climate crisis.

Scientists at the US National Science Foundation's summit station saw rain falling throughout 14 August but had no gauges to measure the fall because the precipitation was so unexpected. Across Greenland, an estimated 7bn tonnes of water was released from the clouds.

9,000 Covid cases linked to Euro 2020 games in mass events scheme

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 09:34 AM PDT

Study paper says England's progress to final 'generated a significant risk to public health across the UK'

More than 9,000 Covid infections were linked to Euro 2020 football games monitored for the government's mass events test scheme, and scientists have said the tournament generated "a significant risk to public health".

An analysis of the third and final stage of the research programme, released on Friday, found that more than 85% of all the infections connected to the 49 days of various outdoor sport, music and entertainment events came from the eight Euros games involved, and mainly the semi-final and final.

Serious child harm cases in England rose by 20% during pandemic

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT

Abuse more likely to have gone unseen behind closed doors during lockdowns, say authorities

Serious child harm cases reported by councils in England rose by nearly 20% during the first year of the pandemic, including a 19% rise in child death notifications, according to latest official statistics.

There were 536 serious incident reports in England during 2020/21, up 87 (19%) from 449 in 2019/20, and an increase of 41% on the number of incidents recorded five years ago. Children aged under one accounted for 36% of notifications last year.

Blow for Uber as judge finds California’s gig-worker law unconstitutional

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 07:30 PM PDT

Judge sides with drivers in lawsuit brought over Prop 22
Uber criticizes decision and says it plans to appeal

A judge on Friday struck down a California ballot measure that exempted Uber and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services from a state law requiring drivers to be classified as employees eligible for benefits and job protections.

Prince Andrew’s reputation damaged for ever by Giuffre claims, experts say

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 06:02 AM PDT

Lawyers say Duke of York has lost in court of public opinion and is unlikely to engage with civil case in US

The Duke of York faces an "uphill struggle" to combat the impact of the sex offences allegations made against him and has already lost in the court of public opinion, leaving his reputation "highly tarnished" and a return to royal duties impossible, experts have said.

Following a damaging two weeks in which Andrew's accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre lodged a civil lawsuit in New York alleging he had sex with her when she was 17, and a source claimed he was a "person of interest" in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, the duke is now caught "between a rock and a hard place," said one expert.

BBC inquiry dismisses Rupert Murdoch complaints about documentary series

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 08:11 AM PDT

Complaints unit backs makers of Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty, except over section on Tory 'sleaze' stories

Rupert Murdoch has largely lost a year-long dispute with the BBC after he objected to a documentary series that "implied he posed a threat to liberal democracy".

Murdoch's News UK business complained that a BBC Two documentary unfairly suggested the Australian-born media mogul "exercised malign political influence" through his ownership of news outlets. It said the BBC programme was biased and failed to give enough weight to more positive appraisals of Murdoch's career.

Humanoid ‘Tesla Bot’ likely to launch next year, says Elon Musk

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 08:01 AM PDT

Billionaire Tesla chief gives no indication of any progress in actually building such a machine

Elon Musk said he would probably launch a humanoid robot prototype next year dubbed the "Tesla Bot", which is designed to do "boring, repetitious and dangerous" work.

The billionaire chief executive of the electric carmaker Tesla said the robot, which would be about 5ft 8in (1.7m) tall and weigh 125 pounds (56kg), would be able to handle tasks such as attaching bolts to cars with a spanner or picking up groceries at stores.

Disinfection robots and thermal body cameras: welcome to the Covid-free office

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 01:00 AM PDT

A workplace in Bucharest filled with anti-virus innovations could become the new normal in office design, its creators hope

Not so long ago it may have seemed more like a futuristic vision of the workplace – or a hospital.

But the hands-free door handles, self-cleaning surfaces, antimicrobial paint, air-monitoring display tools, UV light disinfection robots, and 135 other measures at an office block in Bucharest are here to stay, say the creators behind what they are touting as one of the world's most virus-resilient workplaces, which they hope will become the new normal in office design.

‘No second chances’: Can New Zealand beat Delta?

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 01:00 PM PDT

Jacinda Ardern has led a global Covid success story, but other countries have come unstuck when facing the Delta variant

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As epidemiologist Michael Baker scrolled through a growing list of New Zealand's Covid-exposed locations, "my heart just sank," he says.

Bars, nightclubs, churches, schools, restaurants and hospitals – the bullet points were an infectious disease expert's nightmare. "Virtually every high risk, indoor environment was on that list."

‘They worry they will never get better’: a day in Bolton’s long Covid clinic

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT

Health leaders at pilot scheme providing therapy to 285 patients believe they will be dealing with fallout for years

Sarah Davidson* woke up on the Covid ward at Bolton Royal hospital in March to find she had been turned on to her belly. She had watched enough news reports to know what that meant. "The nurse from the critical care team turned up and said: 'It's for your lungs, your breathing stopped'. They pronged me for days and days. I was like a rotisserie chicken," she said.

"The person in the next bed died. I thought people would be dying upstairs on intensive care, but they were dying around me on the Covid ward," she said, explaining why she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at Bolton's long Covid clinic. "I have this habit now, I wake at about 4am and I think, you know what, I'm alive. I'll stay awake, I'm not going to go back to sleep: why push it?"

Breakthrough infections and booster shots: what you need to know

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT

Vaccine efficacy against infection is waning slightly with time – but efficacy against severe symptoms remains strong

Federal health authorities have recommended booster shots for all adults who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 with either the the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, citing evidence that suggests breakthrough infections could become more common over time.

The plan has faced scrutiny. Some US scientists have said data was insufficient to support the decision, and vaccines remain highly effective against severe disease requiring hospitalization and death. The World Health Organization harshly criticized US leaders for using vaccines to provide a third shot to people, even as most around the world haven't had one.

Can ‘smart thinking’ books really give you the edge?

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 01:00 AM PDT

Trust your gut, boost your memory, de-bias your decision making… can we train our brains to perform better?

The world out there can often seem as though it is hurtling to hell in a handcart: people are refusing safe vaccines for a dangerous disease, extreme weather events caused by global heating are on TV nightly, billionaires are shooting themselves into the stratosphere in penis-shaped spacecraft while record numbers of the precariously employed rely on food banks. Looked at from this perspective, humanity as a whole doesn't seem very rational. Hence why, surveying the idiocies of his own age, Jonathan Swift amended Aristotle's definition of humans as "the rational animal" to his own sardonic formulation animal rationis capax – the animal capable of rationality.

How, though, should we become more capable? Most of the time, thinking sounds like hard work, but add "smart" to the front and it sounds more attractive: hipsterishly mid-Atlantic, vaguely technological (like "smartphone"), and with an implied promise of some handy trick or shortcut. A person who is smart – etymologically "sharp" or "stinging" – rather than merely thoughtful or intelligent is someone endowed with a certain practical cunning, not a dweller in ivory towers. Hence the rise in publishing of the "smart thinking" book, an elevated species of self-help for the aspiring ratiocinator.

Blind date: ‘We talked about The Twits, nits and taxidermy’

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT

Poppy, 28, actor, meets Lucy, 27, social worker

What were you hoping for?
Sexual tension.

My dad, Mr Nice: life as the daughter of Britain’s best-known cannabis smuggler

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT

Howard Marks was a notorious drug smuggler. He was also a caring, fun father, says his daughter Amber – now a barrister and pharmacology expert. Could her family archives shed new light on his life of crime?

In 1988, 10-year-old Amber Marks was woken at her home in Palma de Mallorca by the sound of her younger sister Francesca screaming. She got out of bed and found two strange men in the hall, one of whom would shortly introduce himself as Craig Lovato of the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

In the statement made at the time, she described the scene: "I went into Mummy's arms and asked what was happening. She said she didn't know… I cuddled Mummy who was being sick… Lovato turned to Mummy and said he was going to extradite her and Daddy to America… Lovato asked for the keys of the car and I fetched Mummy's handbag. He took the keys and gave her the purse, and said she'd need it where she was going. I asked him to please bring her back to say goodbye if they were going to extradite her. He said, 'Maybe.'"

From Turkish lamb to corn dogs: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for holiday food

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 01:30 AM PDT

Holiday at home with Turkish-style lamb, grilled corn in soy butter and the joy that is a corn dog on a stick

The thing about holiday food and drink is that it's best consumed on holiday. For all the joy of, say, apple tea, limoncello and Greek salad, they all make most sense when enjoyed in Turkey, Italy or Greece. Since most of us won't get to experience such holiday food this summer, then, let's bring the holiday food to us instead. Who says you need to be at a street food stall overseas to enjoy a battered frankfurter eaten off a hand-held stick?

Levelling up Pompeii: grave shows how a former slave went far

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 09:00 PM PDT

Inscriptions by the body of Marcus Venerius Secundio proudly list his achievements after being liberated

The inscription on the gravestone proudly attests to how far Marcus Venerius Secundio, a former slave of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, went in life. In order of importance, he lists his achievements after being liberated. The first was his role as custodian of the Temple of Venus, built soon after the creation of Pompeii as a Roman colony.

He also joined the ranks of the Augustales, a college of priests who were in charge of a form of emperor worship. But perhaps the most telling indication of his eventual status was that he financed entertainment events in Greek and Latin.

The ‘pin top’: latest summer trend suggests it’s curtains for modesty

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT

Searches for the 'curtain reveal top' endorsed by Vogue have increased 78% in the last two weeks

This summer's latest trend might – off the body – look as demure as the cardigan, but this is not for the shy and retiring. Described as either the "curtain reveal top" or the "pin top", the item is worn with nothing underneath. The two curtains of the top are held across the wearer's breasts by a safety pin or a tiny piece of string.

Worn by models including Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski and Hailey Bieber, and endorsed by Vogue, search platform Lyst reported that searches for these tops increased 78% in the last two weeks. After Megan Fox was spotted wearing a red cropped cardigan by French brand Jacquemus like this, searches for the item went up 52% in 48 hours, and when Ratajkowski wore the Cult Gaia pin top in June it sold out.

UK security watchdog could demand access to intelligence on Afghan crisis

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT

Intelligence and security committee 'very likely' to call in analysis after PM says swift Taliban takeover unforeseen

Parliament's security watchdog is expected to demand to see the secret intelligence analysis behind the west's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, sources have said, after ministers claimed they were caught unawares by speed of the Taliban takeover.

The intelligence and security committee (ISC), which is chaired by the Tory MP Julian Lewis, has the power to demand intelligence documents and haul spies before it to give evidence.

Roaming charges return: how will the dreaded charge affect UK travellers?

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 01:00 AM PDT

If Brexit and Covid wasn't enough, the extra cost of using a mobile in the EU is making a comeback

If you are planning a winter holiday elsewhere in Europe this year, get ready to pay more to use your mobile phone while away – as roaming charges are about to make a very unwelcome comeback.

Having repeatedly indicated in the run-up to Brexit that they had no intention of reintroducing roaming charges for UK customers heading to mainland Europe, EE and Vodafone have recently announced that customers will start paying to use their phones in the EU from January onwards.

Our art deals with real injustices, some in Palestine: no wonder we faced opposition « Forensic Architecture

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 08:35 AM PDT

Our battle to restore a statement to a Manchester exhibition was really about what can and can't be said in cultural spaces

On Wednesday, protesters in Manchester reclaimed one of the city's main cultural institutions. Despite the rain, pro-Palestine activists gathered in front of the closed doors of the Whitworth gallery, part of the University of Manchester. It was because of their persistent action, and 13,000 letters sent to the gallery, that part of our exhibition, a printed statement titled "Forensic Architecture stands with Palestine", has been reinstated. The exhibition, which we insisted be shut as a result of the statement's unilateral removal, has now reopened.

On Sunday 15 August, a blog post on the website of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) announced that, following the group's intervention, the statement had been removed from our exhibition, Cloud Studies. When we first heard of the news, we were not altogether surprised. The same group had already criticised a statement of solidarity with Palestinians published on the Whitworth's website in June, and succeeded in convincing the university to have it removed. And this was hardly UKLFI's first attack on us as an organisation. In 2018, when we were nominated for the Turner prize, UKLFI urged the Tate not to award the prize to us on the outrageous grounds that documents that we had published in relation to Palestine amounted to "modern blood libels likely to promote antisemitism and attacks on Jews".

Container ship Ever Given back in Suez canal for return trip

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 06:30 AM PDT

Vessel that caused global disruption when it got stuck is heading for the Red Sea again

In a rematch of the struggle that dominated global headlines earlier this year, the 400-metre, 220,000 tonne container ship that became lodged in the Suez canal for nearly a week, disrupting trade on a global scale, is having another go.

Several weeks after finally docking at the UK port of Felixstowe – after a months-long negotiation over who should bear the costs of blocking the shipping lane for six days in March – the vessel returned to Port Said, Egypt, on Thursday night.

This entire midwestern town moved uphill to escape flooding. Can others do the same?

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 02:00 AM PDT

The relatively well-off bedroom community of Valmeyer, Illinois, could afford to relocate – but moving is more challenging for less affluent towns

When Valmeyer, Illinois, was hit by the great flood of 1993 and faced obliteration, residents made an unexpected choice: the town decided to rebuild from the ground up – this time, about two miles east and 400ft higher up.

Valmeyer was a small commuter town made up of mostly middle-class families who worked in nearby St Louis, Missouri. Almost overnight, the community became a model of what it means to become climate resilient.

World weatherwatch: Peru’s saint of storms brings salvation to cities and ski slopes

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT

Seasonal storms that blow up on the Peruvian coast at this time of year are named after St Rosa

In August 1615, a Dutch pirate fleet under Joris Van Spilbergen threatened the city of Lima. According to legend, a nun called Sister Rosa, whose original name was Isabel Flores de Oliva, prayed for deliverance. A tremendous storm blew up just as the pirates were sailing in to sack the city and scattered their fleet.

The storm was hailed as a miracle, and Sister Rosa became the first person born in the Americas to be canonised. She is patron saint of embroidery, gardening, the Americas, and the city of Lima. The seasonal storms that blow up on the Peruvian coast at this time of year are known as the Tormentas de Santa Rosa or Saint Rosa's storms. These traditionally occur 15 days either side of the saint's day on 30 August.

‘This isn’t surprising’: Jacinda Ardern warns New Zealanders to remain calm as Covid cases rise

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 09:34 PM PDT

Country records 21 new cases, its worst single day for transmission since April last year

Jacinda Ardern has warned New Zealanders the worst of the Delta outbreak of Covid-19 is yet to come after another jump in cases.

New Zealand recorded 21 fresh community cases on Saturday, the country's worst single day for transmission since April last year.

Australia records highest number of new cases in a day – as it happened

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 01:11 AM PDT

Gladys Berejiklian reports record high case numbers and Victoria extends lockdown statewide. This blog is now closed

9.03am BST

We're going to close off this blog for today, thanks very much for your company.

Here's a helpful summary from Graham Readfearn – who did most of the hard slog today – and myself:

8.35am BST

"Freedom" appears not to be free.

That's more than $1.2 million in fines pic.twitter.com/lfQJmbIPrb

Zimbabwean man charged with rape after girl, 15, dies giving birth

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 03:12 AM PDT

Death has caused outrage in country where one in three girls are likely to be married by 18, despite ban

Zimbabwean police have charged a man after a 15-year-old girl died while giving birth at a church shrine last month.

Hatirarami Momberume, 26, has been charged with raping Anna Machaya, whose death provoked outrage in the country and was condemned by the UN.

In New Zealand, it has been easy to forget Covid – now we are too complacent | Brian Ng

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 01:00 PM PDT

The country has been lulled into a false sense of security but the only way we'll get through this is if we are constantly vigilant

My Kiwi friends ask, somewhat jokingly, how I'm finding my first New Zealand level 4. I answer, also somewhat jokingly, that I'm a veteran at this, having lived in London and Dublin for most of the pandemic, and had gone through several hard lockdowns.

That's why it was unfortunate, the day before New Zealand went into one, it felt like Groundhog Day to me.

Why not all Islamist extremists are buoyed by the Taliban’s victory

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 09:38 AM PDT

Analysis: deep faultlines, especially with Isis, may counter Afghanistan's propaganda advantage for jihadists

Few doubt that the Taliban victory in Afghanistan will give violent Islamist extremists across the world a historic boost, encouraging them in their campaigns to overthrow and replace local regimes – but it has also revealed the deep faultlines that have weakened the jihadist movement in the past decade.

Sunni militants in the Middle East and beyond have already made clear they believe the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan vindicates their own strategies and ideology. Coming just weeks before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the events in Kabul have a powerful resonance. Many statements have been jubilant.

How racist propaganda inspired riots in America's biggest cities

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT

In 1915 the president, Woodrow Wilson, screened the movie Birth of a Nation at the White House – a film that depicts Black men as brutal people who desire white women. Meanwhile white supremacist groups were writing school curriculums and news media were painting Black men as animalistic beings who attacked white women. This set the scene for a week of racial violence targeting Black Americans in 1919, during which two American cities were left in chaos. In Chicago it started with a Black man drowning after white people throw stones at him at a beach for infringing on their space. It led to a confrontation between Black and white citizens, and escalated into white mobs going into Black communities to burn down homes and kill Black people. In Washington DC it started with a minor argument that turned into rape allegations against two Black men, which prompted white mobs to attack Black people in restaurants, trolleys and in their communities. Dozens of Black people were killed during these riots, and few were held accountable.

Joe Biden gives update on situation in Afghanistan – video

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 12:47 PM PDT

President Joe Biden, rejecting criticism of his handling of the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan, has warned that the operation to evacuate thousands through Kabul airport carries risks, but promised Americans in the country that 'we will get you home'.

'Make no mistake, this evacuation mission is dangerous. It involves risks to our armed forces and it's being conducted under difficult circumstances. I cannot promise what the final outcome will be or that it will be without risk of loss. But as commander in chief, I can assure you that I will mobilise every resource necessary,' Biden said.

The United States is desperately trying to evacuate thousands of people from Afghanistan by a 31 August deadline, although Biden said this week that US troops at Kabul airport providing security for the evacuation could stay longer if necessary.

Afghanistan: chaos and gunshots outside Kabul airport during evacuations – video report

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 08:22 AM PDT

Tens of thousands of foreigners and Afghans who collaborated with US and Nato forces remain stranded in Kabul, as governments grappled with an overwhelming backlog of visas and Taliban checkpoints that were preventing people safely reaching the airport. US troops and Taliban fighters have opened fire into the air to disperse crowds held up outside the airport as they attempt to escape the country

Thousands stranded in Kabul as Taliban go door-to-door

The climate science behind wildfires: why are they getting worse? – video explainer

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 04:22 AM PDT

We are in an emergency. Wildfires are raging across the world as scorching temperatures and dry conditions fuel the blazes that have cost lives and destroyed livelihoods.

The combination of extreme heat, changes in our ecosystem and prolonged drought have in many regions led to the worst fires in almost a decade, and come after the IPCC handed down a damning landmark report on the climate crisis.

But technically, there are fewer wildfires than in the past – the problem now is that they are worse than ever and we are running out of time to act, as the Guardian's global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, explains

Heat, drought and fire: how climate dangers combine for a catastrophic 'perfect storm'

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