Bloomberg covers new satellite estimates from the Copernicus space programme showing that Europe’s wildfires are the largest since 2006. The Associated Press reports that “dangerous heat” will arrive ...

Observations reveal that Arctic sea ice extent at the end of summer has halved, since satellite records began in the late 1970s.

More than 150 people are missing after “devastating” flooding in northern Pakistan, the Associated Press reports. The newswire adds: “A changing climate has made residents of northern Pakistan’s river ...

GRID PRESSURES: Iraq suffered a “near nationwide blackout” as elevated power demand – due to extreme temperatures of around 50C – triggered a transmission line failure, Bloomberg reported.

There is widespread coverage of the latest failure of talks to agree the world's first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution.

Wildfires “fanned by a heatwave and strong winds wreaked destruction across southern Europe”, burning homes and forcing evacuations, reports Reuters.