By 6am, the sun over Banda had already forgotten it was morning. The light had the hard glare of a summer afternoon. Shadows were shrinking before breakfast. In May, this dusty district in India’s Uttar Pradesh state spent days at the top of an unenviable national ranking: the hottest place in the country. Temperatures hovered […]

A new phase of the natural El Niño weather pattern could begin in a matter of weeks, the UN has warned, boosting temperatures on a planet already under strain from climate change. The World Meteorological Organization said this El Niño is likely to strengthen over the rest of 2026, driving more extreme weather around much […]