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September 2026

  • Commuters board a BART train at Fremont station as doors show red warning lights

    ‘Traffic is going to get a lot worse’: San Francisco Bay Area faces potential death spiral of transit system

  • An aerial view of luxury houses in Port Douglas, Queensland

    Change by degrees
    Cooler roofs will prevail: colours and coatings to help beat the heat

  • Banff, Alberta, sits in a forested valley surrounded by snow-capped mountains under a cloudy sky

    Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

  • Two boys in school uniforms run past a yellow Gcwalisa shop in an old shipping container as vendors watch from inside

    A spoonful of sugar: how South Africa’s weigh-and-pay shops are tackling ‘poverty tax’ head on

  • Cities in Great Britain most vulnerable to extreme heat revealed

  • Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces

  • ‘In parks you only see dogs, never children’: can Bogotá adapt to its ageing population?

August 2026

  • Cyclists wait on bicycles at a red traffic light on Bishopsgate, London

    Seeing red when cyclists decide not to stop at traffic lights

  • Mjøstårnet, the world's tallest wooden skyscraper.

    The long read
    The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future

  • Ultra low emission ULEZ zone sign stands beside a busy London road with passing cars

    Pollutionwatch
    What happens to people’s health when air pollution is reduced?

  • Two women work on a colourful unfinished mural depicting a bright sun, people and housing

    Coping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperatures

  • The Guardian view on London’s social housing: pumping billions into the economy every year

  • Reckless ebike users put all of us at risk

  • Blame game as Brussels builds ‘Europe’s largest frying pan’ instead of shady square

  • Let’s all get on board with travel etiquette

  • Australia’s best sustainable architecture for 2026 – in pictures

    Gallery12

  • Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: Paving over front gardens is leading to hotter nights

  • New York City transit auctions off last MetroCard machines: ‘Wild home decor idea’

  • The Guardian picture essay
    ‘It’s not about the Qur’an, it’s about the money’: how boys of five are made to beg on Senegal’s streets

July 2026

  • A person walks past a colourful construction hoarding with residential towers behind

    How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’

    New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been broken
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