Guardian staff and agencies

Millions of residents in the Los Angeles area were rattled by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake that hit early on Thursday morning and came as the region continues to battle multiple wildfires that have yet…

The Venture Global LNG plant in Cameron, Louisiana, on 21 April 2022. Photograph: Martha Irvine/AP

A long-running heatwave that has already broken records, sparked dozens of wildfires and left about 130 million people under a high-temperature threat is about to intensify enough that the National…