The film project combating child marriage in south Asia
Visual storytelling is helping dismantle patriarchal norms that perpetuate child marriage in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, writes Ravi Baral
How to buy your child’s place at a top state school
Brief letters: Pushy parent premium | No-eggs pancake | Using your smell library | Picky bits and party tea | Nominative determinism
Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal
Opposition leader says interim government lacking democratic mandate to negotiate on natural resources
Climate injustices have been laid bare in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
Letters: Prof Lyla Mehta says the glacial floods and loss of life are a stark reminder that climate disruption is global and highly unequal. Plus letters from Lynda McDonald and Jan Bengtsson
Crypto billionaire pardoned by Trump gives Reform UK another £4m
Party confident money from Ben Delo will not be caught in new overseas donor cap
Donald Trump’s shallow renaming of the Great Lakes
Letters: Readers respond to the Trump administration’s decision to change Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’
How 20mph on our roads benefits everyone
Letters: The advantages of 20mph speed limits are celebrated by Rod King, while John Hopkin says drivers who speed won’t be deterred unless tougher action is taken against them
Abundant common fossils don’t need to be protected
Letters: Museums have countless examples of the common fossils from these Lower Jurassic rocks, says the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre’s Phil Davidson
Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis
Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy states, says Kathmandu-based climate policy specialist Sunil Acharya
Dear culture-war motorists, look to the future. We’ll all be driving at 20mph soon
There are howls of protest from the right about plans for Birmingham to be a 20mph city. But it will be a good thing, and others will follow, says transport writer and podcaster Christian Wolmar
Protect fossils from hammer-wielding tourists
Letter: Jill White responds to an editorial calling for fossils to be given legally protected national-treasure status
From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves
Thousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials
BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence
Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Niño has already broken records, with Pacific ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six months
What is a ‘super El Niño’ and what might it mean for the global climate?
In this week’s newsletter: Forecasts suggest a stronger version of the climate phenomenon could supercharge extreme weather events, putting the world on track to again breach a 1.5C average temperature rise.• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here
An Unexpected Life by Gloria Steinem review – a fitting tribute to a feminist icon
The activist’s memoir, due to be published this month, now stands as a posthumous testament to her remarkable life
‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes
The groundbreaking feminist and acclaimed writer has died aged 92 and leaves behind her a wealth of wit and wisdom
Fun, flirty and fried to perfection: farewell to Chicken Shop Date, the YouTube show that helped kill off TV
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s series helped turn YouTube into a world-beating phenomenon. As it bows out, we remember its best bits – from mocking MC Ghetts to that sizzling tension with Billie Eilish and Andrew Garfield