MORE than seven in 10 mainstream newspaper stories about last month’s record-breaking heatwave failed to mention the climate crisis, analysis has found.

Nearly 2,500 articles about the extreme heat appeared in the Express, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Mail, Mirror, Sun, Telegraph and Times between June 22 and 28.

But 72 per cent of them left out any mention of global heating or the climate, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit’s analysis (ECIU), with fewer than one in 20 mentioning “net zero.”

University of Reading professor of climate science Ed Hawkins said: “When extreme heatwaves occur, it is critical that the British public are made aware in the media they consume that greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, have made those heatwaves hotter than they would otherwise have been.”

The FT scored highest on relating extreme heat stories to the climate. The Sun came bottom.