March on UK Home Office over plan to deport jailed Just Stop Oil activist
Hundreds of protesters marched to the Home Office on Saturday demanding deportation proceedings be called off for an environmental activist imprisoned for scaling the Dartford Crossing.
Read More
New windfarm could be used to power North Sea oilfield
Electricity from a new onshore windfarm could be used to power the biggest undeveloped oilfield in the North Sea, campaigners are warning, ahead of an imminent decision over whether to approve the project.
Read More
Caught short: lack of recycled toilet paper in UK ‘fuelling deforestation’
Hoarding during the Covid-19 pandemic underlined just how important loo roll is to the British public. But working from home had another unexpected effect: less waste paper from offices, which means less recycled material to make toilet roll.
Read More
When it comes to rich countries taking the environment seriously, I say: vive la France
While we remain transfixed by a handful of needy egotists in Westminster and the crises they manufacture, across the Channel a revolution is happening.
Read More
Loss of fossil fuel assets would not impoverish general public, study finds
A rapid reduction in fossil fuels, essential to avoid devastating climate breakdown, would have minimal financial impact on the vast majority of people, new research has shown.
Read More
The Guardian view on Macron’s green finance deal: save lives, not profits
The International Energy Agency in 2021 had an unambiguous message: developing new fossil fuel resources is incompatible with restricting global heating to below 1.5C,
Read More
C of E divests of fossil fuels as oil and gas firms ditch climate pledges
The Church of England is divesting from fossil fuels in its multibillion pound endowment and pension funds over climate concerns and what the church claims are recent U-turns by oil and gas companies.
Read More
The climate crisis is this century’s biggest threat. We need a global finance pact that reflects the task ahead
The science is clear. The climate crisis is the biggest single threat we face as a global community. In turn, meeting the goals of the Paris agreement and realising the opportunities of climate action is the task of the 21st century.
Read More
An Interview with Greenpeace: The Harmful Reality of Plastic Recycling
We spoke to Kate Melges, Project Leader for Greenpeace USA's Plastics campaign, about the key issues surrounding plastic pollution, the toxic hazards of recycled plastic highlighted in Greenpeace's latest report, and the solutions to the plastic crisis.
Read More
Governments at Paris summit to finalise climate finance roadmap
Questions over a tax on global shipping and other big sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and how countries should go about setting up a loss and damage fund continue to be the subject of fierce discussion, as governments meet in Paris to prepare an overhaul of global development and climate fin
Read More
Urban microclimates can turn deadly as climate crisis deepens
Microclimates are best known to gardeners, for example semi-tropical collections on the west coast of Britain where the warm Gulf Stream waters keep certain favoured spots frost-free and allow cultivation of Mediterranean and some tropical plants.
Read More
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
David Attenborough is the most famous nature storyteller on television. The 92-year-old producer, narrator, and documentarian essentially invented the genre of television nature documentaries in his decades-long career at the BBC.
Read More
The sudden warming of Britain’s seas will tear through ocean life like a wildfire
Last weekend, at the very easternmost edge of England, tens of thousands of people of all ages gathered at a beach festival in Lowestoft to celebrate the sea joyously.
Read More
Paris climate finance summit fails to deliver debt forgiveness plan
Poorer countries struggling with a growing debt crisis were thrown a lifeline at a global finance summit in Paris but the plans still fell short of the debt forgiveness
Read More
Canada is on fire, and big oil is the arsonist
Canada is on fire from coast to coast to coast. Thousands have been evacuated, millions exposed to air pollution, New York a doom orange and even the titans of Wall Street choking.
Read More
Senate examines role of ‘dark money’ in delaying climate action
The Senate budget committee held a hearing on Wednesday morning to scrutinize the role of oil- and gas-linked “dark money” in delaying climate action – and tearing through local and federal budgets.
Read More
Woodside has huge plans to drill for oil and gas – and to meet its climate targets. How does it do it?
The Australian energy giant Woodside is spending $7bn to drill for 479m barrels-worth of oil and gas off the coast of Mexico, but it says this is all in line with
Read More
Half of Americans have faced ‘extreme’ weather in the last six weeks
Half of the US population has faced an extreme weather alert since 1 May and many more are likely to face risks from wildfires, flooding, tropical storms and extreme heat as summer begins.
Read More
Groundbreaking youth-led climate trial comes to an end in Montana
A groundbreaking climate trial came to an early close on Tuesday as lawyers on each side presented a very different picture of who can be held responsible for the climate crisis.
Read More
‘Women bear the biggest brunt of climate change,’ says climate scientist Susan Chomba
Susan Chomba glares out the window of the Prado Land Cruiser at dozens of motorcycles speeding in the opposite direction. Each motorcycle carries at least five bags of charcoal and for every bag, at least three medium-sized acacia trees must be chopped down and burned.
Read More
