Paris talks to focus on funding poor countries to tackle climate crisis
Talks on a global financial pact that will give poor countries access to funds to help them tackle the climate crisis and develop their economies in environmentally sustainable and socially equitable ways will begin next week in Paris.
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Bug swarm: Nevada crawling with thick carpet of Mormon crickets
Millions of flightless insects known as Mormon crickets have descended across Nevada, alarming residents, blanketing roadways and buildings, and fueling nightmares.
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Campaigners win right to challenge England’s food strategy over climate crisis
Ministers broke the law by failing to make plans to cut consumption of meat and dairy in England, activists will argue in a legal challenge after they were granted permission for a full judicial review of the government’s food strategy.
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Just Stop Oil protesters interrupt opera at Glyndebourne festival
Just Stop Oil protesters have interrupted a performance during the Glyndebourne opera festival in East Sussex by letting off glitter cannons and blowing air horns.
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The hard right and climate catastrophe are intimately linked. This is how
Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach. As the extreme right gains power, climate programmes are shut down, heating accelerates and more people are driven from their homes.
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Climate change: UN to unmask fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks
Oil, gas and coal representatives will have to disclose their industry ties at future climate meetings, the UN says. For years, fossil fuel employees have been able to attend without having to be clear about their relationship with their companies.
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UK lagging behind in global race to decarbonise, says TUC leader
The UK is in danger of being left behind in the global race to decarbonise the economy with potentially disastrous consequences for jobs and communities, according to the TUC’s general secretary.
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Fossil fuel lobbyists will have to identify themselves when registering for Cop28
Fossil fuel lobbyists will have to identify themselves as such in registering for the UN Cop28 climate summit, making polluting and carbon-intensive industries more accountable at the annual talks.
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Fears of hottest year on record as global temperatures spike
Global temperatures have accelerated to record-setting levels this month, an ominous sign in the climate crisis ahead of a gathering El Niño that could potentially propel 2023 to become the hottest year ever recorded.
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NZ climate activist faces up to 10 years in prison over fake letter saying fossil fuel event cancelled
A New Zealand climate activist who wrote to oil executives posing as a fossil fuel conference organiser and telling them their gathering was cancelled has been found guilty of forgery, and could face up to a decade in prison.
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From the oceans to ‘net zero’ targets, we’re in denial about the climate crisis
We’re all in denial, in one way or another. Maybe it’s the only way to get by. But we can’t avoid the evidence, collectively, in the long run. On key measures, temperatures across the planet this year are off the charts. This is especially the case in the ocean.
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The sound ecologist capturing a disappearing world: ‘70% of habitats I recorded are gone’
In a small black box theater at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, the arid plains of Zimbabwe come to life in the thrum of chattering baboons and honking geese, and the shores of California materialize in the squawks of gulls and lapping w
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Traumatic loss’: Indigenous traditions hit by fruit scarcity, climate trial hears
Every year, Shane Doyle looks forward to picking chokecherries. The tiny fruits with shiny, dark skin and astringent flesh are abundant near his family’s Bozeman, Montana, home.
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UK innovators get £4.3m to develop space-based solar power
UK universities and tech companies are to receive £4.3m in government funding to develop space-based solar power.
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Greta Thunberg: not phasing out fossil fuels is ‘death sentence’ for world’s poor
Rich countries are signing a “death sentence” for millions of poor people around the world by failing to phase out fossil fuels, the climate activist Greta Thunberg has told governments.
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Crunch time: 10 takeaways from the 2023 European EnerGreenDeal Conference
logos and Business Bridge Europe brought EU leaders and the biggest business names in energy together last week at a pivotal moment for Europe’s energy future.
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Coal giant plans 'Europe's largest green hub' at 14GW with wind, solar, hydrogen and new battery tech
Ambitious plans to create Europe’s largest green power hub at up to 14GW in what is currently one of the continent’s ‘blackest’ energy locations – a complex of lignite power stations and mines in eastern Germany – will include a major deployment of pioneering long-duration energy storage (LDES) t
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Extra points for Europe-made tech or EU wind boom will be made in China'
If the EU wants to meet its boosted renewables targets it needs to “beef-up” its Net-Zero Industry Act – in part through the introduction of non-price criteria in wind power tenders including localisation rules – or turbines for the massive expansion will be made in China, WindEurope has warned.<
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Renewable energy: Is it getting too hot for solar panels?
DUP MP Sammy Wilson has tweeted: "The UK has had to start coal fired generators during this heatwave because the sun is too strong and solar panels have had to be taken offline." This isn't true.
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Trees found growing at record altitudes up Scotland's Munros
Trees have been found growing at record-breaking heights in Scotland's mountains, according to new research by the University of Stirling. The highest was a rowan 1,150m (3,773ft) near the top of Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan, a Munro in West Affric.
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