Guinea-Bissau’s capital has power cut off after government fails to pay electricity bill

City of Bissau, which has a population of more than 490,000, had no electricity for one-and-a-half days

‘Steve Bannon is watching us closely’: Naomi Klein on populists, conspiracists and real-world activism

Author speaks candidly about a ‘mirror world’ that feeds our anxieties, distorts reality and fuels the polarisation of society  

Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest

Greta Thunberg was arrested aft

Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week launches next week to boost regional climate action

World’s largest offshore windfarm project starts powering UK grid

The first turbine to be completed in a project to build the world’s largest offshore windfarm, in the North Sea, has begun powering British homes and businesses.

Court orders Estonian state energy firm to halt shale oil plant construction

Judges rule environmental impact in Narva-Jõesuu had not been fully assessed after activists brought case

Renewables ‘arms race’: clean energy report says Australia must spend $10bn a year or be left behind

The country must work harder to attract investment to keep up with the US and other competitors, Clean Energy Council says Australia’s investment in renewable energy needs to lift to $10bn a year, the Clean Energy Council says

‘The history of the climate movement is very white’: how youth campaigners took on a mining giant and won

Murrawah Johnson and Monique Jeffs have been awarded a Young Voltaire human rights award for their victory over Waratah Coal’s Galilee basin coal project

Global carbon emissions from electric power may peak this year, report says

Thinktank says rapid growth of wind and solar is near rate required if world is to hit 2030 target as part of 1.5C pathway

Global heat is now ‘gobsmackingly bananas’, but there’s hope humanity can limit the climate damage

It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are now, but we have the technology to avert disaster

Climate activists force Fed chair Jerome Powell off stage in New York

On Thursday protesters chanted: ‘Off fossil finance!’ and held a banner reading: ‘Fed Is Burning: Money, Futures, Planet’  

Australia breaches WHO treaty with carbon neutral certification of big tobacco company

Endorsement of British American Tobacco by Climate Active was revoked after complaint was made, FoI documents show

‘Crabs everywhere’: off Canada’s Pacific coast, Indigenous Haida fight a host of invasive species

The unique wildlife of Haida Gwaii’s 150 islands is under attack by invasive crabs, rats and deer – echoing how local people also became vulnerable to outside forces

Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored

Exclusive: Pressure from agriculture lobbies led to role of cattle in rising global temperatures being underplayed by FAO, claim sources

Surging renewable energy sees record supply to Australia’s electricity grid

At one point in September nearly 100% of eastern Australia’s demand could have been met by renewables, says energy operator Aemo

‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change

Exclusive: ex-officials at the Food and Agriculture Organization say its leadership censored and undermined them when they highlighted how livestock methane is a major greenhouse gas

UK must offer businesses certainty over green energy, says boss of FTSE 100 firm

Miles Roberts of packaging-maker DS Smith warns manufacturing will decline unless government provides clarity about decarbonisation

Chevron to buy oil and gas producer Hess Corp in $53bn all-stock deal

Chevron has announced it will buy the US fossil fuel producer Hess Corporation in a $53bn (£44bn) all-stock deal, as it seeks to increase its presence in oil-rich Guyana.

Welsh Water admits spilling untreated sewage near dolphin habitat for decade

The company released wastewater from treatment plants despite overflow levels not being hit

‘I won’t pay for them to pollute my river’: why a water bills boycott in England is growing

Angler Mike Deacon is among a growing number of customers refusing to pay water companies as they protest against sewage spillages and contamination