Deep-sea mining: why is interest growing and what are the risks?
As Norway becomes the first country to approve deep-sea mining, scientists are alarmed but supporters insist it will aid the energy transition What is deep-sea mining?
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It’s not snow, it’s styrofoam: Lake Tahoe littered with thousands of ‘detrimental’ beads
Beads, believed to be remnants of a floating dock and made of polystyrene, can harm environment and aquatic life, say experts
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Tree that lives underground among newly named plant species
Volcano-top orchid also named by scientists contending with extinctions caused by the human destruction of nature
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2024 lookahead: Climate target for 2040 will be EU Commission’s ‘legacy’, activists say
The European Commission is expected to table its proposed climate target for 2040 on 6 February, in what many see as the current administration’s legacy for the new team that will be appointed to lead the Brussels-based executive after the June EU elections.
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German industry joins forces with green groups on CO2 capture
Some of Germany’s most influential business and green lobbying groups have joined forces to urge Berlin to quickly adopt a carbon management strategy in order to kickstart the country’s industrial transformation.
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France, Czechia defy EU sceptics on nuclear power
France and Czechia reiterated calls on Tuesday (9 January) for the European Commission to put nuclear power on an equal footing with renewable energies in all EU policies, putting traditional nuclear sceptic countries on the defensive.
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‘Forever chemicals’ found in foetuses pose risk of adulthood diseases
A year after a universal ban on per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) was proposed in the EU, a new study found that PFAS affect people as early as the fetal stage of development.
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Bratislava to build its first LNG terminal despite fossil fuel phase out
Fears that Slovakia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal could end up as a stranded investment are reinforced by experts who warn that too much LNG infrastructure is being built as fossil fuels are phased out and that there is likely to be a surplus on the market after 2030.
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Austria boasts Europe’s second-greenest power sector in 2023
Austria generated 87% of its power from renewable sources in 2023 following record years of solar panel expansion, putting it behind Luxembourg in the EU rankings.
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EU is ‘driving without a map’ on biofuels policy, auditors find
The EU’s complex policy approach to biofuels lacks a long-term outlook and risks undermining the bloc’s transport decarbonisation targets, an analysis by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has found.
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Astounding’ ocean temperatures in 2023 intensified extreme weather, data shows
Record levels of heat were absorbed last year by Earth’s seas, which have been warming year-on-year for the past decade “Astounding” ocean temperatures in 2023 supercharged “freak” weather around the world as the climate crisis continued to intensify, new data has revealed.
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Installation of rooftop solar panels in UK hits 12-year high in 2023
Industry data shows almost 190,000 installed last year as well as record number of heat pump installations
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World’s renewable energy capacity grew at record pace in 2023
IEA report says 50% growth last year keeps hope of achieving Cop28 climate target of tripling clean energy capacity
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Dutch Caribbean islanders sue Netherlands over climate change
Bonaire citizens file formal legal challenge, as research shows part of island will be submerged by 2025
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Bird flu confirmed among mass sub-Antarctic seal deaths as virus continues global spread
Scientists warn further spread could threaten fragile ecosystem, as tests show seals died of H5N1 on South Georgia island
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Blinded, sexually assaulted, silenced: the war over lithium, Argentina’s ‘white gold’
In the country’s ‘lithium triangle’ activists say Indigenous land protections have been removed and protests against mining violently repressed
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The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak: he’s not serious about meeting green targets
The prime minister believes that the climate emergency can be left to the individual conscience. He’s wrong
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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
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Brutal’ Arctic blast expected to bring frigid temperatures to North America
Extreme cold warning issued in Canada as US forecasters warn of wind chills in Texas and major snow in midwest and east coast A “bitter” blast of cold Arctic air is set to bring dangerously frigid temperatures to swaths of North America, forecasters have warned.
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Australia urged to name heatwaves to combat dangers of extreme temperatures
‘Heat culture’ of Spain helps communities prepare for hot weather events in the same way they plan for the arrival of cyclones
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