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26 08 2021 | 07:35

Remember Obama’s drill, baby, drill days? Democrats aren’t innocent on climate

Obama campaigned in climate poetry and then governed in fossil fuel prose. Joe Biden may well follow in his footsteps.

26 08 2021 | 07:23

Denser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way

Drawing people into cities could cut emissions and combat housing crises. But even progressives are hard to convince In San Francisco’s Sunset District, rows and rows of pastel-colored, two-storey…

26 08 2021 | 07:12

Is democracy getting in the way of saving the planet?

Our climate is in crisis, but authoritarians and technocrats don’t have the answers

25 08 2021 | 13:27

We just lived through the Earth’s hottest month on record

It was bound to happen. With temperatures rising year after year, largely as an effect of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, multiple parts of the globe have broken temperature records. Now, NOAA has…

25 08 2021 | 12:57

Landmark ban on CFCs in 1980s prevented deadly ‘scorched Earth’ scenario, research reveals

Scientists paint apocalyptic vision of soaring temperatures and catastrophic impacts on agriculture without signing of crucial Montreal Protocol On 16 May 1985, three scientists from the British…

25 08 2021 | 12:53

Climate crisis made deadly German floods ‘up to nine times more likely’

Study reinforces the hard evidence that carbon emissions are the main cause of worsening extreme weather. The record-shattering rainfall that caused deadly flooding across Germany and Belgium in…

25 08 2021 | 12:51

‘Nothing to eat’: Somalia hit by triple threat of climate crisis, Covid and conflict

Overlapping crises have pushed the fragile east African country to the ‘cusp of humanitarian catastrophe’, with one in four facing food insecurity. Such was the horror that erupted in her village…

25 08 2021 | 12:48

Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse

A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the…

25 08 2021 | 12:29

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits highest annual level in a decade

Rainforest lost 10,476 sq km between August 2020 and July 2021, report says, despite increasing global concern Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest annual level in a decade, a …

23 08 2021 | 12:59

Climate Scientists Detect Warning Signs of Gulf Stream Collapse

Climate change has "almost complete[ly]" destabilized the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical aquatic "conveyor belt" that plays a major role in global temperature and…

23 08 2021 | 12:54

Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet

Report warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of…

18 08 2021 | 11:39

Dead zones spread along Oregon coast and Gulf of Mexico, study shows

Agricultural runoff from farms and livestock operations creates oxygen-depleted areas inhospitable to animal and plant life Scientists recently surveyed the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico around…

18 08 2021 | 10:58

Site of ancient Olympic Games threatened as Greece battles wildfire

ATHENS, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Greek authorities ordered villages near the site of the ancient Olympic Games in the western Peloponnese to be evacuated on Wednesday as wildfires raged across the country,…

18 08 2021 | 10:55

Spain, Portugal brace for wildfire threat as temps soar

Spain and Portugal are bracing for temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in coming days, as a mass of hot, dry air from Africa pushes north into the Iberian peninsula.…

16 08 2021 | 08:50

Climate change’s trillion dollar problem just got more urgent for investors

The money tied up in fossil fuels is everyone’s problem, writes Anna Isaac There’s a £16 trillion problem that’s been keeping central bankers past and present up at night: “stranded assets”. It’s…

16 08 2021 | 08:36

Climate Chaos Has Arrived — This Is What it Looks Like

Ten, twenty, thirty years ago, today’s headlines were the predictions of fringe extremists. And yet, they’ve come true. Conversations about how to avoid what’s coming aren’t important any longer.…

12 08 2021 | 09:38

‘No surprise but a stark warning’: How scientists around world reacted to IPCC’s landmark climate report

The role that humans have played in driving the climate crisis is “unequivocal”. That is one of the key takeaways of a landmark report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

12 08 2021 | 09:05

We’re Losing the Battle for the Future.

This is Why it Feels Like We Might Not Have a Future Anymore I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the world is on fire. That’s a symptom of a grim trend. We’re losing the battle for the future. Is…

12 08 2021 | 08:32

We Can’t Beat the Climate Catastrophe

It’s not happening fast enough and it’s happening too fast We aren’t programmed to try to change the weather. Humans experience the euphemistic “climate change” disaster that is playing out before…

10 08 2021 | 16:10

Wildfires rage in Greece and Italy as EU mounts firefighting operation

Week of blazes forces evacuations and brings devastating scale of destruction to large areas of southern Europe The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was…