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20 07 2024 | 09:35

With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash

As Earth’s annual average temperature pushes against the 1.5 degree Celsius limit beyond which climatologists expect the impacts of global warming to intensify, social scientists warn that humanity…

20 07 2024 | 09:33

Trophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants

In the borderlands of Tanzania and Kenya, the “super tuskers” roam. A combination of old age, genetic pooling and prolonged protection from poaching has created a population of bull elephants with…

20 07 2024 | 09:33

17 million from the AfDB will change everything for rural women farmers in Mauritania

In Mauritania, a $17 million package from the African Development Bank (AfDB) bodes well for 22,200 households and 205 women's cooperatives that depend on agriculture for their livelihoods in rural…

20 07 2024 | 09:30

South Africa : Nearly 1,000 homes in Cape Town destroyed by storms

Nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people, authorities and an aid organization said as the city…

20 07 2024 | 09:29

Ivory Coast steps up the pace of the circular economy with an innovation laboratory

Ivory Coast, faced with waste pollution, is focusing on the circular economy to gradually eradicate it. To support this approach, Ivory Coast's Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research,…

20 07 2024 | 09:29

South Sudan records the world’s largest mammal migration

The results of a recent survey show that Southern Sudan is home to the world's largest mammal migration. This is a major achievement for the conservation of biodiversity, at a time when flora and…

20 07 2024 | 09:28

Climate protesters won’t be deterred by fines, jail or political mixed messages on the environment

Activists are convinced a wartime campaign of resistance is the only way to highlight the existing system’s failure to meet the moment As pro-Palestinian protesters sparked outrage scaling the roof…

20 07 2024 | 09:21

Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms

The de facto ban on new onshore windfarms has been dropped by the Labour government, to the delight of environmentalists and energy experts. The ban was caused by two footnotes to the National…

20 07 2024 | 09:16

After asking ‘What about the climate?’ for 14 years, I’m standing down as an MP. But I have reasons to be hopeful

When I entered parliament back in 2010 as the first Green MP, I used every possible trick in the book to push the environment up the UK’s political agenda. In the early days, progress was agonisingly…

20 07 2024 | 09:14

Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls

A disrupted climate and diminished natural world are widening the dividing lines of ideological debate. Left unchecked, this will undermine democracy.

20 07 2024 | 09:11

‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130 million people across US

A long-running heatwave that has already broken records, sparked dozens of wildfires and left about 130 million people under a high-temperature threat is about to intensify enough that the National…

20 07 2024 | 09:10

Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

Perched atop blackened trees, howler monkeys survey the ashes around them. A flock of rheas treads, disoriented, in search of water. The skeletons of alligators lie lifeless and charred. The…

20 07 2024 | 09:08

Community Solar ‘Delivers on Promise’ to Lower-Income Households

Community solar users in the United States are 6.1 times more likely to live in multi-unit buildings, 4.4 times more likely to rent, and take home 23% lower incomes than rooftop solar buyers,…

20 07 2024 | 09:08

Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital

A ruling described by activists as “historic”, a court in Ecuador has ruled that pollution has violated the rights of a river that runs through the country’s capital, Quito. The city government…

20 07 2024 | 09:06

‘Antidotes to despair’: five things we’ve learned from the world’s best climate journalists

Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope of Covering Climate Now (CCNow) hail the winners of their organization’s annual global climate journalism awards, and here describe some lessons they have taken from…

20 07 2024 | 09:05

Nato’s 2023 military spending produced about 233m metric tonnes of CO2 – report

As leaders from member countries gather to mark the 75th anniversary of Nato in Washington DC, researchers are warning that their military budgets are eroding the climate, producing an estimated 233m…

20 07 2024 | 09:02

Hurricane Beryl supercharged by ‘crazy’ ocean temperatures, experts say

Hurricane Beryl, which slammed into Texas on Monday after wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, was supercharged by “absolutely crazy” ocean temperatures that are likely to fuel further violent storms in…