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18 09 2024 | 18:40

How to convince Beijing of the case for stronger climate targets

White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy John Podesta and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speak during a bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, September 6, 2024. (…

18 09 2024 | 18:38

A Community Program Is Transforming New York Schoolyards into Climate-Resilient Spaces

In Brooklyn, one of New York City’s five boroughs, a new schoolyard features newly-planted native trees offering shade and bright playground equipment that sits adjacent to a track and turf field.…

18 09 2024 | 18:34

US lawmakers push to exclude lucrative chemicals from official PFAS definition

The Pentagon in Virginia in 2022. The action comes as the military has attempted to evade responsibility for its PFAS pollution elsewhere. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP US lawmakers and the…

18 09 2024 | 18:34

UK faces another autumn and winter of flooding, Met Office warns

Flooding around the town of Upton upon Severn in Worcestershire during Storm Henk in January. Photograph: David Davies/PA The UK faces another autumn and winter of destructive floods, the Met Office…

18 09 2024 | 18:25

What is the environmental cost of NI's car dependency?

When the first steam-powered car arrived on the island of Ireland in 1896, the impact motorised transport would have was beyond imagination. More than a century later, cars have transformed our…

18 09 2024 | 18:08

Natural History Museum plans revamp to become climate ‘catalyst for change’

The Natural History Museum recently redeveloped its outdoor space into two new gardens focusing on evolution and biodiversity. Photograph: Jonathan E Jackson/NHM/PA The Natural History Museum in…

18 09 2024 | 18:08

Big oil faces a rising number of climate-focused lawsuits, report finds

The authors of the analysis found 86 cases have been filed and 40 are currently pending. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Big oil is facing a soaring number of climate-focused lawsuits, a new…

18 09 2024 | 18:05

Europe saved its predators from the brink of extinction. So why is it killing thousands of bears, wolves and lynx?

A bear approaches a road in Covasna, Romania, to pick up food thrown by tourists – a practice leading them to increasingly venture out of the forest. Photograph: Andrei Pungovschi/AFP/Getty Images

18 09 2024 | 18:02

Global solar generation overtakes wind for longest ever stretch

LITTLETON, Colorado, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Global electricity generation from solar farms has exceeded generation from wind farms since May, marking the longest ever stretch when solar power has been…

18 09 2024 | 18:02

Climate experts lament Harris’s vow to keep fracking in debate with ‘walking oil spill’ Trump

Donald Trump visits the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig in Midland, Texas, on 29 July 2020. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters Kamala Harris stridently backed new fracking and expanded US gas production…

18 09 2024 | 18:00

Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami

A landslide and mega-tsunami in Greenland in September 2023, triggered by the climate crisis, caused the entire Earth to vibrate for nine days, a scientific investigation has found.

18 09 2024 | 17:58

‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train

California's new Zero-Emissions Multiple Unit, known as Zemu, uses a hybrid hydrogen fuel cell and battery system/Photograph: Courtesy of Stadler Inc

18 09 2024 | 17:55

Consumerism and the climate crisis threaten equitable future for humanity, report says

A rag picker carries recyclable materials surrounded by cows and storks at a disposal site in Guwahati in India. Photograph: Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images All of humanity could share a prosperous,…

18 09 2024 | 17:52

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) urges inclusion of refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in flood response across West and Central Africa

With the onset of the rainy season, severe flooding across Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger and Nigeria has significantly worsened the situation of refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in the…

18 09 2024 | 17:45

Human rights must be “at the core” of mining for transition minerals, UN panel says

People hold placards as they protest against environmental degradation which they blame on mining activity and climate change, near the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines Convention in Pasay city,…

18 09 2024 | 17:44

Britain now stifles peaceful dissent like a repressive regime. It’s time to roll back our anti-protest laws

Demonstrators at a protest against the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, London, 1 May 2021. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

18 09 2024 | 17:41

IFAA FORUM: JUST TRANSITION. A CLIMATE, ENERGY AND DEVELOPMENT VISION FOR AFRICA

The Institute for African Alternatives is pleased to host Fadhel Kaboub on Monday, 16th September 2024, at 6 pm. Dr Kaboub will give an overview of the report “Just Transition: A Climate, Energy and…

18 09 2024 | 17:39

Pacific islands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime

Three developing countries have taken the first steps towards transforming the world’s response to climate breakdown and environmental destruction by making ecocide a punishable criminal offence. In…

18 09 2024 | 17:37

Engie launches construction of its Grootspruit solar farm in South Africa

Engie is set to expand its portfolio of power plants in South Africa. The French energy company has just launched construction of the Grootspruit solar farm in partnership with the South African…