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01 10 2024 | 13:00

Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says

The world is spending at least $2.6tn (£2tn) a year on subsidies that drive global heating and destroy nature, according to new analysis.

01 10 2024 | 12:58

The demise of coal, as it turns out, is a lot of gas

Large machinery piles and stores electrical coal just unloaded from a cargo ship at the coal terminal in Lianyungang Port, China, on May 24, 2024. (Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Reuters)

01 10 2024 | 12:58

Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’

Electric cars now outnumber petrol cars in Norway for the first time, an industry organisation has said, a world first that puts the country on track towards taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road…

01 10 2024 | 12:58

‘Every time the planes pass, my eyes burn’: the hidden cost of Costa Rican bananas

For more than 20 years, Lidieth Gomez’s days have been punctuated by the hum of crop-spraying planes. At dawn and dusk, the skies over Matina, capital of Limón province on Costa Rica’s Caribbean…

01 10 2024 | 12:58

‘Butterfly emergency’ declared as UK summer count hits record low

A national “butterfly emergency” has been declared by Butterfly Conservation after the lowest Big Butterfly Count since records began. An average of just seven butterflies per 15-minute count were…

01 10 2024 | 12:57

Advancing gender equality through Generation Equality‘s multi-stakeholder approach and local action in Kenya

Stakeholders from across Kenya gathered in Nairobi for a landmark event that brought together Generation Equality commitment makers based in Kenya. The event aimed to raise awareness of Generation…

01 10 2024 | 12:57

Global heating is making El Niño and La Niña forecasts less reliable, BoM says

The Bureau of Meteorology has Australia on ‘La Niña watch’ but says that if it does develop it is likely to be short-lived and weak. Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian The Bureau of Meteorology…

01 10 2024 | 12:56

Slow progress in Baku risks derailing talks on new climate finance goal at COP29

A delegate's laptop bears a slogan calling for loss and damage finance at the mid-year UN climate talks in Bonn on June 7, 2024. (Photo: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth)

01 10 2024 | 12:53

Is Brazil’s Lula a climate leader?

U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attend an event with labor leaders from the United States and Brazil, on the sidelines of the 78th U.N. General Assembly in…

01 10 2024 | 12:52

‘Vast’ carbon sink of mud on seabed needs more protection, study shows

The sun rising over mudflats at Sandyhills Bay on the Solway Firth, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Photograph: Mark Hamblin/The Wildlife Trusts Seabed habitats could capture almost three times…

01 10 2024 | 12:52

Technology helping solar farms counter growing hailstone threat

One of the least considered hazards of climate change is the increasing frequency of hailstorms and the size and the impact of the pieces of ice they produce. This, in turn, threatens one of the…

01 10 2024 | 12:51

Top UK food firms urged to do more to cut ‘staggering’ emissions

Dairy cattle on a farm. Globally the food industry produces 30% of all emissions. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP Britain’s biggest food and drink firms are doing too little to tackle the climate…

01 10 2024 | 12:51

Developing countries denounce rich nations’ disregard for just transition talks

United Nations talks on how to make the global green transition fair provoked frustration last week among developing countries as rich nations did not attend in person and refused to discuss thorny…

01 10 2024 | 12:49

UK calls for “ambition” on COP29 climate finance goal but won’t talk numbers

Britain’s new foreign minister has called on governments to set an “ambitious” new goal for climate finance to help developing countries at the COP29 UN climate summit, but declined to discuss how…

01 10 2024 | 12:47

If Trump and Vance win the election, this is what's at stake

A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city’s economic heartbeat as well as a keystone origin story of JD Vance, the hometown senator now running to be Donald Trump’s vice-presid

01 10 2024 | 12:44

‘We empower ourselves’: the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru

Dayana and Tatiana Blanco walk amid the rubbish that has accumulated in Lake Uru Uru. The founders of Team Uru Uru found that totora reeds – which have long been used by their Indigenous community to…

01 10 2024 | 12:43

A coal plant bulldozed an Ohio town displacing residents. Now its owners include a big Trump donor

Jennifer Harrison, a former resident of Cheshire, Ohio, who took the buyout from American Electric Power, revisits the land where her home used to stand on 6 September 2024. Photograph: Maddie…

01 10 2024 | 12:42

Resisting fascism includes respecting our environment and fellow species

Empty docks at the Antelope Island Marina due to record low water levels on the Great Salt Lake, near Syracuse, Utah, in 2022. Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP