Big emitting companies should be held responsible for the burning of their coal overseas, report says
Coalmining in Australia by the nation’s six biggest coal producers ultimately results in more…
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
There’s nothing like the giant oil companies to…
Some of the biggest festivals in Australia such as WOMADelaide now like to be zero waste. And many food outlets are starting to also think about replacing their plastic containers and with reusable…
‘Reforestation is essential but means nothing if we’re still watching the Amazon go up in smoke,’ says Greenpeace.
Images of the Amazon being ravaged by wildfires has unified the public in shock and…
Coldplay have announced they will not be touring their new album for the forseeable future, in a bid to address the reality of the climate crisis.
The awaited new release, Everyday Life, goes live…
Netherlands takes ‘rotten measure’ of reducing 130km/h limit to protect nature reserves.
The Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has taken what he has described as the “rotten measure” of cutting the…
With homes under water in South Yorkshire, near record flooding in Venice, and burgeoning wildfires in Australia, many people are asking if and how climate change is connected to these extreme…
Veneto’s regional council rejected a plan to combat climate change minutes before its offices on the Grand Canal, in Venice, were flooded, it has emerged as the city continues to battle high water …
Dr Tom Beer’s pioneering 1980s research into bushfires and climate change has, to his dismay, proved all too accurate
From his lounge in Brunswick, Melbourne, 72-year-old Dr Tom Beer has been…
The climate crisis will determine the lifelong health of today’s children, doctors have warned, noting that global heating was already causing harm.
Children are especially vulnerable and the global…
Thunberg: ‘My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – to unite behind the science and to act on the science’
As Greta Thunberg departs the US to sail across the Atlantic for the second…
Arctic sea ice receded to record lows in October, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Ice coverage recorded in October was 32.2 percent…
The burning of coal is a huge driver of climate change but it’s also estimated that coal mining employs around six million people worldwide and is the lynch-pin of many communities.
Sharan Burrow…
The Conservative party’s record on tackling the climate crisis has been condemned by leading scientists and former government advisers, as the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, warned that the…
Election contenders have been setting out plans to win over voters concerned about the environment.
Labour
Labour’s “green new deal” – or “green industrial revolution” – puts a radical…
Without an increased investment in research and innovation, the European Union will be unable to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and will lose out to economic rivals on the competitive…
NGOs report fourfold increases in investments in carbon-reducing projects in developing countries.
Growing concern about the climate crisis and the “Greta Thunberg effect” are driving huge increases…
Yesterday, presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan (!) calling for companies who have misled federal regulators to be prosecuted under a new corporate perjury law. She also…
This week Italy got an A+ — thanks to its education minister, Lorenzo Fioramonti,who announced that starting next year all schools and students in all grades in Italywill be required to spend 33…
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