Oliver Milman

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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…

24 08 2024 | 06:58

Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study

A petroleum refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Photograph: Rex Wholster/Alamy The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes…

24 08 2024 | 06:54

‘The dumbest climate conversation of all time’: experts on the Musk-Trump interview

Donald Trump and Elon Musk both made discursive, often fact-free assertions about global heating, including that rising sea levels would create “more oceanfront property” and that there was no…

29 07 2024 | 09:42

Kamala Harris could set ‘new high bar for climate ambition’, advocates say

Kamala Harris has a strong record on the environment that will provide a vivid contrast with Donald Trump, who has vowed to rescind climate change policies should he return to the White House,…

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…

08 06 2024 | 05:59

Oceans face ‘triple threat’ of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification

The world’s oceans are facing a “triple threat” of extreme heating, a loss of oxygen and acidification, with extreme conditions becoming far more intense in recent decades and placing enormous stress…

27 05 2024 | 08:13

Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report

The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a…

23 05 2024 | 11:17

Green activists push Biden to freeze ‘disastrous’ deepwater oil export rigs

Joe Biden’s administration is coming under renewed pressure to escalate its curbs on the US’s booming trade in fossil fuels by halting new deepwater oil-export facilities, as well as entrenching its…

15 11 2022 | 10:08

‘Like Vegas, but worse’: Sharm el-Sheikh fails to charm Cop27 delegates

On first week of summit there have been traffic jams, water shortages – and an atmosphere of state repression

21 09 2022 | 06:30

Burning world’s fossil fuel reserves could emit 3.5tn tons of greenhouse gas

The world will have released more planet-heating emissions than have occurred since the industrial revolution, analysis found Burning the world’s proven reserves of fossil fuels would emit more…

27 01 2022 | 09:17

‘He’s a villain’: Joe Manchin attracts global anger over climate crisis

The West Virginia senator’s name is reviled on the streets of Bangladesh and other countries facing climate disaster as he blocks Biden’s effort to curb planet-heating gases Within the brutal…

25 11 2021 | 07:10

Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary

The wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the US Standing in front of the partial ruins of…

17 07 2021 | 10:07

Biden’s clean energy plan would cut emissions and save 317,000 lives.

A new report has found that a policy standard would be most effective to reach the goal of 80% renewable energy use by 2030. A Biden administration plan to force the rapid uptake of renewable energy…

15 07 2021 | 09:37

‘We live in a desert. We have to act like it’: Las Vegas faces reality of drought

Water investigators track down wasteful homeowners and public turf torn up to conserve scarce water supplies Investigator Perry Kaye jammed the brakes of his government-issued vehicle to survey…

05 06 2021 | 12:22

Miami’s chief heat officer calls for action on ‘silent killer’ in climate crisis

Jane Gilbert urges greater federal and state response to lethal threat posed by rising temperatures. Miami’s new chief heat officer has called for greater federal and state action on the lethal…

25 05 2021 | 13:25

Crying about hamburgers is dead-end on climate crisis, Republicans warned

Congressman Peter Meijer, 33, warns that false claims of a burger ban or blaming immigrants risk losing the young generation. Lies that hamburgers will be banned, conspiracy-laden claims of…

21 05 2021 | 18:51

Wyoming stands up for coal with threat to sue states that refuse to buy it.

Republican governor says measure sends message that Wyoming is ‘prepared to bring litigation to protect her interests’ Wyoming is faced by a transition to renewable energy that’s gathering pace…

03 04 2021 | 07:11

Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal.

Exclusive: documents seen by Guardian show companies fought clean-air rules despite being aware of harm caused by air pollution. The oil industry knew at least 50 years ago that air pollution from…

10 02 2021 | 09:42

'Invisible killer': fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds.

Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals. Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as…

09 02 2021 | 09:45

Dizzying pace of Biden's climate action sounds death knell for era of denialism.

Analysis: The new president has framed the challenge of global heating as an opportunity for US jobs, saying: ‘We have to be bold’. For a landmark moment in the global effort to stave off…