Climate crisis: CO2 hits new record despite Covid-19 lockdowns.
Drop in emissions this year is a ‘tiny blip’ in buildup of greenhouse gases, UN agency says.
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Investors plan major move into renewable energy infrastructure.
Global survey finds spending expected to double in five years in response to climate fears.
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Microplastic pollution found near summit of Mount Everest.
Humans now known to have polluted Earth from deepest ocean to highest peak.
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European governments failing to protect citizens from air pollution, data reveals
Pollutants from farming, heating and vehicles beyond levels needed to ensure breathable air.
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Growing ‘heat blob’ from Atlantic driving sea ice loss in Arctic, study says.
Amount of ocean heat delivered to the Arctic has increased markedly since 2001, according to research
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Biden picks John Kerry for climate envoy on national security council.
Former state department chief under Barack Obama to return to White House to address climate emergency.
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How Biden and Kerry could rebuild America’s global climate leadership.
John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader.
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UK government to subsidise onshore renewable energy projects.
Energy companies will compete for contracts in auction at end of 2021. The government plans to double the amount of renewable energy it will subsidise next year after agreeing to include onshore wind and solar power projects for the first time since 2015.
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‘Flights to nowhere’ are soaring in the pandemic, but at what environmental cost?
As an airline in Taiwan launches a three-hour ‘flight to nowhere for singles looking for love’, Daisy Dunne asks how such services can be justified in the era of the climate crisis
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Worsening land inequality widens gender gaps.
70 per cent of the world's farmland is operated by 1 per cent of the world’s farms.
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Electricity access is declining in sub-Saharan Africa but solar offers a way forward, says IEA chief.
Electricity access has fallen for the first time in seven years in sub-Saharan Africa, but a boost to solar power could offer a way forward, says the chief of the Int
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New report ranks how friendly – or not – African governments are towards girls.
There are approximately over 308 million girls below 18 years on the African continent.
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Jacinda Ardern to declare climate emergency on behalf of New Zealand next week.
The text of the motion is expected to be released the day before and Parliament will vote on the motion. "We’ve always considered climate change to be a huge threat to our region, and it is something we must take immediate action on," Ardern said today.
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Two polar bears come sniffing in the Arctic night: Esther Horvath's best photograph.
In the autumn of 2019, I joined an expedition to the Arctic. We set sail from Tromsø, Norway, on 20 September, on the Polarstern icebreaker.
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Lorde urges climate action ahead of new book on Antarctica trip.
New Zealand singer says Donald Trump, Great Thunberg and California wildfires spurred her to visit before it turns ‘to slush’
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Can Joe Biden make good on his revolutionary climate agenda?
Although he faces a split Congress, the US president-elect has levers he can pull in the government to advance clean energy and curb global warming.
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How To Talk To People About the Climate Crisis When Scary Facts Are Not Enough.
"It's easy to feel dwarfed in the context of such a global systemic issue," says psychologist Renée Lertzman.
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Climate Coalition Pressures Biden to Reject 'Corporate Shill' Ernest Moniz as Energy Chief.
Amid reports that oil industry-friendly former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz remains
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Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity.
The Tasmania government has declared that it has become the first Australian state, and one of just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide, to be powered entirely by renewable electricity.
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Africa: Millions of New Poor Are On the Way - Who Cares?
Rome — The recent meeting of the G20 - scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic - has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of leadership.
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