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The teenagers and the nun trying to stop an Australian coal mine

When eight teenagers and an elderly nun in Australia teamed up fo

Energy Climate Environment

‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization

Indigenous women in North and Central America are coming together to share ancestral knowledge of amaranth, a plant booming in popularity as a health food

Environment

A ‘false solution’? How crypto mining became the oil industry’s new hope

Climate experts warn that plans to repurpose waste gas is not a solution, but more like placing a Band-Aid over a gaping wound

Energy Climate Environment

Sampdoria’s Morten Thorsby: ‘They call me football’s Greta Thunberg’

Norway midfielder on how the Guardian inspired him to become a climate activist and what players can do to save the planet

Climate Environment

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Climate

Great Barrier Reef could face another mass bleaching by end of January, forecast says

Scientists are hoping La Niña conditions might yet stave off threat from predicted heat accumulation in northern and central reef

Climate Environment

Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern

Twenty years ago, an area of ice thought to weigh almost 500bn tonnes dramatically broke off the

Climate

Deforestation making outdoor work unsafe for millions, says study

Rise in temperatures and humidity linked to forest loss has reduced safe hours for working in the tropics

Environment

Environmental activists ‘spat at by drivers’ at Rome protest

Protesters say they were slapped, kicked and spat at by angry drivers during roadblock in Italian capital

Climate

Warmer winters can wreak as much havoc as hotter summers, say scientists

Warmer winters are happening across the globe, and can be drivers of catastrophic weather events and profound changes

Climate

‘Really abnormal’ storms and tornadoes tear through Great Plains and midwest

At least five people died as a powerful and extremely unusual storm system swept across the Great Plains and midwest amid unseasonably

Climate Environment

‘This new snow has no name’: Sami reindeer herders face climate disaster

The only indigenous people left in Europe are struggling to keep their way of life as the Arctic warms up

Climate Environment

‘All I can think about is the children’s future’: drought devastates Kenya

Dahabley smells of rotting flesh.

Climate Environment

Wood burners cause nearly half of urban air pollution cancer risk – study

Exclusive: Wood smoke is a more important carcinogen than vehicle fumes, finds Athens analysis

Energy Climate Technology Solutions

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ constantly cycle through ground, air and water, study finds

The Stockholm University study highlights the chemicals’ mobility, which has been found in penguin eggs and polar bears

Technology Solutions Environment

How much indoor air pollution do we produce when we take a shower?

Chemicals that evaporate from personal care products are among pollutants that form ozone in summer smogs

Climate Environment

End trade barriers to help tackle climate crisis, says WTO chief

Removing trade barriers around the world would help to tackle the climate crisis, enable a “just tr

Climate

New head of Unesco world heritage centre wants to put Africa on the map

Lazare Eloundou Assomo wants to address imbalance that benefits rich nations and protect sites threatened by climate crisis and war

Climate

NSW approves Morrison government’s $600m Kurri Kurri gas-fired power plant

Critics say ‘polluting’ plant in the Hunter region – which will only operate 2% of the year – makes little commercial sense

Energy Climate Technology Solutions

The pandemic is a warning: we must take care of the earth, our only home

The climate crisis resembles a huge planetary lockdown, trapping humanity within an ever-deteriorating environment

Climate Technology Solutions Environment