More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
Maximiliano Herrera, watcher of extreme weather, says last year likely to be in top five or six hottest in history
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‘Extreme marine heatwave’: waters off Sydney set to break January temperature records
Satellite data shows ocean surface 3C above normal as swimmers say water feels more like February and March
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England’s farmers to be paid to rewild land
Nature recovery schemes are part of post-Brexit subsidies overhaul, but eco campaigners are sceptical
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Watching Don’t Look Up made me see my whole life of campaigning flash before me
I’ve broken down on TV too, trying to explain the horror of the climate crisis to those who wield power and do nothing
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Don’t Look Up: four climate experts on the polarising disaster film
Rarely has a film been as divisive as Adam McKay’s climate satire Don’t Look Up.
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Streets ahead? What I’ve learned from my year with an electric car
Record sales and now news of a battery that lasts hundreds of miles. It’s getting better, but going green was tough, admits a reluctant pioneer
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World’s largest coal port to be 100% powered by renewable energy
Port of Newcastle says move is part of plan to decarbonise the business by 2040 and ‘we don’t really have a choice’
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Nutrient-rich fish are thriving in a coral graveyard off the coast of Africa
Protecting Seychelles' reefs is about human health as well as biodiversity.
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Government invites oil companies to help write rulebook on whether new fossil fuel drilling is green
Environmentalists say ministers are living in a ‘fantasy’ by giving new fossil fuel production the green light Oil and gas companies have been invited by the government to help write the rules on whether new drilling complies with the UK’s climate obligations, j
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Don’t Look Up shows bashing people over the head with facts does not work.
The global top three programmes on Netflix currently include the heroic quest of a monster hunter; the escapades of an American woman in Paris; and, at number one, a dark comedy about climate change called Don’t Look Up.
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Why is support for nuclear power noisiest just as its failures become most clear?
The UK government and mainstream media agree we need nuclear to avoid the worst climate change. They’re wrong – so why aren’t we hearing that?
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Oil and gas companies operating in North Sea to cash in 'near record' income as energy prices skyrocket
The predictions, made by the energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, come as UK consumers face a cost of living crisis driven in large part by huge increases in energy bills.
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5 things you should know about the greenhouse gases warming the planet
1. What is the greenhouse effect? In a greenhouse, sunlight enters, and heat is retained. The greenhouse effect describes a similar phenomenon on a planetary scale but, instead of the glass of a greenhouse, certain gases are increasingly raising global temperatures.
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Climate crisis: last seven years the hottest on record, 2021 data shows
Global heating continued unabated with extreme weather rife and greenhouse gases hitting new highs
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Here’s how to solve the UK energy crisis for the long term – store more power
Four storage solutions to help Britain keep the lights on deep into the future
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2021 was the planet’s fifth-hottest year on record as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise
The seven hottest years on record were the last seven – by a clear margin, scientists say Scientists have revealed that 2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record, as emissions of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, the main drivers of the climate crisis
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What to expect from the world's sixth mass extinction
Humans alive today are witnessing the beginning of the first mass extinction in 65 million years. What does biodiversity loss mean for us and the environment?
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Ocean Battery stores renewable energy at the bottom of the sea
As useful as renewable energy sources are, they need to be backed up by storage systems that hold energy for times when the Sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.
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