‘The impact we have is vast’: scientists look to clean up Antarctica
A short walk into the biting wind from Villa Las Estrellas, a tiny Chilean village on the Antarctic peninsula, there is a cove which most scientists working at nearby research stations try to ignore.
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‘The whole thing stinks’: water firms to pay £15bn to shareholders as customers foot sewage bill
English water companies will pay an estimated £14.7bn in dividends by the end of this decade, while making customers pay for new investment to stem the tide of sewage pollution in seas and rivers, analysis for the Observer has revealed.
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Can ‘enhanced rock weathering’ help combat climate change?
In a quarry surrounded by the din of heavy machinery Jim Mann crouches down and picks up a handful of tiny black rocks. "This is my magic dust," he says with a smile, gently rubbing them between his fingers.
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Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says study
The world’s top fossil fuel companies owe at least $209bn in annual climate reparations to compensate communities most damaged by their polluting business and decades of lies, a new study calculates.
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New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers, new research finds
New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found.
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BNP Paribas: will no longer finance development of new oil and gas fields
PARIS, May 11 (Reuters) - BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), France's largest lender, will no longer provide any financing dedicated to the development of new oil and gas fields, the bank said on Thursday, as it reiter
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More than half of the world’s lakes have shrunk in past 30 years, study finds
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s – chiefly because of the climate crisis and human consumption – intensifying concerns about water supply for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study has found.
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Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, UN says
Global plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, according to a report from the UN Environment Programme (Unep). The changes needed are major, but are also practical and affordable, the agency said.
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EPA finally wakes up with stiff new climate rules: ‘They’ve hit full throttle’
A slew of anti-pollution, from toxic water to planet-heating emissions has been issued by an agency belatedly flexing its muscles
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God save the king? What about the planet?
As a boy, in 1977, I made a stupid monkey face at Queen Elizabeth II as she drove past us in Solihull’s Mell Square on her silver jubilee perambulations.
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Oceans have been absorbing the world’s extra heat. But there’s a huge payback
By the end of March, the surface temperature of the world’s oceans was above anything seen in the 40 years that satellites have been measuring it.
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Cop28 host UAE’s approach is ‘dangerous’, says UN’s ex-climate chief
The United Arab Emirates’ approach to the Cop28 climate summit it will preside over in November is “very dangerous” and a “direct threat to the survival of vulnerable nations”, according to the UN’s former climate chief.
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Climate breakdown made southern Asia heatwave at least 2C hotter, study finds
A searing heatwave in parts of southern Asia in April was made at least 30 times more likely by climate breakdown, according to a study by international scientists.
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‘The city was underwater’: quarter of a million Somalis flee flooded homesv
Floods have caused almost a quarter of a million people to flee their homes after the Shabelle River in central Somalia broke its banks and submerged the town of Beledweyne, even as the country faces its
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World likely to breach 1.5C climate threshold by 2027, scientists warn
The world is almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years, and temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, scientists have warned.
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Norway under pressure to scale back fossil fuel expansion plans
The Norwegian government is facing growing pressure to scale back its huge global fossil fuel expansion plans – including the development of a controversial new oilfield in the North Sea.
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Devastating floods in Italy claim lives and leave thousands homeless
Nine people have died and thousands have been evacuated from their homes after heavy storms wreaked havoc in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, causing severe flooding and landslides.
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Swedish far-right outraged over government’s wind power expansion plans
The Swedish government gave the green light to two offshore wind farms off the western coast of Sweden, much to the dismay of the eurosceptic Sweden Democrats, whose spokesperson called government ‘naive’ over the decision.
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The case for Green Ammonia in the carbon-free energy mix is getting stronger by the day
At long last: the push to decarbonise industries worldwide is gaining momentum, especially for hard-to-abate (ie difficult-to-go-green) sectors like transport and power generation. It took our world long enough to move from scientific insight to political and societal acknowledgement.
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UN lays out blueprint to reduce plastic waste 80% by 2040
Countries can reduce plastic pollution by 80% by 2040 using existing technologies and making major policy changes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report on Monday (15 May).
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