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18 09 2024 | 18:54

Los Angeles hit by double whammy of wildfires and earthquake

Millions of residents in the Los Angeles area were rattled by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake that hit early on Thursday morning and came as the region continues to battle multiple wildfires that have yet…

18 09 2024 | 18:52

Belém’s electric bus controversy: a cautionary tale for COP30

Two of five new electric buses parked at the Belém terminal, while awaiting clearance from the Municipal Audit Court (TCMPA). (Photo: Alice Martins Morais) A recent row over a small fleet of air-…

18 09 2024 | 18:43

Most US voters say plastics industry should be held responsible for recycling claims – report

Concern about the fossil fuel and plastics industries’ alleged deception about recycling is growing, with new polling showing a majority of American voters, including 54% of Republicans, support…

18 09 2024 | 18:41

How to Talk to Anxious Children About Climate Change

Olivia Vesovich, one of 16 youth plaintiffs in Held v. Montana, on her favorite hiking trail in Missoula, Montana in July 2023. Credit: Tailyr Irvine/The Washington Post via Getty Images. At 21,…

18 09 2024 | 18:41

Green Climate Fund restructures, aiming to become donors’ “partner of choice”

GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte speaks at the High-level Pledging Conference for the fund's second replenishment in October 2023. (Photo: Green Climate Fund / Ute Grabowsky) Since the Green…

18 09 2024 | 18:40

How to convince Beijing of the case for stronger climate targets

White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy John Podesta and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speak during a bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, September 6, 2024. (…

18 09 2024 | 18:38

A Community Program Is Transforming New York Schoolyards into Climate-Resilient Spaces

In Brooklyn, one of New York City’s five boroughs, a new schoolyard features newly-planted native trees offering shade and bright playground equipment that sits adjacent to a track and turf field.…

18 09 2024 | 18:34

US lawmakers push to exclude lucrative chemicals from official PFAS definition

The Pentagon in Virginia in 2022. The action comes as the military has attempted to evade responsibility for its PFAS pollution elsewhere. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP US lawmakers and the…

18 09 2024 | 18:34

UK faces another autumn and winter of flooding, Met Office warns

Flooding around the town of Upton upon Severn in Worcestershire during Storm Henk in January. Photograph: David Davies/PA The UK faces another autumn and winter of destructive floods, the Met Office…

18 09 2024 | 18:25

What is the environmental cost of NI's car dependency?

When the first steam-powered car arrived on the island of Ireland in 1896, the impact motorised transport would have was beyond imagination. More than a century later, cars have transformed our…

18 09 2024 | 18:08

Natural History Museum plans revamp to become climate ‘catalyst for change’

The Natural History Museum recently redeveloped its outdoor space into two new gardens focusing on evolution and biodiversity. Photograph: Jonathan E Jackson/NHM/PA The Natural History Museum in…

18 09 2024 | 18:08

Big oil faces a rising number of climate-focused lawsuits, report finds

The authors of the analysis found 86 cases have been filed and 40 are currently pending. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Big oil is facing a soaring number of climate-focused lawsuits, a new…

18 09 2024 | 18:05

Europe saved its predators from the brink of extinction. So why is it killing thousands of bears, wolves and lynx?

A bear approaches a road in Covasna, Romania, to pick up food thrown by tourists – a practice leading them to increasingly venture out of the forest. Photograph: Andrei Pungovschi/AFP/Getty Images

18 09 2024 | 18:02

Global solar generation overtakes wind for longest ever stretch

LITTLETON, Colorado, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Global electricity generation from solar farms has exceeded generation from wind farms since May, marking the longest ever stretch when solar power has been…

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…

18 09 2024 | 18:00

Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami

A landslide and mega-tsunami in Greenland in September 2023, triggered by the climate crisis, caused the entire Earth to vibrate for nine days, a scientific investigation has found.

18 09 2024 | 17:58

‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train

California's new Zero-Emissions Multiple Unit, known as Zemu, uses a hybrid hydrogen fuel cell and battery system/Photograph: Courtesy of Stadler Inc

18 09 2024 | 17:55

Consumerism and the climate crisis threaten equitable future for humanity, report says

A rag picker carries recyclable materials surrounded by cows and storks at a disposal site in Guwahati in India. Photograph: Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images All of humanity could share a prosperous,…

18 09 2024 | 17:52

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) urges inclusion of refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in flood response across West and Central Africa

With the onset of the rainy season, severe flooding across Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger and Nigeria has significantly worsened the situation of refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in the…