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Liz Truss ‘will approve more oil drilling if she becomes PM’ | Tory leadership candidate criticised by campaigners after reports her team have met energy firms
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| ['Rob Davies', '@ByRobDavies'] | Liz Truss will sign off on a push for more oil drilling in the North Sea if she wins the Conservative leadership election, according to reports, drawing criticism from environmental campaigners.Amid mounting public dismay about soaring energy bills, Truss’s policy advisers are thought to be discussing proposals to issu... | 2022-08-30 |
Renewed Highland golf course plan has environmentalists crying 'Fore!' | Scottish government rejected a new links at Coul to protect the complex dune system but investors have revived the scheme | ['Ewan Murray', '@mrewanmurray'] | It is an area so tranquil that the notion of bitter dispute is hugely anomalous. The serenity of Coul - in east Sutherland, north of Dornoch – is in fact fundamental to a backdrop of unrest.When the Scottish government rejected a plan for a golf course at Coul early last year, it appeared those with grand plans had now... | 2021-03-22 |
Visiting green spaces deters mental health drug use, researchers find | Positive effects were stronger among those reporting the lowest annual household income, says Finnish study | ['Damien Gayle', '@damiengayle'] | Visits to parks, community gardens and other urban green spaces may lower city dwellers’ use of drugs for anxiety, insomnia, depression, high blood pressure, and asthma, research has found.Researchers in Finland found that visiting such areas three to four times a week cuts people’s chances of turning to drugs for ment... | 2023-01-17 |
Bought too much red cabbage? Turn it into a festive nut roast – recipe | This fantastic vegan centrepiece makes full use of those outer cabbage leaves that all too often just get thrown away | ['Tom Hunt'] | I devised today’s nut roast for Oddbox, a veg box outfit that supports farmers by buying wonky fruit and veg that they might otherwise find hard to shift. It’s moist, flavourful and a fun use for outer cabbage leaves, which often get thrown away; it’s also a wonderful vegan centrepiece for a celebratory table.Chest-nut... | 2023-12-22 |
‘This year has been very good’: readers’ UK butterfly sightings | Readers share their favourite sightings over the summer, after news that numbers have risen since last year
UK butterfly numbers bounce back after last year’s all-time low
| ['Guardian readers'] | ‘Constant companions to our gardening’A peacock butterfly perched on a yellow ragwort, pictured on 9 August. Photograph: Guardian communityWe try to encourage as many pollinators as possible to visit our allotment. As well as growing lots of fruit and veg we have planted many different flowers. Across the summer we saw... | 2023-12-19 |
Country diary: Willow tits are here, but good luck with seeing one | Tittesworth Reservoir, Staffordshire: It’s easy to see why these wonderful but maddeningly elusive birds have inspired great poetry | ['Mark Cocker'] | The numerous bird feeders here are permanently stocked and flocked around by garden birds. Long-tailed, blue, coal and great tits pop up every second or so; and sparrows come and go with goldfinches, while reed buntings and nuthatches slip in and out among the gaps. But the briefest, most maddening, if most wonderful o... | 2022-04-05 |
Scaly stowaway: lizard makes an appearance at Chelsea flower show | Gardeners at the Yeo Valley Organic display were delighted to find the common brown lizard in a pile of logs | ['Helena Horton'] | Visitors to Chelsea flower show come from all over the country, and range from senior royals to interested gardeners looking for some new plants.This year, however, there has been a rather special guest – a common brown lizard. Gardeners at the Yeo Valley Organic display were delighted to find him in a pile of logs.In ... | 2019-12-01 |
Climate crisis could lead to rise of smaller bees, study finds | Danger looms for larger species such as bumblebees, which have lower heat tolerance, leading to ‘cascading effects’ on ecosystems | ['Agence France-Presse'] | The climate crisis could lead to more small-bodied bees but fewer bumblebees, according to research warning of potential “cascading” effects on plant pollination and across whole ecosystems.Scientists in the US trapped and studied more than 20,000 bees over eight years in an area of the Rocky Mountains to find out how ... | 2022-04-21 |
UK energy industry urges ministers to stick with net zero plan | Some rightwingers claim renewables have increased costs, but Energy UK blames over-reliance on gas | ['Fiona Harvey', ' Environment correspondent'] | Energy companies want the government to implement policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the industry’s leader has said, despite claims from some on the political right that high energy prices should spark a rethink.Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of Energy UK, which represents the industry, said: “The ... | 2022-01-20 |
The bear truth: why happy pandas can’t be bothered to find a partner | Researchers now think pandas’ notoriously low libido is because they are too comfortable to make the effort to search for a mate | null | Name: Panda sex.Age: 18m years old.Frequency: Famously rare.Yes, why is that? If I were a panda, I’d be at it all the time. I think from this we can determine two things: first that you are a pervert, and second that you are unhappy.Hey, I’m not unhappy! Maybe you have more in common with pandas than you thought. Resea... | 2021-03-12 |
Shell chief vows to bolster emissions strategy after court ruling | Ben van Beurden pledges to ‘rise to challenge’ after court ordered oil firm to cut global carbon emissions by 45% | ['Joanna Partridge'] | Royal Dutch Shell has vowed to accelerate its strategy towards becoming a net zero emissions business, two weeks after a Dutch court ruling ordered the company to cut its global carbon emissions by 45% by the end of 2030 compared with 2019 levels.Shell’s chief executive, Ben van Beurden, promised to “rise to the challe... | null |
Country Diary: Down on the floor with the solitary bees | Holywell, Flintshire: In my attempts to make my garden more suitable for Mediterranean herbs, I created the conditions for these fascinating insects | ['Jan Miller'] | I’m lying on my front on the moist, mossy lawn, the sun warming my back. Around me swallows are swooping in and out of the barn while dandelions, lady’s smock and cowslips attract the butterflies and bees. But down here, my attention is focused under the box hedges of my herb garden. I am watching volcanoes form. Not t... | 2023-06-02 |
Monday briefing: The dramatic, agonising, crucial talks that will decide Cop27’s success | In today’s newsletter: For the next two weeks, ministers, negotiators from countries large and small will gather in Egypt. Can they get anything done? | ['Archie Bland'] | Good morning. Last year, the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow kept alive the target of holding global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels; but, conference president Alok Sharma said, “its pulse is weak”. The vital question for the Cop27 summit at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, which began yesterday, is whether i... | 2022-11-07 |
Egg prices could rise for UK consumers as farmers cut flock numbers | Fewer laying birds are being placed on farms as producers respond to poor retail profit margins | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Tom Levitt'] | Consumers could be hit with higher egg prices as UK farmers reduce their flock numbers, in response to escalating costs and insufficient profit margins.The numbers of chicks being placed by egg producers in April was down 15% year on year, according to the latest government figures.Egg farmers have been warning for mo... | 2022-05-19 |
Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires Mary Stockdale | Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threat | null | Small fires crackle into life on the hills around us at the slightest provocation. Creeks swell with flash floods, as upland snow melts at record speed. Our town’s beloved colony of great blue herons fall stunned out of the trees in their dozens. Animals, from cougars to rattlesnakes, leave their hidden places to seek ... | 2021-08-31 |
This article is more than 5 months oldSunak’s plan for carbon capture is good news: he shouldn’t muddy it with party politicsThis article is more than 5 months oldSimon Jenkins | Consensus on tackling the climate crisis is what’s needed now – and direct action against CO2 must be the next move | null | For as long as the United Kingdom needs to use oil and gas, we should be making an effort to capture any resulting CO2 and store it. That clearly makes sense. It also makes sense to produce our own oil and gas, so we are less beholden to exporters (though of course ours, too, would be sold on the international markets)... | 2023-07-31 |
This article is more than 11 months oldFood, feed and fuel: global seaweed industry could reduce land needed for farming by 110m hectares, study findsThis article is more than 11 months old | Scientists identify parts of ocean suitable for seaweed cultivation and suggest it could constitute 10% of human diet to reduce impact of agriculture | ['Graham Readfearn', '@readfearn'] | An area of ocean almost the size of Australia could support commercial seaweed farming around the world, providing food for humans, feed supplements for cattle, and alternative fuels, according to new research.Seaweed farming is a nascent industry globally but the research says if it could grow to constitute 10% of hum... | 2023-01-27 |
This article is more than 4 months oldUS behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report findsThis article is more than 4 months old | Study highlights conflict between Washington’s claims of climate leadership and its fossil fuel growth plans | ['Fiona Harvey', ' Environment editor'] | The US accounts for more than a third of the expansion of global oil and gas production planned by mid-century, despite its claims of climate leadership, research has found.Canada and Russia have the next biggest expansion plans, calculated based on how much carbon dioxide is likely to be produced from new developments... | 2023-09-12 |
The Guardian view on switching off: in an always-on culture, we need time to thinkEditorial | Midwinter is for hibernation and the chance to make different kinds of connections | null | “Disconnect from the internet for at least two hours a day and treat your own thoughts like a garden through which you are strolling,” was the advice offered by the novelist Ian McEwan to younger writers after being made a Companion of Honour in December. The capacity to be curious about mental processes – while simult... | 2024-01-06 |
Britain arrives at Cop27 in disarray over the climate – and the world’s leaders know itLucy Sherriff | After Johnson’s weak energy plan and Truss’s scepticism, we have Rishi Sunak, who didn’t even want to attend | null | “Unless we take urgent action, we will get 3C hotter,” Boris Johnson told the UN climate talks in 2020. “As a country … we must now act.” The former prime minister’s words were a rallying cry to galvanise the government into taking action on global heating.Johnson’s administration had been under heavy fire for its lack... | 2022-11-06 |
Taronga and Melbourne zoos move to protect animals from foot-and-mouth disease | New biosecurity measures include suspension of walkthroughs in some enclosures and a request that recent travellers to Indonesia wait 48 hours before visiting
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| ['Mostafa Rachwani', '@Rachwani91'] | Taronga and Melbourne zoos have introduced measures to protect their animals from the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that is threatening Australia.Although there have been no domestic cases reported yet, both zoos have implemented added biosecurity restrictions as precautionary measures amid the outbreak in Indonesia.... | 2022-07-26 |
Are debt-for-nature swaps the way forward for conservation? | Agreements to reduce developing countries’ debt burden in exchange for spending on nature will be on the agenda at a finance summit in Paris this week | ['The age of extinction is supported by', 'About this content', 'Patrick Greenfield', '@pgreenfielduk'] | After decades in the wilderness, and familiar to only those in the know, “debt-for-nature swaps” are becoming one of the hottest things in conservation finance. Last month, Ecuador struck the biggest deal of its kind: refinancing $1.6bn (£1.3bn) of its commercial debt at a discount in exchange for a consistent revenue ... | 2023-06-21 |
Climate protesters gather in person and online for Fridays for Future | Campaigners target Standard Chartered, urging bank to stop funding coal in emerging markets | ['Robyn Vinter', '@robynvinter'] | Climate protesters from as many as 60 countries have gathered in person and online for Fridays for Future, a movement created by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.Campaigners raised local issues alongside the globally co-ordinated campaign #cleanupStandardChartered, which calls on the London-headquartered Standard Ch... | 2018-03-09 |
There's a simple way to make our cities greener – without a wrecking ballPhineas Harper | Architecture’s top prize has been awarded to a design duo who could show Britain how to bring its emissions under control | null | This week the highest honour in the architecture world was awarded to a pair of Parisian designers better known for revitalising existing buildings than creating new ones. The Pritzker prize, which includes a $100,000 jackpot, went to Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, whose most impressive projects – the Palais de... | 2018-07-18 |
Can we enjoy fast fashion without destroying the planet? | The global fashion industry is in desperate need of an ecological plan, but London fashion week proved there still isn’t one – yet
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| ['Lucy Siegle'] | This piece first appeared in Down to Earth, the Guardian’s climate crisis newsletter. Sign up here to read more exclusive pieces like this and for a digest of the week’s biggest environment stories every ThursdaySign up to Down to Earth, our exclusive weekly newsletter from our top climate crisis correspondents.How do ... | 2022-02-25 |
Anti-logging protest becomes Canada’s biggest ever act of civil disobedience | At least 866 arrested since April, as police condemned for violence against protesters defending Vancouver Island’s ancient forests | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Jen Osborne in Fairy Creek and ', 'Leyland Cecco', ' in Toronto'] | A string of protests against old-growth logging in western Canada have become the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country’s history, with the arrest of least 866 people since April.The bitter fight over the future of Vancouver Island’s diminishing ancient forests – in which activists used guerrilla methods of ... | 2021-09-10 |
This article is more than 3 months oldThreats to Germany’s climate campaigners fuelled by politicians’ rhetoric, says activistThis article is more than 3 months old | Luisa Neubauer, of Fridays for Future, cites language used by the chancellor amid protest crackdown
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| ['Ajit Niranjan'] | Severe policing and “scary” political rhetoric is fuelling abuse against climate activists, Germany’s best-known environmentalist has said.“It’s not a shift any more, it’s a slide,” said Luisa Neubauer, from the German branch of Fridays for Future, the protest movement that grew out of Greta Thunberg’s school strikes. ... | 2023-10-12 |
This article is more than 5 months old‘Misunderstood’ red-bellied piranhas go on display at Chester zooThis article is more than 5 months old | Despite fearsome reputation, fish prefers scavenging to hunting and swims in shoals for protection, say experts | ['Morgan Ofori'] | Forty red-bellied piranhas have made their debut at Chester zoo in a move aquarists say they hope will help to rehabilitate the fish's name away from its fearsome reputation.People associate piranhas with viciously attacking unsuspecting prey, as depicted in numerous blockbuster movies, but experts say they prefer to s... | 2023-07-28 |
This article is more than 8 months old‘Like a dam breaking’: experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advanceThis article is more than 8 months old | Cities bringing climate litigation against oil majors welcome US supreme court’s decision to rebuff appeal to move cases to federal courts | ['Hilary Beaumont'] | The decision, climate experts and advocates said, felt “like a dam breaking” after years of legal delays to the growing wave of climate lawsuits facing major oil companies.Without weighing in on the merits of the cases, the supreme court on Monday rebuffed an appeal by major oil companies that want to face the litigati... | 2023-04-25 |
This article is more than 10 months oldUS justice department sues two companies over pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’This article is more than 10 months old | Japanese company Denka, along with US chemicals giant DuPont, have operated the plant that produces cancer-causing chloroprene | ['Oliver Laughland', ' in New Orleans', '@oliverlaughland'] | The US justice department has sued the two petrochemical giants behind a facility in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” responsible for the highest cancer risk rates caused by air pollution in the US in a major federal lawsuit that seeks to substantially curb the plant’s emissions.Unveiled on Tuesday, the lawsuit alleges emiss... | 2023-03-01 |
‘It’s a struggle for survival’: why Kenya – and its wildlife – need tourists to return | Covid dealt a blow to tourism and the conservation funds it provides. But as visitors slowly return, the sector is looking for new ways to thrive | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Peter Muiruri'] | Every day, for the past 20 years, Joyce Naserian has laid out her handmade curios near an entrance to the Masai Mara park to sell to passing tourists. Her earnings have helped the 46-year-old feed and educate all four of her children.In northern Kenya, about 1,200 semi-nomadic women earned more than 9m Kenyan shillings... | 2022-10-19 |
‘Extinct’ parrots make a flying comeback in Brazil | The Spix macaw, a bird that had once vanished in the wild, is now thriving in its South American homeland after a successful breeding programme | ['Robin McKie'] | Twenty years ago, the future of the Spix’s macaw could not have looked bleaker. The last member of this distinctive parrot species disappeared from the wild, leaving only a few dozen birds in collectors’ cages across the globe. The prospects for Cyanopsitta spixii were grim, to say the least.But thanks to a remarkable ... | 2022-07-10 |
NT government rejects Glencore bid to build toxic dump near sacred site | Mining company’s proposed rock dump at McArthur River zinc and lead mine would have been largest built structure in the territory
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| ['Royce Kurmelovs', ' and ', 'Lorena Allam'] | An application by mining company Glencore to build a massive toxic tailings dump on the edge of a sacred site has been rejected by the Northern Territory government.The controversial McArthur River mine, which is one of world’s largest zinc and lead mines, is roughly 900km south-east of Darwin and borders the Barramund... | 2022-02-16 |
null | One of the world’s great natural spectacles is under way in the eastern US, stretching from the deep south to upstate New York | null | At first, the noise pulsing from the drooping elm tree boughs seemed to be coming from the power lines erected nearby. Like a surging electrical current, the sound fizzed to a crescendo on the ears before receding slightly, only to build up again to a loud, vibrating whirr.It was only on the approach to the tree, as de... | 2019-09-21 |
Iguanas with chips: Florida seeks solution to invasive reptile problem | ‘Tag day’ initiative opposed by some owners of exotic petsState official ‘proud that Florida is looked at as a leader’ | ['Richard Luscombe', ' in Miami', '@richlusc'] | From Key West’s high-summer Hemingway Days, in which bearded hopefuls vie for the title of best Papa lookalike, to the annual hunt for the elusive (and imaginary) skunk ape, Florida is renowned for its calendar of curiosities.Toilet-invading iguanas among invasive species now banned in FloridaRead moreNow another bizar... | 2020-01-27 |
Push for post-Brexit trade deals may threaten UK pledges on deforestation | Government criticised over ‘indefensible’ proposal that could undermine climate efforts while yielding benefit of only £1.38m | ['Fiona Harvey', ' Environment correspondent'] | The UK government may be undermining its commitments to end deforestation overseas because of conflicts over trade policy, the Guardian has learned.A war of words is raging within the government over deforestation and trade, with green campaigners warning that a proposed policy could have dire consequences for efforts ... | 2022-07-19 |
More Australians than ever are worried about the climate crisis, annual survey suggests | A record 75% of voters are worried about climate and 69% want the PM to push for net zero, but Queenslanders are less concerned than the rest of the nation
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| ['Katharine Murphy', ' and ', 'Adam Morton'] | A majority of Australians are worried about the threat posed by global heating and want serious action to address it, but Queenslanders are less concerned than people in other states, according to the latest Climate of the Nation report.The authoritative annual survey of 2,626 voters – now in its 14th year and managed ... | 2021-10-13 |
Australia’s mountain mist frog declared extinct as red list reveals scale of biodiversity crisis | Experts describe it as a ‘beautiful endemic rainforest species’, one of several that have not been seen for decades
Marine life hit by ‘perfect storm’ as red list reveals species close to extinction
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| ['Adam Morton', ' Climate and environment editor'] | The mountain mist frog, a species once found across two-thirds of Australia’s wet tropics, has been declared extinct on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list.The last recorded sighting of the frog, most commonly found near Thornton Peak, north-west of Cairns, was in April 1990. It is believed to h... | null |
Country diary 1948: Nature reclaims badly bombed Cripplegate | 1 September 1948: In the basements of what were shops and dwellings, there is a waist-high tangle of willowherb, spear-plume thistle, and Oxford ragwort | ['JK Adams'] | LondonA gentle breeze was blowing as I walked through the badly bombed Cripplegate area of London the other day, and the feathery seeds of the rosebay willowherb were drifting before it like snowflakes. In the basements of what seven or eight years ago were shops, warehouses, and dwellings a waist-high tangle of willow... | 2023-08-28 |
Revealed: rightwing US lobbyists help craft slew of anti-protest fossil fuel bills | Legislation drafted by Alec part of backlash against Indigenous communities and environmentalists opposing oil and gas projects | ['Nina Lakhani', '@ninalakhani'] | Republican-led legislatures have passed anti-protest laws drafted by an extreme-right corporate lobbying group in a third of all American states since 2018, as part of a backlash against Indigenous communities and environmentalists opposing fossil fuel projects, new research has found.The American Legislative Exchange ... | 2022-09-14 |
Insulate Britain protesters praised by judge who fined them | Judge says environmental activists ‘inspired me personally’ after impassioned speeches in court | ['Tobi Thomas', '@tobithomas_'] | Insulate Britain protesters have been praised by a judge, who said he was “inspired” by their commitment to greener living, as he fined 12 of them over a demonstration that disrupted the journeys of drivers on the M25.The protesters blocked traffic at junction 3 of the motorway. Some glued themselves to the tarmac, whi... | 2022-04-13 |
‘Betting on a low-carbon future’: why China is ending foreign coal investment | Xi Jinping’s promise reflects growing awareness of the climate crisis in China and falling renewable prices | ['Vincent Ni'] | The pledge by China’s president, Xi Jinping, on Tuesday to cease building new coal-fired power projects outside the country will be welcome news to environmentalists around the world. It came on the anniversary of Xi’s unilateral pledge for China to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. Last year Xi also promised that Chine... | 2021-09-23 |
A&E for trees: pioneering clinic in India provides lifeline for poorly plants | An on-call team at Amritsar’s tree hospital nurses sick neems and gives new life to troubled banyans | ['The age of extinction is supported by', 'About this content', 'Neeta Lal'] | Sahib Singh clambers up a portable ladder, reaches out and, with the help of a few tools, tugs at the banyan tree and successfully removes it. The uprooted plant, which had sprouted from a wall inside the living room, is placed in a plastic bag filled with fertilised black soil. “We will replant this on the hospital la... | 2022-12-17 |
UK startup Octopus Energy becomes renewable energy giant in £3bn deal | Plan to create 50 million customers after takeover of Octopus Renewables hands UK supplier 300 projects in six countries | ['Jillian Ambrose'] | The UK’s fastest growing energy supplier will soon become one of Europe’s biggest renewable energy investors in a deal worth more than £3bn, which could bring green energy to 50 million homes in six years.Octopus Energy will snap up its sister company Octopus Renewables in a move that will hand the startup a portfolio ... | 2021-03-26 |
LettersTurn out the lights to save our moths | Artificial light is endangering Britain’s moths, but reducing the risk is as easy as flicking a switch, writes Anna Levin | ['Letters'] | Your article on the decline in Britain’s moths (Britain’s moths decline by a third in 50 years, study finds, 3 March) mentions light pollution as “possibly” an important factor. This risks underplaying the impact of artificial light on every stage of a moth’s life and every aspect of its world. Light is time in the nat... | 2018-12-29 |
Chemical pollution killing off England’s riverflies, experts warn | Fears for river ecosystems as average number of species declines | ['Damien Gayle', '@damiengayle'] | Chemical pollution is killing off the invertebrate species that are the basis of England’s river ecosystems, with experts raising the alarm over falling diversity of mayfly, caddisfly and stonefly species.A census of aquatic wildlife on 12 English rivers found that in the spring and summer 2021, the mean number of rive... | 2022-08-19 |
Texas oil company charged in massive spill off southern California coast | Prosecutors say company repeatedly failed to act on alarms that alerted workers to pipeline rupture | ['Gabrielle Canon', ' and agencies'] | A Houston-based oil company and two subsidiaries have been charged over a massive oil spill off the coast of southern California in October that fouled waters and beaches and endangered wildlife.Prosecutors say the spill was caused in part by failing to properly act when alarms repeatedly alerted workers to a pipeline ... | 2021-12-20 |
Country diary: So much life is here when I am not | Abernethy Forest, Cairngorms: My daytime walk through the woods is rich with crested tits and busy ants; by night the clientele changes entirely | ['Amanda Thomson'] | I’m walking through the woods to a huge old granny pine that’s gnarled and twisted, its lower branches thicker than the old plantation pines around it. It’s a beautiful, steady presence. The woods feel lush and full of birdsong. Thick strands of new-growth heather poke up. In the afternoon sunshine the mosses glow and ... | 2023-04-15 |
Electricity needed to mine bitcoin is more than used by 'entire countries' | Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm – is a deeply energy intensive process | ['Lauren Aratani'] | It’s not just the value of bitcoin that has soared in the last year – so has the huge amount of energy it consumes.The cryptocurrency’s value has dipped recently after passing a high of $50,000 but the energy used to create it has continued to soar during its epic rise, climbing to the equivalent to the annual carbon f... | 2021-02-27 |
The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new techPeter Sutoris | This moment calls for humility – we cannot innovate ourselves out of this mess | null | We are living through what scientists call the Anthropocene, a new geological age during which humans have become the dominant force shaping the natural environment. Many scientists date this new period to the post-second world war economic boom, the “great acceleration”. This rapid increase in our control over the Ear... | 2021-01-20 |
Ban European flights and car use in cities to hurt Putin, report urges | Strong measures by Europe could quickly deprive Russia of oil and gas income worth billions, experts say
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| ['Helena Horton', ' Environment reporter'] | Flights should be banned in continental Europe and car use banned in city centres to save energy and prevent Vladimir Putin profiting from fossil fuel sales, campaigners have said.It would be possible for Europe to quickly end its reliance on oil and gas from Russia by taking strong measures, according to a report by t... | 2022-04-08 |
Fraser Island’s formation over 1m years ago was critical to development of Great Barrier Reef, study reveals | Scientists say the world’s largest sand island helped create clearer water conditions for reef growth
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| ['Donna Lu', '@donnadlu'] | The world’s largest sand island formed around a million years ago and enabled the southern and central Great Barrier Reef to develop, new research suggests.An international team of scientists have dated K’gari (Fraser Island) and the nearby Cooloola Sand Mass in south-east Queensland as forming between 0.7m and 1.2m ye... | 2023-07-19 |
AnalysisWeather tracker: Anchorage on course for its snowiest November everLauren Herdman and Morgan Thomas (Metdesk) | Alaska’s largest city breaks several daily snowfall records, with snowstorms prompting state of emergency | null | Parts of Alaska have experienced considerable snowfall this autumn, with the state’s largest city on track to surpass its November record by some margin.The city of Anchorage, which typically receives about 5 inches (12cm) of snow during the first two weeks of November, has so far had an impressive 37.9 inches. Several... | 2023-11-17 |
This article is more than 3 months oldMore aid money spent on clean air than fossil fuels for first timeThis article is more than 3 months old | Clean Air Fund says despite increased spending on air pollution, projects still receive less than 1% of funding | ['Ajit Niranjan'] | Governments, agencies and development banks have spent more aid money on clean air than fossil fuels for the first time on record, a report has found.However, such projects still receive less than 1% of international development funding, according to the Clean Air Fund, an environmental charity.Toxic particles in the a... | 2023-09-29 |
100m highly polluting cars could appear on Europe’s roads after EU move | Exclusive: Efficiency recommendations of experts rejected in European Commission ‘Euro 7’ proposals | ['Arthur Neslen'] | Almost 100m highly polluting cars could appear on Europe’s roads over the next decade after the European Commission moved to disown its own experts efficiency recommendations in a leaked proposal seen by the Guardian.About 70,000 premature deaths in 2018 were caused by road transport emissions, mostly nitrogen oxides (... | 2022-10-21 |
Liz Truss appoints green Tory Chris Skidmore to lead net zero review | Former energy and climate minister will look for the quickest ways to reach the emissions target | ['Helena Horton'] | Liz Truss has appointed the Conservative MP Chris Skidmore to lead a review of net zero, to find the most efficient and fastest ways to reach the climate target.The former energy and climate minister has been given until the end of the year to present his findings to the prime minister.Skidmore, who chairs the environm... | 2022-09-08 |
This article is more than 1 month old‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknownThis article is more than 1 month old | The sardines and mackerel were found floating on the surface of the sea near the fishing port of Hakodate in Hokkaido | ['Justin McCurry', ' in Tokyo'] | Officials in Japan have admitted they are struggling to determine why hundreds of tonnes of fish have washed ashore in recent days.Earlier this month, an estimated 1,200 tonnes of sardines and mackerel were found floating on the surface of the sea off the fishing port of Hakodate in Hokkaido, forming a silver blanket s... | 2023-12-14 |
Value of cryptocurrency bitcoin climbs 5% to record high of $63,000 | Several digital currencies surge a day before launch of Coinbase trading platform on Wall Street | ['Joanna Partridge'] | The value of the cryptocurrency bitcoin has surged to a record high, reaching $63,000 (£45,800).The cryptocurrency, which has risen in value by 450% in the last six months, continued to climb by a further 5% during trading on Tuesday.Bitcoin’s price has more than doubled since the start of 2021. The digital currency ha... | 2021-04-13 |
From badgers to bumblebees: how drought is affecting Britain’s wildlife | As garden birds struggle to find food, many species are also at risk of overheating and dehydration | ['Stephen Moss', '@stephenmoss_tv'] | While warm summer days may seem like good news for Britain’s wildlife – and indeed they can be for some warmth-loving insects, such as dragonflies – for many species of bird, mammal and insect the current drought conditions are far from ideal.The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has warned that some of our best-love... | 2022-08-24 |
Before Covid, giving up flying was taking off. We need to get that momentum backAnna Hughes | Interest in low-carbon living, including pledges not to fly, was high before the pandemic. After lockdown, we must not allow climate action to fall off the radar | null | It’s hard to remember what life was like before the pandemic hit. A year and a half ago, 2019 was drawing to a close with something like a promise. It had been the year of Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and the school climate strikes, and the momentum was with climate activism. And 2020 promised to be the year of... | 2021-10-20 |
Disease outbreaks more likely in deforestation areas, study finds | Tree-planting can also increase health risks if it focuses too narrowly on small number of species, paper says | ['Jonathan Watts', '@jonathanwatts'] | Outbreaks of infectious diseases are more likely in areas of deforestation and monoculture plantations, according to a study that suggests epidemics are likely to increase as biodiversity declines.Land use change is a significant factor in the emergence of zoonotic viruses such as Covid-19 and vector-borne ailments suc... | 2020-08-01 |
This article is more than 5 months oldConsumer watchdog urged to investigate ‘misleading’ Australian oil and gas industry PR campaignThis article is more than 5 months old | Climate campaigners complain to ACCC over Appea ad that claimed gas was ‘50% cleaner’ than coal
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| ['Graham Readfearn', '@readfearn'] | Environmental campaigners have asked Australia’s consumer watchdog to investigate an oil and gas industry public relations campaign that critics claim is misleading the public on the climate effects of fossil fuel.The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (Appea) last month dropped a claim in its ... | 2023-07-20 |
Big Garden Birdwatch 2023: share your sightings | As the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch returns for its 44th year, we would like to hear about – and see pictures of – your sightings | ['Guardian community team'] | As the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch returns for its 44th year, we would like to hear about – and see pictures of – your sightings while completing the survey.The RSPB’s citizen birdwatch survey will take place between 27-29 January 2023, and details on how to take part can be found here. You can share your pictures and ... | 2023-01-27 |
‘Like a scene from Titanic’: floods in Assam submerge entire villages | India’s monsoon season has been worse than usual, sweeping away possessions and leaving people huddling on raised ground | ['Amrit Dhillon', ' in Delhi'] | People living in Assam, in north-east India, are usually stoical about the flooding that occurs to a greater or lesser extent every monsoon season. But this year they say the situation is dramatically worse. “It was like a scene from Titanic,” one man told local media of the rising waters that have flooded all but two ... | 2022-06-21 |
Country diary: why do birdwatchers prize the ring ouzel so much? | Wolf Edge, Staffordshire: This blackbird in disguise is scarce and getting scarcer – but that doesn’t fully explain its addictive appeal | ['Mark Cocker'] | For the tenth time this spring, I’ve come here to catch sight of migrating ring ouzels. I suspect that of all the species that trigger impassioned responses among birdwatchers, this is the bird least known to the British public.The simplest explanation for both these responses is that ring ouzels are wild, upland loner... | 2020-03-20 |
Plans to mine Ecuador forest violate rights of nature, court rules | Landmark ruling says mining permits issued in Los Cedros protected area breach Ecuador’s constitution | ['The age of extinction is supported by', 'About this content', 'Patrick Greenfield', '@pgreenfielduk'] | Ecuador’s highest court has ruled that plans to mine for copper and gold in a protected cloud forest are unconstitutional and violate the rights of nature.In a landmark ruling, the constitutional court of Ecuador decided that mining permits issued in Los Cedros, a protected area in the north-west of the country, would ... | 2021-12-06 |
Plantwatch: the strange organism so tough it can survive in space | Lichen survived 18 months attached to outside of International Space Station and raises prospect life could exist on Mars | ['Paul Simons'] | Lichens are strange organisms, a partnership between a fungus that offers shelter, water and minerals, and an alga or cyanobacterium that supplies food from their photosynthesis. And even though lichens tend to be modest to look at, they are so incredibly tough that some can even survive the harsh environment of space.... | 2024-01-17 |
This article is more than 2 months oldAlarm raised over water firm job of new environment secretary’s wifeThis article is more than 2 months old | Steve Barclay married to executive at Anglian Water, which is under investigation for potential illegal dumping of raw sewage
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| ['Sandra Laville', ' Environment correspondent'] | Campaigners have raised concerns over a potential conflict of interest for the new UK environment secretary, Steve Barclay, whose wife is a senior executive at Anglian Water.Barclay took on the environment role in Rishi Sunak’s cabinet reshuffle this week. His wife, Karen Barclay, holds a senior position at the water c... | 2023-11-15 |
‘The blue flags are proof’: how Greece cleaned up its act on sewage | Greeks take their seas seriously, with the construction of one of the world’s biggest sewage treatment plants a real game-changer | ['Helena Smith', ' in Athens'] | The shimmering waters along the Athenian riviera offer a welcome respite in the summer heat. In one of Europe’s most congested cities the sight of ever more beaches attaining blue flag status – a mascot of water quality – has heightened the sense of relief that the coastal location affords. For those who flock to its c... | 2022-09-14 |
The Dixie fire is almost out, but its inhospitable ‘moonscapes’ remain | Severe wildfires are making the recovery process for plants and animals more challenging, sometimes for years after the flames | ['Gabrielle Canon', '@GabrielleCanon'] | After more than two months, the battle to contain the Dixie fire – a behemoth blaze that swept nearly 1m acres, leveling mountain towns and blackening the conifer-covered landscape – is nearing its end.But even after the fire crews pack up, threats remain for the plants and animals that call this area home. Scientists ... | 2021-09-22 |
AnalysisAustralia is on track … sort of: official expert advice urges a ‘big upward shift’ on emissions cutsAdam Morton Climate and environment editor | Climate change minister tells parliament official projection of 40% cut does not factor in all Labor’s policy commitments
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| null | Australia’s climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has declared the country on track to reach a 40% cut in climate pollution by 2030 – just short of the national target of 43% – but the government has been told a “big upward shift in momentum” is needed to tackle the problem.Giving the country’s first climate statement ... | 2022-12-02 |
This article is more than 5 months oldDarling-Baaka River at Menindee faces more fish kills as temperatures riseThis article is more than 5 months old | Exclusive: Dead fish are again appearing in the stressed Darling-Baaka at Menindee, as a fisheries department report reveals the river’s poor state
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| ['Anne Davies', '@annefdavies'] | The Darling-Baaka River at Menindee is on the brink of another environmental catastrophe, with dead fish already appearing along 30km of the river compromised by the last fish kill in March, according to experts.The office of the chief scientist is due to report by 31 August on the causes of the March disaster, which k... | 2023-08-09 |
New calls to restrict Wimbledon’s plastic bottles – despite Nadal’s ritual | The Spaniard likes to line up single-use bottles, but Laura Robson says tournament must up its environmental game | ['Emine Sinmaz', ' and ', 'Tobi Thomas'] | The former junior Wimbledon champion Laura Robson has joined calls for Wimbledon to limit the use of plastic bottles.The 28-year-old added that Wimbledon should ban single-use bottles altogether or limit players to just one, adding that fines for breaching the rules were “maybe something that needs to happen”.But the O... | 2022-07-01 |
Fire-ravaged Greek island of Evia hit by floods and mudslides | Experts say loss of forests, which act as natural flood control mechanism, has worsened impact of heavy rain | ['Helena Smith', ' in Athens'] | Storms and heavy rain have laid bare the scale of the destruction wreaked by massive fires on the Greek island of Evia, with communities now having to deal with flooding and mudslides.After a summer of record temperatures igniting unprecedented wildfires across Greece, authorities in affected regions have now been put ... | 2021-10-15 |
‘We have given Earth a fever’: author John Vaillant on the firestorms coming for us all | His book about a blaze so hot it vaporised concrete and turned a Canadian city to ash has just won the Baillie Gifford prize. John Vaillant explains why the world we think we live in no longer exists | ['Claire Armitstead', '@carmitstead'] | On the afternoon of 3 May 2016, firefighters spotted a plume of smoke near the Canadian oil city of Fort McMurray. It was early in the fire season for the subarctic region and slabs of ice were still floating on its lakes. A water-bombing helicopter was immediately scrambled but it was already too late. Within two hour... | 2023-11-17 |
Country diary: Quick thinking to save a slow worm | West Dartmoor, Devon: The shape of these legless lizards is smooth and uniform, as if rolled by a child from Play-Doh | ['Charlie Elder'] | I came across it stretched out on the lane in the sunshine like a length of cable. A handspan from end to end, it took a moment to recognise the gleaming cord as a living creature – a slow worm, soaking up the warmth of the road surface. It’s a species I seldom see alive around my Dartmoor home.Over the years I have re... | 2023-09-29 |
‘Everyone will be watching’: US midterms cast a long shadow over Cop27 | Some fear the outcome of the 8 November elections might derail US leadership on the global climate crisis | ['Oliver Milman', '@olliemilman'] | For Joe Biden, the United Nations climate summit in Egypt is the crowning stage to trumpet the US finally passing major legislation to slow dangerous global heating. But the thoughts of the US president and delegates from around the world are likely to nervously flit to events 6,000 miles (9,65km) away – knife-edge mid... | 2022-11-07 |
Country diary: For a moment it’s just me and a golden plover | Northam Burrows, Devon: This glowing bird is not quite sure what to do with itself, and nor am I | ['Elizabeth-Jane Burnett'] | Flooded pools and saturated ground have deterred most of the walkers. I think myself alone, crossing the waterlogged stretch between estuary and sea, looking only at the mosses, golden and fluffed up, threaded softly through the sodden grass. My eyes have been fixed low, but something causes them to rise. One small lif... | 2023-02-23 |
Young country diary: it’s ‘Mary Berry’ picking season again | South Wales: It’s summer time and our gooseberry bush is full of fruit (and thorns) | null | The gooseberries are growing again. In Welsh they are called eirin Mair, berries of Mary, or “Mary berry” as my dad says. This year we collected about 200 of them from the bush in our small garden, about the same as last summer in lockdown. The ones we grow are green and have small spiky hairs on them which look strang... | 2021-09-30 |
Melbourne student and climate activist runs for board seat at energy giant AGL | Ashjayeen Sharif wants Australia’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter to be 100% renewable by 2030 | ['Graham Readfearn', '@readfearn'] | An 18-year-old student and climate change campaigner is bidding for a seat on the board of energy company AGL, Australia’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter.Ashjayeen Sharif, from Melbourne, wants the company to phase out its “dirty coal-burning power stations” by 2030 and replace them with 100% renewable energy.“I think ... | 2018-03-11 |
Country diary: An unassuming chapel, full of death and life | Ayshford, Devon: It sits alone, tucked between canal and motorway, with centuries-old carvings that remind us of our mortality | ['Anita Roy'] | The 15th-century chapel at Ayshford stands alone in a small, undulating field next to the Grand Western Canal. It is an unassuming building, facing slightly away from you as though preoccupied with other things, nudged aside by centuries of industrious human activity.In the early 19th century, engineers and labourers b... | 2022-03-31 |
This article is more than 6 months old‘Definitely unprecedented’: Vermont wildlife also affected by historic floodingThis article is more than 6 months old | Fish, beavers and skunks all suffered from the deluge this week. But good news: populations are healthy and they will rebound | ['Edward Helmore', ' in Montpelier, Vermont'] | The toll to wildlife from climate crisis-related weather events is an area that often gets overlooked in their immediate aftermath. But after the flooding in Vermont this week, previous weather calamities – including Tropical Storm Irene, in 2011 – can offer some clues.Fish in Vermont’s rivers, primarily species of tro... | 2023-07-13 |
How tide has turned on UK tidal stream energy as costs ebb and reliability flows | Investors are seeing rising potential in tidal power as turbines become more powerful and easier to deploy | ['Seascape: the state of our oceans is supported by', 'About this content', 'Tom Wall'] | For decades the immense practical difficulties of harnessing the powerful tides flowing around Britain’s shorelines have put off investors and government officials searching for big renewable energy sources.But as the costs of deploying turbines in tidal streams fall, more and more people are seeing the potential in an... | null |
This article is more than 9 months oldReports of rotten pork being sold in UK may lead to tighter control of FSAThis article is more than 9 months old | Therésè Coffey may bring Food Standards Agency, now overseen by health department, under remit of Defra | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Sophie Kevany', ' and ', 'Helena Horton'] | The UK government is considering tightening control over the Food Standards Agency (FSA) after news that allegedly fraudulent pork products found their way on to supermarket shelves.Therésè Coffey, the secretary of state for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), told the House of Commons on Th... | 2023-04-04 |
‘We run from men only to meet crocodiles’: Kenya’s drought is deadly for women | As poverty and lost livelihoods fuel threats in the home, those who have found refuge still risk their lives walking miles in search of water | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Peter Muiruri', ' in Samburu'] | The setting sun brings a warm glow to the huts in the village of Umoja in Samburu county, Kenya. Christine Sitiyan sits outside her home with her beadwork, carefully running the thin thread through tiny bead holes, hoping she can finish the colourful belt she is making before darkness sets in. The traditional belt can ... | 2022-10-19 |
ReviewWines for a warming world | Ever-soaring temperatures are a challenge to wine makers, but these Mediterranean wines from forward-thinking vineyards and hardy grape varieties will be able to cope | ['David Williams'] | Gallina de Piel Roca del Crit, Empordà, Spain 2018 (£19.99, butlers-winecellar.co.uk) This has been another exceptionally hot summer in southern Europe, one in which news outlets across the region have reported the record-breaking temperatures without any trace of Guinness Book-style wonder, just a kind of numbed certa... | 2020-06-15 |
This article is more than 2 months oldInterview‘Steve Bannon is watching us closely’: Naomi Klein on populists, conspiracists and real-world activismThis article is more than 2 months oldMaya Goodfellow | Author speaks candidly about a ‘mirror world’ that feeds our anxieties, distorts reality and fuels the polarisation of society | null | Naomi Klein is aware that her new book, Doppelganger, looks strange. A distorted picture of her face stares at you from the front cover. “Everyone who holds it looks like they’re holding my severed head, including me. It feels like Macbeth,” she says. Her laugh punctures the quiet communal space we’re sitting in on the... | 2023-10-19 |
My Cyclone Diary: after the flood, the dread that replaces panic | In the second instalment in a series of diaries about Cyclone Gabrielle’s aftermath in New Zealand, Anna Rankin describes the fears, rumours and unexpected effects of a lack of internet in the town of Wairoa
My Cyclone Diary: The day we watched the flood swallow Wairoa
| ['Anna Rankin', ' in Wairoa'] | It is difficult to record historical events that will in time determine policy decisions and economic outcomes, and the lives of those affected, while events are still unfolding. There are the quick impressions – men wrestling escaped bees on a roadside deep in flood waters, a flattened cornfield marked by the shape an... | 2023-03-11 |
Hunger and hope: Africans tell of desperation and innovation as climate summit meets | As delegates in Nairobi debate the havoc that climate crisis has wreaked on the continent, we speak to people finding new ways to feed themselves in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Peter Muiruri', ' in Kenya, ', 'Patience Akumu', ' in Uganda, ', 'Silence Charumbira', ' in South Africa'] | African heads of state, ministers, leaders and campaigners are meeting this week in Nairobi for the first climate summit held on the continent. An estimated 30,000 delegates are in the Kenyan capital to debate and lobby governments to keep their commitments to support the people suffering the worst consequences of the ... | 2023-09-12 |
How to turn England’s rivers from filthy sewers into shining streamsRachel Salvidge | None of our rivers meet the legal standard for health, and communities are starting to take matters into their own hands | null | I wouldn’t go swimming in England’s rivers, in the same way that I wouldn’t flush my head down a public toilet. It’s not just me who feels this way. Even Sir James Bevan, the chief executive of the Environment Agency – the regulator responsible for protecting and improving water in England – has said he would be “cauti... | 2022-04-18 |
‘They look like waves’: spider webs blanket Gippsland after Victorian floods | Flooded roads and paddocks disrupt local spiders which seek higher ground on road signs, trees and any tall grass they can find | ['Matilda Boseley'] | Residents in eastern Victoria have been taken aback after waking up to vast, alien-like sheets of spider webs laying across paddocks and roadsides.The East Gippsland town of Traralgon was one of the hardest-hit areas by recent flooding and wild weather. While its neighbour Sale avoided the brunt of the damage, flooded ... | 2021-06-15 |
After the fall: what a garden might look like at the end of the world | ‘Post-apocalypse’ is not a typical theme for a garden show, but in Melbourne, landscape architects planted out a climate change worst-case scenario
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| ['Liz Crash'] | Abandoned by humans, no longer inhabitable, a typical suburban Melbourne home sinks into a marshland – perhaps it was caused by flooding, or rising sea levels. A wild entanglement of vegetation creeps around and over the built structures, a forest of self-seeded garden escapers.Or that’s the plan, anyway. At this stage... | 2022-04-01 |
Treasury blocking green policies key to UK net zero target | Experts say chancellor refusing to commit spending needed to shift economy to low-carbon footing | ['Fiona Harvey', ' Environment correspondent'] | The Treasury is blocking green policies essential to put the UK on track to net zero emissions, imperilling the UK’s own targets and the success of vital UN climate talks, experts have told the Guardian.A string of policies, from home insulation to new infrastructure spending, have been scrapped, watered down or delaye... | 2018-07-05 |
China’s top climate official urges US to ‘clear barriers’ to talks | US-China relations hit new low this year after Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, over which China claims sovereignty
Cop27 live – latest news updates | ['Fiona Harvey', ' in Sharm el-Sheikh'] | China’s top climate official has said the US must take responsibility for any reconciliation between the two countries at the Cop27 climate summit, calling on the US to “clear the barriers” to talks.Xie Zhenhua, the climate envoy for China, said he had met John Kerry, the US special presidential envoy for climate, in S... | 2022-11-09 |
This article is more than 1 month oldSellafield nuclear site workers claim ‘toxic culture’ of bullying, sexual harassment and drugs could put safety at riskThis article is more than 1 month old | Exclusive: Multiple sources warn poor working culture heightens risk of accidents, suicide and sabotage
UK nuclear police and workers share WhatsApp jokes about paedophilia, racism and homophobia
Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China
| ['Alex Lawson', ' and ', 'Anna Isaac'] | A “toxic culture” of bullying, sexual harassment and drug-taking risks compromising the safety of Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, multiple employees at Sellafield have claimed.More than a dozen current and former employees have alleged to the Guardian that the Cumbrian site, a vast dump for nuclear waste, has a l... | null |
I used to fly around the world in all-expenses-paid luxury – but I couldn’t face my conscienceCarlton Reid | Quitting flying as a travel writer was easier than I expected. Now for the hard part: convincing my family to do the same | null | As a travel writer, I’m used to receiving invitations to five-star resorts in far-flung destinations such as the Seychelles, all expenses paid. But now I ignore these emails. I quit flying three years ago. I’m not afraid to fly; I stopped because of the climate crisis. In addition to travel, I write about green issues,... | 2023-12-18 |
Seven in 10 Australians want government to take more action on climate, survey finds | The Lowy Institute’s annual survey of sentiment on climate action found strong support for net zero emissions by 2050 and a ban on new coalmines | ['Daniel Hurst', '@danielhurstbne'] | The Morrison government is under increasing pressure to act on the climate crisis, with a new poll showing seven in 10 Australians want the Coalition to lock in stronger commitments in the lead-up to this year’s Glasgow summit.The Lowy Institute’s annual survey of sentiment on climate action finds strong domestic suppo... | 2021-06-05 |
This article is more than 4 months oldWednesday briefing: Fukushima nuclear plant is set to flush tonnes of water into the sea – but is it safe?This article is more than 4 months old | In today’s newsletter: Japan’s decision to release radioactive water from the tsunami-hit power plant has divided groups – is it entirely safe or staggeringly stupid?
Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition | ['Helen Pidd'] | Good morning.Today’s newsletter comes to you from Manchester, original home of the Guardian (est 1821), and me, Helen Pidd, your friendly north of England editor. I’ll be writing the daily briefing alongside Nimo for the next few weeks.Our latest edition concerns events in Japan 12 years ago, when a huge earthquake str... | 2023-08-23 |
ExplainerWhat is the radioactive capsule missing in WA used for and how dangerous is it? | As authorities scour the desert for the missing source, here’s what we know about how it works and what threat it poses to humans
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| ['Donna Lu', '@donnadlu'] | Authorities are continuing the search for a tiny radioactive capsule lost along a 1,400km stretch of Western Australian desert highway.The 8mm by 6mm capsule fell from a secure device on a truck that was travelling from a Rio Tinto mine site, north of Newman in the Pilbara region, to Perth, where it was being sent for ... | 2023-01-31 |
This article is more than 3 months oldNumber of nesting seabirds on Lundy island at nine-decade highThis article is more than 3 months old | Tiny island in Bristol Channel has 25,000 Manx shearwaters – 95% of England’s breeding population – and 1,335 puffins | ['Patrick Barkham', '@patrick_barkham'] | There are more seabirds nesting on the island of Lundy than at any time since the 1930s, conservationists have revealed.The tiny island in the Bristol Channel, a globally famed location for Britain’s seabirds, is now home to 25,000 Manx shearwaters – 95% of England’s breeding population – as well as 1,335 puffins and m... | 2023-10-11 |
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