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STUDY SUCCESS: No doubts, carbon pricing works

15 Jul 2020

Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right?

UK premier faces court over covid-19 recovery

14 Jul 2020

Lawyers who stopped the expansion of Heathrow Airport because it would be bad for the climate are now turning their sights on Boris Johnson's covid-19 economic recovery plans.

Melting glacier yields newspapers from 1966 plane crash

14 Jul 2020

COPIES of Indian newspapers onboard an Air India jet that crashed into Mont Blanc in the 1960s have been revealed by melting ice on the mountain’s Bossons glacier.

Bernie-Biden

The plan to unite Biden and Bernie is finally here

13 Jul 2020

Once upon a time, many moons ago — ie back in April — Democratic presidential primary candidate Bernie Sanders agreed to exit the race and join forces with his mortal frenemy Joe Biden to help the former vice-president take the White House.

GAS CURSE: Mozambique’s multi-billion dollar gamble

13 Jul 2020

A decade after prospectors struck gas off Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, a consortium led by Total is signing contracts worth $16 billion to exploit it.

Which species will win and lose in a warmer climate?

13 Jul 2020

As the global climate shifts, it’s important to know which species have adaptations to survive. Our research published today in PNAS found it largely depends on where they evolved.

Nature doesn't trust us any more

13 Jul 2020

Frozen ground in the Arctic is thawing, harming indigenous people’s hunting livelihoods and destabilising buildings and roads across the rapidly warming region.

First State to divest thermal coal assets

10 Jul 2020

One of Australia's biggest industry superannuation funds plans to sell down its investments in thermal coal miners in a bid to protect its members from the financial impact of climate change.

CO2 in atmosphere nearing levels of 15m years ago

10 Jul 2020

The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is approaching a level not seen in 15m years and perhaps never previously experienced by a hominoid, according to the authors of a study.

Warming waters could see fewer common fish

10 Jul 2020

As many as 60 per cent of the world's fish species could struggle to breed and reproduce if climate change causes the Earth to warm by 5deg over the next 80 years, according to a new study.

Fossil fuel companies take at least $3b in covis aid

9 Jul 2020

More than 5600 companies in the fossil fuel industry have taken a minimum of $3b in coronavirus aid from the US federal government, according to a new analysis.

Climate activists see ‘new era’ after pipeline victories

9 Jul 2020

Climate activists sense a turning point in their war against the Trump administration's effort to cement a fossil-fueled future for the United States, with three major defeats for high-profile oil and gas pipeline projects.

Rare night clouds may be warning sign of climate crisis

9 Jul 2020

Something magical appeared at night over London and other parts of Britain last month: ripples of electric blue clouds shimmered in the twilight sky after sunset.

Sun has a secret plan to become a lithium factory

8 Jul 2020

Lithium is used in everything from medication to mobile phone batteries, but where does it come from?

Michele Rubirola

Marseille turns green with election of first woman mayor

8 Jul 2020

Marseille has become the latest French municipality to elect a green mayor in a wave that has swept the country since local elections at the end of last month.

Tesla top on back of tech boost and China sales

7 Jul 2020

Electric motor manufacturer Tesla became the world's most valuable carmaker last week, overtaking Toyota, despite never having made an annual profit.

‘Million-mile’ batteries are coming

7 Jul 2020

Electric vehicles have a clear environmental advantage over their gas-guzzling counterparts, but when it comes to longevity, the two are in a dead heat.

Nuclear plans flounder through muddy dispute

7 Jul 2020

Vast quantities of mud, which campaigners say might contain radioactive particles, are the latest problem to confront the UK’s nuclear plans for two new reactors under construction in the West of England.

Aussies score on covid but limp on climate change

7 Jul 2020

Australia has been ranked third behind South Korea and Latvia in a global report on the effectiveness of its response to the covid-19 pandemic -- but 37th in in the fight against climate change.

What an ocean hidden under Antarctica reveals about our future climate

6 Jul 2020

Jules Verne sent his fictional submarine, the Nautilus, to the South Pole through a hidden ocean beneath a thick ice cap. Written 40 years before any explorer had reached the pole, his story was nevertheless only half fiction.

Proud California dairy farmer takes it on the chin

6 Jul 2020

Californian dairyman Scott Magneson just keeps on farming, despite the economic fallout from a pandemic and the extreme weather — floods, drought, wildfires — linked to climate change.

Air pollution likely to make coronavirus worse

3 Jul 2020

Air pollution is probably increasing the number and severity of covid-19 cases and could be important to managing the pandemic, experts say.

Angus Taylor

Australia claims climate success

2 Jul 2020

Despite three decades of relative inaction on climate change and stalling from successive Australian Governments, the Morrison Government has claimed success in meeting Australia’s targets under the Kyoto Protocol, which came to an end on Wednesday.

UK heading for the heat

2 Jul 2020

The likelihood of the UK experiencing deadly 40deg temperatures for the first time is “rapidly accelerating” due to the climate crisis, scientists have found.

Spain to close half its coal-fired power stations

1 Jul 2020

Spain is on track to become a coal-free country in record time. All of its remaining coal-fired thermal power plants started shutting down yesterday, a year-and-a-half after the closure of the coal mines.

Scott Morrison

How Pacific nations can survive climate change

1 Jul 2020

They contribute only 0.03 per cent of global carbon emissions, but small island developing states, particularly in the Pacific, are at extreme risk to the threats of climate change.

Beavers new threat as Arctic lakes thaw

1 Jul 2020

Beavers are creating lakes that accelerate the thawing of frozen soils and potentially increase greenhouse gas emissions, a study finds.

How Europe can be carbon-neutral by 2040

30 Jun 2020

The European Union can reach climate neutrality as early as 2040, according to a group of environmental NGOs which have mapped out a scenario to move the bloc towards a 100 per cent renewable energy system by then.

Ireland latest country to set net-zero target

30 Jun 2020

Ireland’s new coalition government has set itself a goal to deliver steep greenhouse gas emissions cuts every year to reach neutrality by 2050.

World's biggest renewables companies abysmal on human rights

30 Jun 2020

Renewable energy companies are falling short on efforts to safeguard the rights of workers and communities in their operations and throughout mineral supply chains, placing the sector’s legitimacy and the global clean energy switch at risk, a new analysis says.

KENYA CALL: My land is now owned by lions

29 Jun 2020

PARSOLOI KUPAI'S home, situated on the edge of Ol Kinyei conservancy near the Maasai Mara game reserve, is no different from any other Maasai homestead – oval-shaped huts with an almost flat roof and walls plastered with a mixture of water, mud and cow dung.

Trump plan would open huge area of Alaska to drilling

29 Jun 2020

Some of most ecologically sensitive lands in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a few hundred miles west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, might soon be open for business to the oil industry.

Extremists exploit rural nostalgia and farmers’ anger

29 Jun 2020

The poster advertising an evening of debate and organic canapés looked familiar to environmentally conscious Germans - a rugged pair of hands, cupping fertile brown soil, underneath the slogan “Farms instead of agricultural factories”, written in a font mimicking that of a popular biodynamic food brand.

THAT'S RICH: Affluence is killing the planet

26 Jun 2020

iN SOCIETIES where money can buy almost everything, being rich is generally perceived as something good. But there's a catch: affluence trashes our planetary life support systems.

Border villagers prepare to dethrone the duke

26 Jun 2020

The 2300 villagers of Langholm, a Scottish settlement a few miles north of the English border, hope to buy one of the UK’s most famous grouse moors, owned by one of the Britain's most-powerful hereditary landowners, the Duke of Buccleuch.

Is sea-steading a vanity project for the rich?

25 Jun 2020

Beloved by Silicon Valley tycoons and tyranny-fearing libertarians, are cities atop the waves Earth’s next frontier?

Green recovery was the great hope of 2009

25 Jun 2020

When the Obama administration entered the White House in January 2009, the first hope was to put people back to work and also accelerate transition to a clean-energy economy.

Austin, Texas

Why Americans can't afford to turn on the taps

25 Jun 2020

Millions of ordinary Americans are facing rising and unaffordable bills for running water, and risk being disconnected or losing their homes if they cannot pay, a landmark Guardian investigation has found.

Glacier gets the tarp treatment

25 Jun 2020

Workers lay out huge geotextile sheets on the Presena glacier in northern Italy A vast tarpaulin unravels, gathering speed as it bounces down the glacier over glinting snow. Summer is here and the alpine ice is being protected from global warming.

Nature’s accounts show what the world does for us

25 Jun 2020

People go on getting richer, and the planet pays a mounting price. There’s a better way to balance nature’s accounts.

Zero-carbon homes must lead the green recovery

24 Jun 2020

Living in a house that doesn’t fully meet your needs might have been tolerable when you spent more of your time elsewhere, but a third of the world has been stuck indoors at one time during the pandemic.

Come on England, time to seize the day

24 Jun 2020

England must “seize the day” and create a national nature service to restore wildlife and habitats, says a coalition of the country’s biggest green groups.

Five communities go in search of green justice

24 Jun 2020

From New York to Los Angeles, Minneapolis to the Gulf Coast, people of colour suffer disproportionately from climate change, pollution and callous government.

By 2030, up to €50-150 billion would be invested into solar and wind power capacity dedicated to clean hydrogen production, according to the draft commission strategy

EU puts onus on ‘renewable hydrogen’

23 Jun 2020

An updated version of the European Commission’s draft hydrogen strategy confirms the EU’s “priority focus” on clean hydrogen produced from renewable electricity, but also recognises the role played by “fossil-based hydrogen” in the transition.

Adelaide Airport.

Grass keeps cities cool when heat goes on

23 Jun 2020

Keeping suburban parks green year-round can lower city temperatures by up to 12 deg during summer heatwaves, researchers say.

Why sport is bad news for the climate

23 Jun 2020

The carbon footprint of sport is causing is worldwide damage. And global heating is itself penalising players and fans alike.

Why world has six months to divert climate crisis

22 Jun 2020

The world has only six months in which to change the course of the climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate catastrophe, one of the world’s foremost energy experts has warned.

China’s Erin Brockovich goes global to stop China

22 Jun 2020

Environment lawyer Zhang Jingjing has worked in 20 countries since 2015 to help clean up or shut down Chinese-owned mines, power plants or industrial projects.

Map of uncharted ocean beds takes shape

22 Jun 2020

The ocean floor is less well known than the surface of Mars and charting it could help show how oceans impact the earth's climate.

Climate 'progressives’ fail on Paris carbon target

22 Jun 2020

Nations which pride themselves on their zeal in tackling climate change by cutting carbon dioxide emissions as they have promised, the so-called “climate progressives”, are a long way from living up to their promises, scientists say.

Australia
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"My message is simple, if you’re going to do the wrong thing by our environment our stronger laws will make you pay," says Australian Environment Minister Murray Watt

Companies could have profits from breaking environment laws stripped under Australian reforms

Today 11:00am

The Albanese government wants the power to strip companies of any financial gains made from breaking environment laws, as part of a package of landmark reforms to be put before parliament in the next two weeks.

United States
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How veterans of Al Gore's firm plan to align on climate and still profit

Today 11:00am

A new investment firm is betting on a big idea: There's no collision between prioritising both climate and returns despite the recent vibe shift – if you do the homework.

China
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In China, climate litigation starts with the state

16 Oct 2025

With thousands of dedicated courts and more than a million recent cases, environmental and climate litigation is booming in China, but it often looks different to the trend seen elsewhere.

Europe
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The methane hunters of Melendugno

Today 11:00am

How Italian activists are fighting to expose the true scale of the climate harm caused by a giant European pipeline.

United Kingdom
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Keir Starmer

UK Prime Minister will attend Brazil climate summit

Tue 21 Oct 2025

Keir Starmer will travel to the Amazon rainforest for the COP30 United Nations climate summit next month, Downing Street has confirmed, after weeks of speculation that he would not.

Canada
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Renewables are a global economic engine, not a culture war threat

2 Oct 2025

Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Asia
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Indonesia restarts international carbon trade after four years

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has issued a new decree to restart international carbon emission trading after a four year hiatus.

Pacific
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Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record

Tue 21 Oct 2025

The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record, according to BBC analysis of a mysterious marine heatwave that has confounded climate scientists.

Antarctic/Arctic
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Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica

13 Oct 2025

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate".

Africa
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Angola lowers climate ambition in blow to spirit of Paris Agreement

14 Oct 2025

Angola has scaled back its targets for reducing emissions in its new national climate plan, saying it chose “realism and implementability” over the Paris Agreement's calls for governments to set progressively more ambitious goals.

South America
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A Kuikuro community in Xingu Indigenous Park

Brazil's Indigenous battle with a dry Amazon rainforest

Today 11:00am

As pastures and thirsty crops dry up the Amazon, Indigenous people try to adapt traditional farming methods.

United Nations
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Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline

Today 11:00am

Only 28% of countries have met a UN call to submit new plans on addressing nature loss – a year after the original deadline.

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