No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages
(date: 11/03/2024)
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No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages
(date: 11/03/2024)
AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report
(date: 07/03/2024)
Oxfam Report: EXTREME CARBON INEQUALITY
Good but depressing graphics and stats. "Why the Paris climate deal must put the poorest, lowest emitting and most vulnerable people first...Strikingly, our estimates of the scale of this inequality suggest that the poorest half of the global population...are responsible for only around 10% of total global emissions attributed to individual consumption...The average footprint of the richest 1% of people globally could be 175 times that of the poorest 10%..." (date: 29/02/2024)
Met Office carbon-dioxide forecast for 2024 - Met Office
The build-up of atmospheric carbon-dioxide between 2023 and 2024 is forecast to be faster than that required to track IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5°C, that is the finding from the latest Met Office CO₂ forecast. (date: 29/02/2024)
Pumped up: will a Dutch startup’s plan to restore Arctic sea-ice work?
(date: 27/02/2024)
The Guardian view on GB Energy: Labour’s big idea could be a great one for the planet | Editorial
“…About 40% of offshore wind generation is held by foreign state-owned firms. Sir Keir wants to quadruple the power from sea-based windfarms by 2030. This would be better achieved by GB Energy, where income could be reinvested to accelerate the shift toward energy independence…” (date: 26/02/2024)
‘It looked like we were at sea’: UK River and Rowing Museum faces up to climate threat
(date: 26/02/2024)
Greener snowmaking is helping ski resorts tackle climate change
Madness :( (date: 24/02/2024)
Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a row
(date: 24/02/2024)
Lough Neagh’s flies were seen as a nuisance. Now their sudden disappearance is a startling omen for a lake that supplies 40% of Northern Ireland’s water (date: 20/02/2024)
UK ministers in court again over net zero plans
(date: 20/02/2024)
Angry farmers, worried tourism workers and unprepared politicians â Catalonia is on the frontline of a drought-stricken future, says Spanish journalist MarÃa RamÃrez (date: 15/02/2024)
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
(date: 15/02/2024)
The Fraud of Plastic Recycling
How Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis (date: 15/02/2024)
How to explain climate change impacts on our river flows | Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
My talk (date: 14/02/2024)
‘A make-or-break moment’: what does Labour’s U-turn mean for the UK’s green transition?
Labour has dropped its £28bn green pledge and the Tories are underfunding carbon-cutting measures, despite benefits of net zero projects (date: 08/02/2024)
EU lays out plan to cut greenhouse emissions by 90% by 2040
(date: 08/02/2024)
(date: 02/02/2024)
UK heatwave plan urgently needed to save lives, say MPs
Nature-based solutions such as parks and ponds are recommended – as is giving heatwaves names (date: 31/01/2024)
(date: 31/01/2024)
How a Black Miami neighborhood became ‘ground zero for climate gentrification’
A documentary, Razing Liberty Square, examines the plight of families in Liberty City as developers ârevitalizeâ community on desirable higher land (date: 30/01/2024)
UK must act urgently to meet climate commitments, says watchdog
(date: 30/01/2024)
Greta Thunberg joins protest against expansion of Hampshire airport
Farnborough airport submits plans to increase number of flights amid calls for a ban on private jets (date: 29/01/2024)
How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants
Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the climate crisis (date: 29/01/2024)
UN expert condemns UK crackdown on environmental protest
(date: 23/01/2024)
UK ‘used to be a leader on climate’, lament European lawmakers
(date: 20/01/2024)
Climate crisis ignored by Republicans as Trump vows to ‘drill, baby, drill’
The freezing temperatures in Iowa â fuelled by global heating â have not dampened Republican enthusiasm for oil and gas (date: 19/01/2024)
(date: 18/01/2024)
The Shared Socio‐Economic Pathways (SSPs)
New set of emission scenarios to supersede SRES 2000. (date: 11/01/2024)
‘Astounding’ ocean temperatures in 2023 intensified extreme weather, data shows
Record levels of heat were absorbed last year by Earthâs seas, which have been warming year-on-year for the past decade (date: 11/01/2024)
Sixth Assessment Report — IPCC
Link to AR6 Synthesis Report: "The Working Group I contribution was released on 9 August 2021. The Working Group II and III contributions were released on 28 February and 4 April 2022 respectively. The Synthesis Report was released on 20 March 2023." (date: 09/01/2024)
Alok Sharma: I won’t back UK government’s oil and gas bill
Former Cop26 chair says bill reinforces âunfortunate perception about UK rowing back from climate actionâ (date: 08/01/2024)
Weather changes causing chaos for UK flora and fauna, says National Trust audit
The disappearance of reliable seasonal patterns is causing chaos for the flora and fauna of the UK, a long-running annual audit of the impact of weather on nature has found. (date: 29/12/2023)
The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 – chosen by scientists
From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama (date: 24/12/2023)
A world suffused with AI probably wouldn’t be good for us – or the planet | John Naughton
(date: 24/12/2023)
Do electric cars really produce fewer carbon emissions than petrol or diesel vehicles?
In part five of our series exploring myths surrounding EVs, we assess the greenwashing claims (date: 23/12/2023)
Environmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28
(date: 20/12/2023)
A hybrid inorganic–biological artificial photosynthesis system for energy-efficient food production
(date: 19/12/2023)
The health cost of burning wood to warm homes
(date: 15/12/2023)
Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists
(date: 15/12/2023)
After 30 years of waiting, Cop28 deal addresses the elephant in the room | Fiona Harvey
He was personally vilified, but Sultan Al Jaber has managed what no other Cop presidency has ever done (date: 14/12/2023)
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