Most recent 40 articles: Guardian - Climate Change
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Human-caused heating behind extreme droughts in Syria, Iraq and Iran, study finds - Guardian - Climate Change (Nov 08, 2023) |
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Nov 08, 2023 · Millions of people’s lives wrecked by droughts that used to happen once every 250 years but now expected once a decade
Extreme droughts that have wrecked the lives of millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran since 2020 would not have happened without human-caused global heating, a study has found.
The climate crisis means such long-lasting and severe droughts are no longer rare, the analysis showed. In the Tigris-Euphrates basin, which covers large parts of Syria and Iraq, droughts of this severity happened about once every 250 years before global heating – now they are expected once a decade.
In Iran, extreme drought occurred once every 80 years in the past but ... Read more ...
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Humanity at ‘code red,’ facing climate emergency, scientists warn - Guardian - Climate Change (Oct 02, 2023) |
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Oct 02, 2023 · Life on planet is in peril, say climate experts, as they call for a rapid and just transition to a sustainable future
Earth’s “vital signs” are worse than at any time in human history, an international team of scientists has warned, meaning life on the planet is in peril.
Their report found that 20 of the 35 planetary vital signs they use to track the climate crisis are at record extremes. As well as greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature and sea level rise, the indicators also include human and livestock population numbers.
Many climate records were broken by enormous margins in 2023, including global air temperature, ocean temperature and Antarctic sea ice ... Read more ...
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Wild spring weather swings hurt New York’s fall apple harvest » Yale Climate Connections - Guardian - Climate Change (Oct 02, 2023) |
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Oct 02, 2023 · National union members urge government to create water strategy to prevent such losses
Potato and cereal crops are likely to have been heavily damaged by the recent devastating floods across the UK, farmers have warned.
Entire fields have been submerged in water after Storm Babet swept across the country, with crops ruined. Extreme weather events are becoming more likely and frequent due to climate breakdown, and have caused food shortages and price increases.
The storms have left at least seven people dead and hundreds more homeless after flash floods followed heavy rain. An estimated 1,250 properties in England have been flooded while about 30,000 properties have ... Read more ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 01, 2023) |
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Jul 01, 2023 · Crossbench senator’s support is crucial if government is to introduce planned revamp of safeguard mechanism
The independent senator David Pocock has urged the Albanese government to quickly implement all recommendations from a review of Australia’s carbon credit system, given that it wants to introduce a climate policy that relies heavily on offsets.
Pocock’s is a key vote if the government is to introduce a planned revamp of the safeguard mechanism, a scheme that is meant to reduce carbon pollution from 215 big polluting industrial and resources sites.
The Canberra senator said he wanted to see the 16 recommendations of the former chief scientist Prof Ian Chubb’s ... Read more ...
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Industrial heavyweights call for urgent action on cutting Australia’s emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 01, 2023) |
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Jul 01, 2023 · In joint statement companies say they are 'ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them
Some of Australia’s biggest heavy industrial companies – including BHP, BlueScope, Rio Tinto and Woodside – say urgent action is needed from governments, investors and business for Australia to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with its goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C.
A joint statement signed by 17 members of the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative follows their support for a report in February that found they could cut direct emissions in their supply chains by more than 90% by 2050 without relying heavily on carbon offsets. Read more ...
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The time for a climate trigger in Australia has hopefully, finally, belatedly come - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 01, 2023) |
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Jul 01, 2023 · It could be part of the solution to the impasse over the safeguard mechanism. Even if it isn’t, the logic for it should be irresistible
New Orleans was still awash in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the then prime minister, John Howard, was in climate doubt and delay mode when Anthony Albanese got to his feet in the Australian parliament to argue for a better way ahead.
Then a mid-ranking opposition frontbencher, the future PM gave a nod to the carnage in Louisiana before running through the “profound risks’’ that Australia would face if greenhouse gas emissions kept rising – a now-familiar list including worsening heatwaves, less rain in the south, more rain in ... Read more ...
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Weather tracker: Shanghai reports record high May temperature of 36.7C - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 02, 2023) |
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Jun 02, 2023 · Heatwave continues in southern and eastern Asia as temperatures exceed 40C in vast swathes of region
Shanghai in China has reported a record high May temperature of 36.7C, breaking the previous record by 1C. The new high temperature on 29 May comes amid the heatwave affecting southern and eastern Asia since mid-April. Vast swathes of the region have had temperatures exceeding 40C, with parts of Pakistan reaching almost 50C in mid-May.
South-east Asia has been affected particularly badly, with record high national temperatures in Laos (43.5C), Vietnam (44.2C), and Thailand (45.4C). This is due to low amounts of rainfall over the previous winter resulting in drier soils, ... Read more ...
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'Climate negotiations are inherently abusive’: campaigner Brianna Craft on the struggle smaller countries face - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 02, 2023) |
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Jun 02, 2023 · In her memoir, the Cop delegate draws parallels with her violent childhood home and the imbalance of power in global summits
When Brianna Craft arrived at her first UN climate conference in 2011, she was 24, optimistic and full of hope, believing that the negotiations were where the crisis would be solved.
More than a decade later, her feelings have changed significantly. “Yes, it is the only thing that exists where the poorest countries have a seat at the table,” she says of the annual “conferences of the parties”, or Cops, “but that does not mean it is a good thing, or a right thing, or a just thing”.
Her memoir, Everything That Rises, charts how she came to this ... Read more ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 02, 2023) |
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Jun 02, 2023 · The central Asian country has the worst rate of climate-heating 'super-emitter’ events in the world
The US is in negotiations with Turkmenistan over an agreement to plug the central Asian nation’s colossal methane leaks.
Turkmenistan was responsible for 184 “super-emitter” events in which the powerful greenhouse gas was released in 2022, the highest number in the world. One caused climate pollution equivalent to the rate of emissions from 67m cars.
US officials hope that some leaks from Turkmenistan’s oil and gas industry could be halted by the start of the UN’s Cop28 climate summit in late November. Success would represent a major achievement in tackling the ... Read more ...
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China swelters through record temperatures, putting pressure on power grids - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 02, 2023) |
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Jun 02, 2023 · Record heat in May across parts of the country comes amid a year of rising temperatures and erratic weather in China
Temperatures across China reached or exceeded their records for the month of May, the country’s National Climate Centre has said.
Weather stations at 446 sites registered temperatures that were the same as, or greater than, the highest ever recorded for the month of May, deputy director of the National Climate Centre Gao Rong said at a press briefing on Friday.
On Monday, the Shanghai Meteorology Bureau reported that the city had recorded a temperature of 36.1 degrees Celsius. The previous record for May was 35.7C, which occurred in 2018.
Over ... Read more ...
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Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 01, 2023) |
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Jun 01, 2023 · Alexandre Saraiva gives alert on organised crime in region ahead of anniversary of killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
The rapid advance of organised crime groups in the Brazilian Amazon risks turning the region into a vast, conflict-stricken hinterland plagued by heavily armed “criminal insurgents”, a former senior federal police chief has warned.
Alexandre Saraiva, who worked in the Amazon from 2011 to 2021, said he feared the growing footprint of drug-trafficking mafias in the region could spawn a situation similar to the decades-long drug conflict in Rio de Janeiro, where the police’s battle with drug gangs and paramilitaries has claimed tens of thousands of ... Read more ...
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Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were killed in the Amazon: A year later their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the work - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 01, 2023) |
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Jun 01, 2023 · Three assassins walked into a bar deep in the Brazilian Amazon one night last October. Beers flowed, tongues loosened and the men were overheard bragging about their latest job. “We’re looking for this Orlando bloke. We’ve come to kill him,” one of the inebriated hitmen is said to have declared, according to a tipoff conveyed to their target.
The Orlando in question was Orlando Possuelo, one of the Indigenous defenders who has been seeking to carry on the work of his colleague Bruno Pereira since Pereira was killed along with the British journalist Dom Phillips near the Javari valley Indigenous territory last June.
The planned killing did not come to pass. Who ordered it ... Read more ...
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Foggy future for Arctic shipping as sea ice melts - Guardian - Climate Change (Jun 01, 2023) |
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Jun 01, 2023 · By 2100 increased fogginess caused by global warming could add days to travel in the region
Rapid warming in the Arctic has opened up faster shipping channels through the fabled Northwest Passage in recent decades, but a study reveals that the reduction in ice is likely to lead to increased levels of fog, potentially removing the benefits of these high-latitude short cuts.
As sea ice melts, more of the underlying warmer water comes into contact with cold air, increasing the chances of water vapour condensing into fog.
Xianyao Chen from the Ocean University of China and colleagues plugged historical fog data into climate models to assess how much the fogginess along ... Read more ...
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Fossil fuel divestment - Guardian - Climate Change (May 31, 2023) |
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May 31, 2023 · Exclusive: Report claims Australia’s shareholdings in development banks has made it responsible for investing $828m in fossil fuel projects over five years
Australia’s shareholdings in three international banks – including the World Bank – has seen it responsible for investing $828m in fossil fuel projects between 2016 and 2021, according to a research report.
The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have collectively pumped $32.85bn into fossil fuel projects – almost entirely linked to oil and gas production or power generation – over the same period, the report says.
Jubilee Australia and ActionAid, which compiled ... Read more ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (May 31, 2023) |
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May 31, 2023 · Inventory shows Australia has burned through 27% of emissions budget under Paris climate accord in 25% of allotted time
Australia’s carbon emissions edged lower in 2022 with reductions from the electricity sector partly countered by increases in pollution from transport and agriculture.
The country’s emissions last year totalled 463.9m tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent (Mt CO2-e), down 0.4% or 2m tonnes from the previous year. Preliminary estimates for the year to 31 March 2023 indicated emissions totalled 464Mt CO2-e, or 0.2% lower on a rolling 12-month tally, the national greenhouse gas inventory shows.
Between June 2005 and the end of 2022, carbon pollution ... Read more ...
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US Government borrowing - Guardian - Climate Change (May 09, 2023) |
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May 09, 2023 · Republicans are determined to link any increase in the ceiling with cuts to Biden’s signature climate legislation
Amid warnings about looming fiscal catastrophe, the GOP is attempting to use Biden’s climate agenda as a bargaining chip over raising the debt ceiling – even if it could hurt Republican voters.
Late last month, House Republicans narrowly passed speaker Kevin McCarthy’s proposal to raise the government’s debt ceiling in exchange for sweeping cuts to federal spending.
Known as the Limit, Save, Grow Act, the proposal – which is unlikely to progress through the Democrat-majority Senate and which the president says he would veto – would eliminateBiden’s ... Read more ...
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'Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed - Guardian - Climate Change (May 09, 2023) |
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May 09, 2023 · Leaks of potent greenhouse gas could be easily fixed, say experts, and would rapidly reduce global heating
Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed.
Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas from the oil- and gas-rich country are “mind-boggling”, and an “infuriating” problem that should be easy to fix, experts have told the Guardian.
The data produced by Kayrros for the Guardian found that the western fossil fuel field in Turkmenistan, on the Caspian coast, leaked 2.6m tonnes of methane in 2022. The eastern field emitted 1.8m tonnes. ... Read more ...
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Country diary: The first swift of the year, as if conjured - Guardian - Climate Change (May 09, 2023) |
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May 09, 2023 · West Norwood, south London: These birds can transport you back 50 million years. A summer without the sight of them is unthinkable
It doesn’t look bad, considering it’s been dead for 50 million years. “It”, of course, is a fossil. Specifically, the remains of a bird called Eocypselus rowei, from the Green River Formation in Wyoming. It’s a good fossil, clearly recognisable as a bird, with head, tangled skeleton, spindly legs and the blurred wing outline all clearly visible.
I think of it often. Because Eocypselus rowei is the most recent common ancestor of hummingbirds and swifts. And that makes it something special. Thought of it is summoned by the bird that has just ... Read more ...
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Drone footage shows Spanish reservoirs dry amid hottest April on record – video - Guardian - Climate Change (May 09, 2023) |
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May 09, 2023 · Spain is facing one of its worst droughts in recent history, which is becoming increasingly visible through drone footage.
Last month was the driest April in five decades and the warmest on record since 1961, according to the state agency Aemet. This has caused reservoirs and wetlands across the country to be affected, with many looking much emptier than they did the same time last year.
In northern Catalonia, the Rialb, Baells and La Llosa del Cavall reservoirs are now below 25% of their capacity, with the Rialb reservoir particularly badly affected, showing cracked ground and only holding 5.69% of its capacity
Spain braced for record April temperature of 39C as ... Read more ...
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Frogs in Puerto Rico croak at a higher pitch due to global heating - Guardian - Climate Change (May 08, 2023) |
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May 08, 2023 · Call of the coquí frog is affected by rising temperatures, scientists find
Frogs in Puerto Rico are croaking at a higher pitch due to global heating, scientists have found.
The frogs appear to be decreasing in size at warmer temperatures, which causes their croaks to become high pitched. If the trends continue, the heat could become too much for the sensitive amphibians to survive successfully, researchers have said.
The call of the coquí frog is well known to most who have spent time in Puerto Rico. It is named for its two-note call “co-qui”, which rings out throughout the island every night.
Male coquí frogs use their distinctive call to mark their ... Read more ...
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'Unique’ frogs in NSW rainforests feared locally extinct after black summer bushfires - Guardian - Climate Change (May 08, 2023) |
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May 08, 2023 · Pugh’s mountain frog, which has been 'evolving since Australia was connected to Antarctica’ was worst affected of nine threatened species, researchers say
Several frog species are feared to be locally extinct in parts of New South Wales after the black summer bushfires, a survey of amphibian populations has found.
Scientists conducted a survey of 411 sites in north-east and south-east NSW, monitoring 35 frog species for 18 months after the 2019-2020 bushfire season.
Focusing on nine threatened species, the researchers found that those in rainforest habitats were most significantly affected by the fires – specifically the pouched frog, the giant burrowing frog and ... Read more ...
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Vietnam records highest ever temperature of 44.1C - Guardian - Climate Change (May 07, 2023) |
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May 07, 2023 · Report comes after neighbouring countries also register unprecedented highs during April heatwave
Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature of 44.1C (111.38F), as weather experts and authorities told the population to remain indoors during the hottest parts of the day.
Scientists have said global warming is aggravating adverse weather. Neighbouring countries registered record temperatures during a heatwave in Asia in April.
Vietnam’s record was measured indoors at Hoi Xuan station in northern Thanh Hoa province on Saturday, the National Centre for Hydro Meteorological Forecasting said, breaking the 2019 record of 43.4C.
Nguyen Thi Lan, a farmer, said ... Read more ...
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Climate scientists first laughed at a 'bizarre’ campaign against the BoM – then came the harassment - Guardian - Climate Change (May 06, 2023) |
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May 06, 2023 · Former Bureau of Meteorology staff say claims they deliberately manipulated data to make warming seem worse are being fed by a 'fever swamp’ of climate denial
For more than a decade, climate science deniers, rightwing politicians and sections of the Murdoch media have waged a campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the Bureau of Meteorology’s temperature records.
Those records say Australia has warmed by 1.4C since 1910, the year when the bureau’s main quality-controlled climate dataset starts.
Extremely hot days come along more often than they used to, and the warming trends are happening everywhere, at all times of the year.
As a target for those with an ... Read more ...
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Central banks raising interest rates makes it harder to fight the climate crisis - Guardian - Climate Change (May 06, 2023) |
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May 06, 2023 · Higher rates slow the renewable energy transition and shield oil and gas producers from competition by low-carbon producers
In late 2021, consumer price inflation surged in many countries. Prices shot up again following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In response, central banks drastically tightened monetary policy – raising interest rates from near zero to around 5% or more. Since the interest rate hikes have failed to bring down core inflation to the target rate of 2% favored by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB), the pressure for further rate hikes has been insistent.
We have long doubted that central bank rate rises could control ... Read more ...
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HSBC investors reject plan to split bank in meeting disrupted by climate protest - Guardian - Climate Change (May 05, 2023) |
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May 05, 2023 · Majority of shareholders reject proposal to spin off Asian operations, after hour of disruption from campaigners
HSBC has defeated an attempt to split up the bank after a majority of investors rejected a plan backed by its largest shareholder at the bank’s annual general meeting, which was heavily disrupted by climate protests.
The bank’s chair, Mark Tucker, announced that a majority of shareholders had backed him and the board in rejecting the proposal to spin off HSBC’s Asian operations, he said at the meeting in Birmingham on Friday.
Several protesters interrupted the meeting after 12 minutes, beginning an hour of disruption in which Tucker and the chief ... Read more ...
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April Mediterranean heatwave 'almost impossible’ without climate crisis - Guardian - Climate Change (May 05, 2023) |
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May 05, 2023 · Extreme event would have been expected once in 40,000 years before global heating, scientists estimate
The record-shattering temperatures that hit the western Mediterranean last week would have been “almost impossible” without the climate crisis, according to scientists.
The heatwave across Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Algeria was made at least 100 times more likely by global heating, the researchers calculated. Before the climate crisis, such an extreme event would have been expected only once in a least 40,000 years, making it statistically impossible on human timescales.
The scientists said such heat early in the year was especially harmful to people, who were ... Read more ...
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Weather tracker: An unusually chilly start to May in India and eastern US - Guardian - Climate Change (May 05, 2023) |
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May 05, 2023 · Record minimum temperatures observed in northern India, as clashing conditions bring thunderstorms in US
It has been a historically chilly start to May in India, thanks to an unusually strong low-pressure system that moved in from the west, sweeping humid air from the Arabian Sea across the subcontinent. The resulting overcast skies reduced the heating effect from the sun, which combined with the brisk winds and abnormally high rainfall to lower temperatures significantly.
May is considered the final month of the Indian summer, before the monsoon season begins in June, and is the hottest time of the year for many parts of India. However, in the past week large parts of ... Read more ...
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Tanya Plibersek rejects two Queensland coalmines over failure to provide detail on environmental impact - Guardian - Climate Change (May 05, 2023) |
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May 05, 2023 · In issuing lapsed notices on projects, environment minister says she has 'zero tolerance’ for failure to supply required information
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has struck off two proposed coal projects in Queensland after the developers failed to submit requested information about impacts on threatened species and water.
The two projects are Macmines’ China Stone coalmine in the Galilee basin and Stanmore Resources’ Range Coal project 35km south-east of Wandoan, in central Queensland.
Both projects had stalled after applications were submitted nine years ago by Macmines and 12 years ago by Stanmore Resources.
Activist groups welcomed the ... Read more ...
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Environmental activism - Guardian - Climate Change (May 05, 2023) |
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May 05, 2023 · Twenty-two institutions have been shut down as part of proposed month-long campaign
A wave of student occupations has shut down schools and universities across Europe as part of a renewed youth protest campaign against inaction on climate breakdown. Twenty-two schools and universities across the continent have been occupied as part of a proposed month-long campaign.
In Germany, universities were occupied in Wolfenbüttel, Magdeburg, Münster, Bielefeld, Regensburg, Bremen and Berlin. In Spain, students in occupation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona organised teach-outs on the climate crisis. In Belgium, 40 students occupied the University of Ghent. In the Czech ... Read more ...
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Melting glaciers in Alps threaten biodiversity of invertebrates, says study - Guardian - Climate Change (May 04, 2023) |
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May 04, 2023 · Overlooked animals vital for alpine ecosystems could lose most of their habitat and disappear, research suggests
Invertebrates living in the cool meltwater rivers of the European Alps could lose most of their habitat and disappear, as the mountain range’s glaciers melt at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, according to a study.
Although they are often overlooked, these animals are crucial for alpine ecosystems.
Some species of mayflies are sometimes known as blue-winged olive flies by people who do fly-fishing. Midges tend to be mistaken for mosquitoes and are also known as lake flies. Glacier-fed rivers are generally species-poor, as few species can cope ... Read more ...
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'Peace of mind at last’: the Bangladeshi villagers digging their way out of the floods - Guardian - Climate Change (May 04, 2023) |
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May 04, 2023 · 'Plinth’ settlements built on raised ground above the country’s flooding rivers are providing permanent homes and emergency refuges
Hamida Khatun is sick of moving. The 60-year has been displaced about 20 times during her life, always as a result of climate disasters. “They seem to follow me wherever I go,” she says. But in 2019, the floods were the worst. “I thought at some point it would stop but it just kept rising and rising,” says Khatun. She saved herself from drowning by grabbing hold of a fallen banana tree that was floating past, and used it as a raft to get to safety.
Born in Tangail, central Bangladesh, Khatun moved from one makeshift home to another along the ... Read more ...
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Environmental activism - Guardian - Climate Change (May 04, 2023) |
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May 04, 2023 · As campaigning hots up around the world once again, eyes have been turning to the country that is taking things further
In the UK, when climate activists want to block a road, they sit down on it. When their fellow activists in France want to do the same, they build a wall across one side, and set the other side on fire.
As Extinction Rebellion drew tens of thousands to their peaceful “Big One” protests in London last month, in the south of France 8,500 environmental protesters occupied the road from Toulouse to the town of Castres.
In protest at plans for a new motorway, which critics say will devastate agricultural land and accelerate climate breakdown, the ... Read more ...
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NT government accused of failing to address climate risks before approving Beetaloo Basin gas project - Guardian - Climate Change (May 04, 2023) |
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May 04, 2023 · Letter from panel member of fracking inquiry says key recommendations have not been fully implemented
A letter from one of the panel members of the Northern Territory’s fracking inquiry says the Fyles government has not fully implemented key recommendations, including those aimed at reducing the risk new gas developments pose for the climate.
Environment groups say it shows “serious outstanding issues” remain with plans to expand the gas industry in the Beetaloo Basin a day after the NT government cleared the way for a move from exploration to production.
Dr David Ritchie, who was tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Pepper inquiry’s 135 ... Read more ...
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What’s the weather like near the summit of Mount Everest? - Guardian - Climate Change (May 04, 2023) |
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May 04, 2023 · Data from world’s highest weather station shows wind chill plunging to -83C and frostbite possible in less than a minute
What is the weather like near the top of Mount Everest? It’s a vital question for mountaineers hoping to climb the world’s highest peak, but it is also important for climate scientists, whose models indicate that global heating will be amplified at high elevations.
In May 2019, the National Geographic and Rolex Mount Everest expedition supported two climate scientists in setting up the highest weather station in the world, perched on the south-east ridge of Everest at a height of 8,430m (27,657ft), along with another weather station on the South Col, ... Read more ...
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Grain trader Cargill faces legal challenge in US over Brazilian soya supply chain - Guardian - Climate Change (May 04, 2023) |
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May 04, 2023 · World’s biggest grain trader accused of 'shoddy due diligence’ on deforestation and alleged rights violations
The world’s largest grain trader, Cargill, is facing a first-ever legal challenge in the United States over its failure to remove deforestation and human rights abuses from its soya supply chain in Brazil.
ClientEarth, an environmental law organisation, filed the formal complaint on Thursday, accusing Cargill of inadequate monitoring and a laggard response to the decline of the Amazon rainforest and other globally important biomes, such as the Cerrado savannah and the Atlantic Forest.
The case, which was submitted under the guidelines of the Organisation ... Read more ...
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Sadiq Khan to publish 'practical guide’ to the climate emergency - Guardian - Climate Change (May 04, 2023) |
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May 04, 2023 · Breathe, due out next year, will see the London mayor draw on his own experience with adult-onset asthma to address the crisis
London mayor Sadiq Khan to is to publish his first book, described by his publisher as a “warm and practical guide” to tackling the climate emergency.
Khan became mayor of London in 2016, and since then has brought in a range of environmental measures, including introducing the world’s first ultra-low emission zone, overseeing hundreds of kilometres of new cycle lanes and announcing plans to rewild Hyde Park.
He was diagnosed with adult-onset asthma when he was 43, while training for the London Marathon. He has said his asthma is down to ... Read more ...
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Where are the worst places for air pollution in Australia? Search by postcode on our interactive map - Guardian - Climate Change (May 03, 2023) |
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May 03, 2023 · Josh Nicholas and Andy Ball
Air pollution kills millions of people and costs trillions of dollars every year around the world. On average Australia has relatively low levels of air pollution. But many parts of Australia, especially around city centres and mining areas, experience levels much higher than what is considered “safe”.
Pollution levels are disproportionately high in areas where Australians on lower incomes live.
The map below allows you to click and search around the country to see estimated air pollution in any area.
Australia has no systematic national monitoring of air pollution. So experts created this dataset using satellite and land use data, ... Read more ...
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Climate protesters rework Spice Girls song to disrupt Barclays AGM - Guardian - Climate Change (May 03, 2023) |
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May 03, 2023 · Lyrics of Stop changed to 'stop right now, no more oil and gas’ because of bank’s fossil fuel funding
Barclays’ annual general meeting was disrupted by climate activists deploying Shakespeare-inspired quotes and reworked lyrics of a Spice Girls hit to condemn the bank’s role as one of Europe’s largest funders of fossil fuels.
Dozens of activists from groups including Fossil Free London and Extinction Rebellion UK began their action less than five minutes into the meeting where its chair, Nigel Higgins, was addressing shareholders at the QEII Centre in Westminster, central London.
A choir was the first to interrupt, with a rendition of the Spice Girls song Stop. ... Read more ...
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El Niño southern oscillation - Guardian - Climate Change (May 03, 2023) |
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May 03, 2023 · There is estimated 60% chance event will develop by end of July, and 80% chance of it by end of September
The chance of an El Niño weather phenomenon developing in the coming months has risen, the United Nations has said, warning that it could fuel higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records.
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday that it now estimated there was a 60% chance that El Niño would develop by the end of July, and an 80% chance it would do so by the end of September.
“This will change the weather and climate patterns worldwide,” Wilfran Moufouma Okia, the head of the WMO’s regional climate prediction services ... Read more ...
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