1 hour ago ‘This is bad news’: Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implicationsSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereAustralian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions source due to increasingly extreme temperatures and drier conditions.The change, which applies to the trees’ trunk and branches but not the roots system, began about 25 years ago, according to new research published in Nature.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Australia’s rainforests now release more carbon than they absorb, scientists warn

Tropical cyclones are further weakening ability of rainforests to absorb carbon

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2 h. ago Lanark's ancient woodland leads the way in climate change battle for the future

Loch Wood is recognised as one of Scotland's pioneering Nature30 sitesto help halt and reverse nature loss.

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4 h. ago UN weather agency says C02 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather

The United Nations weather agency reports that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached record highs last year, intensifying climate change and extreme weather

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9 h. ago Paris Agreement working but too slowly to prevent dangerous global heat, scientists warn

Planet may experience 57 fewer extremely hot days a year if all countries meet their current emissions targets and limit global warming to 2.6C this century

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17 h. ago UK must be ready for ‘unprecedented’ heatwaves and flooding, climate experts warn

Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding will all become more regular and intense, experts say

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31 h. ago Erol Bulut finally lands new job more than a year after Cardiff City sacking

The side sit 10th in the league after eight games, with Bulut now tasked with bringing European football to the club

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40 h. ago Waiting until disaster strikes hurting aid as early action five times more cost

Under the current system, governments and donors respond after disasters occur, through humanitarian relief or emergency social protection payments. But researchers say these measures are inefficient and far more expensive.

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52 h. ago End of the world as we know it: Damning new report says Earth has reached its first climate ‘tipping point’

The milestone signals a stark new climate reality for the planet - and raises the alarm about impending catastrophic events

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55 h. ago World crosses first major climate tipping point with coral reef collapse

Scientists warn coral ecosystems, on which nearly a billion people depend for food and livelihood, are tipping into irreversible decline

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64 h. ago Poor countries paying billions more to cover debts than they receive as aid to fight climate crisis

The world’s least developed countries paid US $37 billion (£28bn) to service their debts in 2023, but received only $32 billion (£24bn) in climate finance

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4 d. ago Conservationists warn bees and butterflies are at risk of disappearing for good

More than 20 per cent of both bumblebee and cellophane bee species are under threat

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4 d. ago Threats ‘mounting’ for wild bee and butterfly species in Europe, experts warn

Essential pollinators at risk from habitat loss, climate change and pollution, IUCN assessment says.

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5 d. ago Chris Hohn’s foundation blames ‘policy environment’ as it stops giving to US charities

Billionaire hedge fund manager’s CIFF has focused donations on issues such as climate change

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5 d. ago How climate crisis is creating hellish conditions for waste pickers at Nairobi dump declared ‘full’ 24 years ago

Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite continues to receive 2,000 tonnes of waste each day despite being declared full in 2001. Waste pickers who come each day searching for valuables to sell tell Nick Ferris how extreme heat and rains are making the work increasingly difficult

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5 d. ago King Charles and Prince William make rare joint appearance as major announcement made

King Charles and Prince William attended a reception at the Natural History Museum in London to mark six weeks to go until world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 climate change summit

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5 d. ago William to attend Cop30 as he joins King in London ahead of climate change talks

The prince will represent his father at the UN Conference of the Parties (Cop) summit in Brazil next month.

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7 d. ago Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism

Catherine McKenna’s memoir delves into thorny parts of being in office including death threats and being referred to as ‘climate Barbie’Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way? Catherine McKenna, formerly the Canadian minister for environment and climate change, borrows this analogy for the climate crisis from a colleague to argue that we need to use “all the tools at our disposal” to tackle devastating danger that is already with us.McKenna has recently published Run Like a Girl, which documents her time in government, among other things. Peppered with inspirational quotes, personal photos and campaign memorabilia, Run Like a Girl isn’t a straightforward memoir. She wrote it for “women and young people who want to make change”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Nigel Farage's Reform compared to 1930s fascists by Michael Heseltine in scathing attack

Tory grandee Michael Heseltine likened Nigel Farage's Reform UK to fascist groups of the 1930s and lashed out at Kemi Badenoch's 'unforgivable' climate change plans

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8 d. ago Tiny Caribbean island accuses Netherlands of failing to protect it from climate change

They say summers have transformed their homes into ‘prisons of concrete’

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