2 h. ago Mosquitoes are bringing West Nile virus to major US metros. Here’s how to fend them off

Climate change is making conditions ripe for the spread of mosquito-borne illness

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7 h. ago Climate change fuelling spread of deadly fungal infections, study warns

Fungal infections, long neglected by global health policy, could spark major public health crisis in coming decades

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11 h. ago Climate expert: We’re talking about global warming ‘in the wrong way’

Extreme weather is the way in which most people experience climate change and it hits the most vulnerable hardest, Friederike Otto said.

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28 h. ago Lauren Sanchez sparks uproar after preaching about climate change just weeks after blasting off into space

The businesswoman, who is gearing up to the billionaire Amazon founder in the summer, spoke enthusiastically in a new video about 'tackling climate change.'

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29 h. ago Finding Nemo now even trickier as climate change shrinks iconic species of fish

Clownfish, the inspiration for the 2003 hit animation Finding Nemo, are shrinking to cope with soaring sea temperatures caused by climate change

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32 h. ago Activists accuse major bank of suppressing protest over controversial African oil pipeline

The 11 activists, who are still detained in prison, are the latest arrests of protesters against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

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32 h. ago AI is already beating traditional forecasters when it comes to predicting weather

Researchers say Aurora consistently produces faster forecasts than traditional models and, in many cases, offers greater accuracy

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32 h. ago ‘Global red alert’: Wildfires drive record forest loss in 2024, alarming data reveals

Fires emitted 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases, more than four times the emissions from all commercial air travel in 2023

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38 h. ago No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair

Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach challengesAccording to Rebecca Solnit, a lot of us are suffering from something called moral injury. She describes this as the “deep sense of wrongness” that can infiltrate our lives when we realise we are complicit in something seriously bad.The first time I experienced this in relation to climate change, I was changing my baby’s nappy soon after one of the worst Australian wildfire seasons on record in 2020. The nappy featured a smiling cartoon koala on the front. I immediately recalled the scene of a singed, parched koala being fed water from a plastic bottle by a human as it fled the inferno. A disposable nappy takes up to 500 years to decompose. I felt disgust and despair at the degree of consumption, waste and exploitation that even a modest lifestyle in a high-income country seems to entail. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago Habitat loss and climate change make it tough to be an amphibian. Some humans are helping

It's not easy being an amphibian

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55 h. ago Global clean energy goals at risk as China tightens grip on key minerals, IEA warns

Asian giant controls over half of world's refining capacity for lithium, cobalt and rare earths

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56 h. ago Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’

Over breakfast at Tom’s Restaurant, right below the historic Giss lab, James Hansen calls Doge’s decision a ‘big mistake’Perched above the New York City diner made famous by the TV show Seinfeld, Tom’s Restaurant, a small research laboratory became, improbably, crucial to humanity’s understanding of our changing climate and of the universe itself.Now, it is being shut down by Donald Trump’s administration. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Delhi’s ‘real feel’ temperature hits 48.5C as humidity fuels heat stress

Indian capital’s heat index hits 48.5C as rising humidity and hot nights push it into ‘very high risk’ territory.

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63 h. ago EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn

Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilienceClimate breakdown and wildlife loss are deepening the EU’s “chocolate crisis”, a report has argued, with cocoa one of six key commodities to come mostly from countries vulnerable to environmental threats.More than two-thirds of the cocoa, coffee, soy, rice, wheat and maize brought into the EU in 2023 came from countries that are not well-prepared for climate change, according to the UK consultants Foresight Transitions. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Watchdog urges Scotland to take action after repeatedly missing climate targets

Climate Change Committee says original goal of a 75% emissions cut by 2030 will now be delayed by up to six yearsThe UK’s climate watchdog has warned that Scotland needs to take “immediate action at pace and scale” to cut its emissions after ministers axed a series of policy pledges.The Climate Change Committee (CCC), an official advisory body, said ministers in Edinburgh needed to take urgent action to curb emissions from buildings and transport to cut Scotland’s overall emissions to nearly zero by 2045.Abandoned a target to cut car miles by 20% by 2030.Dropped a pledge to rapidly decarbonise homes by mandating low-carbon heating systems.Cut funding for tree planting.Missed targets to restore degraded peatland.Ignored calls for a plan to cut meat and dairy consumption, and failed to use their powers to tax air travel more heavily. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Only strong action on emissions can restore economic stability, UN climate chief says

Simon Stiell says investors ‘ready to hit the go button’ if they have the right signals from governmentsThe climate crisis has raised the price of commodities and exacerbated famine – and only strong action on greenhouse gas emissions can restore economic stability, the UN’s climate chief has said.Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, was speaking in Panama, where recent years of drought drove the water to perilous lows that disrupted international trade. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘We can’t step back in time’: a new book about eco anxiety and climate change

University professor’s visit to ancestral lands in China unleashes waves of ‘eco anxiety’ and results in new book Red PocketsWhen university professor Alice Mah visited her family’s ancestral village for the first time in 2018, she knew it would not be a grand homecoming; her father’s lack of interest in ever making the trip to South China suggested that much. But what she did not expect was that it would unleash waves of eco anxiety which would follow her back to the UK, where she lives.Documented in her new book Red Pockets, Mah confronts her family’s past – the site where her ancestral home used to be, untended graves and the descendants of the villagers who remained. This presents her with a whole host of debts and the impossibility of ever really repaying them. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘There’s a lot we can’t undo’: how an author’s visit to ancestral home prompted a wave of eco anxiety

Alice Mah’s book explores cultural and ecological loss through the lens of a trip to south ChinaWhen Alice Mah, a university professor, visited her family’s ancestral village for the first time in 2018, she knew it would not be a grand homecoming. Her father’s lack of interest in ever making the trip to south China had suggested that much. But what she did not know was that it would unleash waves of eco anxiety that would follow her back to the UK.As documented in her new book Red Pockets, Mah confronts her family’s past – the site where her ancestral home used to be, untended graves and the descendants of the villagers who remained. This presents her with a whole host of debts and the impossibility of ever really repaying them. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Cambridge cows get GPS collars to stop them from falling into river

A firm that makes geofencing for livestock said animals are controlled by solar-powered GPS collars and an app.

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3 d. ago War and microplastics are new threat to bees, scientists warn

Report from University of Reading found Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left bees without diverse food

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