1 hour ago Bill Gates hits back at Trump after climate memo response: ‘It’s a gigantic misreading’

The billionaire Microsoft co-founder also questioned climate scientists’ criticism of what he wrote: ‘What world do they live in?’

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3 h. ago Coffee, chocolate and wine could be wiped off the menu by climate change warn experts

Boffins are warning that global warming will kill off coffee, wine and chocolate and they even thought about sending reflective particles into the stratosphere to cool the Earth’s surface

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4 h. ago On eve of UN climate talks in Brazil, a call for less talking and more doing

World leaders and diplomats have gathered for 30 years to tackle climate change, but progress has been slow

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6 h. ago Air pollution in Amazon rainforest worse than big cities like London and Beijing, new data shows

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings

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6 h. ago The US hurricane season that wasn’t: Experts explain why we’ve had a lucky break

The Atlantic season wraps in under a month but no hurricanes have directly struck the contiguous U.S. in 2025

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8 h. ago ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisisIn 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage ($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains. Cities instituted water restrictions. That summer, unrelentingly hot temperatures killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and Yellowstone national park suffered the worst wildfire in its history.Amid the disaster, George HW Bush, then Ronald Reagan’s vice-president, met with farmers in Michigan reeling from crop losses. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, consoled them: if elected, he would be the environmental president. He acknowledged the reality of intensifying heatwaves – the “greenhouse effect”, to use the scientific parlance of the day – with blunt clarity: the burning of fossil fuels contr...

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16 h. ago It's beached Wales! Prince William has a ball on Rio's Copacabana as he goes barefoot for a sunset game of volleyball

The royal was joined by Cafu - the most capped Brazilian player ever - for his trip to the sporting arena, where they met children learning about the environment and climate change

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20 h. ago Prince William has a ball on Rio's Copacabana as he goes barefoot for a sunset game of volleyball

The royal was joined by Cafu - the most capped Brazilian player ever - for his trip to the sporting arena, where they met children learning about the environment and climate change

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20 h. ago More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn

Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20More than $70tn (£53tn) of inherited wealth will pass down the generations across the world over the next decade, widening inequality and highlighting the need for intervention by the G20 group of leading nations, a group of economists and campaigners have warned.In a report ahead of the G20 meetings in Johannesburg, hosted by the South African government later this month, the expert panel said the gap in global wealth between rich and poor will widen over the next decade without a permanent monitoring group such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Prince William given keys to city of Rio de Janeiro as he arrives for Earthshot awards

The Prince of Wales is starting a five-day visit to Brazil to stage his Earthshot Prize and attend the Cop30 UN climate change summit

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22 h. ago Prince William praises inspirational young leaders during poignant engagement in Brazil

The Prince of Wales has told young people in Brazil that he wants to harness their 'courage and passion' for climate change, with the Earthshot Prize to 'be their legacy'

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25 h. ago Away from Brazil’s ‘forest’ Cop30 – the fate of the Congo Rainforest hangs in the balance

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has opened bids for oil and gas drilling across huge swathes of the country, raising fears that the world’s last great rainforest carbon sink could be destroyed, Nick Ferris reports

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26 h. ago Prince William given keys to city of Rio de Janiero as he arrives for Earthshot awards

The Prince of Wales is starting a five-day visit to Brazil to stage his Earthshot Prize and attend the Cop30 UN climate change summit

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27 h. ago Sadiq Khan uses Rio speech to rekindle war of words with 'climate wrecker' Donald Trump

London mayor makes 12,000-mile round trip to Brazil - his fifth foreign visit of 2025 - after clocking up £84,000 bill in Africa

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36 h. ago Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal

Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty processExxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty processThe documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between the Texas-based fossil fuel company and Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks and other partners worldwide. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Who decides how we adapt to climate change? | Leah Aronowsky

The question is not whether we will reshape our institutions to manage climate impacts, but howFor decades, “stopping climate change” has been the singular goal of climate politics. Across the political spectrum, from grassroots climate campaigners to elite UN negotiators, reducing carbon emissions to avoid future catastrophe has been the organizing logic of climate policies.Yet climate change has arrived and its material impacts are already being felt. This means that climate politics can no longer focus only on preventing future catastrophes. It must now also encompass struggles over how society manages climate impacts already reshaping economic and social life. Insurance markets, housing, water and land use policies, national labor markets, and local economies – all will need to be radically remade as we adapt to a changed and increasingly volatile climate.Leah Aronowsky is a historian of science and assistant professor at the Columbia Climate School Continue reading...

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3 d. ago How climate change fuelled Hurricane Melissa – and why it is only going to get worse: ‘This is our new normal’

Jamaica contributes barely anything to global carbon emissions, yet has been rocked by devastation that could take it decades to recover from, reports Maira Butt

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3 d. ago Why US is skipping COP30 summit in Brazil — to the relief of some world leaders

A White House official said "the tide is turning" on prioritizing climate change

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4 d. ago Climate change advocates face humiliation as scientists warn saving the ozone layer will backfire?

A surprising new study has revealed how 40 years of work to repair the ozone layer may end up causing its own climate change emergency that no one saw coming.

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4 d. ago North Lanarkshire councillors formally approve purchase of 18 new minibuses

North Lanarkshire Council’s environment and climate change committee acknowledged the purchase of the 32-seat vehicles from Woodall-Nicholson Limited, which trades as Mellor Bus Limited, at a cost of £2.6 million.

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