3 d. ago SpaceX spaceship plunges to Earth after another fiery explosion

SpaceX were hoping for a better outcome on their eight test flight, but it all ended in disaster as several engines appeared to cut off and the Starship megarocket broke up in the sky

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5 d. ago Japan may declare ‘severe disaster’ as record wildfire burns for eighth day

Substantial rain broke a 15-day dry spell bringing hope for an early end to unprecedented fires

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1 week ago Hiscox takes £134m hit on LA wildfires after second year of record profit

The insurance group estimated that the broader insurance industry loss from the wildfires would be about 40 billion US dollars.

Economics

1 week ago Chilling warning tragic air disasters will carry on happening unless four steps are taken

Some 67 people died after an American Airlines passenger plane collided with an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the first of several air disasters recently

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1 week ago Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents unlikely this century, study finds

Climate scientists caution, however, that even weakened currents would cause profound harm to humanityVital Atlantic Ocean currents are unlikely to completely collapse this century, according to a study, but scientists say a severe weakening remains probable and would still have disastrous impacts on billions of people.The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a system of currents that plays a crucial role in the global climate. The climate crisis is weakening the complex system, but determining if and when it will collapse is difficult. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The US is destroying climate progress. Here’s a strategy to win over the right | Erin Burns

It’s time to rethink how climate action succeeds. The key is to acknowledge that it’s never the sole force driving political decisionsWe are witnessing the most devastating climate disasters on record: wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, deadly floods in North Carolina, and global temperature records shattered month after month. We have officially surpassed 1.5C of warming, a critical threshold scientists have long warned against. At the same time, the US is scaling back policies, freezing critical programs and shifting priorities away from climate action.But now isn’t the time to give up on climate action. Instead, it is high time to rethink how it succeeds. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot

The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zealIf the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the extreme and far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, the hard-right Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.But we cannot bank on it. The UK government must do all it can to prevent the disaster that has befallen several other European nations. If it fails to meet people’s needs and keeps echoing far-right talking points, we could go the same way as Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, Sweden and Austria.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Culture

2 w. ago Voices: The Delta Air Lines plane flip might be a crash too far for nervous flyers like me

A run of headline-hitting air disasters and, thanks to climate change, the increasing unpredictability and severity of turbulence is creating a new generation of anxious passengers, says Emma Clarke

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2 w. ago Voices: The Delta Airlines plane flip might be a crash too far for nervous flyers like me

A run of headline-hitting air disasters and, thanks to climate change, the increasing unpredictability and severity of turbulence is creating a new generation of anxious passengers, says Emma Clarke

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3 w. ago Extreme weather is our new reality. We must accept it and begin planning | Gaia Vince

As wildfires, floods, droughts and record-breaking temperatures have shown, the post-climate change era has arrived. Now we need honesty and action from our leadersNot yet a quarter of the way into this century and global average temperatures are already 1.75C above the preindustrial average. January 2025 was the hottest on record and has also set a record for the highest yearly minimum global surface temperature, and likely the highest minimum in the past 120,000 years. It is part of a clear pattern. Last year’s global average was 1.6C above the preindustrial – a sobering reality check, given that, only three months ago at the UN Cop29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, leaders were still declaring that limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C was within reach.We are firmly in the post-climate change world now, and the serious implications of this demand honest acknowledgment. The reality is that we are living now in a time of continual disasters that are unfolding alongside our slower, ...

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