4 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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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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1 week ago The Guardian view on climate policy: Britain needs clean power, not culture wars | Editorial

Kemi Badenoch’s plan to scrap the Climate Change Act is reckless. Ed Miliband offers a bolder, fairer vision. The future must be built on renewablesLet’s scrap Britain’s successful climate law so we can burn more gas, lose investment and have higher bills. Crazy as it might seem, that is the message of Kemi Badenoch’s new energy strategy. The Conservative leader proposes to repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act in favour of a plan to “maximise oil and gas extraction”, and remove all legally binding carbon targets. It’s pitched as pragmatism. But it’s a lurch into ideological self-harm.Britain’s energy problem isn’t its climate legislation, which is admired globally, backed by industry and supported by the public. It’s that this country remains too dependent on volatile fossil fuels. Emissions targets are not the reason for high bills. It is gas prices, which skyrocketed after Russia invaded Ukraine. They set UK electricity prices. In Europe, they don’t – that’s why bills are lower...

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1 week ago Tory war of words erupts as Theresa May hits out at Kemi Badenoch's 'catastrophic' climate plan

The Tory war of words erupted as the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she would axe the world-leading Climate Change Act first introduced by the last Labour government

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1 week ago MAGA comes for the ‘woke pope’ after pontiff blesses block of ice in climate change gesture

The American pontiff asked world leaders to ‘act with courage’ to fight climate change, embracing his predecessor’s environmental legacy

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2 w. ago Trump now says there was ‘triple sabotage’ as he demands investigation into UN escalator glitch

President rants about ‘three very sinister events’ he says he suffered during visit to body’s headquarters on Tuesday to tell world leaders Europe is ‘going to hell’ and climate change is a ‘scam’

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3 w. ago Trump savages Labour at UN: President blasts Starmer's policies and says Europe is 'going to hell' over migration

The US President took no prisoners as he roared past his allotted 15 minutes to reprimand leaders everywhere for uncontrolled migration, climate change and war.

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3 w. ago 'Green scam': At UN, watched by drowning nations' leaders, Trump assails the ethos of climate change

In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental issues

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3 w. ago Military Museum Scotland that hosts Battle of Waterloo artefacts warns of looming closure as future uncertain

Charity behind award-winning museum planning to close doors this winter

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3 w. ago World, business leaders hope to keep momentum in fight against climate change despite US

Hundreds of world and business leaders are gathering to keep the fight against climate change alive

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3 w. ago Gatwick expansion gets green light while Britons told to change habits to combat climate crisis, Polanski fumes

People will ‘see the contradictions’ in Labour’s approach to climate change, the Green Party leader warned

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3 w. ago ‘Climate is the blood that bleeds through everything’: Author Abie Daré on winning the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize

The Independent’s Climate 100 List recognises leading environmental campaigners and change makers helping to tackle the climate crisis. Despite not setting out to write on the climate, the British Nigerian author realised it’s an issue that affects everything. She speaks to Emma Henderson

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3 w. ago The Guide #209: Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel and the battle for the future of late

In this week’s newsletter: Once the preserve of backslapping celebrity interviews and inoffensive segments, late-night TV is now in Trump’s sights – giving its hosts unprecedented political weightIf nothing else, the Trump administration’s assault on late-night talkshows is creating some proper old-school water cooler TV. The first thing I did this morning was fire up YouTube and watch Jon Stewart’s monologue on last night’s Daily Show. Stewart usually only does the Monday edition, but he had made an exception in the wake of ABC’s decision, at the encouragement of the Federal Communications Commission and its Trump acolyte head, Brendan Carr, to indefinitely sideline Jimmy Kimmel. Stewart’s midweek appearance, then, was an event – and one that didn’t disappoint.Set to the images of soldiers saluting and American flags billowing in the wind, the opening voiceover trumpeted the “all-new, government-approved Daily Show, with your patriotically obedient host Jon Stewart”. Cue Stewart, h...

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