3 d. ago Six pieces of data that give hope for the future of the climate

The world remains off-track from the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming rises to ‘well below’ 2C – but there remain grounds for hope as the international Cop30 gets underway. Nick Ferris reports from Belém, Brazil

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3 d. ago Six pieces of data to give hope about the future of the climate crisis

The world remains off-track from the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming rises to ‘well below’ 2°C – but there remain grounds for hope as the international COP30 gets underway. Nick Ferris reports from Belém, Brazil

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5 d. ago ‘We’ve planted the apple that fell on Newton’s head’: the artists striking back against the climate emergency

From cultivating a spiral-shaped orchard to finding lost glaciers and dressing up as a landmark bird, on 4 November artists around the UK will participate in Remember Nature, a day of activism to offer hope for the futureBack in 2015, well into the twilight of his life, the artist and activist Gustav Metzger decided to embark on one last big project. Best known as the inventor of auto-destructive art – a response, he said, to the destructive horrors of the Holocaust – Metzger had also, over the course of a long career, been an inspirational teacher to Pete Townshend of the Who and campaigned for numerous causes including nuclear disarmament and vegetarianism. Now, on a video message barely three minutes long, he was making one final plea.“I, Gustav Metzger, am asking for your participation in this worldwide call for a day of action to remember nature on November 4th, 2015,” he began, appealing to creatives to take a stand against the ongoing erasure of species. “Our task is to remin...

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9 d. ago Radio Free Asia suspends news operations amid cuts and US government shutdown

RFA will begin closing overseas bureaus, as well as laying off and paying severance to staff members, with the hope that it could return in the futureRadio Free Asia (RFA) has said it is suspending its news operations due to the US government shutdown and the Trump administration’s cuts to government-funded news services.“RFA has been forced to suspend all remaining news content production – for the first time in its 29 years of existence,” said Bay Fang, RFA’s president and CEO, in a statement. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sharing happy moments may boost health of older couples, study finds

Academics in the US analysed data from three pieces of research that included 321 couples in Canada and Germany aged between 56 and 89.

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2 w. ago ‘Real hope’ for future of wildcats after another 18 released in Highlands

Experts said some of the animals previously released into the wild have produced kittens.

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2 w. ago Jess Phillips on getting teary at Pride of Britain and hope for the future of politics

Speaking exclusively with the Mirror at tonight's star-studded Pride of Britain Awards, Jess Phillips MP about why the very special ceremony always leaves her in floods

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