2 h. ago Brussels sprouts shortage: Brits face huge prices for Christmas dinner essential

Farmers say the impact of climate change means crops of broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts will all be reduced and prices could rise this Christmas

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22 h. ago More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate

Workers say the firm’s ‘warp-speed’ approach fuels pressure, layoffs and rising emissionsMore than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter expressing “serious concerns” about AI development, saying that the company’s “all-costs justified, warp speed” approach to the powerful technology will cause damage to “democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.”The letter, published on Wednesday, was signed by the Amazon workers anonymously, and comes a month after Amazon announced mass layoff plans as it increases adoption of AI in its operations. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago ‘Deeply disappointing’: Experts slam Cop30 for ignoring climate’s impact on food supply

The Cop30 decision failed to mention the food industry despite the sector being responsible for one third of emissions. Nick Ferris reports

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42 h. ago How food on our supermarket shelves is driving destruction of Amazon rainforest

The COP30 climate change summit in Brazil highlighted the importance of the Amazon to us all

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47 h. ago Chris Packham urges MPs to ‘listen to the science’ on climate change

The TV presenter and naturalist made his remarks during a speech at an ’emergency climate change summit’.

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68 h. ago Protests, tears and a baby: five key images that tell the story of Cop30

Emotions ran high at the UN climate summit in Brazil, which was hit by its first major protest in four yearsIt was a tense moment. A group of about 50 people from the Munduruku, an Indigenous people in the Amazon basin, had blocked the entrance to the Cop30 venue in protest, causing long lines of delegates to snake down access roads, simmering in the morning heat.The Munduruku, unhappy about the ruination of their forest and rivers by industry and their lack of voice at Cop30, demanded to speak to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president. Instead, they got André Corrêa do Lago, the president of the talks. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The village enduring climate catastrophe as Trump’s aid cuts bite

Nick Ferris visits families forced from their home due to flooding in Ethiopia’s northern Afar region – who say they have been largely deserted by humanitarian organisations as aid cuts have taken hold this year

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4 d. ago Giant hail batters Australia as spring storm leaves tens of thousands without power

Brisbane records hailstones as large as 14cm overnight

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4 d. ago It was my late mother’s birthday – and I spent it exactly as she would have wanted | Zoe Williams

I worried about nuclear war throughout my childhood, partly because it was the 80s, and partly because we were always demonstrating against it. On this important day, I knew where I needed to be ...It would have been my late mother’s birthday last Monday, and because I am either astronomically stupid or fathomlessly wise, I elected to spend it at a public meeting about nuclear disarmament. I’d call it a blast from the past, except I feel superstitious about introducing explode-y words too near the nuclear topic.I spent my entire childhood worrying about nuclear war, partly because it was the 80s, and everyone did, and partly because we spent our lives demonstrating against it. We had “Protest and Survive” stickers everywhere, in droll parody of the public information booklet “Protect and Survive”, along with “Nuclear Power? No Thanks”. We were also early adopters of climate change anxiety, while fiercely against the closure of coalmines. If you’re wondering where we expected to get ...

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4 d. ago Here's what's next in the fight to curb climate change, now that talks in Brazil have ended

Experts have mixed reactions to the recent U.N. climate talks in the Amazon

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5 d. ago Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther

The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hopeGenevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate SilenceThe 30th conference of the parties (Cop30), the annual climate summit of all nations party to the UNFCCC, just ended. Stakeholders are out in the media trying spin the outcome as a win. Simon Stiell, climate change executive secretary for the UN is, for instance, praising Cop30 for showing that “climate cooperation is alive and kicking, keeping humanity in the fight for a liveable planet”. But let us be clear. The conference was a failure. Its outcome, the decision text known as the Global Mutirão or Global Collective Effort, is, in essence, a form of climate denial.In 2023, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) determined that the world had already developed, or planned to develop, too much fossil fuel to be able to halt global heating at 2C. It ackn...

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5 d. ago We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight | Ed Miliband

For all its flaws, the Brazil conference underlined the wish by a global majority for clean energy and climate action – and the UK will keep leading the wayEd Miliband is the secretary of state for energy security and net zeroSweaty, maddening, sleepless. That’s what it was like to be part of Cop30 in Brazil. And yet more than 190 countries came together in the rainforest of the Amazon and reaffirmed their faith in multilateralism, the Paris agreement and the need to redouble our efforts to keep global warming to 1.5C.We went to Cop because working with other countries to tackle the climate crisis is the only way to protect our home and way of life. We know the UK produces just 1% of emissions, which is why, as the prime minister said in Belém, our government is “all-in” on working with others to reduce the remaining 99%.Ed Miliband is Labour MP for Doncaster North and secretary of state for energy security and net zero Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Cyclone Fina cuts power and damages homes across northern Australia

Thousands left in the dark as damaging winds, flash floods and a second major storm batter two states

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6 d. ago A lack of leadership proved to be the ultimate stumbling block for Cop30

Multilateralism survived another year at Cop30 in Brazil - but the outcome was far below the level of ambition that is needed to address the climate crisis

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6 d. ago COP30 climate talks in Brazil ‘reach tentative deal’ as negotiators overcome EU concerns

The European Union's climate commissioner said on Saturday that the proposed accord was acceptable

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6 d. ago Alaska Native villages have few options and little US help as climate change devours their land

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change

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6 d. ago Cop30 live: ‘Clown show’ talks run into overtime with no clarity on climate deal

Negotiations ran late last night, and as delegates begin to leave the outcome of the summit remains unclear Civil society campaigners from the developing world have accused the rich countries of spreading “duplicitous narratives” over their role in the Cop30 climate talks over the past fortnight.As the talks in Belém, Brazil, passed the deadline for their resolution on Friday, European countries indicated they would walk away from any deal that did not include a commitment for “roadmap” to phase out fossil fuels.The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new realityTen years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ending in Belém, Brazil, without decisive action, we can definitively say humanity has lost this bet. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Indian state faces rising bear attacks as officials authorise drastic measures

Forests in the Himalayan state report a surge in maulings as officials warn of shifting bear behaviour

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7 d. ago UN General Assembly chief says curbing climate change would make world more peaceful and safer

The president of the United Nations General Assembly says climate change is the biggest threat to world peace

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8 d. ago Cop30 draft omits any mention of fossil fuel transition plan as talks enter final hours

Negotiators face narrowing window to resolve some of summit’s most politically charged questions before scheduled close this weekend

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