Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
Environment | The Guardianby George Monbiot·18h ago
Would you mind fixing the NHS? And while you’re at it, could you please build an anti-missile system in your garden?
Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company
Environment | The Guardianby Tina Vasquez with photographs by Kaoly Gutierrez·1d ago
It was 4pm and 90F (32C) when Carlos Vargas Moreno and other farm workers set out to weed a watermelon field in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on 19 July 2022.
‘Lawyers should be running to courts’ to stop coal approvals after landmark ruling, NSW MP says
Environment | The Guardianby Donna Lu, Lisa Cox, and Adam Morton·1d ago
A landmark decision in Australia’s first climate change high court case has been described as a clear message to governments and fossil fuel companies that exported greenhouse gas emissions “cannot...
More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate ‘seal’: ‘We’re the ones growing up in this world’
Environment | The Guardianby Neal Morton of the Hechinger Report·4d ago
As a student at a high school not far from Denver’s main airport, Anthony Muñoz wondered whether the jet fuel from airplanes flying above his campus was harming living things.
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
Environment | The Guardianby Pippa Neill Environment reporter·4d ago
The government quietly scrapped plans to prepare the countryside in England for wildfires, it has been revealed.
Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Environment | The Guardianby Pippa Neill Environment reporter·5d ago
British farmers are experiencing the worst bluetongue season on record, with the number of cases surpassing the past three years combined.
There is a way to look after people, the planet – and Britain’s growth. It’s what we call the ‘wellbeing economy’ | Jamie Driscoll
Environment | The Guardianby Jamie Driscoll·6d ago
You’ve just left school. What’s your future? I know a physics graduate making flat whites; a 30-year-old living in his childhood bedroom who feels like a failure; a lad in Blyth who turned down a...
US states and cities sue over Trump EPA’s repeal of emissions rules
Environment | The Guardianby Associated Press·7d ago
States and cities sued the Trump administration on Thursday for repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas.
The Colorado River is shrinking. What happens next?
Environment | The Guardianby Ben Tracy of Climate Central·7d ago
It was 42C (108F) degrees as we motored across Nevada’s Lake Mead in our rented pontoon boat. Colby Pellegrino with the Southern Nevada Water Authority wanted to show us something we shouldn’t have...
The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
Environment | The Guardianby Georgina Woods·7d ago
The Independent Planning Commission’s published reasons for approving the largest coalmine in New South Wales history in the context of mounting death, disaster and despair brought on by global...
Floating scarecrows: how Cornish fishers are stopping seabirds drowning in their nets
Environment | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham·8d ago
Bird-shaped kites and a floating scarecrow are being tested to try to stop endangered seabirds drowning in fishing nets.
The Guardian view on Lula v the Bolsonaros: the decision of Brazilian voters will affect us all | Editorial
Environment | The Guardianby Editorial·8d ago
Sunday’s election in Brazil could hardly be a clearer-cut choice – nor a closer call. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is neck and neck in the polls with Flávio Bolsonaro, the...
New UK gas and oil projects are a ‘no-brainer’, says EDF boss
Environment | The Guardianby Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent·8d ago
New oil and gas projects are a “no-brainer” that pose “no contradiction” to the net zero agenda, according to the head of EDF Energy.
California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise
Environment | The Guardianby Gabrielle Canon in San Francisco·8d ago
Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called “Kelvin wave”, a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the vast...
An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles
Environment | The Guardianby Donna Lu Assistant editor, climate, environment and science·8d ago
Australians are buying electric vehicles at record levels, with sales more than doubling year on year and occurring at a rate equivalent to one EV sold every 100 seconds.
EPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contract
Environment | The Guardianby Michael Sainato·9d ago
The union representing more than 8,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a lawsuit against the agency and administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday alleging the agency illegally...
Grizzly reality: US states grapple with uptick in encounters between bears and humans
Environment | The Guardianby Eric Berger·11d ago
Dan Thompson, supervisor of the large carnivore section of the Wyoming game and fish department, enjoys the field work of capturing mountain lions, wolves, black bears and grizzly bears to study...
New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
Environment | The Guardianby Evan Simon and Brad Racino of Floodlight·13d ago
New Jersey regulators issued their largest-ever fine against a datacenter on Tuesday following a recent Floodlight investigation with the Guardian that found DataOne’s facility in Vineland...
‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science
Environment | The Guardianby Petra Stock·13d ago
A small uncrewed vessel has embarked on a lap around Antarctica and may not return for months. The seven-metre craft, which looks like a large kayak in hi-vis orange, is expected to travel about...
Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US
Environment | The Guardianby Carey Gillam·13d ago
Sweden started ringing the alarm bell more than 20 years ago, calling for a ban on the weedkilling chemical paraquat in 2004.
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