Friday briefing: How a grassroots film is turning climate anxiety into action
Environment | The Guardianby Libby Brooks·13d ago
Good morning. Here we are, stumbling into an oddly warm autumn and with the aftermath of a ceaselessly dry summer all around us in our parched parks and fire-ravaged forests.
Gavin Newsom condemns Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’, predicts Trump’s downfall and expects AOC to run in 2028
Environment | The Guardianby Mark Hertsgaard·14d ago
It’s a mistake for Democratic politicians not to talk about climate change, and the reason they don’t is “because they don’t know how to talk about it”, the California governor, Gavin Newsom, said...
‘Cash to trash’ levy on house developers too low to offset damage to Norfolk Broads, say critics
Environment | The Guardianby Sandra Laville·14d ago
A new levy on developers to allow almost 16,000 homes to be built in the environmentally protected Norfolk Broads has been cut by tens of thousands of pounds per house, the Guardian can reveal.
Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045
Environment | The Guardianby Fiona Harvey Environment editor·15d ago
Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, has committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045, despite fierce debate about its green policies.
At Climate Week, Elmo recalls a storm on Sesame Street: ‘Courage is when you still help others’
Environment | The Guardianby Oliver Milman in New York·15d ago
A generation of political leaders has failed to galvanize sufficient action on the climate crisis for so long now that it was perhaps little surprise that an audience in New York City turned to a...
Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter
Environment | The Guardianby Open letter·15d ago
We the undersigned write this letter out of great fear and great hope. Over the last few months, we’ve seen the world set ablaze by both war and warming.
Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action
Environment | The Guardianby Fiona Harvey Environment editor·15d ago
Fears are mounting that the next UN secretary general will downgrade the priority of the climate crisis, according to climate and civil society experts.
Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
Environment | The Guardianby Oliver Milman in New York·16d ago
For one last time, António Guterres tried to fix the world’s gaze upon the dangerously escalating climate crisis.
‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours
Environment | The Guardianby Pippa Neill Environment reporter·16d ago
Thousands of farmers have been left empty-handed with the government’s 2026 nature funding spent in just six hours.
Could you be an ‘autumn spotter’? Public asked to track changing colours of trees in England
Environment | The Guardianby Matthew Pearce·16d ago
The reds and golds of autumn leaves may be beginning to appear, but exactly when the season arrives is not always as predictable as the calendar might suggest.
Wasp spider seen in north of England latest ‘climate refugee’ amid global heating
Environment | The Guardianby Donna Ferguson·16d ago
She is an unlikely harbinger of the climate emergency: a venomous black and yellow spider who spins mysterious patterns in her webs and eats her mates for breakfast.
Intergenerational report underplays effect of climate crisis on Australia’s future, experts say
Environment | The Guardianby Donna Lu Assistant editor, climate, environment and science·16d ago
An Australian government snapshot of life in 40 years has been sharply criticised for underplaying the economic and social damage expected due to the worsening climate crisis.
Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid
Environment | The Guardianby Petra Stock·16d ago
Sunshine and wind met 80.4% of demand on Australia’s main power grid on Saturday, setting a new high bar for renewable electricity.
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
Environment | The Guardianby Oliver Milman·17d ago
The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual...
Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
Environment | The Guardianby Danielle Beurteaux·17d ago
The caribou of Quebec are at breaking point. The province, home to 15% of Canada’s population of woodland caribou, has seen numbers crash to about half of what they were a decade ago.
‘Incredibly encouraging’: healing the scars of traditional anchors in Dorset’s seagrass meadows
Environment | The Guardianby Steven Morris·17d ago
One of the UK’s most precious underwater habitats – Dorset’s seagrass meadows – is recovering thanks to “eco moorings” designed to prevent the seabed being ripped up, a study has revealed.
‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge
Environment | The Guardianby Michael Sainato·18d ago
For 38 years, Josh Armes worked as a coal miner in West Virginia and Virginia. After retirement, Armes, 74, of Grundy, Virginia, was diagnosed with black lung disease, medically known as coal...
Sea dragon populations decimated in ‘mind-blowing’ mass mortality event caused by South Australian algal bloom
Environment | The Guardianby Petra Stock·18d ago
Thousands of sea dragons, pipefishes and seahorses died during South Australia’s devastating algal bloom, in what ecologists say is the worst mass mortality event for the fish family globally.
US wheat farmers navigate uncertainty amid drought and geopolitical chaos
Environment | The Guardianby Debbie Carlson·20d ago
Wheat prices are at their highest level in three years, which means farmer Merrill Nielsen should be getting more for his crops out of his 2,500-acre (1,010-hectare) Kansas farm.
MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds
Environment | The Guardianby Sandra Laville Environment correspondent·20d ago
Andy Burnham is under further pressure to take control of ailing Thames Water from a cross-party group of MPs who are calling for ministers to break off talks with the US hedge funds who are...
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