Environment and Climate Change
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Austria, Luxembourg eye legal steps in EU nuclear energy row
Austria has said it’s willing to fight the notion of “green” nuclear power in court. Deutsche Welle The European Union…
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Peru oil spill after Tonga eruption an ‘ecological disaster’
The La Pampilla refinery has leaked over 6,000 barrels of oil after a tanker was hit by waves linked to…
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Ocean heat is at record levels, with major consequences
Typhoon Rai killed over 400 people in the Philippines; Hurricane Ida caused an estimated US$74 billion in damage in the…
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What to expect from the world’s sixth mass extinction
What does biodiversity loss mean for us and the environment? Alistair Walsh Deutsche Welle About 65 million years after the last…
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Farmers could be paid for post-Brexit ‘rewilding’ land changes
When the UK was part of the EU, farmers were given grants based on how much land they farmed. Claire…
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Time to give the ocean its own legal voice
While we debate how Aotearoa New Zealand can move towards a significantly decarbonised world, and how in doing so we…
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‘Real reasons to hope’ on climate action, says archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury has urged the public not to despair over the climate crisis as he said there are…
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Germany will ‘probably miss’ climate targets for 2022, 2023
Germany will probably miss its own climate targets in the coming two years, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said, while defending…
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This Year’s Record-Breaking Climate Disasters Usher In A Horrific New Normal
The extreme heat, devastating fires, deadly storms and floods we saw this year broke records — and the future only…
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It’ll take away our livelihoods’: Welsh farmers on rewilding and carbon markets
Teleri Fielden is suddenly very despairing. Tom Levitt The Guardian After skirting around the topic for the best part of…
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Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice
The biggest success of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to push doubt about climate science is that it forced…
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A Brief History of How Big Oil Outplayed Us All
Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. Naomi Orekses…
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Frankincense and myrrh have been revered since ancient times – but now they’re under threat
In the Bible, Matthew’s gospel tells us that the wise men “saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down…
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Book Review: Country is an urgent call to learn from Indigenous knowledges to care for the land
This line sits towards the concluding paragraphs of Country: Future Fire, Future Farming, by Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian activist and…
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How we can use the law to make the fashion industry fairer to women and the earth
Management had locked the doors. Authors The Conversation In the following years, women workers mobilised… How we can …
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Arctic heat record is like Mediterranean, says UN
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday verified the record, reported in the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June…
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