Twenty more plants and animals, including a type of waratah, have been added to Australia’s list of threatened wildlife. One ecological community – the King Island scrub complex ecological…Continue reading‘A symbol of our nation’: waratah among 20 more species added to Australia’s threatened wildlife list
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Bureau of Meteorology data showed average temperatures across the nation in August were 3.03˚C above the long-term average, easily beating the previous 2.56˚C record set in 2009. The 2024…Continue readingAustralia sweats through hottest August on record with temperatures 3˚C above average
The Durango Fire Protection District was repeatedly denied insurance coverage for the construction of its new downtown firehouse earlier this year because of the wildfire risk. “We literally are…Continue readingColorado’s wildfire risk is so high a fire department struggled to find insurance to build a new firehouse
A climate assessment report published in November 2022 by the Centre for Science and Environment, a public-interest research and advocacy organization based in New Delhi, analysed the first nine…Continue readingThe climate disaster strikes: what the data say
The New Zealand government has announced plans to introduce legislation by the end of this year to reverse the existing ban on offshore oil and gas exploration. This move…Continue readingNew Zealand government to reverse ban on offshore oil and gas exploration
Eni has received approval from Indonesian authorities for the plan of development (POD) for its Geng North (North Ganal PSC) and Gehem (Rapak PSC) fields, as well as the…Continue readingEni receives approval for Geng North and Gehem gas projects in Indonesia
ExxonMobil has said global oil demand will remain virtually unchanged by 2050 and warned that any move to curtail investment in fossil fuels would trigger a new energy price…Continue readingExxon says global oil use to remain robust and warns of supply shock
The Great Barrier Reef will continue to deteriorate, largely due to climate change, and the window to secure its future is rapidly closing. That is the sobering conclusion of…Continue reading‘Humanity is failing’: Official report warns our chance to save the Great Barrier Reef is fast closing
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have accused police of acting as “private security” for the UK’s biggest carbon emitter after dozens of pre-emptive arrests forced the cancellation of…Continue readingPolice acting as ‘private security’ for Drax power station, say climate activists
Costa Brava resorts in Spain’s north-east are struggling to cope with an influx of jellyfish as rising sea temperatures facilitate reproduction and drive species farther north. Between May and…Continue readingResorts on Spain’s Costa Brava struggle with invasion of jellyfish as seas warm
A 20-month prison sentence handed to a 77-year-old woman for a climate protest on the M25 is disproportionate, unjust and a waste of resources, the Green MP Carla Denyer…Continue readingJail term for climate protester, 77, is disproportionate
PFAS is a group of human-made chemicals used to resist heat, water, grease and stains, which are known as ‘forever chemicals’ as they don’t break down. Lead researcher and…Continue readingPFOS chemical pollution in platypuses
Eni has started gas production from the Argo Cassiopea field, the most important gas development project in Italy. The gas, coming from one of the four subsea wells drilled…Continue readingEni starts gas production from Argo Cassiopea field in Strait of Sicily
The time has come to accept that climate policy has failed, and that the 2015 landmark Paris agreement is dead. We let it die by pretending that we could…Continue readingThe overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the number of days with temperatures reaching 35 degrees Celsius in the world’s largest capital cities has surged by…Continue readingSeoul residents sweating with record ‘tropical nights’ weather
Protesters from Letzte Generation – Germany’s equivalent to Just Stop Oil – gained access on Thursday to airfields in areas near the takeoff and landing strips of Cologne-Bonn, Nuremberg,…Continue readingGerman climate activists stop air traffic after breaking into four airport sites
Climate activists acting under the banner “oil kills” have glued themselves to the tarmac and grounded flights across Europe as holidaymakers attempt to make summer getaways. In a wave…Continue reading‘Oil Kills’ protesters disrupt flights at airports across Europe in wave of action
Chevron and its partner TotalEnergies have started production from the Anchor project in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The partners sanctioned the deepwater oil project in December 2019…Continue readingChevron and TotalEnergies begin production from Anchor deepwater project
Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of fossil fuels. While this coal and gas is burned beyond our borders, the climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions affect us…Continue readingDug up in Australia, burned around the world—exporting fossil fuels undermines climate targets
Under a federal government scheme, people and businesses can undertake projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or store carbon, in exchange for financial rewards known as carbon credits. The…Continue readingIndustry push to earn carbon credits from Australia’s native forests would be a blow for nature and the climate
A massive wildfire blazed its way into Athens’ northeastern suburbs on Monday as hundreds of firefighters battled to contain it, forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes and…Continue readingAthens suburbs on fire as Greece calls on EU for help
Greece on Sunday was battling a spate of wildfires which have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people, as experts warn of more extreme weather conditions to come next…Continue readingGreece wildfires force hundreds to evacuate
The study found that compact cities, characterized by high density, mixed land use, and efficient public transportation, produce significantly lower carbon emissions. “Contrary to what we might initially think,…Continue readingResearchers highlight the carbon-saving potential of compact cities
The Brazilian government wants to develop the upper 435 miles (700km) of the Paraguay River into the Paraguay-Paraná hidrovia (waterway). In 2022 and 2023, preliminary licences were issued for…Continue readingPantanal waterway project would destroy a ‘paradise on Earth’, scientists warn
Hot weather inflamed by carbon pollution killed nearly 50,000 people in Europe last year, with the continent warming at a much faster rate than other parts of the world.…Continue readingHeat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year
The wildfire has already destroyed a third of the popular tourist town of Jasper — and officials say the flames could stay ablaze for months. The wildfire in Alberta,…Continue readingJasper National Park’s largest wildfire in a century destroys a third of Canadian town — and could continue for months
Seasonal change in the north is rapid and, for local people, summer marks a brief reprieve from months of bitter cold. But a heatwave that is currently hovering over…Continue reading‘It’s devastating’: summer in Canada’s Arctic region brings severe heatwaves
The Great Barrier Reef is under critical pressure, with warming sea temperatures and mass coral bleaching events threatening to destroy the remarkable ecology, biodiversity, and beauty of the world’s…Continue readingNew 400-year temperature record shows Great Barrier Reef is facing catastrophic damage, researchers warn
Less than half of stunned or injured birds survive a collision with a window, research has found, pushing up estimates that more than 1 billion birds may die each…Continue readingDeath toll for birds hitting buildings may be over 1 billion a year in US
A world where global mean surface temperature has increased 3°C will be characterized by widespread and intense heat stress, extreme weather events, ruptured and unproductive marine and terrestrial ecosystems,…Continue readingEarth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just & sustainable future
Saudi Aramco’s profits dipped in the last quarter after the world’s largest oil producer sold less crude and its refining margins weakened. Despite the drop in profits, Saudi Aramco…Continue readingSaudi Aramco profits dip as refining margins fall
A beach in north-east Scotland is eroding rapidly owing to climate change, leaving a town at risk of flooding and its centuries-old golf links crumbling into the sea. The…Continue reading‘This is climate change’: Scottish beach eroding by 7 metres a year
Halfway through the peak flood season, China has already experienced the highest number of significant floods since record keeping began in 1998, and the hottest July since 1961, authorities…Continue readingChina sees highest number of significant floods since records began
Minister of Transport Eamon Ryan today welcomed the publication of the new National Cycle Network (NCN) plan which sets out how Ireland will be criss-crossed with 3,500 km of…Continue readingNational Cycling Network will see 3,500km of safe bike corridors, connecting 2.8 million people in cities and towns
As global temperatures continue to rise, India is grappling with increasingly severe heat waves. As early as April, many Indian cities, including New Delhi, the capital, have experienced record…Continue readingExtreme heat in India: A crisis on the rise
Torrential rains in China have killed at least 30 people and left dozens more missing, state media said Thursday, as the country grinds through another summer of extreme weather.…Continue reading30 dead, dozens missing after torrential rain in central China
US oil and gas facilities are pumping out four times more planet-warming methane gas than estimated by regulators. Data published by the Environmental Defense Fund on Wednesday estimates leaks,…Continue readingUS emissions of planet-warming gas far exceed estimates
Global emissions of methane, a powerful planet-heating gas, are “rising rapidly” at the fastest rate in decades, requiring immediate action to help avert a dangerous escalation in the climate…Continue readingGlobal methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades
BP’s shareholders can expect a multibillion-dollar payout this year after the oil giant reported better than expected quarterly profits of almost $2.8bn (£2.2bn) and set out plans to develop…Continue readingBP to hand investors $7bn this year as it expands oil operations
Butterfly numbers are the lowest on record in the UK. Butterfly Conservation, which runs the Big Butterfly Count, sounded the alarm after this year’s count revealed the worst numbers…Continue reading‘Warning sign to us all’ as UK butterfly numbers hit record low
The punishing heat experienced around the Mediterranean in July would have been “virtually impossible” in a world without global warming, a group of climate scientists said Wednesday. A deadly…Continue readingMediterranean heat wave ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change: Scientists
A crushing drought in Sicily has withered fields of grain, deprived livestock of pasture land and fanned a spate of wildfires, causing damage already estimated at 2.7 billion euros…Continue readingDrought in Sicily threatens grain fields, animal herds
Thunderstorms and torrential rain brought another wave of violent floods Tuesday that caved in roads, crushed vehicles, pushed homes off their foundations and led to dramatic boat rescues in…Continue reading‘Apocalyptic’ floods in Vermont destroy homes as two dozen rescued by boat
Last week, a strong typhoon left a trail of destruction across the Philippines, Taiwan and China. Super Typhoon Gaemi began as a tropical storm but intensified rapidly, leaving at…Continue readingManila is reeling after a super typhoon—we must prepare fast-growing megacities for worsening disasters
Nickel has upended life on the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Halmahera and Obi. Over a decade the region has gone from modest ore exporter to the world’s foremost refiner…Continue readingCheap coal, cheap workers, Chinese money: Indonesia’s nickel success comes at a price
With thousands of species at risk of extinction, scientists have devised a radical plan: a vault filled with preserved samples of our planet’s most important and at-risk creatures located…Continue readingScientists propose lunar biorepository as ‘backup’ for life on Earth
A James Cook University report has revealed severe damage in about 80% of mangroves along the Great Barrier Reef, from Cairns to Gladstone. JCU TropWATER researcher Professor Norm Duke…Continue readingSurveys reveal vast mangrove damage along Great Barrier Reef
For the 2.3 million people who call this valley home, the dangerous elements are harder to ignore. When temperatures climb, shadeless streets are hot enough to cause second-degree burns…Continue readingLife at 115˚F (46˚C): a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink
A fast-moving wildfire has hit the town of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies, causing “significant” losses as firefighters work to hold back the flames. Located about 370km (230 miles)…Continue reading‘Our worst nightmare’: Raging wildfire hits western Canada town of Jasper
Woodside, the largest Australian oil and gas company, has agreed to buy a huge liquefied gas export terminal under construction in the United States, doubling down on demand for…Continue readingWoodside chases global LNG ‘powerhouse’ crown with latest deal
Permits to explore waters between South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania to establish new offshore gas wells have been approved by the federal government. Esso and Beach Energy are expected…Continue readingFederal government approves gas exploration permits in waters off South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania
Central China’s Henan Province has become ground zero for an ongoing deluge of rain that has hit the area stretching from Sichuan Basin to Huanghuai region, with multiple parts…Continue readingRecord-breaking rainfalls hit cities in C.China’s Henan
Flash floods in northern and southwest China have killed at least 20 people and left dozens missing, state media said Saturday, after a week of deadly downpours across the…Continue readingFlash floods across China kill at least 20, dozens missing
Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action…Continue readingFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Azerbaijan has accused the EU of treating the country as a “firefighter” by only committing to short-term gas deals despite asking the country to boost exports of the fuel…Continue readingAzerbaijan hits out at EU for failing to agree long-term gas deals
Deforestation at one of Indonesia’s largest nickel processing hubs is threatening an Indigenous group that is among the country’s last uncontacted tribes, rights groups allege. Deforestation is a longstanding…Continue readingNickel hub ‘apocalyptic’ for uncontacted Indonesia tribe, say NGOs
Kevin Jordan thought he would spend his retirement listening to the sound of the sea at his home on the Norfolk coast in eastern England. But his dream collapsed…Continue readingUK village fights to turn back tide of climate change
The demise of the Key Largo tree cactus is the first recorded case of sea level rise driving a local species to extinction in the United States. Tree cactus…Continue readingEulogy for a cactus
Conservation groups across England are seeing more malnourished bats, as wildlife experts warn the washout summer is driving down the insects, butterflies and moths they feed on. Groups across…Continue readingWhere are all the bats? – alarm as numbers fall in England
Unrelenting heat is blanketing swathes of southern and eastern Europe, with dozens of cities on red alert as scorching temperatures fuel wildfires, strain power grids, and make daily life…Continue reading‘It’s unbearable’: heat waves scorch southern and eastern Europe
Australia’s big four banks are in “complete violation” of commitments to the Paris climate accord by funding fossil fuel expansion even as their overall lending to the sector continues…Continue readingAustralia’s big banks lent $3.6bn to fossil fuel expansion projects in 2023
Canada is currently battling 575 active fires with more than 400 considered out of control. Around 9,000 people have been evacuated in northeastern Canada because of raging wildfires. Residents…Continue reading9,000 evacuated in northeast Canada due to wildfires
A proposal to create Germany’s biggest motorway has sparked a backlash, with critics fearful the “monstrosity” will increase climate-damaging emissions, worsen noise pollution and harm biodiverse habitats. The recommendation…Continue readingHighway to hell? Plan for Germany’s biggest motorway sparks anger
“A likely harbinger of a hyperactive season” was how CSU researchers characterized Beryl, which set numerous records on the way to its Texas landfall, including the earliest category 5…Continue readingAfter Hurricane Beryl’s destruction, climate scientists fear for what’s next
Brad Homewood describes his first steps into a maximum security facility, where he spent the first three weeks of a two-month jail sentence, as intimidating. “You’re in there with…Continue readingClimate activists have received months-long sentences. Are tougher laws eroding Australians’ right to protest?
Solar-panel supply globally is forecast to reach 1,100 gigawatts by the end of this year — three times more than demand, the International Energy Agency wrote in a report…Continue readingChina has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing
Chinese manufacturers seem to have made too many solar panels, according to the US, the European Union, and their allies. They’re now calling on Beijing to rein in the…Continue readingChina made so many solar panels that even its own grid can’t support all the energy produced
The oil major made the projections in its closely watched annual outlook as renewable power sources such as wind and solar fail to increase at a fast enough pace…Continue readingBP raises forecasts for oil and gas demand as clean energy switch slows
Shell said that its subsidiary Shell Trinidad and Tobago has taken a final investment decision (FID) on the Manatee gas project, located off the east coast of Trinidad and…Continue readingShell takes FID on Manatee gas project in Trinidad and Tobago
Las Vegas set a new record on Wednesday as it marked a fifth consecutive day over 115˚F (46˚C). The brutal milestone marks yet another record for the Nevada desert…Continue readingLas Vegas sets record for number of days over 115˚F amid its ‘most extreme heatwave in history’
On average, “the background extinction rate” will bump off about one species, per million species, per year. But what we’re seeing now is a bit more extreme. “If we…Continue readingLiving in a ‘mass extinction’
The Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland and one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, is on fire. Huge stretches of land resemble the aftermath of a battle, with…Continue readingDevastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’
A rolling series of protests has seen at least 26 people arrested – and more than 200 passenger trains cancelled – over a two-week period. Planned by Blockade Australia,…Continue readingBlockade Australia plans more climate protests disrupting Newcastle trains, saying disobedience is the only option
Despite a much publicized pause on the approval of liquefied natural gas terminals in the United States, a federal regulatory agency Thursday approved the construction of the nation’s largest…Continue readingFlouting Biden pause, agency OK’s largest LNG terminal in US
The research, published in Nature Communications, found that icefield-wide, rates of glacier area shrinkage were five times faster from 2015–2019 relative to 1948–1979. Additionally, 100% of glaciers mapped in…Continue readingMelting of Alaskan glaciers accelerating faster than previously thought, research suggests
Aramco has announced contracts totalling over $25bn to advance its gas expansion in Saudi Arabia, aiming for more than a 60% increase in sales gas production by 2030 compared…Continue readingAramco announces $25bn contracts to advance gas expansion in Saudi Arabia
Flash flooding and landslides swept away cars and houses, with at least one person known to have died, alongside widespread damage to transport infrastructure. Unsettled conditions persisted around the…Continue readingHeavy rain in Switzerland and Italy causes flooding
The laws, which have been passed in the majority of Australian states, have drawn international scrutiny. For example, global NGO, Human Rights Watch, found last year that the state…Continue readingBeware the criminalisation of environmental protest in Australia
Pembina Pipeline and its partner, Haisla Nation, have taken a positive final investment decision (FID) on the Cedar LNG project in British Columbia, Canada. The floating liquefied natural gas…Continue readingPembina and Haisla Nation take FID on $4bn Cedar LNG project in Canada
Wild boar in a European national park have been found to contain levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” nearly five-times higher than is allowed to be sold in meat…Continue readingNational park wild boar contain five-times more toxic PFAS than humans allowed to eat, study finds
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has given a company co-owned by Gina Rinehart approval to develop and operate up to 151 new coal seam gas wells in inland Queensland.…Continue readingGina Rinehart-backed company gets approval from Tanya Plibersek for coal seam gas project
A new and worrying way that large ice sheets can melt has been characterized by scientists for the first time. The research focuses on how relatively warm seawater can…Continue readingNew tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
A combined team of Earth scientists and climate specialists at the University of California San Diego and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has found via modeling that geoengineering…Continue readingMarine cloud brightening models show unexpected consequences of geoengineering
At least 97% of corals on a reef in the Great Barrier Reef’s north died during one of the worst coral bleaching events the world’s biggest reef system has…Continue reading‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events
The frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires has more than doubled worldwide over the past two decades as human activity has warmed the planet. The intensity of the 20…Continue readingExtreme wildfires doubled over past two decades: Study
Constraining the relationship between temperature and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (pCO2) is essential to model near-future climate. Here, we reconstruct pCO2 values over the past 15 million years…Continue readingContinuous sterane and phytane δ13C record reveals a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene
Regional authorities in Brazil on Monday declared a state of emergency as the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, faces “out of control fires,” according to a decree. The…Continue reading‘Out of control fires’ in Brazil wetlands spark state of emergency
Australians are among the most sceptical around the world that climate disruption is being caused by humans and that the costs of tackling it will be less than that…Continue readingOnly 60% of Australians accept climate disruption is human-caused, global poll finds
Nearly 2,000 children under five are dying every day from air pollution, which has overtaken poor sanitation and a lack of clean water to become the second biggest health…Continue readingAlmost 2,000 children die every day from air pollution, report finds