Climate change worsened rains and floods which killed dozens in southern Africa, study shows bostonherald.com
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Emergency pumps are deployed in attempt to stop water inundating homes around River Parrett
Since medieval monks started draining and managing the Somerset Levels, humans have struggled to live and work alongside water.
“At the moment it feels like a losing battle,” said Mike Stanton, the chair of the Somerset Rivers Authority. “Intense rainfall is hitting us more often because of climate change. It may be that in the next 50 years, perhaps in the next 20, some homes around here will have to be abandoned.”
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Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet
The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service artificial intelligence, according to a new forecast.
This year is set to shatter the annual record for new gas power additions around the world, with projects in development expected to grow existing global gas capacity by nearly 50%, a report by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) found.
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Southern Africa floods intensified by warming highlight climate injustice, scientists say Climate Home News
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PLANETWEST UNVEILS ADVANCED CARBON FIGHTING TECHNOLOGY MIDAC G2, TARGETING GLOBAL MEGACITIES TO ACCELERATE CLIMATE ACTION facilitiesmanagement-now.com
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Ahead of annual report, Climate Forum heads say even in wartime, they battle for change timesofisrael.com
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Netherlands' 10 hottest years all in this century; 2025 was exceptionally sunny, dry NL Times
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From Japan to China and the US to Scandinavia, heating with air conditioning has long been standard practice. But now warming homes with AC is catching on in other parts of the world.
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Nigerian farmers complaint that climate change is affecting staple food crops ZAWYA
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Signals are piling up: what’s brewing in the pacific suggests a more extreme climate phase ahead Futura, Le média qui explore le monde
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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change juancole.com
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Agriculture is both victim and contributor of climate change. Here’s how plant breeding can help turn the tide Genetic Literacy Project
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Climate change and La Niña made ‘devastating’ southern African floods more intense Carbon Brief
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Amid National Call to ‘Make Polluters Pay,’ Illinois Lawmakers Are Prepping a Climate Change Superfund Bill Inside Climate News
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University of Utah professor finds that ship fuel emissions might not impact climate change kslnewsradio.com
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Dutch Court Orders Netherlands to Protect Bonaire From Climate Change The New York Times
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Inside the Trump administration's effort to reverse climate change policies kuow.org
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New studies confirm minor flight re-routing to avoid contrails would have major climate benefits GreenAir News
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Monarch says he has remained focused despite early criticisms of his beliefs, in new film Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision
King Charles has revealed he “wasn’t going to be diverted” from his environmental campaigning despite criticism in the past in a new documentary showcasing his philosophy of “Harmony”.
In the Amazon Prime Video film, his first project with a streaming platform, Charles recalls past attacks on his outspokenness on the environment, saying: “I just felt this was the approach that I was going to stick to. A course I set and I wasn’t going to be diverted from.”
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Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis
The Dutch government discriminated against people in one of its most vulnerable territories by not helping them adapt to climate change, a court has found.
The judgment, announced on Wednesday in The Hague, chastises the Netherlands for treating people on the island of Bonaire, in the Caribbean, differently to inhabitants of the European part of the country and for not doing its fair share to cut national emissions.
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Why the weekend’s winter storm was even worse in a warming climate Scientific American
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People in south-west mop up after Storm Chandra and prepare for next bout of rain, with major incident declared
In the early hours, the Wade family’s boxer puppy began barking. Thinking it needed to be let out, they traipsed downstairs and opened the back door – to be greeted not by their neat garden but an expanse of water.
“It was like a sea out there,” said James Wade. Over the coming hours the water crept into their home on a modern estate in Taunton, forcing James, his wife, Faye, and their three children, six, 11 and 12, out and into emergency accommodation.
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Global Warming Caused the Winter Storms – Or Something Like That Unleash Prosperity
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Increased focus on climate adaptation and development should not sideline emissions reduction Carbon Trust
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Widespread discontent in Iran has sent millions of protesters into the streets. Poor environmental planning embodies one of the government's most existential vulnerabilities.
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How is US President Trump impacting global climate action? Amnesty International
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The State Duty Not to Approve New Fossil Fuels: Converging Science and Law Verfassungsblog
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Global exodus: How climate change is forcing hundreds of millions of people to relocate theins.ru
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These scientists say the world is closer than ever to ‘doomsday’ The Washington Post
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GUEST COLUMN: Of the Northwest Passage, of Global Warming, of Manifest Larceny calexicochronicle.com
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NZ’s sodden January explained: what’s driven this month’s big wet? The Conversation
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‘Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnight over nuclear weapons, climate change and AI nbcnewyork.com
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It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication
I know it’s almost impossible to turn your eyes away from the Trump show, but that’s the point. His antics, ever-grosser and more preposterous, are designed to keep him in our minds, to crowd out other issues. His insatiable craving for attention is a global-threat multiplier. You can’t help wondering whether there’s anything he wouldn’t do to dominate the headlines.
But we must tear ourselves away from the spectacle, for there are other threats just as critical that also require our attention. Just because you’re not hearing about them doesn’t mean they’ve gone away.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
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Kentucky’s Rural and Urban Communities Unite over Climate Change Reasons to be Cheerful
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America Officially Leaves the Paris Climate Agreement. For the Second Time. The New York Times
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Plastic pollution could double its harm to human health in the coming decades if current production trends continue, according to a new study that links rising risks directly to the manufacture of new plastics.
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Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina
Lucas Chiappe had known for a long time that the fire was coming. For decades, the environmentalist had warned that replacing native trees in the Andes mountain range with highly flammable foreign pine was a recipe for disaster.
In early January, flames raced down the Pirque hill and edged closer to his home in the Patagonian town of Epuyén, Argentina, where he had lived since the 1970s. Thirty people with six motor pumps fought for hours, hoses stretched for kilometres, but “there was no way”.
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‘We’re Rolling the Dice.’ What Climate Change Means for the Winter Olympics Time Magazine
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FACT FOCUS: As cold hits, Trump asks, where’s global warming? Scientists say it’s still here arkansasonline.com
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Major emitter the US has officially left the Paris Agreement and global emissions keep rising a decade on from the deal. Yet renewables' growth shows climate action can work. Here's what's been done and what's missing.
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Some are trapped in a vicious cycle: rising rents, rising energy bills and falling standards. But this is not inevitable
Australians are struggling through one of the most brutal heatwaves and hottest summers on record. Day after day, temperatures into the high 30s are turning homes into ovens, workplaces into hazards, and everyday tasks into endurance tests.
All of us are feeling it. But spare a thought for the millions of renters trying to survive this heat in homes that were never designed to cope with it.
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A Winter Storm Fueled by Global Warming Tests U.S. Disaster Response Inside Climate News
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Global population living with extreme heat to double by 2050 oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
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What’s up with all the snow in the Philly region? Climate scientists explain whyy.org
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Eco programme turned into a national scandal – but experts worry £15bn plan will prioritise green energy over insulating
No homeowner wants to be faced with a hefty bill for household repairs – and when those charges are the result of botched insulation under a UK government-run scheme, individual misfortune turns to national scandal.
That has been the experience of tens of thousands of households after what MPs have condemned as the “catastrophic failure” of the energy company obligation (Eco) insulation programme run by the last Conservative government, the results of which have only recently been uncovered.
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The Andaman Coast has one of the largest concentration of dugong in the world, so why are numbers falling dramatically and what can they tell us about a biodiversity warning cry
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Thailand’s Andaman Coast is home to one of the largest dugong populations in the world, with 273 of the plump marine mammals, sometimes called sea cows, estimated to be living there as of 2022. In recent years, though, more and more dead or stranded dugongs have been washing ashore. Now the Andaman Coast population may have fallen by more than half, experts say.
In late November, I travelled to Phuket, following in the footsteps of film-makers Mailee Osten-Tan and Nick Axelrod, who have been investigating Thailand’s dugong crisis over the past year for a new Guardian documentary.
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Sundance film festival: A cautionary new film, executive-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, warns of the devastating consequences if the Utah lake continues to disappear
The Sundance film festival kicked off its final edition on Thursday in Park City, the Utah ski enclave that has housed the independent film hub for more than four decades. Beginning in 2027, the festival will move to Boulder, Colorado, after a multi-year selection process that many assumed would end in Salt Lake City.
Utah’s largest city, a mere 30 miles from the festival, has long hosted extra Sundance events and served as its transit center. It’s a rapidly growing metropolitan area, a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts, a major US city – and, according to a new documentary that opened this year’s festival, facing an imminent ecological crisis.
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Global financing is heavily skewed to industries that harm rather than preserve nature, according to a new report that calls for an urgent scale-up of nature-positive spending.
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As climate and geopolitics shocks bite, countries are rebuilding food buffers. The UK clings to neoliberal ideas while households pay the price
Food policy across much of the world is changing. But not in Britain. That may be a costly mistake as the prices of essentials rise because of the climate emergency, geopolitical tensions and the fragility of just-in-time supply chains. Many capitals are now reviving their strategic food reserves. European nations such as Sweden, Finland, Norway and Germany are rebuilding stocks dismantled after the cold war. Climate shocks have led to Egypt and Bangladesh boosting similar programmes. Countries such as Brazil and Indonesia – sensitive to the food needs of their vast populations – are also expanding their reserves.
The UK, by contrast, has no substantial public food reserves. Its strategy rests almost entirely on global markets and private intentions – an approach shaped by decades of liberalised trade. Even in the event of war, the official advice focuses on households stockpiling essentials. In Britain’s view, food security is about prices, not scarcity of supply.
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For decades, researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ecosystems. Now a simple solution is proving successful.
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NASA sparks concern after report on rising temperatures omits climate Euronews.com
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We’ve ‘seriously underestimated’ how fast Earth is warming. Here’s why Euronews.com
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11-year streak of record global warming continues, UN weather agency warns UN News
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Underestimates in global warming pose major climate and financial risks, report shows Phys.org
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DW's Stuart Braun had a dangerously near miss during Australia's 2009 "Black Saturday" inferno. As this month's fires burned near his rural home, he wasn't taking any chances.
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The Scientists Making Antacids for the Sea to Help Counter Global Warming The New York Times
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The US has pledged to pull out of dozens of international organizations and treaties established to advance the protection of the planet. But it doesn't spell the end of environmental action.
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Climate change mitigation: reducing emissions European Environment Agency (EEA)
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As clean energy prices fall, a fast transition to renewable energy is the cheapest option on the table. Experts say it could save us trillions in energy costs alone.
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Trump quits pivotal 1992 climate treaty, in massive hit to global warming effort Politico
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Rich nations built their wealth on coal, oil and gas. Now the world is asking poorer countries like Mozambique to chart a different course.
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Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste? And why do single-use items still pile up in takeaway restaurants, shops and the environment?
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The northern and southern lights have been treating sky watchers to spectacular shows. But what causes the colors, and why shouldn't you whistle at the aurora?
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A strong majority of Americans say they're worried about the climate. So why do they hear so little about it in the news?
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The secondhand smartphone market has grown significantly in recent years, but other, bulkier items like washing machines are less frequently refurbished and resold. That could soon be changing.
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As climate change warms the planet, snowy winters are becoming less certain in Europe. Those looking for classic Christmas traditions are learning to adapt.
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The home-fitted renewable-energy sources are inexpensive and easy to install, and reduce electricity costs. Here's what can be learned from their surging popularity in Germany.
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Post-COP30, more aggressive policies needed to cap global warming at 1.5 C MIT News
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Donald Trump is pushing gas guzzlers over EVs — in spite of climate and cost concerns. China is now set to race further ahead into an electrified automotive future.
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Rising temperatures and extreme rainfall might not seem connected, but they often are. Here's how.
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European industrial and agricultural concerns are facing diluted environmental regulations, while the bloc as a whole has reduced its climate targets. What's at stake and how do far-right parties feature in the mix?
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Trillions of dollars could be gained every year and millions of lives saved from protecting the climate and environment, according to the UN. DW speaks to Inger Andersen about what might help us get there.
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Breaking the climate silence: Predictors of discussing global warming with family and friends Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
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Impact of Global Warming on Food Security: How does a 1°C increase in temperature affect levels of food insecurity? UN World Food Programme
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Little change in warming outlook for four years; new 2035 climate targets make no difference Climate Action Tracker
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The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. Now what? UNEP - UN Environment Programme
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New climate pledges do little to correct global warming projection, UN warns UN News
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Our planet is warming. Here’s what’s at stake if we don’t act now. World Wildlife Fund
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Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality Nature
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Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report Yale Climate Connections
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