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Why personal climate action matters – according to experts

Why personal climate action matters – according to experts

Your choices influence others. Changes you make for the climate are acts of solidarity.

05.02.2025 4

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Jack Marley

‘Sustainable’ aviation fuel and other myths about green airport expansion debunked

‘Sustainable’ aviation fuel and other myths about green airport expansion debunked

A third runway for Heathrow airport is not compatible with the UK’s climate targets.

30.01.2025 7

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Trump returns: nine things to expect for the climate

Trump returns: nine things to expect for the climate

Academics glean grim portents – and some continuities with supposedly pro-climate presidents of the past.

23.01.2025 10

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Why LA is on fire (it’s not just climate change)

Extreme heat, invasive plants and the demise of indigenous management have converged with disastrous results.

16.01.2025 6

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Rising desertification shows we can’t keep farming with fossil fuels

Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more extreme with the incessant rise of...

12.12.2024 3

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Why UN climate change summits are ‘fundamentally flawed’

Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the UN process for...

27.11.2024 4

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Cop29 so far: the good and bad news

Gradually, then suddenly is how Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt. The climate crisis could be on a similar trajectory. “It took a century...

20.11.2024 3

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Climate crisis: what Trump can (and can’t) do

Donald Trump will return to lead the world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gas. Neither Trump nor Kamala Harris made the climate crisis...

06.11.2024 4

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Wildlife, climate and plastic: how three summits aim to repair a growing rift with nature

By the end of 2024, nearly 200 nations will have met at three conferences to address three problems: biodiversity loss, climate change and plastic...

16.10.2024 4

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Fix the climate or appease the fossil fuel industry – we can’t do both

Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September. Coal emits more heat-trapping gas to the atmosphere...

09.10.2024 2

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Nature is adapting to climate change – why aren’t we?

Humanity may be no better prepared for the impacts of climate change today than in the 1970s. So says a new study led by Stanford University...

25.09.2024 8

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When did the climate crisis begin?

How old is the climate crisis? I was born in 1994, when the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere was measured at 360 parts per million; today it...

04.09.2024 3

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Will tornadoes and waterspouts thrive as Earth heats up?

Unusually warm waters off the coast of Sicily helped spawn a “waterspout” that sank a superyacht earlier this week, leaving several people dead or...

21.08.2024 1

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Can the Olympics survive the climate crisis?

The 2024 Olympic Games opened on the same week Earth recorded its hottest day ever. A different kind of record-breaking will be animating...

31.07.2024 2

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Why courts favour cars, not the climate

For planning to block a motorway encircling London, five Just Stop Oil activists were recently sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison. Just...

24.07.2024 3

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