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Planet-heating pollutants in atmosphere hit record levels in 2023

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:00:26 +0000

Carbon dioxide concentration has increased by more than 10% in just two decades, reports World Meteorological Organization

The concentration of planet-heating pollutants clogging the atmosphere hit record levels in 2023, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said.

It found carbon dioxide is accumulating faster than at any time in human history, with concentrations having risen by more than 10% in just two decades.

Miscarriages due to climate crisis a ‘blind spot’ in action plans – report

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:00:24 +0000

The harm to babies and mothers is one of the warnings being sent to Cop29 decision-makers by leading scientists

Miscarriages, premature babies and harm to mothers caused by the climate crisis are a “blind spot” in action plans, according to a report aimed at the decision-makers who will attend the Cop29 summit in November.

Santos sued by its own shareholder in world-first greenwashing case

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:43:36 +0000

Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility alleges Santos’s plan to reach net zero by 2040 is ‘little more than a series of speculations’

Reeves urged not to cut Sellafield funds amid concern at rise in ‘near misses’

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:00:23 +0000

GMB raises safety concerns amid rumours of budget cuts across sites and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Rachel Reeves has been urged not to carry out mooted funding cuts for nuclear sites including Sellafield amid safety concerns, as it emerged that the number of incidents where workers narrowly avoided harm had increased at the Cumbrian site.

Pollutants from gas stoves kill 40,000 Europeans each year, report finds

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 05:00:21 +0000

Study says harmful gases linked to heart and lung disease shave nearly two years off a person’s life

Gas stoves kill 40,000 Europeans each year by pumping pollutants into their lungs, a report has found, a death toll twice as high as that from car crashes.

‘Danger in my back yard’: residents in a wildfire-prone California town eye more Yosemite tourism with unease

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:00:04 +0000

As a new glamping development seeks to open in the region hammered by extreme weather, Mariposa locals are fighting back

Kathleen Armstrong saw the smoke curling above the tree-covered horizon and turned on her scanner with bated breath. Mariposa was on fire again. It was the Fourth of July, a high-risk time in the California mountain town near Yosemite national park that had already seen its fair share of emergency evacuations.

Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists say

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:00:06 +0000

Pledge signed by experts from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have cut emissions

Carbon offsets used by corporations around the world to lower their reportable greenhouse gas emissions are “ineffectual” and “hindering the energy transition”, according to more than 60 leading climate change scientists.

A pledge signed by scientists from nine countries, including the UK, the US and Australia, said the “only path that can prevent further escalation of climate impacts” was “real zero” and not “net zero”.

High-flying life of Australia’s birds revealed in new detail – thanks to weather radars

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:00:04 +0000

Researchers gain deeper understanding of bird migration in study that could have ‘profound’ implications for windfarms

From plastic bags to shoelaces, the art in this California show is made entirely of trash

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:00:03 +0000

The Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco has curated a show of ‘alchemized’ toothpaste caps, zip ties, broken computer keys and perfume spray tubes

As a young artist, Miguel Arzabe visited art shows around the US to learn from others’ work. But his biggest source of inspiration were the exhibit catalogues. Fascinated by the documents, he decided to make his own work out of the books themselves.

Own some coal from the Titanic: rare shipwreck artefacts go on sale

admin — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:00:01 +0000

A haul of 8,000 items from 150 shipwrecks – including the Titanic and Henry the VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose – is to be auctioned after the closure of a Cornish museum

They are some of the most evocative historic artefacts that fate ever consigned to the bottom of the sea. Now, coal from the Titanic, a piece of rope from the Mary Rose and musket flints from the shipwreck that inspired William Wordsworth to write one of his greatest works are to be sold at a very rare auction.