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US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:00:11 +0000

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found.

‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:00:11 +0000

A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems

Every summer, people descend on the wildflower capital of Colorado to see grasslands flush with corn lilies, aspen sunflowers and sub-alpine larkspur. In January 1991, scientists set up a unique experiment in these Rocky Mountain meadows. It was one of the first (and longest running) to work out how the changing climate would affect an ecosystem.

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:00:02 +0000

Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance

“The worst part of it was the smell,” says Audrey Crook, 58. A full-time carer who lives with her 20-year-old son, Crook woke up at 11pm one night to find a foot of flood water on the ground floor of her home. “It was like black water. It had sewage and everything in it, it was absolutely disgusting.”

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is

The fate of environmentalists is to spend their lives trying not to be proved right. Vindication is what we dread. But there’s one threat that haunts me more than any other: the collapse of the global food system. We cannot predict what the immediate trigger might be. But the war with Iran is just the right kind of event.

Like Putin, Trump is a megalomaniac. In Europe, we can shield ourselves, not look for rational motives | Robert Habeck

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:00:01 +0000

I had to deal with the energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap

US public health groups urge firing of EPA boss Zeldin, saying he ‘brazenly betrayed’ agency

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:18:21 +0000

Advocates say Lee Zeldin’s EPA has rolled back protections and cut staff and funding, putting health at risk

Green energy boss backs more North Sea oil and gas production from existing sites

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:54:39 +0000

GB Energy’s Jürgen Maier says production could bring economic benefits and give supply chains ‘time to transition’ to renewables

The head of the UK’s national green energy champion has joined other high-profile renewable energy leaders in making the case for more North Sea oil and gas production as the government braces for an energy cost crisis.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle: ‘vulnerable’ Katherine aged care residents evacuated to open-sided basketball court

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:40 +0000

Some residents moved amid threat of flooding are under public guardianship due to reduced mental capacity. NT public guardian says they ‘would have been very frightened’

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‘Extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas as new twins born in DRC

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:42:56 +0000

Conservationists celebrate second twin birth just two months after another set discovered in Virunga national park

A second set of mountain gorilla twins has been born in Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in what conservationists are celebrating as an “extraordinary” event for the endangered primates.

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:00:37 +0000

Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%

“It’s very hard to imagine what’s going on beneath the water when you look at a river – but you have billions of fish making these epic migrations, some of the largest animal migrations on Earth,” said Dr Zeb Hogan, at the University of Nevada in the US.