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Indonesia’s stunning microlibraries draw young readers – in pictures

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:00:03 +0000

Using passive design and local materials such as ice cream buckets, these modern community spaces offer a respite from urban heat and hustle

‘We need new numbers’: Comedian David Cross cracks jokes to spread climate crisis awareness

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:00:02 +0000

The Emmy award winning comic teams up with renowed scientist Michael Oppenheimer for a new video campaign

David Cross is many things: a famed comic, an Emmy award winner, and a New York Times bestseller. But he is not a climate scientist.

That fact might make him the perfect person to communicate the urgency of global heating to mass audiences.

Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions | Margaret Sullivan

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:00:01 +0000

The president’s funding cuts and bullying are about dividing Americans and tightening his grip on power

The author and environmentalist Wallace Stegner called our national parks “America’s best idea”.

Certainly, these jewels – 85m acres of parkland throughout all the 50 states – are beloved by the public. So are America’s public libraries, arts organizations and museums.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture

Key US weather monitoring offices understaffed as hurricane season starts

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:00:40 +0000

National Weather Service offices are reeling from job cuts and a hiring freeze imposed by Trump

More than a dozen National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices along the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico coast are understaffed as the US plunges into an expected active season for ruinous storms, data seen by the Guardian shows.

Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:00:34 +0000

Campaigners say the publication of key KPMG report must be a condition to MPs extending subsidies scheme

The owner of the Drax wood-burning power station should be forced to disclose full details of its tree consumption, campaigners have argued, as MPs review the billions in renewables subsidies the North Yorkshire plant receives.

High electricity bill taxes holding us back, say industry groups

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:00:33 +0000

Make UK tells government that prices threaten to derail industrial strategy as Energy UK calls for charges to be ‘rebalanced’

The UK government is being pressed to wipe billions from the energy costs facing households and heavy industry by reforming the high taxes levied on electricity bills.

Rethinking maritime security from the bottom up: Four principles to broaden perspectives and centre humans and ecosystems

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 02 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00130-9

Rethinking maritime security from the bottom up: Four principles to broaden perspectives and centre humans and ecosystems

‘This is ground zero for Blatten’: the tiny Swiss village engulfed by a mountain

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:33:09 +0000

‘The memories preserved in countless books, photo albums, documentation – everything is gone,’ says village’s mayor

For weeks the weight had sat above the village, nine million tonnes of rock precariously resting on an ancient slab of ice. A chunk of the Kleines Nesthorn mountain’s peak had crumbled, and its rubble hung over the silent, empty streets of Blatten, held back only by the glacier. The ice groaned beneath the pressure.

Natural disasters cost Australia’s economy $2.2bn in first half of 2025, new Treasury analysis shows

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:30:12 +0000

Wild weather, including Cyclone Alfred and floods in NSW and Queensland, significantly slowed retail trade and household spending

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Six months of natural disasters in 2025 have cost the economy $2.2bn, largely in slower retail and household spending, according to new federal Treasury analysis.

How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:55:10 +0000

As cities heat up, reflective roofs could lower energy bills and help the climate. But dark-roofing manufacturers are waging a quiet campaign to block new rules

This story is co-published with Floodlight

It began with a lobbyist’s pitch.

The Tennessee representative Rusty Grills says the lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings.