It’s not so much that rural and metro communities hold different opinions about climate change but rather they are holding completely different conversations
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We got some rain in rural Victoria over the weekend, and that’s headline-worthy news.
There’s been a record-breaking drought that’s been afflicting the states of Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and parts of New South Wales for over a year, but depending where you live – and how you get your news – you may not know much about it.
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Breaking Waves: Ocean News
06/11/2025 - 02:09
06/11/2025 - 01:00
During a period of deep personal turmoil, Marjolein Martinot took her camera down to the riverside in southern France – and began to feel connected again
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06/10/2025 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 11 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00132-7
AI language models could both help and harm equity in marine policymaking
06/10/2025 - 21:00
Copernicus data shows month was 1.4C above estimated 1850-1900 average used to define pre-industrial level
It has been an exceptionally dry spring in north-western Europe and the second warmest May ever globally, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Countries across Europe, including the UK, have been hit by drought conditions in recent months, with water shortages feared unless significant rain comes this summer, and crop failures beginning to be reported by farmers.
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06/10/2025 - 15:00
Move comes after efforts at UN ocean summit to establish marine protected areas in international waters
Britain will take action to ratify the high seas treaty by the end of this year, a landmark agreement that will protect marine life in some of the oceans’ most remote waters, ministers have announced.
The move follows a surge in support and ratifications for the treaty at the UN oceans conference in Nice, France. Emmanuel Macron, the French president and co-host of the conference, told delegates on Monday that enough countries had either ratified or formally committed to ratifying the agreement and therefore it could come into force as early as January 2026.
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06/10/2025 - 12:33
A bold state investment signals nuclear revival, but unresolved issues around cost, waste and safety demand urgent ministerial clarity
The government’s decision to invest £14.2bn in nuclear energy, on top of existing funds, marks a return to significant state funding of nuclear power after Hinkley Point C, financed by the private sector, was dogged by delays and cost overruns. It is also a decisive shift in energy policy. Ministers have high hopes of a nuclear energy renaissance. Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, described the prospect of a new reactor in Suffolk, Sizewell C, combined with new money for modular reactor development and fusion research, as a “golden age”. This was a striking choice of words from the greenest voice in the cabinet.
The Climate Change Committee’s latest advice to the government took a more restrained view of nuclear, which drew industry ire. Mr Miliband’s commitment to renewable energy is not in doubt. The government has made good progress on wind and solar – although the cancellation of an offshore wind project was a step backwards. Nuclear is meant to complement support for renewables and speed up the transition away from gas. That, at least, is the theory, and Labour’s bet reflects a broader shift across Europe. The other part of the calculation made by ministers including Rachel Reeves – whose department made the announcement – is jobs. Sizewell C is expected to employ 10,000 people, including 1,500 apprentices.
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06/10/2025 - 11:40
Charities and MPs say bill, which has passed its third reading, risks causing environmental harm in England
Downing Street and the Treasury intervened to stop any concessions in the planning bill for England, after pro-housing MPs voiced anger over a Labour rebel amendment that attempted to strengthen nature protections.
The Guardian has been told that ministers drew up amendments to the bill last week in an attempt to head off the anger of wildlife charities and rebel Labour MPs amid a backlash against the bill.
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06/10/2025 - 11:32
Daisy Cooper says doctor and presenter David Bull once appeared on TalkTV with his ear bandaged after the assassination attempt against Trump
Reeves is now taking questions.
The first comes from a delegate who says the proposed welfare cuts are wrong. Will the government think again?
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06/10/2025 - 10:25
What if all life on Earth followed a surprisingly simple pattern? New research shows that in every region, species tend to cluster in small hotspots and then gradually thin out. This universal rule applies across drastically different organisms and habitats from trees to dragonflies, oceans to forests. Scientists now believe environmental filtering shapes this global distribution, providing new tools to predict how life responds to climate change and biodiversity threats.
06/10/2025 - 05:00
Investment is pouring into companies promising to geoengineer a rapid change in the pH of our waters – but critics are concerned at the speed at which unproven methods are being adopted
More on this story: ‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
In October 2024, a US company called Ebb Carbon announced the world’s largest marine carbon removal deal to date, signing a multimillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to try to help fix a very real problem in the world’s seas: ocean acidification.
Ebb plans to use a method called electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) to mimic the natural process of ocean alkalisation – in other words, it wants to add huge amounts of alkaline materials to ocean waters that scientists now know are acidifying at an alarming rate.
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