Using passive design and local materials such as ice cream buckets, these modern community spaces offer a respite from urban heat and hustle
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Breaking Waves: Ocean News
06/02/2025 - 07:00
The Emmy award winning comic teams up with renowned 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.
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06/02/2025 - 07:00
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
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06/02/2025 - 05:00
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.
There is a lack of meteorologists in 15 of the regional weather service offices along the coastline from Texas to Florida, as well as in Puerto Rico – an area that takes the brunt of almost all hurricanes that hit the US. Several offices, including in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston, lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required to be fully staffed.
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06/02/2025 - 00:00
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.
A delegated legislation committee will decide on Monday whether to pass the government’s plans to extend billpayer-funded subsidies to the country’s biomass power generators, of which Drax is by far the biggest.
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06/02/2025 - 00:00
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.
These policy levies mean the UK pays some of the highest energy bills in the world, and are simultaneously disadvantaging British industry and stifling the efforts of households to transition to lower-carbon heating systems, according to industry trade groups.
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06/01/2025 - 23:00
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
06/01/2025 - 07:33
‘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.
On Wednesday afternoon, in an instant, it gave way. The ice cracked, then crumbled. The entire mass descended into the valley below, obliterating the village that had been there for more than 800 years.
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Natural disasters cost Australia’s economy $2.2bn in first half of 2025, new Treasury analysis shows
06/01/2025 - 07:30
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.
Wild weather has repeatedly battered the Australian east coast this year.
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06/01/2025 - 05:55
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.
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