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Friday, may 30, 2025
Tajikistan's president calls for global effort to preserve glaciers as melting accelerates
• 8:30 PM
1 min
Tajikistan, home to the majority of Central Asia's glaciers, is urging global action as climate change accelerates glacier melt. At a high-level international conference in Dushanbe, President Emomali Rahmon proposed launching a major glacier study.
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Spain wants to ban people from flushing wet wipes and make manufacturers pay for the clean up
• 1:59 PM
5 min
Wet wipes and balloons are among the 10 most common single-use plastic items found littering European beaches.
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Swiss glacier collapse highlights growing global danger as ice melt accelerates with climate change
• 7:39 AM
7 min
Scientists say greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal have already locked in enough global warming to doom many of the world's glaciers.
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Four billion people endured extra month of extreme heat last year due to climate change, experts say
• 12:25 AM
7 min
Human-induced climate change at least doubled extreme heat days in 195 countries last year.
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Thursday, may 29, 2025
Dom Phillips was killed researching a book on the Amazon. Three years later, his friends finished it
• 2:01 PM
11 min
Fragments of hope mix with grim realities in How to Save the Amazon, published in the UK and Brazil this week.
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EU and six member states take ‘historic step’ by ratifying UN treaty to protect the high seas
• 12:46 AM
4 min
The High Seas Treaty has the potential to bring about a significant shift in global ocean conservation efforts.
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Wednesday, may 28, 2025
EU on track to meet 2030 emissions goal thanks to strong progress on renewables
• 3:02 PM
5 min
Belgium, Estonia and Poland were also singled out for not submitting their NECPs and were urged to “do so without delay”.
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German court dismisses lawsuit against RWE but makes 'landmark' ruling for future climate cases
• 10:18 AM
9 min
The Peruvian famer's climate case could pave the way for others looking to hold polluters liable for past emissions.
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Tuesday, may 27, 2025
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Friday, may 23, 2025
Penguin poo creates clouds that help cool the planet, study finds
• 2:20 PM
5 min
Penguin excrement releases ammonia that helps form clouds over Antarctica, possibly slowing climate change in the region.
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Deep discoveries, landmark lawsuits and rising renewables : Positive environmental stories from 2025
• 1:23 PM
23 min
Eco anxiety is very real, so we share this year's most uplifting stories to prove there’s hope for our climate.
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Thursday, may 22, 2025
Cocoa, coffee and wheat: The EU food imports threatened by biodiversity and climate crises
• 2:32 PM
7 min
Climate finance is not a form of altruism, the researchers argue. Rather, it is essential to Europe’s food security.
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UK seas are unusually hot – and scientists say the heatwave could just be getting started
• 2:04 PM
5 min
UK waters are up to 4°C above normal in a marine heatwave that may offer an early warning of extreme summer heat.
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Wednesday, may 21, 2025
Urban wilding and climate resilience: How Breda became the EU’s first National Park City
• 3:01 PM
6 min
Breda joins just three other cities globally in achieving the status.
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Why climate models miss the mark on Arctic warming – and how scientists are improving their accuracy
• 2:58 PM
5 min
Researchers have also warned that even limiting global warming to 1.5°C won’t save our polar ice sheets.
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World lost a record-shattering amount of forest in 2024, fuelled by climate change-driven wildfires
• 5:01 AM
15 min
Brazil, set to host the COP30 climate conference later this year, lost the largest area of tropical forest in 2024.
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Tuesday, may 20, 2025
Investigation reveals ‘sprawling empire’ of 5 Dutch companies dominating Europe’s fishing industry
• 2:41 PM
8 min
Environmental campaigners say that governments have allowed a few supermajors to take “tentacular” ownership of the seas.
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India's steel industry expansion plans threaten national and global emissions goals, report finds
• 7:59 AM
5 min
Steel production is one of the most carbon-intensive industries, responsible for nearly 9 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Thursday, may 15, 2025
Wednesday, may 14, 2025
Europe ‘lagging’ behind on human rights by not recognising right to healthy environment, experts say
• 2:02 PM
5 min
There is now a robust legal framework to tackle serious environmental crimes, but experts say the Council of Europe missed a chance to protect human rights.
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Why do French men have a 26% higher carbon footprint than women? There are two key reasons
• 9:41 AM
4 min
Food and transport account for half of the average French person’s carbon footprint.
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Tuesday, may 13, 2025
Europe’s electricity grid is outdated and risks derailing fossil fuel phase out, report finds
• 2:31 PM
5 min
Over 1,700 gigawatts of renewable energy projects across 16 countries are stuck in the queue to be connected to the electricity grid.
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Dutch NGO hits Shell with fresh legal challenge - and the impact could be ‘enormous’
• 1:29 PM
8 min
“Shell will not stop of its own accord,” says the director of Milieudefensie, which has enjoyed previous legal success against the oil giant.
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Monday, may 12, 2025
Friday, may 9, 2025
How poaching caused over 100 vultures to die in mass poisoning in South African national park
• 2:00 PM
3 min
Vultures are key to wildlife ecosystems because of the clean-up work they do, feeding on the carcasses of dead animals.
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‘Major loss’: Trump administration to axe database tracking cost of climate-fuelled extreme weather
• 11:20 AM
9 min
For decades, the database has tracked hundreds of major events across the country, including destructive hurricanes, hail storms, droughts and freezes.
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Thursday, may 8, 2025
Tuesday, may 6, 2025
EU sets 2027 as deadline to phase out all Russian energy, including LNG
• 3:28 PM
7 min
Imports of Russian oil, gas and nuclear materials must stop by 2027 at the very latest, Brussels has proposed in a new ambitious strategy.
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Europeans want homegrown renewable energy over fossil fuels from Trump or Putin, poll confirms
• 1:59 PM
5 min
People in Europe believe their countries should prioritise investment in domestic renewable energy over imported fossil fuels.
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Monday, may 5, 2025
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Tuesday, april 29, 2025
EU governments discuss action on disinformation over climate policy
• 4:21 PM
4 min
Environment ministers discussed on Tuesday how to counter disinformation and propaganda targeting the EU's climate and environmental policies, less than 24 hours after a catastrophic power cut in Spain and Portugal gave wing to precisely the kind of fake
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Fact check: Did wind and solar really cause Portugal and Spain’s mass blackout?
• 1:35 PM
10 min
Investigations are ongoing into what went wrong with the electricity system, which impacted some 60 million people.
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Monday, april 28, 2025
European Commission questions legality of US seabed mining plans
• 4:53 PM
6 min
The EU executive “deeply regrets” President Trump’s decision to promote deep-sea mining in international waters, joining a chorus of voices questioning the legality of Washington’s latest bid to secure supplies of lithium, rare earth metals and other crit
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Landmark ruling should encourage more cities to ban fossil fuel ads, campaigners urge
• 2:33 PM
5 min
The general health interests of citizens are worth more than the commercial interests of advertisers, the court said.
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Sycamore Gap: Two men charged with felling beloved tree go on trial in northern England
• 10:43 AM
7 min
The tree was far from Britain’s biggest or oldest, but when it was mysteriously felled in 2023, it caused disbelief and heartbreak for many across the country.
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Sunday, april 27, 2025
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Thursday, april 24, 2025
Scientists say they can now calculate the trillions in climate damage caused by fossil fuel giants
• 8:23 AM
6 min
Experts believe the research could help bolster climate laws and make polluters pay for their role in global warming.
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‘Fishing in the dark’: Spain accused of turning a blind eye to illegal fishing in West Africa
• 5:10 AM
7 min
NGOs claim Spanish authorities are turning a blind eye to their fleets' activities in Senegal and Guinea Bissau.
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Wednesday, april 23, 2025
Tuesday, april 22, 2025
Why fossil fuels are like renting a home - and solar panel imports soon pay for themselves
• 3:30 PM
6 min
Ahead of the IEA’s summit on energy security this week, analysts are emphasising the benefits of solar and wind.
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Firefighters battle massive fire at plastic landfill in central Czech Republic
• 1:14 PM
1 min
Firefighters battled a massive fire at a plastic landfill in the Czech Republic on Monday, covering an area of at least 450 square metres.
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Monday, april 21, 2025
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Tuesday, april 15, 2025
World’s most elusive squid? Scientists just filmed colossal squid alive for the first time
• 8:04 PM
5 min
In January, the research team also captured a glacial glass squid on camera for the first time.
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Renewed concern over direction of EU climate policy in wake of alarming 2024 weather report
• 3:55 PM
5 min
Despite the ever increasing body of scientific and real-life evidence for the accelerating pace of global temperature rise, climate campaigners fear the EU executive is looking at ways to introduce loopholes before proposing a target to reduce Europe’s ca
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Monday, april 14, 2025
‘Fossil fuels in another form’: Plastic recycling rate stagnates at under 10%, report finds
• 2:36 PM
6 min
Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates.
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Pumped up pollen: How climate change could be making your seasonal allergies worse
• 2:18 PM
4 min
Studies that link worsening allergies in Europe with climate change and elevated concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Elephant retirement home: This zoo in Spain is helping elderly animals to age gracefully
• 8:00 AM
8 min
Ageing animals that cannot be reintroduced into the wild are being given specialised geriatric care at Barcelona Zoo.
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Saturday, april 12, 2025
Friday, april 11, 2025
Climate champion or catastrophe: Can AI ‘offset’ its own, growing emissions?
• 3:02 PM
10 min
Data centre electricity demand is predicted will rise to around 945 terawatt hours by 2030, more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan.
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La Niña has ended after three weak months. What does it mean for Europe’s weather?
• 2:01 PM
4 min
Longer-term weather forecasts are more difficult to establish when the phenomenon is not present.
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'Make America's showers great again': Trump reverses US water and energy saving measures
• 7:20 AM
4 min
The standards were intended to make dishwashers, showerheads, refrigerators, laundry machines and toilets use less energy and water.
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