Environment news

• Climate report: Trump administration downplays warnings of looming disaster

  24-11-2018 18:40
  Democrats ramp up pressure to act in wake of most sobering government analysis yet
  Report: climate change ‘will inflict substantial damages’
  The Trump administration attempted to downplay the stark findings of its own climate change assessment, as Democrats sought to pressure the White House to avert looming economic and public health disaster.The US National Climate change assessment, the work of 300 scientists and 13 federal agencies, was released on Friday afternoon. It found that
  
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• She trolled Trump, but can she lead a green wave across Europe?

  24-11-2018 16:00
  Swedish minister Isabella Lövin found fame in a jibe aimed at the White House. Now she aims for change beyond TwitterIn February last year, a week after Donald Trump had signed an anti-abortion executive order surrounded by seven men, Isabella Lövin posted a photograph of herself on Twitter signing a climate change bill alongside seven other women.Sweden’s then deputy prime minister remained enigmatic as the picture went viral and she was asked whether she had been “trollin
  
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• Environmental protesters block access to Parliament Square

  24-11-2018 14:11
  Demonstration organised by Extinction Rebellion aims to highlight government failure on the environmentDozens of environmental campaigners blocked the roads around Parliament Square to highlight concerns about the environment on Saturday.About 50 activists from Extinction Rebellion, a direct action group that has been coordinating a campaign of civil disobedience which has brought areas of the capital to a standstill in recent weeks, risked arrest by standing defiantly in roads in front of queue
  
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• Amazon rainforest deforestation 'worst in 10 years', says Brazil

  24-11-2018 11:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The rate of deforestation has risen 13.7% in a year, amid concern about the new president's policies.
  
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• ‘We want a better deal’: talking Brexit aboard a fishing trawler

  24-11-2018 09:00
  Twenty miles off the coast of Cornwall lies one of the most fiercely contested Brexit battlelines. Do UK fishermen still want out? Out of an apocalyptic yellow sky a salvo of white missiles rains down, plummeting into an angry black sea. Gannets, here for a free lunch. It’s hauling time on Crystal Sea, and for any young gurnard or whiting small and determined enough to wriggle free at this stage, just before the net is lifted from the water, liberty is short-lived. The escapee is snatched,
  
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