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• Italy’s Marmolada glacier could disappear by 2040, experts say

  10-09-2024 18:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Rising temperatures causing largest glacier in Dolomites to lose 7-10cm of depth a day, according to scientistsThe Marmolada glacier, the largest and most symbolic of the Dolomites, could melt completely by 2040 owing to rising average temperatures, experts have said.Italian scientists who are monitoring glaciers and the impact of climate emergency, and who took part in a campaign launched by environmentalist group Legambiente, the international commission for the protection of the Alps (Cipra),
  
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• G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaigners

  10-09-2024 16:11 via theguardian.com
  Promise to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at Cop28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutionsUK politics live – latest updatesBusiness live – latest updatesCampaigners have claimed some of the world’s largest economies are turning their backs on a pledge made last year to transition away from fossil fuels.Ministers from the G20 group of developed and developing countries, including the US, UK, China and India, will meet in Rio de Janeiro on Wedne
  
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• We examined anti-protest laws across the west. Britain stood out, and not in a good way | Linda Lakhdhir

  10-09-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Under the Tories, non-violent climate protesters were jailed for up to five years – and there is little sign that Labour will change tackLinda Lakhdhir is the legal director of Climate Rights InternationalIn December 2023 when Stephen Gingell was sentenced to six months in prison for slow marching for half an hour on the Holloway Road in north London, the sentence was considered shocking. Unfortunately, it is far from the exception. In fact, my organisation, Climate Rights International, h
  
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• The 10 best electric cars to buy if you want to avoid Tesla

  10-09-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Elon Musk turning you off Tesla? Here are 10 of the best electric cars, driven and chosen by our expert• How to buy an electric car – a guideElon Musk is never far from a headline these days, from his recent inflammatory posts about the far-right riots in the UK to his endorsement of Donald Trump for president. But his increasingly toxic rhetoric is having a knock-on effect: some Tesla owners are starting to rethink whether they should own his electric cars any more. Sales fell in Jul
  
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• Billionaire takes off for first ever private spacewalk

  10-09-2024 13:55 via bbc.com
  
  The mission is the first of three funded by payments processing business founder Jared Isaacman.
  
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• Half a million oysters to be introduced to Humber estuary in restoration plan

  10-09-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  European flat oyster is defined as ‘collapsed’ in UK but there are hopes it could return to coastal watersA box marked “special delivery” arrived about midday at Spurn Discovery Centre, on a remote East Yorkshire peninsula in the Humber estuary.It is unlikely the postal worker had any idea it contained 300,000 living oyster larvae – tiny pinprick-sized organisms destined to become part of a new oyster reef just off the English coast. Continue reading...
  
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• How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over the US’s booming solar power

  10-09-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The source of new renewable energy is also a battleground over China’s cheap exports of panels that has split US firmsThe Biden administration touts solar energy as one of its big success stories, a booming new industry that is curbing the effects of the climate crisis and creating high-paying jobs across the country. But the more complicated truth is that the United States is mired in a long-running trade war with China, which is flooding the market with artificially cheap solar panels th
  
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• How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over booming US solar power

  10-09-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The source of new renewable energy is also a battleground over China’s cheap exports of panels that has split US firmsThe Biden administration touts solar energy as one of its big success stories, a booming new industry that is curbing the effects of the climate crisis and creating high-paying jobs across the country. But the more complicated truth is that the United States is mired in a long-running trade war with China, which is flooding the market with artificially cheap solar panels th
  
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• ‘Two incredible extreme events’: Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running

  10-09-2024 11:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Last year Antartica’s ice was 1.6m sq km below average – the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. This week it had even less ice than that Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is on the cusp of reaching a record winter low for a second year running, continuing an “outrageous” fall in the amount of Southern Ocean that is freezing over.The Antarctic region underwent an abrupt transformation in 2023 as the sea ice cover surrounding the continent crashed for six mon
  
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• The meadow mutiny: why a rewilding scheme sparked a residents’ revolt

  10-09-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  A council in Derbyshire decided to let grass grow wild - and a group of vigilante mowers fought back. What can be done to make sure essential environmental schemes get the local support they need?The vigilante mowers of Rayneham Road in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, don’t look like dissidents. Ranging in age from 49 to 68, most have adult children and comfortably sized houses in a quiet corner of the East Midlands. They are not people you might usually associate with a picket line. But when the co
  
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• ‘We’re flooded with trash’: pollution crisis as 500,000 migrants a year attempt perilous Darién Gap crossing

  10-09-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Isolated communities are sounding the alarm over poisoned rivers and cultural erosion after a surge in migrants crossing their ancestral landsThe Darién Gap’s isolation and formidable reputation has shielded the Indigenous communities who live there from the outside world for centuries. Spanish conquistadors died trying to settle in the sliver of dense, swampy rainforest connecting Colombia with Panama, and in recent decades only the most intrepid outsiders have undertaken the 60-mi
  
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• ‘We’re flooded with trash’: human tragedy unleashes environmental disaster as thousands attempt crossing to US

  10-09-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Isolated communities in the Darién Gap are sounding the alarm over polluted rivers and cultural erosion after a surge in migrants crossing their ancestral landsThe Darién Gap’s isolation and formidable reputation has shielded the Indigenous communities who live there from the outside world for centuries. Spanish conquistadors died trying to settle in the sliver of dense, swampy rainforest connecting Colombia with Panama, and in recent decades only the most intrepid outsiders
  
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• Country diary: Something’s eating away at this sycamore tree

  10-09-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Houndkirk Moor, South Yorkshire: Sooty bark disease has been afflicting many more trees this summer, but that’s not the culprit with this saplingThe sycamore cut down on Hadrian’s Wall was back in the news. A man had appeared in court in connection with its felling, and this after regular stories on the subject, new shoots growing from its stump, artworks made in commemoration and a seedling, propagated from the tree’s remains, presented to King Charles. Standing on the verge o
  
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• Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study

  10-09-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global southWealthy, democratic countries in the global north are using harsh, vague and punitive measures to crack down on climate protests at the same time as criticising similar draconian tactics by authorities in the global south, according to a report.A Climate Rights International report exposes the increasingly heavy-handed treatment of climate activists in Australia, Germany
  
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• Fukushima nuclear plant: operation begins to remove radioactive debris

  10-09-2024 05:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Robots being used to gather sample that will give clues about conditions inside the reactors, a step towards decommissioning plant hit by tsunami in Japan 13 years agoA difficult operation to remove a small amount of radioactive debris from Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has begun, after technical issues suspended an earlier attempt.Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said in a statement on Tuesday that its “pilot extraction operation” had started. It will take about
  
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• Almost 200 people killed last year trying to defend the environment, report finds

  10-09-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Latin America was the most deadly region in which to defend ecosystems from mining and deforestation, with Indigenous people among half the deadAt least 196 people were killed last year for defending the environment, with more than a third of killings taking place in Colombia, new figures show.From campaigners who spoke out against mining projects to Indigenous communities targeted by organised crime groups, an environmental defender was killed every other day in 2023, according to a new report
  
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