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• Donald Trump can’t stop global climate action. If we stick together, it’s the US that will lose out | Bill Hare

  06-11-2024 23:34
  
  How damaging this presidency is to the planet depends very much on how other countries react. There’s no time to wasteDonald Trump’s re-election to the White House is a major setback for climate action but ultimately it’s the US that could end up losing out, as the rest of the world will move forward without it.The US is the world’s biggest economy and its second biggest emitter. Positive US engagement on climate has been crucial to landmark leaps forward, like getting th
  
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• William announces Earthshot winners in Cape Town

  06-11-2024 21:49 via bbc.com
  
  Fifteen finalists, from countries including Kenya, Indonesia, the UK and Nepal, were competing for a £1 million Earthshot Awards prize.
  
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• Von der Leyen’s Cop29 absence sends ‘fatal signal’, say watchers

  06-11-2024 18:47
  
  MEPs express concern for EU climate leadership as commission head confirms she will miss Baku summitUrsula von der Leyen’s decision to miss the Cop29 climate summit is “a fatal signal” and raises questions about Europe’s commitment to the climate crisis, observers have said.The European Commission confirmed on Tuesday that its president would not attend the UN climate talks in Baku, which start on Monday. “The commission is in a transition phase and the president wi
  
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• The sunscreen myth: could it really be causing skin cancer? | Antiviral

  06-11-2024 15:00
  Overblown concerns about potential dangers of a common chemical threaten to undermine scientific evidence to the contraryBecause of his job as a dermatologist, Dr Deshan Sebaratnam frequently gets asked questions by friends, family and strangers about skin treatments. But lately, he says, he has been confronted by “a lot of myths around sunscreens”, especially on his social media feed.Among the most frequent is “that sunscreen can actually cause skin cancer”, says Sebarat
  
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• Dick Smith’s ABC radio rant against renewables overflows with ill-informed claims | Temperature Check

  06-11-2024 15:00
  Millionaire points to Broken Hill’s blackout to attack the energy transition but experts say he should look at South Australia and EuropeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFor 15 minutes on Sunday morning, ABC local radio listeners were treated to a rant from Dick Smith as the millionaire attacked Australia’s transition away from fossil fuels, claiming renewables would make electricity unaffordable and cause sweeping blackouts.“It seems we have been sold
  
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• Nature campaigners urge UK taxpayers to take stakes in forest projects

  06-11-2024 12:08
  
  Land reform charities call for better regulation of UK’s carbon market so profits can be shared with publicNature campaigners have called for taxpayers to take stakes in forest and peatland projects designed to store carbon, to avoid all the profits from carbon credits going to private investors.A report from the Revive Coalition, an umbrella group for Scottish land reform and conservation charities, says carbon credits also need to be used much more effectively to bolster demand and help
  
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• Vanishing act: Panama’s Guna people forced to move as the sea swallows their island – in pictures

  06-11-2024 09:00
  Earlier this year, families from the Indigenous Guna people on the tiny island of Gardi Sugdub became the first to undergo a climate-related relocation by the Panamanian government because of the threat of rising sea levels. Hundreds of residents moved to Isber Yala, a new town built on the mainland. But many fear that the relocation has put their traditions and culture in perilPhotographs by Euan Wallace Continue reading...
  
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• I tried to warn Valencia’s government about flooding, but it didn’t listen | Juan Bordera

  06-11-2024 08:00
  
  The rightwing regional authorities ignored the climate-crisis science and dismissed the weather forecast – the consequences are their responsibilityJuan Bordera is a climate journalist and an independent MP for Compromís in the Valencian parliament It’s almost impossible to describe what we have experienced in the flooded villages and towns around the city of Valencia. Many of those villages and towns are in ruins, with at least 217 dead and others to be pulled out of the mud.
  
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• In an era of environmental crises, women closest to the destruction must be heard | Omaira Bolaños

  06-11-2024 07:00
  
  My mother showed me the importance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant women in protecting the natural world. Yet they continue to face barriers and discrimination in their workI learned about the importance of women in small communities from my mother. She was a peasant woman – a campesina as we say in Colombia – in the mountains near Cali, where I grew up. She searched the forest for food and cultivated the earth to grow vegetables to feed me and my four siblings. It is women like he
  
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• Country Diary: All of life takes place in a rural village hall | Nicola Chester

  06-11-2024 06:30
  
  Inkpen, West Berkshire: The ‘old girl’ is 100 years old – as are many others built around Britain after the first world war. We give it the celebration it deservesI’m not sure I’ve ever sung Happy Birthday to a building before. Something caught in my throat – and looking round at my fellow villagers, I could see I wasn’t the only one. Our village hall is a hundred years old – one of many around the country sharing a surprisingly radical, rural cent
  
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• UK ‘falling behind’ on sewage pollution regulation while EU tightens rules

  06-11-2024 06:00
  
  EU member states agree to update urban waste water treatment directiveThe UK is falling further behind on sewage pollution regulation as the EU tightens its rules to clean up Europe’s waterways, say critics.EU member states agreed on Tuesday to update the urban waste water treatment directive to strengthen rules to clean up sewage and chemical pollution from treatment plants. European countries will have to update their sewage systems and treatment plants so that large amounts of human was
  
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