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• Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk | Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli

  22-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correctInflation is, at base, a tax on consumption – and it hits the poor the hardest, since they consume more of their incomes and the rich consume less.That’s one reason for concern over Donald Trump’s tariffs, which will disproportionately affect the poor. When the 90-day pause on the tariffs expires, it is reasonable to expect prices to rise, and b
  
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• Rare dragonfly introduced into remote area of Cumbria to reverse its decline

  22-04-2025 13:22 via theguardian.com
  
  White-faced darters transported to South Solway Mosses as hotter summers dry out its bog pool breeding sitesWith its chalk-white face and bright flame-coloured markings, the white-faced darter dragonfly is a distinctive sight as it flutters around England’s peat bogs.The rare dragonfly, which breeds in mossy pools, is at threat of local extinction, but now conservationists are trying to end its population crash by introducing it into a remote corner of Cumbria. Continue reading...
  
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• On thin ice: the brutal cold of Canada’s Arctic was once a defence, but a warming climate has changed that

  22-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Geopolitical tensions are heating up on Canada’s borders, but the biggest threat may be from wildly fluctuating temperatures transforming the tundra and oceanIn early February, during the depths of winter, Twin Otter aircraft belonging to the Canadian military flew over the vast expanse of the western Arctic looking for sea ice. Below, sheets of white extended beyond the horizon.But the pilots, who were searching for a suitable site to land a 34-tonne (76,000lb) Hercules transport plane a
  
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• ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?

  22-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do notActivate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts sayThe Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read moreHow much of a $450 (£339) pot would you give to a charity that cuts carbon
  
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• Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say

  22-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read moreA huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fi
  
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• Country diary: Watching bats until it’s too dark to see | Josie George

  22-04-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Stafford: On the top floor of a former shoe factory, the city reveals its wild sideWe’ve sneaked back to the office after hours. My partner has been working late here recently and has promised me that if I sit by the window as the sun sets, I’ll see something special. Our office rental is on the top floor of an old Midlands shoe factory. From our window, we can see half a dozen other Victorian relics, some derelict, with buddleia growing through the broken glass. They squat over a ma
  
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• Is ‘de-extinction’ really possible? – podcast

  22-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The American biotech company Colossal Biosciences recently made headlines around the world with claims it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct at the end of the last ice age. But does what the company has done amount to ‘de-extinction’ or should we instead think of these pups as genetically modified versions of the grey wolves that exist today? Science correspondent Nicola Davis tells Madeleine Finlay about the process that created these wolves, how other compan
  
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• Mission to boldly grow food in space labs blasts off

  22-04-2025 02:58 via bbc.com
  The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.
  
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• Australia’s student strikers for climate believed they could change their future. Where are they now?

  22-04-2025 02:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Young people rode a wave of hope and power when hundreds of thousands protested with them in 2019. Then, momentum was lostGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastOn a stinking hot November day, seven years ago, Grace Vegesana and a handful of other young climate activists set up a small stage in a large square in Sydney’s CBD – and waited. Inspired by the first school striker for climate, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the high school students decided to org
  
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• Canada's top candidates talk up fossil fuels as climate slips down agenda

  22-04-2025 01:16 via bbc.com
  Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.
  
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