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• Britain will find ‘common ground’ with US on energy policy, says Miliband

  25-04-2025 17:52
  
  Energy secretary says countries must work together during conference at which US delegate called net zero ‘dangerous’Britain will find “common ground” with the US on energy and the economy including on nuclear power, despite differences over climate policy, the UK energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has pledged.He was speaking at the close of a two-day, 60-country conference in London on energy security, hosted by the government and the International Energy Agency (IEA), at wh
  
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• Will Cop30 in Belém help or harm the Amazon?

  25-04-2025 17:03
  Trees are being cleared for rainforest mega-event – but state governor says a ‘new history’ is under wayFake metal trees have been set into the concrete ground of the Amazonian host city of this year’s climate summit, prompting scandalised contrasts with the once-living vegetation that has been cleared in preparation for Cop30 in Brazil.But in an unlikely convergence of views, both the centre-right state governor and leftwing social movements insist this is a storm in a p
  
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• Is it still worth getting a home battery in Australia if I can’t install solar panels on my roof?

  25-04-2025 17:00
  
  Some households aren’t suited to solar – but do batteries make environmental or financial sense on their own?Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at [email protected] people want to reduce their carbon footprint but for various reasons can’t install solar panels. Some roofs face the wrong way, others ar
  
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• ‘A sweeping catastrophe’: 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a photo exhibit honors Mississippi victims

  25-04-2025 16:00
  
  Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers captures the grief and resilience of survivors in the Magnolia stateTwenty years ago this August, the United States Gulf coast was irrevocably changed when Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to ever hit the country, made landfall. Making landfall as a strong category 3, the storm, which was so vast it stretched the length of the Mississippi Gulf coast all the way into Alabama, hit the Mississippi-Louisiana coastal border before c
  
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• Brazil will host this year’s Cop30 climate talks. Can it get ready in time?

  25-04-2025 14:24
  
  Belém prepares for an international conference on a far greater scale than anything previously seen in the AmazonFake metal trees have been set into the concrete ground of the Amazonian host city of this year’s climate summit, prompting scandalised contrasts with the once-living vegetation that has been cleared in preparation for Cop30 in Brazil.But in an unlikely convergence of views, both the centre-right state governor and leftwing social movements insist this is a storm in a pla
  
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• Weather tracker: thunderstorms lash Italy in aftermath of Storm Hans

  25-04-2025 12:17
  
  Authorities warn of mudslides during intense rainfall, as Kenya is hit by deadly flash floodingEurope live – latest updatesAfter Storm Hans battered northern Italy in the runup to Easter, severe weather continued to lash much of the country this week. Since Tuesday, the conditions have triggered potent showers and thunderstormsand yellow and orange weather warnings have been issued.With winds generally remaining light this week, the greatest concerns surround the risks from intense rainfal
  
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• Trump deep sea mining order violates law, China says

  25-04-2025 12:06 via bbc.com
  The US president speeds up permits for a practice opposed by many countries and environmentalists.
  
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• Week in wildlife: wild ponies, a playful jaguar and penguin chicks taking their first swim

  25-04-2025 08:00
  
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• China shares rare Moon rocks with US despite trade war

  25-04-2025 06:14 via bbc.com
  Two US institutions have been granted access to samples collected by the Chang'e-5 mission in 2020.
  
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• Drax needs a better policeman

  25-04-2025 06:01
  Public confidence in the UK biomass industry is low – robust checks are needed to ensure every wood pellet its power plant burns is sustainableEven government ministers sounded embarrassed in February when they threw yet more subsidies at Drax, recipient of £6.5bn to date, to keep its wood-burning power plant open until 2031. Few people think the biomass industry can survive in the long term unless as-yet-untested carbon capture technology can be installed.But the bizarre business of
  
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• ‘It shapes the whole experience’: what happens when you build a city from wood?

  25-04-2025 06:00
  Transforming a former industrial area in Sweden will bring psychological benefits for future residents and reduce construction’s climate impactAlthough activity is high, it is surprisingly quiet inside the construction site of a high school extension in Sickla, a former industrial area in south Stockholm that is set to become part of the “largest mass timber project in the world” according to the Swedish urban property developer Atrium Ljungberg.Just a few months remain until s
  
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• Just Stop Oil was policed to extinction - now the movement has gone deeper underground

  25-04-2025 01:06 via bbc.com
  Climate activists may be going deeper underground.
  
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