Zack Polanski this week called for urgent action to fix a food system that is ‘close to collapse’ in a speech to the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union.
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Carving road — With changing climates forcing skiers to travel higher up mountains in search of quality powder, a small community is turning to tarmac and building a new vision of the sport that doesn’t rely on winter.
No matter what we throw at fire detection, from drones to advanced prediction models and watch towers, predicting when and where blazes will start remains challenging. And not all fires are created equal.
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Lo que está ocurriendo en el condado de Brantley no es simplemente una historia sobre incendios. La escala de la destrucción es histórica, pero también está exponiendo múltiples crisis sistémicas: infraestructura subfinanciada y gestión de emergencias inadecuada.
Droughts and powerful storms are a natural part of Earth’s diverse weather, but mass suffering and death are not inevitable consequences of them. Especially as climate change drives more extreme weather patterns, it becomes more apparent than ever that the same capitalist system that has pushed us into climate catastrophe is incapable of preventing the human suffering these weather changes will…
Green Party MP Adrian Ramsay has called for a dedicated Climate Protection Unit in Number 10 in response to the latest report by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) which warns our way of life is under threat from heat, flooding and drought. The report, ‘A Well-Adapted UK’, sets out a package of recommendations on adapting […]
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For now, authorities are sending water from an upstream reservoir to replenish Lake Powell, but it is a short-term fix. “There’s not enough water to fill the hole,” said Brian Richter, president of Sustainable Waters, a global water-education organization.
In the low-profile race for California insurance commissioner, Jane Kim wants to borrow from other countries to solve a crisis in the homeowner’s insurance market.
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It was cold – but nowhere near what I expected; I’ve been colder in an outdoor swimming pool in Australia. It's part of a global feedback loop, the scale of which I only began to comprehend when I saw this remarkable continent for myself.
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The American people have been led astray about what climate change means for their pocketbooks.
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n Brantley County, a largely rural area in southeastern Georgia made up of small towns, farmland, and dense pine forests, wildfires that began in mid-April are still burning. Unseasonably low humidity, high winds, and the worst regional drought in recorded history have created conditions that allow fires to spread quickly across the landscape, jumping roads and intensifying within hours.
Trump’s Iran war will only accelerate the process.
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Tech CEOs and corporations have been on a rampage in the U.S. trying to railroad data centers into every plot of land and community they can get their hands on. Their goal is to win the capitalist race to dominate AI and data center infrastructure (which powers generative AI), and then use AI to raise their profits by eliminating millions of jobs.
A refinery oligopoly and exclusive contracts allow the oil industry to price-gouge California drivers.
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On April 16 the U.S. senate voted to overturn a 2023 ban on mining in 225,000 acres of protected federal land near the boundary waters of Minnesota, a natural area that plays a vital role in the region's ecosystem and climate resiliency.
As workers, we collectively understand the challenges we face best because we are the class that makes society run. And in turn, we can collectively find the best solutions, not by scapegoating anyone, but by looking at the real causes and implementing real solutions that not only allow humanity to survive, but to thrive.
The government is set to announce a plan to weaken the link between electricity and volatile gas prices, which it says will better protect consumers from energy shocks triggered by international conflicts. Carla Denyer MP, the Green Party’s spokesperson for Energy and Net Zero and a former offshore wind engineer, gave her reaction: “As someone […]
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The Earth’s rotation has never been perfectly stable; the spin has changed significantly throughout history. Even slight changes on the planet, from melting ice sheets to flux in the Moon's gravitational effects, can make days longer or shorter. But for most of Earth’s history, the changes were tiny and driven mostly by natural forces. Now, a new study shows that modern, human-induced climate…
As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.
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From wildfires to our wars on nature and each other, the subjects captured in the winning 42 images of the 69th World Press Photo Contest are not the easiest to view – but it's what makes this annual competition such a prestigious and powerful one.
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Imagine it’s a regular Tuesday morning and you’re in Antarctica. Your eyes meet the sky, and the blue is so vivid it feels electric. The air is so clean you can just about taste it. Now, picture a dust storm over the Himalayas; you squint, trying to catch a hint of that crisp blue, but all you see is a fuzzy white. Why are the skies in some parts of the world bluer than those in other…
What’s missing from the political conversation around America’s embattled environmental law?
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Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy.
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New research projects the Olifants River in the Kruger National Park could reach daily water temperatures of 42–44°C by the end of the century under a high-emissions scenario, putting fish, macroinvertebrates and freshwater ecosystems at serious risk
Responding to Kemi Badenoch’s plans to remove VAT from household energy bills for the next three years funded by scrapping renewable energy schemes and green levies, Green MP Hannah Spencer said: “Kemi Badenoch is not living in the same world as the rest of us – where we can see first-hand that decades of failure […]
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It isn’t shooting the bad guy. It’s sacrificing to save your alien rock pal.
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He is paying TotalEnergies a billion dollars to do natural gas investments it is already doing.
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It might as well be a conspiracy to jack up American electric bills.
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Responding to warnings today from the World Meteorological Organization of a global “energy imbalance” and from the International Energy Agency that the Iran war threatens an energy crisis equivalent to the combined impacts of the 1970s oil shocks and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Deputy leader of the Green Party, Rachel Millward, said: “These warnings should […]
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“This method allows abundant and free solar energy to break down plastic pollution without adding extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere,” Wu said.
The findings also point to new possibilities for addressing microplastics directly. Because the process degrades plastics at the chemical level, it could help prevent the accumulation of microplastics in water systems.
The research aligns…