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Final “Grandmother” Cottonwood Toppled, Protesters Arrested in Arizona
Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a do…
Supreme Court Weighs Landmark Climate Deception Case Against Oil Companies
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from oil companies on Monday that could help decide the fate of more than two dozen lawsuits accusing the industry of deceiving the public a…
US supreme court to hear big oil’s bid to block climate damage lawsuits
Court starts new term hearing Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state levelThe US supreme court begins its new nine-month term hearing arguments Monday in…
Shadow chancellor to address Tory conference as he claims slashing red tape could cut cost of new houses by £50,000 – UK politics live
Andrew Griffith makes speech today as Reform UK accuses party of copying policies they ‘announced weeks and months ago’Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural Eng…
Mixed start for pre-Cop as just two non-Pacific leaders accept Australian invitation to climate summit
Anthony Albanese joins about 4,000 people in Fiji for preparatory meeting for year-ending Cop31 UN climate summitSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clea…
New York Is Running Out of Room for Its Trash
New York City is running out of places to dump its trash. In the latest draft of the city’s once-a-decade solid waste management plan, the sanitation department warns that the lan…
Australia experiences second hottest September on record as El Niño and climate crisis combine
Alpine areas also experience record-breaking heat with snow depth recorded at zero in Kosciuszko national parkGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia …
Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey
Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumesTwo or three nights each week, the smell descends. Resi…
British government ‘complacent about food as a national security matter’
Experts say country does not have plan to feed people in a crisis and is unprepared for future shortagesBritain does not have a plan for how to feed people in a crisis and is unpr…
Australia and Turkey criticised for hosting UN climate conference while embracing coal
Global campaign group 350.org urges Cop31 hosts to announce a coal phase-out date and national roadmaps to get off fossil fuelsSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Mort…
More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate ‘seal’: ‘We’re the ones growing up in this world’
A statewide initiative pairs climate-focused coursework with community service – and is spreading to other statesAs a student at a high school not far from Denver’s main airport, …
New California Law Aims to Stop ‘Predatory’ Developers from Moving In on Wildfire-Ravaged Community
ALTADENA, Calif.—Sylvie Andrews walks among the brilliant white poppies, purple California grapes and olive-green thorns surrounding her yard’s blackened pizza oven—one of the onl…
A Colorado Water Trial Could Decide the Future of an Agricultural Valley
Water regulators and farmers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley are in a lose-lose situation. Either they adopt a plan to aggressively manage the use of groundwater from their rapidly …
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as survey highlights many fire services lack proper protective gearThe government quietly scrapped plans to prepare the countrysid…
Southern California swelters as late-season heatwave smothers region
Temperatures expected to hover around 100F in downtown LA and even hotter inland, raising concerns about wildfiresSouthern California faced scorching heatwaves this summer that ma…
‘Nature-Based’ Solutions Could Save Insurers and Policyholders Billions
After years trudging through marshes around San Francisco Bay studying conservation practices, coastal ecologist Megan Kelso realized that one of the largest determinants of wetla…
SEC Move Would Make it Harder for Shareholders to Push Companies on Climate Action
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to scrap a rule that allows shareholders to formally petition companies, one of the ways that shareholder advocacy groups have pr…
Our Future Might Be Darker—and That’s a Good Thing
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with author Craig Childs. Think about the darkest sky you…
The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more If a third runway is built at Hea…
Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as AberdeenshireBritish farmers are experiencing the worst bluetongue season on record, …
Federal Judge Slams the Brakes on Big Bend Border Wall Construction
EL PASO—Federal Judge Kathleen Cardone granted a preliminary injunction Friday to halt construction on the border wall in Texas’ expansive Big Bend sector, including the national …
Europe’s Extreme Summer Triggered Cascading Climate Shocks
During this past summer of climate extremes, more than half of Europe experienced dangerous levels of heat stress, the combined effect of temperature, humidity, wind and sunshine …
Long-Awaited Senate Deal to Speed Permitting Faces Familiar Hurdles
The so-called “lame duck” session of Congress after November’s midterm elections could be momentous for clean energy as lawmakers are set to consider a long-sought bipartisan deal…
21 States Sue EPA to Reinstate Climate Pollution Rules for Power Plants
More than 20 states, including North Carolina, New York, California and Pennsylvania, as well as several cities, are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its repeal…