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Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:01:04 +0000

Emma Pinchbeck will take over as chief executive of Climate Change Committee next month

The government’s official climate watchdog has appointed the head of the energy industry’s trade association to lead its work helping to drive the UK’s emissions to net zero by 2050.

Emma Pinchbeck, the head of Energy UK, will take up the role of chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) from early next month after four years at the helm of the trade association.

Klamath River dam removal: before and after images show dramatic change

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:45:53 +0000

Dam removal concluded a decades long fight on 2 October, which also saw Chinook salmon return to the waters

With California’s Klamath Dam removal project finally completed, new before and after photos show the dramatic differences along the river with and without the dams. The photos were taken by Swiftwater Films, a documentary company chronicling the dam removal project – a two decade long fight that concluded 2 October.

Ramos-Horta says $74bn Timor Sea gas project could begin within months if Australia signs treaty

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:45:40 +0000

Timor-Leste president’s trip comes amid mounting pressure for Labor to finalise an agreement

US south-east reels from ‘unspeakable tragedy’ of Helene as new storm looms

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:11:33 +0000

An entire family was killed less than a month before wedding day as Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida

As the country turns its attention to Hurricane Milton, which is expected to bring life-threatening conditions to parts of Florida after it makes landfall later this week, communities in much of the south-east US are still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene almost two weeks ago.

Double punch of hurricanes could become common due to climate crisis

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:00:52 +0000

As Floridians prepare to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton, debris from Helene still litter swaths of the state

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene lashed the Florida coastline, an even more powerful hurricane is hurtling toward the state.

It’s the kind of double hit becoming more common as the climate crisis persists, further complicating hurricane preparation, experts say.

Oregon county sues major gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:00:51 +0000

Complaint against NW Natural, the state’s biggest provider, marks first time a utility faces climate deception charges

Oregon’s most populous county has sued the state’s biggest gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt, marking the first time a utility has faced charges of climate deception.

How did Hurricane Milton reach category 5 strength so quickly and when will it make landfall?

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:59:53 +0000

Milton is the third fastest-intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic, as experts warn the climate crisis is fueling more powerful storms

The speed with which recent hurricanes have been intensifying in strength is alarming climate experts, officials and residents facing these huge storms. More than a million people have been told to evacuate as Florida braces for the arrival of Hurricane Milton this week on the state’s west coast.

Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:08:39 +0000

Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says

Many of Earth’s “vital signs” have hit record extremes, indicating that “the future of humanity hangs in the balance”, a group of the world’s most senior climate experts have said.

Scientists contest environment minister’s claim of ‘blitzing’ Australia’s ocean reserve expansion goal

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:00:03 +0000

Tanya Plibersek claims Labor is protecting 52% of its ocean territory, but experts say that is ‘misleading’

Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, landowner’s lawyers tell court

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:03:54 +0000

Alexander Darwall, owner of Blachford estate in national park, is challenging the right to wild camping

Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, according to the lawyers for a landowner who is challenging the right to wild camping on the moors.

The public should have no right to undertake any activities other than walking or horse riding in the Dartmoor national park without landowner permission, Timothy Morshead KC told a supreme court hearing on Tuesday.