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US exits fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:08:51 +0000

Trump pulls out of Cop28 loss and damage deal that recognises harms done by richer, polluting economies to vulnerable nations

The Trump administration has withdrawn the US from a global agreement under which the developed nations most responsible for the climate crisis pledged to partly compensate developing countries for irreversible harms caused by global heating.

Trump administration to drop case against plant polluting Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:00:17 +0000

Biden-era suit sought to curb emissions of the carcinogen chloroprene at Denka plant formerly owned by DuPont

The Donald Trump administration has formally agreed to drop a landmark environmental justice case in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” region, marking a blow to clean air advocates in the region and a win for the Japanese petrochemical giant at the centre of the litigation.

Switzerland told it must do better on climate after older women’s ECHR win

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:17:06 +0000

Council of Europe says Swiss government failing to respect human rights court’s ruling on emissions

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The Swiss government has been told it must do more to show that its national climate plans are ambitious enough to comply with a landmark legal ruling.

More than a million salmon dumped after ‘unprecedented’ mass mortality at Tasmanian fish farms

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:00:11 +0000

Bob Brown Foundation’s drone footage appears to show farm workers pumping live salmon into a tub carrying dead fish and then sealing it

The secret life of the Congo rainforest – in pictures

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:00:06 +0000

Using high-definition camera traps on trails in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki national park, Will Burrard-Lucas, a photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, has captured Africa’s most elusive and rarely seen animals

Just Stop Oil protesters’ jail sentences shortened after appeal

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:33:28 +0000

Judge says cofounder Roger Hallam’s term was ‘manifestly excessive’ as she cuts his and five other activists’ sentences

A lengthy jail sentence handed to the Just Stop Oil cofounder Roger Hallam was “manifestly excessive”, the country’s most senior judge has said, as she reduced his and five other climate protesters’ sentences on appeal.

Allowing foreign firms to sue governments for lost profits is legal terrorism – it must end | Joseph Stiglitz

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:00:42 +0000

Investor–state dispute settlements don’t just mean growing debt burdens for countries: they are also a barrier to action on the climate crisis

UK Treasury ‘weighs up funding cuts at GB Energy’ in blow to Ed Miliband

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:29:45 +0000

Government considering such a move over state-owned firm set up by Labour in June’s spending review, say reports

Week in wildlife: a curious monkey, a Dorset beaver and a football rat

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:00:37 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Before and after: the beaches in the path of Tropical Cyclone Alfred – video

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 05:37:27 +0000

Cameras stationed by Swellnet to monitor swells on Australia's east coast show the difference a couple of days can make when a tropical cyclone like Alfred approaches. The cameras record how eight beaches, in Queensland and New South Wales, change from Monday to Thursday.