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Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:01:00 +0000

Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households

Rachel Reeves has been told that cutting funding for home insulation at the budget would risk the UK’s climate goals and hurt low-income households in a joint intervention by energy firms, fuel poverty charities and environmental groups.

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:00:59 +0000

Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

Water companies and the government are drawing up emergency plans for a drought next year more extreme than we have seen in decades.

Executives at one major water company told the Guardian they were extremely concerned about the prospect of a winter with lower than average rainfall, which the Met Office’s long-term forecast says is likely. They said if this happened, the water shortfall would mean taking drastic water use curtailment measures “going beyond hosepipe bans”.

Will Labor’s environment laws actually address Australia’s biodiversity crisis? Five reasons to be concerned

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:00:47 +0000

Experts say the proposed legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules

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The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer | Editorial

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:30:40 +0000

The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica

‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:00:28 +0000

Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’

Tackling the climate emergency is one of the key issues that could turn the tide against hard-right populists across the world, the UK’s energy secretary has said.

Speaking on the eve of the UN’s climate summit, Ed Miliband said it was the cause progressives could rally around, because most people recognise populist parties have got it wrong.

Residents of Alaska’s storm-battered Native towns consider moving to higher ground

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:21:40 +0000

Damage from Typhoon Halong underscored the vulnerability of villages in western Alaska to climate crisis

Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes and walked home, avoiding the debris piled on the boardwalks over the swampy land.

Toby Carvery owner urged to fund ‘life support’ for felled Enfield oak

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:59:19 +0000

Sprinklers could save 500-year-old tree that had branches cut off without authorisation in April, says expert

The restaurant chain Toby Carvery is being urged to pay for life support for an ancient oak tree that its owner had chainsawed last spring to widespread public dismay.

Coalition climate dysfunction is all upside for Labor but the words of Keating ‘to run the joint’ ring true | Tom McIlroy

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:00:04 +0000

As the Coalition tears itself to shreds, the Albanese government must keep progressing its net zero policies

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The artist Luke Jerram on the tree-planting project he’ll never see finished

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:16:45 +0000

It may be a midlife crisis, says the man behind seven-metre installations of the Earth, moon and Sun who has planted 365 trees in a 100-year project in Somerset

Luke Jerram, whose art installations have travelled the world, is philosophical about his latest project bearing fruit beyond his time on Earth.

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:00:41 +0000

Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals.