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Promoting green growth does not make you an ‘eco-nutter’. It’s the only way forward

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 09:00:46 +0000

Heading off the environmental crisis and growing the economy are not at odds. They are two sides of a coin – as our politicians should realise

Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do? | Catherine Bennett

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 07:00:44 +0000

Keir Starmer’s rhetoric against green campaigners appears to have taken a playground turn

Keir Starmer urged to resist pressure to permit Rosebank North Sea oilfield

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 07:00:43 +0000

Leading climate group warns of damage to green agenda if giant project goes ahead

Keir Starmer will do huge damage to the global fight against climate change if he gives in to political pressure and allows the development of a giant new oilfield in the North Sea, according to an analysis by the country’s leading environmental institute.

Towns cut off by Queensland floods warned against panic-buying as premier vows ‘resilient’ rebuild

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:44:46 +0000

David Crisafulli says infrastructure to be replaced after floods needs ‘greater ability’ to withstand natural disasters

I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too | Jessie Cole

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:00:34 +0000

Sometimes a branch grows so low and bushy that it blocks access to my room. I diligently cut it back

Labour’s clean energy plan will not only cut emissions but lift hundreds of thousands out of fuel poverty | Ed Miliband

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:00:32 +0000

The party’s agenda is about energy security, lower bills, economic growth and good jobs

Ed Miliband is the Labour MP for Doncaster North and secretary of state for energy security and net zero

During four years in opposition and in the seven months since this government came to office, we have been clear: smart climate policy means not only protecting future generations from the biggest existential threat we face, but fighting to make working people better off today, growing our economy and confronting the economic injustices we face.

Mexico authorities order factory cleanup after Guardian toxic waste investigation

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 18:00:27 +0000

Inquiry uncovered health problems in neighborhood near Monterrey-area plant that processes US hazardous waste

Mexican environmental regulators say they have discovered 30,000 tons of improperly stored material with “hazardous characteristics” in the yard of a Mexican plant that is recycling toxic waste shipped from the US.

Where the heart is: the artist memorialising homes lost in the LA fires – in pictures

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:00:26 +0000

On 10 January, as fires raged across Los Angeles, local portrait artist Asher Bingham made an offer via an Instagram reel: “ To anyone that has lost a home in the #LAfires I will draw [it] for free.” She had already drawn the house of a close friend that had burned down; by offering her services more widely, she hoped to help others grieve for what they’d lost. She wasn’t prepared for the response. So many people sent in photos – 1,300 and counting – that she had to recruit volunteers to keep up with demand. For Bingham, it’s all about the small details: wind chimes, potted plants.

Kew’s rescue mission: arborists head to Scotland after hundreds of trees and plants felled by Storm Éowyn

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:00:28 +0000

Scotland’s botanic gardens suffer ‘unimaginable’ loss of rare specimens

For more than a century, whenever winter came to Scotland, they stood tall against the wind and rain and snow. But last month, battered by Storm Éowyn, hundreds of rare and historic trees in the living collection of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh were lost.

Western food was unhealthy and costly. So they turned back to bison and mushrooms

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:00:24 +0000

The Siċaŋġu Nation in South Dakota is building community and climate resilience through traditional foods

On a Wednesday summer evening on the Rosebud Reservation, members of the Siċaŋġu Nation arrange 12 tables to form a U in the parking lot of a South Dakota Boys & Girls Club. The tables at the Siċaŋġu Harvest Market are laden with homemade foods for sale: tortillas, cooked beans, pickles and fresh-squeezed lemonade.