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More than 330,000 buildings without power as ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred brings dangerous rain and winds

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:48:56 +0000

Up to 700mm in rainfalls and destructive gusts predicted to hit south-east Queensland and northern NSW

This land is your land: leaf portraits of Ecuador’s female farmers – in pictures

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:00:27 +0000

In the Zuleta community in Ecuador, farming is about more than just sustenance: it is about cultivating a deep relationship with the land based on ancestral knowledge. In her travels in the region, Colombo-Ecuadorian photographer Yinna Higuera collaborates with rural women, who in exchange share their understanding of medicinal plants and give her leaves from their gardens.

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The Trump administration has withdrawn the US from a global agreement under which the developed nations most responsible for the climate crisis pledged to partly compensate developing countries for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

Nearly half of popular tropical plant group related to birds-of-paradise and bananas are threatened with extinction

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:56:08 +0000

A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, beak-shaped flowers, are threatened with extinction.

Scientists develop advanced forest monitoring systems: Will forests monitor themselves in the future?

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:56:00 +0000

'Forests are among the most important ecosystems in nature, constantly evolving, yet their monitoring is often delayed,' says an expert. Climate change, pests, and human activity are transforming forests faster than we can track them -- some changes become apparent only when the damage is already irreversible.

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.