All news on the topic: Climate crisis

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Reform UK delegates dismiss climate crisis as "farce" despite record heat
Attendees at Nigel Farage’s party conference suggest crisis is manufactured by the Government in order to control the population
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Two workers found alive in Nepal tunnel nine days after devastating flash floods
Two workers have been found alive in a tunnel nine days after Nepal was hit with devastating flash floods.
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British man pulled alive from Nepal floods as death toll passes 1,000
A British man is among 119 people pulled alive from mud and debris after flash floods devastated parts of Nepal, rescue workers said.
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Brian Eno and 210 artists urge Andy Burnham to block Rosebank oilfield
Brian Eno, Massive Attack and Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie are among 211 artists calling on prime minister Andy Burnham to block plans for new oil drilling in the North Sea.
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Extreme UK heat claimed 2,700 lives as scientists warn of worsening climate risks
The heatwave that affected England and Wales in June killed about 440 people a day during its three-day peak, scientists have estimated. Across the whole of the June heatwave, plus the one in May, about 2,700 people lost their lives prematurely.
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World’s richest consumers cause up to $5.7tn in environmental damage each year
The environmental damage bill racked up by the highest-consuming 10% of the world’s population has reached up to $5.7tn a year – larger than the economy of every country except the US and China, a study has found.
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World’s biggest banks poured $906bn into fossil fuels despite climate warnings
The world’s largest banks committed $906bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an "unfathomable" increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil, and gas production as the world continues to overheat, a new report has found.
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NASA radar reveals Mexico City sinking more than 2cm a month
Powerful radar system is providing new data on city’s subsidence, which experts hope will draw more attention to it.
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British ad firm’s billion-dollar greenwash of US oil industry
A British advertising conglomerate has assisted oil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP in spending an estimated $1.5bn (£1.1bn) on advertisements in the US since the 2015 Paris agreement to combat the climate crisis, a report shows.
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Rachel Kyte’s £100,000 travel bill prompts scrutiny as climate official flies six times around the globe
Rachel Kyte has accumulated over 150,000 air miles in a year with trips to conferences such as COP30, Africa Energy Indaba Week in South Africa, and Clean Cooking Dialogue in Riyadh, at a cost of over £100,000.
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Tesla warns UK that weaker EV rules could derail climate goals
Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker also called for support for the secondhand market, documents reveal.
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German protester spared deportation after longest modern UK prison sentence
A climate activist who served one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for a peaceful protest has won his appeal against deportation.
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Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.
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UK taxpayers’ climate finance used to boost billionaire-owned companies and fossil fuel projects
Luxury carmakers owned by billionaires, telecom giants, and a company constructing new gas-fired power plants might not seem like obvious beneficiaries of climate aid.
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Pakistani farmers plan to sue German polluters for flood damage linked to climate change
A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has initiated legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies.
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Fossil fuel “carbon bombs” could emit 11 times the planet’s remaining carbon budget
As world leaders convene this week for the Paris Peace Forum, commemorating a decade since the significant climate accord aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, researchers are cautioning that numerous new and existing fossil fuel projects could drive the planet far beyond its remaining carbon budget.
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Mississippi residents sue Drax over toxic air pollution permit
Residents of a small Mississippi town are suing Drax Biomass after the company won a permit to become a “major source” of hazardous air pollution at a local wood pellet production plant.
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Rains after drought destroyed pyramid in Mexico
Extreme weather events and rising seas are putting precious heritage sites around the world in harm’s way.
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Shippers are accused of contributing to forest destruction driven by the beef industry
Shippers are accused of contributing to forest destruction driven by the beef industry.
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Сomplete list of UK seaside towns expected to be submerged in 25 years
The future is not looking bright for many UK seaside towns as the effects of climate change could drown them by 2050.
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Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool
Luke Evans, whose work has been called ‘breathtakingly new’, says he has lost experimental data and all equipment.
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Elderly activist to spend Christmas in prison because tag does not fit
Woman jailed for M25 protest not allowed to continue home detention because electronic tags are too big
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The rapid growth of AI-powered cloud storage poses a threat to Ireland’s climate goals
Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of datacentres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use
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Amazon, Tesla, and Meta are among the world’s top companies undermining democracy, according to a report
Corporations such as ExxonMobil and Blackstone also big funders of climate crisis, new trade union report finds
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Campaigners estimate that taxing superyachts and private jets could raise £2 billion annually
Oxfam says ‘commonsense solution’ would reduce emissions and raise urgently needed climate finance
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