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COP27: Causes for concern, and hope, ahead of the big climate summit

26 October 2022

A year on from the make-or-break climate conference in Glasgow, nations have failed to make progress of cutting emissions. But there are reasons for optimism from beyond the meeting rooms


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The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War review: US military emissions

26 October 2022

While the US military appears to take climate change seriously, it is a major polluter. Neta C. Crawford's book explores the Pentagon’s bad habits


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The Blaze (En Plein Feu) review: A taut eco-thriller about a wildfire

26 October 2022

The wildfire that swept across Europe this summer resonates through Quentin Reynaud’s The Blaze, a tense, subtly crafted eco-thriller in which a father and son struggle to escape from a local outbreak


COP27: How the world is doing on climate targets and what to expect

COP27: How the world is doing on climate targets and what to expect

26 October 2022

The war in Ukraine has encouraged a rush to exploit more fossil fuels, but there are still positive signs of climate action ahead of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt


Emergency workers patrol a flooded area in Melbourne on 14 October

Eastern Australia is battling fifth major wave of floods in 19 months

25 October 2022

More extreme rain has flooded 43 towns in New South Wales, 24 in Victoria and three in Tasmania and the abnormally wet conditions are expected to last until 2023


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Engineering firms explore plan to slow melting of Greenland glacier

21 October 2022

Companies are considering a major geoengineering project that would build a barrier to block warm seawater from reaching the base of Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland


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Glyphosate weedkiller impairs learning and memory in bumblebees

21 October 2022

Bumblebees exposed to glyphosate performed worse in tests that required them to remember which colours were linked to rewards


Drilling at United Downs Deep Geothermal Project.

Can geothermal energy supply all of the UK's heating?

20 October 2022

A committee of MPs has urged the government to exploit the vast amount of underground heat beneath the UK, but realising that potential isn't straightforward


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