The Natural Resources Defense Council published a new report on the chemicals used in pyrolysis as EPA considers loosening air regulations.
Critics debunk economic claims as research finds Rosebank development would produce estimated 250m tonnes of CO2 UK politics live – latest updates Scores of Labour MPs have urged the prospective prime minister Andy Burnham to rule out the “tin-eared” and “deluded” development of the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea, which new research indicates would produce as much carbon dioxide as the UK does in 10 months. Estimates seen by the Guardian show that Rosebank, which mainly contains oil , would produce about 250m tonnes of CO 2 over its lifetime. That is the equivalent of about 70% of the UK’s annual emissions. Continue reading...
Our European environment correspondent has been reporting on the shocking heatwave that continues to scorch its way across Europe, covering everything from the lack of preparation to ways to deal with the heat Post your questions now – Ajit will be here at 1pm BST (2pm CEST) to answer them Many European countries, including Germany, France, Czechia, Poland and Hungary have experienced their hottest days ever . The UK and others have suffered their hottest ever day in June. Over the past week Ajit, alongside the rest of our environment team and network of reporters, has been following this extreme heat wave as it headed east across the continent. Today, Budapest is expected to hit 40C and other parts of eastern Europe have issued red warnings for extreme heat. We have looked at...
Scientists discovered the ozone hole in 1985, but if they'd had the atmospheric monitoring capabilities of today, they could have found it 30 years earlier, according to new research.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Samantha Harrington Sarina Virmani lives in Loudoun County, Virginia, which is home to over 200 data centers and colloquially known as Data Center Alley. As a high school student, Virmani published a paper on the environmental impact of data centers in the American Journal of Student Research. She also organizes for more transparency and regulation in the industry. “A lot of people think that artificial intelligence is something that’s invisible, but it’s not. It lives in these massive buildings,” she said. Data centers aren’t new in Loudoun County, but the explosive growth of AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini is driving demand for...
NASA’s Earth-observing satellites track an enormous range of phenomena: how aerosols move through the atmosphere, how moisture descends through soil, how land-cover shifts over decades. It’s some of the most consequential data NASA produces, informing science, policy, agriculture, and climate research around the world. As NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) manages this vast portfolio, they […]
Red warnings issued as record-breaking heatwave pushes east, with authorities urging people to stay indoors Parts of central, eastern and southern Europe sweltered on Monday as the “heat dome” behind last week’s record-breaking temperatures shifted east, bringing dangerous conditions to a new swathe of the continent. Budapest is forecast to exceed 40C on Tuesday, according to models from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Belgrade and Bucharest reached 38C and 37C respectively on Monday as the heatwave, which has been linked to hundreds of deaths in western Europe, moved east. Continue reading...
Many will experience cooler air and some rain this week before a possible return to hot weather at the weekend.
Marine Le Pen does not believe in global warming - writes John Lichfield. She believes in air-conditioning.
A growing number of countries wants to delay the EU’s landmark rules governing methane emissions.
How to Turn National Adaptation Plans into Local Action in Brazil, India and Indonesia alicia.cypress… Mon, 06/29/2026 - 00:01 In large and geographically diverse countries like Brazil, India and Indonesia, climate risks vary greatly across regions — from wildfire threats in forest communities to severe flooding in coastal villages to intensifying extreme heat in major cities — requiring locally tailored responses. Yet implementation in decentralized countries like these is often constrained by fragmented governance, uneven capacity at subnational levels and gaps in climate data and finance. Overcoming these barriers requires stronger vertical integration — forging clearer connections between national and subnational governments so that adaptation becomes a two-way...
All-time highest temperatures have been set in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Delhi sweltered under a brutal heatwave, with the 'feel-like' temperature soaring to a season-high 51.3 degrees Celsius on Saturday. Despite the mercury hitting 41.3 degrees Celsius, high humidity made it feel much hotter. Nights offered little respite, remaining uncomfortably warm. Light rain and gusty winds are anticipated next week, but the monsoon's arrival is delayed, leaving the capital in a prolonged hot spell.
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Denmark experiences highest temperature on record on Saturday as weather system spreads eastward Europe heatwave – latest updates Germany and Italy endured sweltering conditions on Saturday as a heatwave linked to dozens of deaths in western Europe spread eastwards, after temperatures broke records above 40C (104F). Denmark registered its highest temperature on record on Saturday, according to the Danish meteorological institute. “With 36.6C north of Odense, we have the warmest day ever since measurements began in 1874,” it said in a post on X. Continue reading...
Germany saw its highest temperature ever recorded on Friday at 41.3C, according to preliminary weather service data, as the country braces for the possibility of even higher temperatures over the weekend.
When we asked readers what they did during that scorching summer, nearly 3,000 responded. Here are some of their memories.
Circuit court finds the EPA under President Joe Biden had authority to issue stricter controls on fine particulate matter, the nation’s deadliest air pollutant.
Suffolk saw the highest temperature on Friday - but many will feel the heatwave begin to ease over the weekend.
A historic heatwave has put this weekend's Paris Diamond League athletics meet in doubt. French authorities have requested its cancellation, citing immense pressure on emergency services and extreme weather. While organisers initially planned a modified event for elite athletes, the police prefecture has warned of an enforced cancellation if organisers don't comply. This unprecedented heat has already broken national records.
Japan's weather agency on Friday warned that a typhoon could approach the country from the Pacific and make landfall the following day, as heavy rain fell across western and eastern regions.
The court disagreed with industry groups and red states that EPA lacked power to issue the rule and was tainted by environmental justice considerations.
Staff at Magnavale, near Grantham, say the "giant freezer" is a great place to be in hot weather.
BBC Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker on what's next for the weather in Europe
Extreme weather breaks MRI scanners and cooling units and workload rises for sleep-deprived staff on sweltering wards ‘Infection control becomes almost impossible’: four doctors on the NHS heatwave crisis Doctors have set out the disastrous impact extreme heat is having on the NHS in England, with radiotherapy machines and MRI scanners failing, critical IT systems stalling and cooling units that serve entire hospitals breaking down. The hot weather has also prompted a surge in admissions and people arriving at A&E, causing severe overcrowding in some places and exacerbating heat-related pressures on infrastructure. Continue reading...
Video: 00:02:07 Europe is facing an intense heatwave, with record temperatures and several cities under red alert. On 23 June, France recorded its hottest June day ever.This image was captured the same day by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, which measures land surface temperature from space.Unlike air temperature, land surface temperature shows how hot the ground itself becomes, often much higher as rock and asphalt absorb heat throughout the day.Sentinel-3 uses thermal sensors to monitor Earth’s land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere, supporting everything from weather response to long-term climate monitoring.View image: Europe feels the heat beneath our feetLearn more about the Sentinel-3 mission
An early heatwave exposes Europe’s fast-warming future.
A three-year-old has been found dead in a car in the Paris region, a police source said on Thursday, the third such fatality of a child during the extreme weather this week.
The European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite was developed to make a unique set of simultaneous measurements that shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth’s climate.Now, in a remarkable example of a research mission delivering direct practical benefits, global observations from the satellite’s cloud profiling radar are being used operationally by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts to improve daily weather forecasts – this landmark achievement marks the first time that cloud radar data from space have been assimilated into a global weather forecasting system.
The EU Methane Regulation will introduce new obligations in January requiring oil and gas firms to monitor, report and verify emissions of methane.
The previous top temperature of 35.6C, set during the legendary ten-week heatwave, was surpassed when the mercury reached 36.1C in Gosport, Hampshire..
New research shows that geomagnetic storms can cause immediate changes in precipitation, surface temperatures, and other weather conditions.
Several recent laws and a Supreme Court ruling have both narrowed and streamlined the nation's environmental review law.
The latest heatwave sweeping across Europe is a stark reminder that it is the world's fastest-warming continent, stretching into an Arctic that is heating at an even greater pace
Europe’s record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in north-west France on Wednesday, authorities said, in the country’s first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme weather.
For 15 consecutive days in 1976 the sun beat down on Britain and the temperature hovered at 32C (89.6F).
[Nile Post] Nile Post has been named the winner of the Environmental Journalism Award in the Online Media category at the 2026 National Environment Sustainability Awards (NESA), in recognition of its outstanding reporting on biodiversity conservation, wildlife protection and environmental sustainability.
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France has extended the 'red' weather warnings going into Tuesday as the heatwave is set to continue and become even more severe.
Europe is facing a major weather crisis, with parts of France expected to reach up to 45C today, as the continent swelters under a massive heatdome.
Eastern Europe to see temperatures above early July average into next week The extreme heat experienced across central and western Europe, including the UK, will continue to shift eastwards. As slightly cooler weather infiltrates into western Europe, with risks of downpours and thunderstorms, eastern Europe is likely to see temperatures several degrees above the early July average into next week. Peak highs of between 35C and 40C are expected across southern Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and into the northern Balkans. Typhoon Mekkhala, the seventh typhoon of the season in the western Pacific, strengthened east of Luzon on Sunday with sustained winds of 75mph (120km/h) and gusts in excess of 100mph over open water, and is set to head northwards through the Philippine Sea this week. Forecast...
Abstract Responding to the biodiversity crisis in cities requires a new model of environmental researcher. Conservation scientists have a critical role to play in shaping the future of biodiverse, ecologically thriving cities. However, many of the principles and paradigms guiding traditional ecology and conservation introduce a rigidity ill-suited to the complex socio-ecological systems of cities. Here, we argue that to be effective in an urban environment, ecologists and conservation scientists first need to overcome lingering mental hurdles and embrace the urban-ness of urban ecosystems. To that end, we employ a framework established by Jane Austen, presenting four commonly observed prides and prejudices that may limit the success of urban ecologists and conservation scientists, and a suite...
June 20 is " Climate Stripes Day " across the world and the creator Ed Hawkins of this iconic graphic recently talked with Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick and Iain Strachan on their "Totally Cooked" podcast about them. From the video's description: In this episode of Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast, hosts Iain Strachan and Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick sit down with one of the world’s most recognisable climate communicators: Professor Ed Hawkins from the University of Reading. Ed is the climate scientist behind the now-iconic Climate Stripes, a deceptively simple graphic made of blue and red bars that tells the story of global warming at a glance. First published in 2018, the stripes visualise more than a century of rising global...
As heat waves grow more frequent and fierce, cities worldwide are racing to cool streets and reshape urban life.
More than half of France’s population under severe weather warning with temperatures expected to exceed 40C More than half of France’s population is under a severe weather warning as large swathes of western Europe endure the second extreme heat event of the year with temperatures expected to exceed 40C (104F). The French president, Emmanuel Macron, called for “extreme vigilance from everyone”, asking citizens to “take care of our oldest and most vulnerable people” and follow government advice. “We are going through difficult days,” he said. Continue reading...
Strong winds and heavy rain batter Slovenia, while France experiences atypical heatwave Severe thunderstorms swept across the Balkans last week, bringing widespread destruction to parts of the region. The storms developed as unstable hot air lingered over the Adriatic Sea while a cold front plunged south-eastward. The front began its journey on 10 June in Slovenia, where the Slovenian Environment Agency recorded 65mph gusts at Ljubljana airport. Heavy rain also fell widely across the region with 23mm reported in Kranj. Continue reading...
NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS and low Earth orbit satellites, as well as astronauts in space. The DAPHNE (Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer) mission will enter Phase B of development, […]
That amount could pay for climate and biodiversity financing targets with billions still to spare.
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we learn how two young innovators are recycling war rubble into something to build back with; see how fungi help restore ecosystems after a wildfire; and hear why young people are suing the federal government over its approach to climate change.
The UK’s weather represents a forecast of two halves, with parts of the south and east reaching heatwave thresholds, while the north and west will experience temperatures closer to average and more unsettled conditions.
[CPJ] New York -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mozambican authorities to return the equipment of prominent investigative journalist Estacio Valoi and to end the intimidation of reporters covering environmental crimes and conflict in northern Cabo Delgado province.
Very warm weather is set to return to parts of the UK with temperatures of 30C plus expected as Europe experiences a 'heat dome' as Simon King explains.
30 per cent of respondents said they were personally affected by extreme weather events like heat waves, floods, fires and tornadoes over the last 12 months.
A new study suggests that once the global warming exceeds a certain threshold, weather impacts of super El Niños could become less severe.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A federal judge in South Carolina ruled this week that the Trump administration’s termination of environmental justice grants was “illegal.” The decision dealt a setback to efforts to dismantle a Biden-era program that funded projects addressing environmental and public health challenges […]
New research has identified areas around the world where cooler currents and other favorable conditions are helping to protect coral from the worst effects of global warming.
The Toyota Tundra is one of the more popular pickups on the market today, but there are alternatives that meet or exceed the Tundra in comfort and performance.
The post Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit. appeared first on ProPublica.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink I’ve often come across graphs on social media showing atmospheric CO2 concentrations over time, with various dates of climate agreements highlighted. Shared by doomers and skeptics alike, they are used to argue that the rise of CO2 concentrations is inexorable and has not (or perhaps cannot) be slowed by actions we take. One example from the Orwellian-named climate skeptic group “ Friends of Science ”. On the other hand global CO2 emissions – the very precursors to those concentrations – have largely plateaued. After increasing by more than 20% in the 2000s, CO2 emissions today are a mere 3% higher than they were in 2013. This plateau has been driven in part by a rapid expansion of clean energy...
Lee Reynolds, 53, said he felt 'physically sick' after receiving an enforcement notice a few days after dropping off the cardboard box at his nearby community recycling facilities.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Liberia's environmental conservation agenda received renewed international attention on Monday as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) welcomed a high-level delegation from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office for the launch of a comprehensive assessment of GEF-supported environmental and coastal resilience projects across the country.
Government hopes for 30% of city’s fleet to be electric by 2030, in move hailed as ‘gamechanger’ on air pollution The unruly chaos of Delhi’s roads would be unrecognisable without the rickshaws and scooters that zip through India’s capital in their millions, emitting toxic fumes in their wake. But now, ambitious policies aim to give the city’s most recognisable vehicles an environmental makeover. On Monday, Delhi’s government announced plans to eventually ban petrol scooters, motorbikes and autorickshaws in favour of those running on electricity, in an attempt to bring down dangerously high pollution levels in the city by the end of the decade. Continue reading...
A severe heatwave gripping Europe has claimed over 1,300 lives since June 21, with France reporting nearly 1,000 excess deaths and 74 drownings. Nations like Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland have shattered temperature records. This extreme heat, amplified by an Omega Block weather pattern, is straining infrastructure and highlighting the vulnerability of European buildings not designed for such sustained warmth.
Delhi is phasing out petrol and CNG two-wheelers by April 2028, with only electric auto-rickshaws to be registered from January 2027. The new Electric Vehicle Policy, effective July 1, offers significant subsidies for electric two and three-wheeler buyers in its first year. This initiative aims to combat air pollution, which vehicular emissions contribute to significantly, by accelerating the adoption of clean mobility solutions.
Using modern tools, they also determined that carbon tetrachloride, used as a dry-cleaning and degreasing agent as early as the 1930s, was at the root of early ozone loss.
Parcels of goods worth under €150 will no longer enjoy ‘de minimis’ exemption, exploited by platforms such as Temu and Shein Business live – latest updates The European Commission has said it hopes to prevent the “desertification” of Europe’s high streets, as it prepares to introduce a customs tax on small parcels in an attempt to curb cheap Chinese imports. Consumers have been able to buy up to €150 (£129) worth of goods, including fast fashion, cosmetics and toys, without any customs charges as part of a “de minimis” exemption, a tariff break meaning too small to matter. Continue reading...
The deadly heatwave that’s set temperature records across western Europe for more than a week has shifted east to scorch Hungary, Romania and the Balkans. Hungary’s Budapest is expected to top 40 degrees Celsius (104F) on Tuesday, according to models from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Belgrade in Serbia and Bucharest in Romania will reach 38 degrees and 37 degrees, respectively, on Monday. Red warnings for extreme heat have been issued in Poland, Hungary, Romania,...
Weather cools as record-breaking heatwave recedes, Green party calls for immediate air-conditioning programme, Germany's football team faces Paraguay in World Cup knock-out match and more news on Monday, June 29th.
Americans have been posting online about Europeans being unable to cope with hot weather.
This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, climate scientists have issued warnings about positive global warming feedbacks, vicious cycles in the Earth system in which rising temperatures from burning fossil fuels beget more warming. The best tools we have to understand these feedback mechanisms are […]
The alert comes after lightning strikes sparked house fires and more than 800 flights at Heathrow and Gatwick were delayed, with dozens more cancelled as storms swept across parts of the UK.
Firefighters working on the nation's largest current wildfire, burning in southern Utah, are being challenged by historic weather conditions. Extreme wildfire behavior is expected to continue through the weekend.
Passengers report being stuck on grounded planes in sweltering conditions as severe weather causes travel disruption across Europe Europe heatwave: latest updates Thunderstorms have caused severe delays to hundreds of flights at Heathrow and Gatwick airports, leaving passengers stuck on grounded planes for hours in the scorching heat. Overnight, downpours and thunderstorms lit up the skies of London after back-to-back days of 30C-plus weather as the UK and much of Europe experienced a record-breaking heatwave . Continue reading...
The late arrival of India’s monsoon season and below-average rainfall have caused problems ranging from planting delays for farmers to water restrictions for construction sites in its largest business hub, Mumbai. Water shortages have been reported around the country due to the late start of the rainy season, which typically begins in June but has grown erratic in recent years. Climate experts said El Nino, a warming of the Pacific that affects weather around the globe, combined with an already...
Governor also announced state of emergency and banned personal fireworks in state until after Fourth of July Salt Lake City’s National Weather Service declared a “particularly dangerous situation red flag warning”, the first in the service’s history, according to a social media post. “THIS IS EXTREMELY RARE … Wind gusts of 40-50+ mph, combined with hot temperatures and extremely dry air, could cause explosive wildfire growth. Any new fire that starts could spread rapidly and become difficult to control,” said Chase Thomason, a meteorologist for KUTV, Utah ’s CBS affiliate. Continue reading...
Germany's highest ever temperature of 41.3C is recorded provisionally in Saarbrücken, over the border from France.
The UK has provisionally seen a new maximum temperature record for June for the third consecutive day, with 37.3°C reached at Santon Downham in Suffolk on 26 June.
Plans to protect people fall ‘far short of what is needed’, government told, as MP warns of heatwave deaths UK politics live – latest updates The UK government is facing increasingly urgent calls for action to protect people against the intensifying effects of the climate crisis, as the highest maximum temperature record for June was broken for the third day in a row. With the country in the grip of the worst heatwave ever recorded in western Europe – a direct result of global heating – the chair of parliament’s environmental audit committee warned ministers of the urgent threat and said the UK was falling “far short of what is needed”. Continue reading...
Hong Kong is seeking to curb the flow of bulk high liquid content waste, such as expired drinks, personal care products and discarded detergents, into landfills, a move conservationists say will protect local waters and coastlines from the risk of toxic leakage. While academics and green groups welcomed the move, the retail sector expressed concern that the new requirement might result in higher recycling and manpower costs that could ultimately be passed on to consumers. The Environmental...
Cardiac arrests have gone up during very hot weather, and it's not just among the elderly and frail, experts are warning.
Japanese airlines cancelled on Friday more than 100 flights as two tropical storms barrelled towards the archipelago, with authorities advising evacuations in some areas because of possible flooding and landslides. Severe tropical storm Mekkhala, downgraded from a typhoon, was packing gusts of up to 144km/h (89mph), according to forecasters, with heavy rain already pounding parts of southern and western Japan. The weather system was expected to skirt the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku over the...
Across the United States, record breaking extreme weather events have already occurred, including severe storms and Tornadoes in the State of Illinois to flooding in Texas, southern Wisconsin and the South. Throughout the summer, and the remainder of the growing season, additional severe weather events will come through including several hurricanes and tropical storms beginning […]
French teaching unions on Thursday called for a strike to protest "unacceptable working conditions" as a severe heatwave shatters temperature records in the country.
At least 101 million Europeans were expected to experience temperatures of over 35C on Thursday, in a punishing and increasingly deadly heatwave hotter than weather in parts of Africa.
England just experienced its hottest day ever. In Paris, the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre were shut due to the heatwave sweeping across Europe. The continent is warming twice as fast as the global average and is now regularly reckoning with heat extremes.
Strategies for lowering carbon emissions from hydrocarbons and waste must overcome the challenges related to catalyst durability and the presorting of waste. Reforming low-value carbon sources with carbon dioxide (CO2) offers an industrial-scale pathway ...
FERC released a notice Wednesday that identified its intention to prepare an environmental assessment for the Constitution pipeline project and the Wright Interconnect project, with plans to issue the review in August.
VolcanoTech’s sulphur dioxide detecting sensors are in already in use in a number of countries Weather forecasts now include air quality warnings and cities have networks of air quality sensors driving real-time maps online. Similar air quality sensors can warn of an imminent volcanic eruption. Just as a fizzy drink releases carbon dioxide when the pressure is released, rising magma emits dissolved sulphur dioxide as it rises. So a big increase in this gas warns that a volcanic eruption may be imminent. Continue reading...
But the hot weather sweeping across the UK appears to be a step too far for staff at the BBC .
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Amid efforts to cool global warming, the battle hinges on targeting such super-pollutants as methane, which emits one third of the world’s greenhouse gases and “is a fight we can win”, the UN chief on Wednesday.
Europe braced for more of an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed records in many countries and sent air-conditioner sales zooming in a continent unused and ill-equipped to handle searing heat. The extreme weather was being driven by atmospheric and circulation patterns that keep hot air trapped in place for days, causing the mercury to slowly rise, with these factors exacerbated by global warming, experts say. France’s national temperature indicator – an average of daytime and nighttime...
However, Imperial College team also find that pollution has worse health impact than previously understood Deaths linked to air pollution fell by an estimated 40% in London over the five years from 2019, according to new analysis. The city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, welcomed what he called “overwhelming evidence” that his ultra-low emission zone was saving lives. Continue reading...
PARIS - Europe on Tuesday braced for more extreme weather as a deadly heatwave threatened fresh temperature records in Britain, with trains disrupted and hospitals across the continent preparing for an influx of heat-afflicted patients.
We’ve shown that rapid, measurable progress is achievable in our cities. Here’s how that can now be replicated worldwide Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London. Michael Bloomberg is a former mayor of New York City Some public health threats make global headlines: Covid-19. Ebola. Famine. When these disasters hit, photographs and videos of people suffering and dying spur countries to respond, international bodies to cooperate and individuals to donate supplies and money. Yet one of the world’s deadliest threats gets almost no attention at all, because it is largely invisible to the public and mostly absent from media coverage: air pollution. Every day, billions of people are inhaling air that is shortening their lives and making them sicker with every breath. Every year, air pollution kills...
Several start-ups have tried to grow seaweed to remove atmospheric CO2, but this could affect the levels of nutrients in the ocean and hamper other CO2-sucking processes
At least 18 people died in France, including two children left in a hot car, as a heatwave hung over Europe, smashing temperature records in several cities on Monday.
A national heatwave plan has been activated to help people stay cool during the Netherlands’ increasingly hot summers Households in Amsterdam are being urged to hang their curtains outside their windows as health experts recommend simple hacks to moderate the heatwave rolling across the Netherlands, where homes were built for old-fashioned damp and coldish northern European weather. In a viral social media post last week, Eline Coolen, the heat coordinator at the city’s public health institute, urged sweaty city-dwellers to rig up temporary curtain rails or drape curtains or sheets outside to stop the sun’s rays reaching their large windows. Continue reading...
Around 20,000 people gathered on Sunday to the neolithic site, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, to watch sun-up on the year's longest day to mark the astronomical phenomenon.
Minister of Local Development and Environment Manal Awad affirmed the ministry’s commitment to maintaining cooperation with various partners and stakeholders to follow up on the implementation of environmental investment projects aimed at strengthening the status of Sharm El-Sheikh and Egypt’s nature reserves as leading eco-tourism destinations at the regional and international levels. Awad held a … The post Environment minister reviews eco-investment projects in Sharm El-Sheikh appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Twenty bins will sit alongside existing glass recycling points and will be collected on a regular basis
A few years ago, a decent barbecue and somewhere to sit would have done the job.
[Premium Times] The governor announced the directive on Thursday, saying the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) and the Ministry of Environment had been mobilised to address the situation.
Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, the lead investigator of a United Nations report examining AI's environmental footprint, about this technology's staggering energy use and what users can do to limit their impact.
Top 10% generate climate and biodiversity damage bill that exceeds economies of most countries, say researchers 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. Mega-consumers in this group are concentrated in the global north, accounting for more than half the population of the US and 40-45% of people in the EU. Continue reading...
The Trump administration recently revived a push to reclassify two thermal processes lauded by industry groups as solutions for handling hard-to-recycle plastics.
Professor Andrew Charlton-Perez from the University of Reading warns temperatures around 27 or 28 degrees are now becoming the norm.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic. Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed...
G7 leaders are uniting to lessen reliance on China for vital minerals, essential for defense and green tech. Plans include coordinated stockpiling, enhanced recycling, and a new platform with the IEA. The goal is to significantly cut dependence on single suppliers by 2030, fostering more secure global supply chains.
The French weather forecaster Météo France has placed 26 départements - including those of Paris, Lyon and the French Alps - on alert as temperatures are projected to reach 40C in some areas.
Sudden shifts from wet to dry weather, or vice versa, may foil typical drought- and flood-prevention measures Rising temperatures may trigger a dangerous increase in “hydroclimatic whiplash” in rivers that would make traditional approaches to flood and drought planning insufficient, a study has found. As temperatures rise owing to the worsening climate crisis, rivers will experience increasingly rapid transitions between heavy downpours and long dry spells – called hydroclimatic whiplash events – because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, intensifying rainfall extremes. Continue reading...
The weather system that can bring drought, fire and flood to eastern Australia could be one of the most extreme on record.
Environmental and public health groups say the agency did not follow adequate procedures in scuttling the rule.
Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi data The rise of AI and digitisation could be a turning point in the “race against extinction” faced by botanists trying to identify and save vital plants before they vanish, according to a major report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. New technology is enabling scientists to track how flowering times have shifted by weeks around the world, rapidly identify new specimens and even get crucial genetic data from 180-year-old fungus specimens, potentially opening a “genomic goldmine”. Digitisation and online access to millions of specimens that were until now only accessible in archives is also producing new insights, especially in the global south. Continue reading...
UCS Influence, Advocacy, Lead to Colorado Battery Recycling Win 2026 Omari Spears Mon, 06/15/2026 - 15:29 Read the post
A Forest Service move to boost cattle grazing on public lands could reduce populations of prairie dogs needed to support endangered black-footed ferrets, environmental groups contend.