Climate crisis: average world incomes to drop by nearly a fifth by 2050

Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study finds

Story by me. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Silent Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter as wildlife disappears.

Phoebe Weston listens to biodiversity collapse. theguardian.com/environment/20…

UK accused of double counting £500m of aid to meet climate pledge theguardian.com/global-develop…

He led Brazil’s Black sailors in mutiny to resist abuse. A hundred years later campaigners are calling for ‘Black Admiral’ João Cândido to be recognised as a Hero of the Nation.

By ⁦Tiago Rogero⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

“I suspect vote rigging by blackbirds, badgers and moles.” Chris Packham weighs in on the squirming victor of the UK Invertebrate of the Year election.

“A full AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster”, says #AMOC expert Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 in chilling analysis.

Thirty years ago the world failed to stop the Rwandan genocide. Now we fail Gaza.

Veteran Africa and Middle East correspondent Chris McGreal draws uncomfortable comparisons for leaders in the US and Europe.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists
If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert theguardian.com/global/2024/ap…
Story by me.

Human rights violated by inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case theguardian.com/environment/20… Story by Ajit Niranjan

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of climate catastrophe theguardian.com/environment/20…

A growing body of research shows that old-growth redwoods store more carbon than any other forest on Earth.

But the redwoods have been decimated by logging.

We must restore old-growth redwood forests, John Reid writes.
e360.yale.edu/features/redwo…

Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a controversial idea in the UK? theguardian.com/cities/2024/ap…. Great story by Helena Horton on the toxic effects of fake news in the UK

Wonderful obituary for a wonderful journalist - the great Hella Pick, who covered the Cold War for ⁦The Guardian⁩ and had an extraordinary life, starting as a child refugee in WWll theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

'In the name of the Brazilian state I want to say sorry for all the suffering your people were put through'; some uplifting, if long overdue news from Brazil, from me and Tiago Rogero theguardian.com/world/2024/apr… Célia Xakriabá Rubens Valente Ailton Krenak Alves

Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016

New report from Carbon Majors, InfluenceMap and Richard Heede,

Story by me. theguardian.com/environment/20…

I don’t think most people realize just how rapidly the transition toward clean energy is accelerating.

The world invested 2.8 trillion in energy in 2023:

1.7 trillion in clean energy technologies
1.1 trillion in fossil fuels
iea.org/news/clean-ene…

Today is the day!

Over 4 years of hard work gone in to make this a historic day!

First wild wolves in Ireland today since 1786 - the pair (a 3 y/o male and 2 y/o female sourced from France and Spain respectively) have been released in an undisclosed location in SE Ireland

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Extreme heat summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures
IFRC organisers (with USAID) warn climate crisis is 'dramatically increasing the probability of a mass-fatality heat disaster.'

Shades of #MinistryOfTheFuture
Story by me.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Brazilian state “permeated by organised crime,”

Arrests of alleged masterminds in killing of Marielle Franco lay bare nexus of politicians, police and paramilitaries.

⁦Tom Phillips⁩ reads the 479-page federal police report so you don’t have to. theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Very interesting to see this forthcoming title from jonathanwatts:
'The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory'
thebookseller.com/rights/canonga…