Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
A major US government website supporting public education on climate science looks likely to be shuttered after almost all of its staff were fired, the Guardian has learned.
Climate.gov, the gateway website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa)’s Climate Program Office, will imminently no longer publish new content, according to multiple former staff responsible for the site’s content whose contracts were recently terminated.
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06/11/2025 - 05:00
06/11/2025 - 04:00
New study shows regions with best potential to regrow trees and suck climate-heating CO2 from the air
New maps have revealed the best “win-win” opportunities across the world to regrow forests and tackle the climate crisis, without harming people or wildlife.
The places range from the eastern US and western Canada, to Brazil and Columbia, and across Europe, adding up to 195 million hectares (482 million acres). If reforested, this would remove 2.2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, about the same as all the nations in the European Union.
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06/11/2025 - 04:00
When a US firm saw the seaweed was making their shellfish the ‘biggest and best’ scientists realised they’d hit upon a natural way to combat ocean acidification
Photographs by Greta Rybus
More on this story: A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?
On a glimmering May morning, Tom Briggs pilots a 45ft aluminium barge through the waters of Casco Bay for one of the final days of the annual kelp harvest. Motoring past Clapboard Island, he points to a floating wooden platform where mussels have been seeded alongside ribbons of edible seaweed.
“This is our most productive mussel site,” says Briggs, the farm manager for Bangs Island Mussels, a Portland sea farm that grows, harvests and sells hundreds of thousands of pounds of shellfish and seaweed each year. “When we come here, we get the biggest, fastest-growing mussels with the thickest shells and the best quality. To my mind, unscientifically, it’s because of the kelp.”
Zoe Benisek, oyster lead at Bangs Island Mussels, harvesting kelp. The seaweed changes water chemistry enough to lower the levels of carbon dioxide to nourish the mussels
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06/11/2025 - 03:00
High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example
The bonnet height of new cars in the UK and elsewhere in Europe is rising relentlessly, a report has found, bringing a “clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children”.
Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians are struck. The analysis also found that drivers in the tallest cars could not see children as old as nine at all when they were directly in front of the vehicle.
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06/11/2025 - 02:09
It’s not so much that rural and metro communities hold different opinions about climate change but rather they are holding completely different conversations
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We got some rain in rural Victoria over the weekend, and that’s headline-worthy news.
There’s been a record-breaking drought that’s been afflicting the states of Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and parts of New South Wales for over a year, but depending where you live – and how you get your news – you may not know much about it.
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06/11/2025 - 01:00
During a period of deep personal turmoil, Marjolein Martinot took her camera down to the riverside in southern France – and began to feel connected again
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06/10/2025 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 11 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00132-7
AI language models could both help and harm equity in marine policymaking
06/10/2025 - 21:00
Copernicus data shows month was 1.4C above estimated 1850-1900 average used to define pre-industrial level
It has been an exceptionally dry spring in north-western Europe and the second warmest May ever globally, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Countries across Europe, including the UK, have been hit by drought conditions in recent months, with water shortages feared unless significant rain comes this summer, and crop failures beginning to be reported by farmers.
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06/10/2025 - 15:00
Move comes after efforts at UN ocean summit to establish marine protected areas in international waters
Britain will take action to ratify the high seas treaty by the end of this year, a landmark agreement that will protect marine life in some of the oceans’ most remote waters, ministers have announced.
The move follows a surge in support and ratifications for the treaty at the UN oceans conference in Nice, France. Emmanuel Macron, the French president and co-host of the conference, told delegates on Monday that enough countries had either ratified or formally committed to ratifying the agreement and therefore it could come into force as early as January 2026.
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06/10/2025 - 12:33
A bold state investment signals nuclear revival, but unresolved issues around cost, waste and safety demand urgent ministerial clarity
The government’s decision to invest £14.2bn in nuclear energy, on top of existing funds, marks a return to significant state funding of nuclear power after Hinkley Point C, financed by the private sector, was dogged by delays and cost overruns. It is also a decisive shift in energy policy. Ministers have high hopes of a nuclear energy renaissance. Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, described the prospect of a new reactor in Suffolk, Sizewell C, combined with new money for modular reactor development and fusion research, as a “golden age”. This was a striking choice of words from the greenest voice in the cabinet.
The Climate Change Committee’s latest advice to the government took a more restrained view of nuclear, which drew industry ire. Mr Miliband’s commitment to renewable energy is not in doubt. The government has made good progress on wind and solar – although the cancellation of an offshore wind project was a step backwards. Nuclear is meant to complement support for renewables and speed up the transition away from gas. That, at least, is the theory, and Labour’s bet reflects a broader shift across Europe. The other part of the calculation made by ministers including Rachel Reeves – whose department made the announcement – is jobs. Sizewell C is expected to employ 10,000 people, including 1,500 apprentices.
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