State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement
Hawaii officials have announced a “groundbreaking” legal settlement with a group of young climate activists, which they said will force the state’s department of transportation to move more aggressively towards a zero-emission transportation system.
“You have a constitutional right to fight for life-sustaining climate policy and you have mobilized our people in this case,” Josh Green, the Hawaii governor, told the 13 young plantiffs in the case, saying he hoped the settlement would inspire similar action across the country.
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06/20/2024 - 11:20
Heatwave leads to record daily highs in New York and Maine, as US south-west sees wildfires and excessive rainfall
People in the US: how do you stay cool in extreme heat?
The United States continues to suffer extreme weather as a heatwave baked millions across the upper midwest and north-east and a tropical storm soaked Texas and northern Mexico.
The National Weather Service said the heatwave was expected to peak in the eastern Great Lakes, New England, the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic over the coming weekend.
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06/20/2024 - 04:00
The animal, which is still categorised as ‘vulnerable’, has been the subject of a 20-year conservation programme
Less than a quarter of a century after the Iberian lynx was feared to be only a whisker away from extinction, populations of the animal have recovered enough across Spain and Portugal for it to be moved from “endangered” to “vulnerable” on the global red list of threatened species.
The change in status, announced on Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN), is the result of a two-decade-long effort from a coalition of partners including the EU and regional and national governments in Spain and Portugal, as well as wildlife NGOs and local people.
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06/20/2024 - 04:00
On Falmouth pier, volunteer angling coaches and men and women of all ages gather regularly for fresh air, companionship and the mindfulness that comes from casting a rod into the sea
When Justin Keight saw two ambulances outside his best friend’s house one morning during the Covid lockdown, he knew instantly what it meant. His friend, who was married with children, had lived with depression.
“The day before he killed himself he told me he was really struggling,” he says. Keight urged him to stay the night and talk, but his friend did not want to break the social distancing rules.
On Falmouth pier, Andrew prepares his rod to take part in the Tight Lines fishing session
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06/20/2024 - 02:44
Just Stop Oil activists have sprayed two jets with orange paint at a private airfield in Stansted where they say Taylor Swift's plane landed before her shows at Wembley stadium. The group said on X: 'Private jet users are responsible for up to 40x as much carbon emissions compared with a commercial flight'. The previous day, Just Stop Oil protesters sprayed Stonehenge with orange powder paint before the summer solstice
Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists
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06/20/2024 - 02:00
Researchers find extreme heat four times more likely than at turn of millennium and urge reduction in fossil fuels
The deadly heatwave that scorched large swaths of Mexico, Central America and the southern US in recent weeks was made 35 times more likely due to human-induced global heating, according to research by leading climate scientists from World Weather Attribution (WWA).
Tens of millions of people have endured dangerous daytime and nighttime temperatures as a heat dome engulfed Mexico, and the large, lingering zone of high pressure stretched north to Texas, Arizona and Nevada and south over Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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06/20/2024 - 00:00
Only two countries provide fair amount to compensate lower-income nations for biodiversity loss, with most paying less than half what they should, says ODI
The UK, Canada, New Zealand, Italy and Spain are among the rich countries contributing less than half their fair share of nature finance to poor countries, a new report has found.
Developed nations have agreed to collectively contribute a minimum of $20bn annually for nature restoration in low and middle-income countries by 2025. This money is in addition to the $100bn agreed for climate finance.
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06/19/2024 - 20:16
Environmentalists hail decision to end practice in five years but aquaculture industry warns of 6,000 jobs at risk
Canada will ban open-net pen salmon farming in British Columbia coastal waters in five years, the government has announced, a decision that has been welcomed by environmental groups but opposed by the aquaculture industry.
The Liberal government made the decision in 2019 to transition to closed containment technologies to protect declining wild Pacific salmon populations.
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06/19/2024 - 20:00
Peter Dutton says renewable energy is too expensive – and unveils a plan to switch to nuclear, which the CSIRO says will cost 50% more than wind or solar
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Whenever Australians think about the rising cost of living, the Coalition wants them to link any pain in their wallets to the rollout of renewable energy and the government’s climate targets.
The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, this week described the government’s “renewables-only policy” as a “wrecking ball through the Australian economy” and said families “know it because it’s harder in their own budgets”.
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06/19/2024 - 13:35
Some areas of the Amazon rainforest are more resilient to drought than others, new research shows. But if not managed carefully, we could 'threaten the integrity of the whole system,' researchers say.
