EPA’s move comes as it slashes climate research funding and cuts weather forecasting and scientific agencies’ staff Trump officials’ recent attempt to dispel concerns about “chemtrails” has perplexed and angered some experts who say the administration has itself promoted the
UK’s energy system operator forecasts emissions a third over target by 2035, in second official warning in a month Britain is expected to fall short of the progress needed to meet its climate targets over the next decade because it is not growing its supply of clean electricity
Energy and net zero secretary lays out stark picture of how climate crisis and nature depletion is affecting UK Climate activists will welcome Ed Miliband’s words but tough choices lie ahead Ed Miliband has accused the Conservatives of being “anti-science” by abandoning a
Up to five areas could enter drought status and more hosepipe bans expected after three heatwaves and lack of rain As many as five areas of England are expected to go into drought this summer after the hottest June since records began in 1884. Three heatwaves, which tend to
Customs officials at Cologne Bonn airport tipped off by ‘noticeable smell’ that did not resemble confectionary Arachnophobes beware: customs officials have released photos from a seizure of roughly 1,500 young tarantulas found inside plastic containers that were hidden in
Household energy bills in some Republican-leaning states could rise by more than $600 every year, analysis of the so-called ‘big, beautiful bill’ finds The cost of electricity is poised to surge across the US in the wake of Republican legislation that takes an axe to cheap
Jane McCarthy, who has terminal cancer, withheld payments for three years in protest at Buckinghamshire council’s fossil fuel investments A woman who withheld council tax payments for three years in protest at her local authority’s continued investment in fossil fuels fears
Restrictions to come into effect in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire from 22 July Thames Water has announced a hosepipe ban as a record dry spring and summer has severely reduced water supplies. Households in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and
The Fourth of July tragedy was described as something no one could have seen coming. But in ‘flash flood alley’, an eerily similar event 40 years ago holds important lessons The rain was pouring down in Texas in the early morning hours of 17 July 1987. James Moore, a reporter
In today’s newsletter: Amid at least 129 deaths and billions of dollars of damage, there has been little reckoning about the part global heating and cuts to public services may have played in the disaster Good morning. The death toll from the catastrophic floods in Texas has
Researchers in Europe found everyday plastics, especially farmers’ baler twine, being used by the birds as a building material and entangling their young. It is a problem that affects other species too, say experts in the US, UK and Argentina On a late spring morning in the
Increasing frequency of heatwaves and flooding raises fears over health, infrastructure and how society functions Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations Record-breaking extreme weather is the new norm in the UK, scientists
Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets ‘Profound concern’ as scientists say extreme heat ‘now the norm’ in UK Ed Miliband is to explicitly call out politicians who reject net zero policies for
Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something Report: Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations Nowhere does landscape marry passion quite so much as in
This blog is now closed Pentagon wants to make Aukus work but some stakeholders have ‘serious concerns’, senior US defence official says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Authorities are appealing for information after a ‘suspicious’ fire at a
State authorities believe more than 160 people could still be missing as flash flood warnings remain in Kerr county More heavy rains in Texas on Sunday paused a weeklong search for victims of catastrophic flooding along the Guadalupe River and led to high-water rescues
