The week in wildlife – in pictures: fluffy kiwi chicks, a ‘swimming’ mole and a lucky duck
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Cop28 live: negotiations resume as countries seek progress on final deal
Delegates return after rest day with children, education and food on the agenda Canada has been asked by the Cop28 president, Sultan Al Jaber, to help develop language on the potential phase down or phase out of fossil fuels, its environment minister told reporters on Friday
Mass deaths of elephant seals recorded as bird flu sweeps across the Antarctic
Researchers warn of one of ‘largest ecological disasters of modern times’ if the highly contagious disease reaches penguin colonies Bird flu is spreading in the Antarctic, with hundreds of elephant seals found dead, and fears it could bring “one of the largest ecological
Talks at Cop28 set to intensify in bid to break impasse over fossil fuels
UN climate chief calls for ‘highest ambition’ as nations wrangle over draft agreement Negotiations on how the world can slash greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis will reach a fresh intensity over the next few days, with nations
Canada’s fossil fuel firms will need to cut emissions by at least 35% by 2030
Justin Trudeau’s government plans to limit emissions through a national cap-and-trade system, a policy first proposed in 2021 Canada will require its fossil fuel industry to cut its emissions between 35% to 38% below 2019 levels starting in 2030, it was announced on Thursday.
Thousands left without power in SA heatwave as other states issue alerts – as it happened
This blog has now closed Australia heatwave: temperatures set to soar on weekend Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast James Ashby to stand for One Nation in Queensland seat James Ashby , the chief of staff to One Nation leader Pauline
‘Unprecedented mass coral bleaching’ expected in 2024, says expert
2023 is first year of potential pair of El Niño years and since 1997, every instance of these pairs has led to mass coral mortality Record-breaking land and sea temperatures, driven by climate breakdown, will probably cause “unprecedented mass coral bleaching and mortality”
Plant fossils turn out to be turtles in ‘unusual misidentification’
Re-examination finds what were taken to be veins of leaves are actually bone growth patterns Two small, oval fossils thought to be prehistoric plants are actually the remains of baby marine turtles, researchers have revealed. The fossils, found in rocks dating to between 132
Cop28 protests – in pictures
A record 84,000 people are in attendance at the UN climate summit in Dubai, including thousands of activists and members of civil society Continue reading...
Australia commits $150m to climate finance for vulnerable Pacific countries
However the Albanese government has not contributed to a newly created global loss and damage fund at Cop28 Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Australian government has pledged A$150m climate finance for Pacific countries, but has not
‘Bring it on’: Labour vows to fight Tories’ ‘degradation’ of nature in race for No 10
Environment spokesperson Steve Reed plans to tackle vested interests and expose ‘horror’ inflicted on rural communities Labour will take on vested interests from water companies to housebuilders and farmers in an effort to restore the UK’s degraded natural environment, the
We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say
Exclusive: Five IPCC report authors say scientists should be allowed to make policy prescriptions and potentially oversee implementation Senior climate experts are calling for an overhaul of the structure and powers of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in
Alarm at plan to stash planet-heating CO2 beneath US national forests
Groups seek more time to comment on US Forest Service proposal to store carbon dioxide amid fears over safety and impact A proposal that would allow industries to permanently stash climate-polluting carbon dioxide beneath US Forest Service land puts those habitats and the
Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family
Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others Last September, the rapper Killer Mike was DJing hip-hop classics like Snoop Dogg’s Ain’t No Fun at a music festival afterparty in
$20,000 monkeys: inside the booming illicit trade for lab animals
A lucrative underground trade risks undermining research, creating new pandemics and pushing a recently abundant species to the brink In 2019, Jonah Sacha, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, received a delivery of 20 monkeys from Mauritius. As part of his
