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    Sinkholes
    Sinkhole appears in soccer field above Illinois mine: ‘Out of a movie’

  • Bill Gates and Prince William listen to a delegate at a conference venue

    Artificial intelligence (AI)
    AI will be help rather than hindrance in hitting climate targets, Bill Gates says

    Microsoft co-founder says efficiencies for technology and electricity grids will outweigh energy use by datacentres
  • Young Montana residents celebrate outside of the courthouse

    Climate crisis
    Sharp rise in number of climate lawsuits against companies, report says

    About 230 cases filed against corporations and trade associations around world since 2015
  • Arizona
    Lawyers could charge big oil with homicide after 2023 Arizona heatwave

  • Greenhouse gas emissions
    Belching livestock to incur green levy in Denmark from 2030

  • Greenhouse gas emissions
    Air freight greenhouse gas emissions up 25% since 2019, analysis finds

  • Germany
    German activists take government to court over climate policy

  • The age of extinction
    ‘Reform or go out of business,’ carbon offsetting industry told

  • Great Barrier Reef
    ‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

  • Climate crisis
    US pledges to be a climate finance leader but defends gas expansion

  • Greg Jericho

    As the Coalition goes nuclear, Labor is free to ensure fossil fuels are burned with abandon and little scrutiny

    Greg Jericho
  • huge fields of solar panels next to a field of green crops

    It doesn’t make sense: why US tariffs on Chinese cleantech risk the green transition

    Jeffrey Frankel
    • Calla Wahlquist

      Fury road: a forlorn hope that, for once, Australia would choose the hard path on climate

      Calla Wahlquist
    • Sarah Finch

      Our incredible win could change the future of oil and gas in the UK

      Sarah Finch
    • Chris Skidmore

      I was a Tory minister – but I think we need a Labour government

      Chris Skidmore
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  • US county map, colored by change in summer temperature

    Extreme heat
    Visualized: the parts of the US where summer heat has risen the most

  • Finch raising both arms in delight as other activists look  on

    Environmental activism
    Sarah Finch: climate activism ‘early adopter’ behind supreme court win

    • Protesters with banner reading 'no more U-turns, Green new deal now', while person in Keir Starmer costume puts a pieces of paper with 'promises to young people' written on it in a bin that is decorated with flames

      Green politics
      ‘You’re letting our generation down’: the green activists warning of a bad deal for young people under Labour

    • A farm labourer wipes sweat from her face as she harvests vegetables in Yamuna floodplains in New Delhi, India.

      India
      ‘Time is life’: the Delhi clinic treating the city’s heat stroke victims

    • A partly sunny sky is almost completely blocked by plumes of smoke rising amid fire from a low hillside, with homes in the foreground.

      New Mexico
      ‘Multiple disasters all in one day’: New Mexico’s brutal week of fire and flood

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