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Budget reversal of policy on tackling climate change was a mistake

Country diary: Fungi season is here, so I head – yes – to the beach | Nigel Brown

Aberffraw, Ynys Môn (Anglesey): Plenty of fungi can be found among the sand here; in fact it is vital to keeping the dunes at bayDapperlings and toughshanks, bonnets and brittlegills, bird’s nests and fairy clubs. Fungi season has begun, and for me it is heralded by the “fungus foray” held at Bangor University’s Treborth Botanic Garden. An annual event, this year it produced more than 200 species

Report says that global warming-enhanced El Niño will result in nearly half a million excess deaths by February

Climate change making rainforest restoration ‘more complicated’, expert warns

Climate change making rainforest restoration ‘more complicated’, expert warns

Restoring Scotland’s rainforest complicated by climate change

Politics live: Greens call for US execution live stream to be blocked; Frydenberg doesn’t rule out politics return

Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJosh Frydenberg leaves door open to political comebackJosh Frydenberg has literally propelled the comeback speculation himself and said he’s not closing the door to another tilt at federal politics and going for the top job, during a publicity blitz ahead of the release of his memoir.I think he’s getting that from

Arizona ‘cannot afford to wait any longer’ on climate change, Democrats say at town hall

NASA spots a giant patch of Moon-like rock on Earth

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a remarkable formation in Madagascar that looks surprisingly similar to the Moon’s bright highlands. Made of anorthosite, a rock abundant on the lunar surface, the formation dates back at least 600 million years and bears the scars of ancient continental collisions.

Negative impacts of climate change are readily apparent

‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoes

Heat and humidity have led to one of the worst mosquito years in recent history, with West Nile virus at a decade highLos Angeles might be best known for blue skies, beaches and film premiers — but for the last several years it’s held another, unenviable distinction: the most mosquito-infested city in America.And this year has been especially nightmarish, thanks to a series of heatwaves and an ext

China urges focus on climate change, cooperation at Arctic Circle Assembly

Let’s Talk About the Super El Niño and Climate Change

China’s rich coastal cities to see sea-level rise 20% higher than global average

"Climate change is impacting the futures of girls worldwide"

Climate Change Stocktaking: How the EU is tackling the new climate reality

‘We need less point scoring’: What party conference season taught us about UK climate action

Tories plan to scrap low-carbon housebuilding, Greens back new nuclear reactors, and Labour put oil-drilling decisions on holdNew homes could be built without solar panels, heat pumps and high-grade insulation, leading to higher household bills if the Conservative party wins the next general election.Kemi Badenoch made scrapping the future homes standard (FHS) one of the central planks of her bid

Retrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader

NEU’s Daniel Kebede says earlier start times and longer summer breaks may be needed to help pupils and teachersSchools should consider changing start and finish times, reordering holidays and moving exams from the summer months in an effort to adapt to the UK’s increasingly severe heatwaves, according to the leader of the country’s biggest education union.Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of th

Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment

Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each existsHumans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict, according to a new global risk assessment.They top a list of 17 major threats to human health over the next 75 years, which also includes cuts to aid spending by wealthy countries

SCOTUS weighs local governments’ climate change lawsuits against oil, gas companies