World’s coral reefs are losing recovery time between marine heatwaves, major global report warns
The proportion of reef surface covered by living coral has fallen by 9.5 percent, compared with just the 1980–2009 average.
Climate Change
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Last year’s output from Norway’s fossil-fuel giant ‘will kill up to 58,000 people’
Norway’s oil and gas giant Equinor recently posted its strongest quarterly result in years. A Norwegian non-profit has now put a number on what that oil and gas costs in human lives
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‘Do not believe my prime minister’: Youngest-ever Norwegian MP urges EU to resist Oslo’s Arctic-oil lobbying
‘We are hoarding our wealth in our massive sovereign wealth fund, while launching PR campaigns to deepen the EU’s fossil-fuel dependence,” said Frøya Skjold Sjursæther. ‘If Støre truly cared for Europe, Norway would donate the billions we’ve made in war profits to Ukraine’s aid’
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Europe’s wildfire devastation could almost triple, new research finds
Even with the lowest emissions forecast, wildfires would ravage a surface area 39 percent larger by the end of the century than they currently do, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) estimated.
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Journalists need to report on who is causing the climate crisis, so that the EU public feels it can make a change
Most media reporting on extreme weather doesn’t talk about the root causes or solutions. That contributes to people feeling powerless at a time when they need to mobilise and push their governments into taking action.
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Want to see the climate crisis? Go to the banks of the dried-up Danube
With the river too shallow for freight, a nuclear plant almost offline and big firms ordered to curb power use, Hungary’s heatwave is rippling straight into citizens’ jobs, bills and fears of blackouts.
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Thousand protesters to camp out against the EU’s flagship lithium mine in Portugal
The target is the Mina do Barroso, an open-pit lithium mine planned by London-listed mining developer Savannah Resources. It would be one of the largest in Western Europe.
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Listen: As heatwaves sweep across Europe, is the EU investing enough to adapt buildings to extreme heat?
While heatwaves force school closures, very little EU money is earmarked for adaptation projects to cool the buildings people depend on every day.
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Cost of living crisis is reshaping EU politics as migration and climate lose steam
The shift from migration and climate wars to wallet issues is redrawing Europe’s political map, empowering forces that want a far bigger state at the very moment public coffers are already stretched.
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Listen: Can we live in a world on fire?
Record-breaking wildfires have already burned vast areas worldwide this year, fueled by droughts, heatwaves and climate change. Beyond destroying ecosystems and releasing massive CO2 emissions, fires threaten long-term environmental recovery. Is there a way we can adapt to this new reality?
