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UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:23:50 +0000

Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens

Wildfires have devastated more moorland, forests and fields in the UK this year than at any time since records began, putting huge pressure on the country’s fire service, figures show.

The Global Wildfire Information System estimates that by November, wildfires had burned 47,026 hectares (116,204 acres) in 2025 in the UK – the largest area in any year since monitoring began in 2012, and more than double the area burned in the record-breaking summer of 2022.

‘Hunger has left its mark on me’: a Native woman reflects on her rich but food-scarce life

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:00:27 +0000

Hunger is part of American life. Even as a professional adult, it’s never too far from Dr Angie Morrill’s thoughts

I asked my older sister why we sang the Patty Cake song so often as children: Patty cake, patty cake, baker’s man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can! She replied simply: “Because we were hungry.”

Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:00:23 +0000

Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover

Search is on for the German hairy snail in London

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:00:33 +0000

Conchologists, and citizen scientists team up to seek out endangered mollusc species along River Thames

It is tiny, hairy and “German” – and it could be hiding underneath a piece of driftwood near you. Citizen scientists and expert conchologists are teaming up to conduct the first London-wide search for one of Britain’s most endangered molluscs.

The fingernail-sized German hairy snail (Pseudotrichia rubiginosa) is found in fragmented patches of habitat mostly along the tidal Thames.

Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:00:31 +0000

The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope

Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence

‘I’m afraid for our children’: living with the climate crisis in the Philippines – in pictures

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:00:31 +0000

The Philippines is one of the countries most at risk of the climate emergency due to its low-lying island geography. With sea temperatures rising, the country deals with increasingly frequent and intense typhoons, rising sea-levels that threaten coastal communities, and changing rainfall patterns that disrupt agriculture. The country is one of the smallest contributors to climate change but one of the places most affected by its impacts.

‘Culture cringe’: experts dismiss Coalition claims Chris Bowen cannot remain minister while leading Cop31 negotiations

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:53:47 +0000

Opposition claims key diplomatic role at next year’s conference in Turkey would make Bowen a ‘part-time minister’ while Australians face inflated energy prices

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How can Australia convince the world to give up fossil fuels if Anthony Albanese is contradicting himself on gas expansion? | Bill Hare

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:44:02 +0000

Getting to net zero CO2 emissions globally means we can halt global warming. This requires a rapid phase-out. It’s physics

UK ‘most expensive place’ to build nuclear power, review finds

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:01:21 +0000

Government panel’s final report calls for ‘radical reset’ of planning and environmental rules to get reactors built faster and cheaper

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The UK has become the “most expensive place in the world” to build a nuclear power station because of overly complex bureaucracy and regulation, according to a government review.

We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight | Ed Miliband

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:57:20 +0000

For all its flaws, the Brazil conference underlined the wish by a global majority for clean energy and climate action – and the UK will keep leading the way

Ed Miliband is the secretary of state for energy security and net zero