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Pakistani farmers to sue German polluters over climate-linked flood damage

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:00:36 +0000

Claimants seek compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials after extreme flooding destroyed harvests

A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has fired the starting shot in legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies.

Lawyers acting for 43 men and women from the Sindh region sent the energy firm RWE and the cement producer Heidelberg formal letters before action on Tuesday warning of their intention to sue later this year.

‘Trump doesn’t represent us’: US activist groups to push for climate action at Cop30 in Brazil

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:34 +0000

US groups aim to represent country at UN climate summit even as Trump administration declines to send a delegation

How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:00:33 +0000

As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

Franck Detcheverry, Miquelon’s 41-year-old mayor, trudges up a grassy hill. “The view isn’t too bad, huh?” he jokes. The ocean sparkles 40 metres below the empty mound. The sound of a man playing the bagpipes, as if serenading the sea, floats up from the shoreline. This hill will be the location of his new home and those of all his fellow villagers.

Expanded state powers on fossil fuel projects and water ‘betrayal’ of Australians, nature law critics say

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:09:46 +0000

Extracts of planned changes to the EPBC Act prompt ‘anger’ from conservation organisations that fear nature protection will be weakened

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Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 05:00:19 +0000

Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Wind power has cut at least £104bn from energy costs in the UK since 2010, a study has found.

Users of gas have been among the biggest beneficiaries, the research suggested.

Is it possible to find a sensible centre on climate change? | Fiona Katauskas

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 02:00:14 +0000

Murray Watt seems to think so

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Biodiversity is in catastrophic decline. Here are three ways to ensure Australia’s conservation law actually works | Atticus Fleming and Andrew Macintosh

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:00:13 +0000

The highest priority must be to ensure land-clearing is properly regulated to save our native forests

UN chief António Guterres: 'We don't want to see the Amazon become a savannah' - video

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:53:23 +0000

UN secretary general António Guterres speaks to the Guardian and Sumaúma about the 'failure' of the Cop process to limit global heating to 1.5C, that overshooting is now 'inevitable', and why defending the rights of indigenous communities should be a top priority for global leaders

Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:01:13 +0000

Peers say ‘woeful’ record on prosecutions has led to a ‘low-risk, high-reward’ criminal culture

Organised crime groups in the UK are making millions every year from illegally dumping and burning rubbish, peers have told ministers, after an inquiry found a lack of enforcement made it a “low-risk, high-reward” criminal enterprise.

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:01:12 +0000

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?

Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.