Governors of Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Nevada have all received money from oil and gas firms as residents suffer
Elected officials in states baking under sweltering temperatures – including Florida, Texas and Louisiana – are prioritizing their donors from planet-warming industries instead of protecting their constituents, advocates say.
Florida has already seen unprecedented heat this year, with several cities breaking daily heat records this month.
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06/21/2024 - 07:30
06/21/2024 - 06:12
Missisauga officials have twice forcibly cut Wolf Ruck’s grass and billed him, after he decided to rewild his garden
Most mornings, Wolf Ruck walks the mown paths in his yard in Mississauga, Ontario, watching for insects landing on the goldenrod, birds feeding on native seed heads, and chipmunk kits playing in the tall grass.
The septuagenarian artist, film-maker and former Olympic canoeist began rewilding his garden with native plants three years ago, as part of a growing movement across Canada towards replacing water-thirsty lawns with “naturalised gardens”.
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06/21/2024 - 02:00
Conservationists hope insects carrying ‘birth control’ bacteria can save honeycreeper being wiped out by malaria
Millions of mosquitoes are being released from helicopters in Hawaii in a last-ditch attempt to save rare birds slipping into extinction.
The archipelago’s endemic, brightly coloured honeycreeper birds are dying of malaria carried by mosquitoes first introduced by European and American ships in the 1800s. Having evolved with no immunity to the disease, the birds can die after just a single bite.
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06/21/2024 - 02:00
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
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06/21/2024 - 01:00
Community conservation groups are fighting to protect woodlands from illegal logging, farming and fires, but limited resources are a constant challenge and the task is getting ever more difficult
Safidy Andrianantenaina is a Madagascan photographer and recipient of the revolutionary storyteller grant, a Photographers Without Borders and On the Edge joint project
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06/20/2024 - 21:35
State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement
Hawaii officials have announced a “groundbreaking” legal settlement with a group of young climate activists, which they said will force the state’s department of transportation to move more aggressively towards a zero-emission transportation system.
“You have a constitutional right to fight for life-sustaining climate policy and you have mobilized our people in this case,” Josh Green, the Hawaii governor, told the 13 young plantiffs in the case, saying he hoped the settlement would inspire similar action across the country.
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06/20/2024 - 11:20
Heatwave leads to record daily highs in New York and Maine, as US south-west sees wildfires and excessive rainfall
People in the US: how do you stay cool in extreme heat?
The United States continues to suffer extreme weather as a heatwave baked millions across the upper midwest and north-east and a tropical storm soaked Texas and northern Mexico.
The National Weather Service said the heatwave was expected to peak in the eastern Great Lakes, New England, the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic over the coming weekend.
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06/20/2024 - 04:00
The animal, which is still categorised as ‘vulnerable’, has been the subject of a 20-year conservation programme
Less than a quarter of a century after the Iberian lynx was feared to be only a whisker away from extinction, populations of the animal have recovered enough across Spain and Portugal for it to be moved from “endangered” to “vulnerable” on the global red list of threatened species.
The change in status, announced on Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN), is the result of a two-decade-long effort from a coalition of partners including the EU and regional and national governments in Spain and Portugal, as well as wildlife NGOs and local people.
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06/20/2024 - 04:00
On Falmouth pier, volunteer angling coaches and men and women of all ages gather regularly for fresh air, companionship and the mindfulness that comes from casting a rod into the sea
When Justin Keight saw two ambulances outside his best friend’s house one morning during the Covid lockdown, he knew instantly what it meant. His friend, who was married with children, had lived with depression.
“The day before he killed himself he told me he was really struggling,” he says. Keight urged him to stay the night and talk, but his friend did not want to break the social distancing rules.
On Falmouth pier, Andrew prepares his rod to take part in the Tight Lines fishing session
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06/20/2024 - 02:44
Just Stop Oil activists have sprayed two jets with orange paint at a private airfield in Stansted where they say Taylor Swift's plane landed before her shows at Wembley stadium. The group said on X: 'Private jet users are responsible for up to 40x as much carbon emissions compared with a commercial flight'. The previous day, Just Stop Oil protesters sprayed Stonehenge with orange powder paint before the summer solstice
Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists
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