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Key climate change reports removed from US government websites

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:21:48 +0000

The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming world

Legally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their back yards from a warming world.

The Guardian view on Europe’s heatwave: leaders should remind the public why ambitious targets matter | Editorial

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:55:59 +0000

With net zero targets under attack from the populist right, dangerously high temperatures should refocus minds

California overhauls landmark environmental protection rules

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:11:42 +0000

Governor Gavin Newsom says bureaucratic roadblocks have made it difficult to build housing in the most populous state

California is overhauling its landmark environmental protection rules, a change state leaders say is essential to address the state’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, had threatened to reject the state budget passed last Friday unless lawmakers overhauled the California Environmental Quality Act, or Ceqa, a 1970s law that requires strict examination of any new development for its impact on the environment.

Tracking sea ice is ‘early warning system’ for global heating - but US halt to data sharing will make it harder, scientists warn

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:00:52 +0000

News comes as research finds record lows of Antarctic sea ice had seen more icebergs splintering off ice shelves

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Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave breaks records across Europe

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:42:31 +0000

Portugal and Spain suffer historic temperature highs for June, as French schools close because of heat

Outdoor working has been banned during the hottest parts of the day in more than half of Italy’s regions as an extreme heatwave that has smashed June temperature records in Spain and Portugal continues to grip large swathes of Europe.

Parking space-sized gardens impress Hampton Court flower show judges

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:00:48 +0000

Surrey council’s designs for mini-parks aim to demonstrate the benefits of less car-focused public spaces

Mini-gardens that fit inside a parking space have been presented by a council at Hampton Court flower show as part of a drive to make public spaces less car-focused.

Three gardens created by Surrey county council are on display at the show to demonstrate that areas used as parking spaces can give far more benefit to the community if they are thoughtfully designed as mini-parks.

After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:00:45 +0000

The unlikely return of the bentwood box underscores the challenges facing Indigenous communities working to reclaim items raided from their lands

When the plane took off from Vancouver’s airport, bound north for the Great Bear Rainforest, Q̓íx̌itasu Elroy White felt giddy with excitement.

The plane traced a route along the Pacific Ocean and British Columbia’s coast mountains, still snow-capped in late May.

Finance firms’ claim to be ‘saving the world’ was a mistake, says City veteran

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:35:15 +0000

Aberdeen chair says some asset managers may have put themselves at legal risk by exaggerating ESG role

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Pension funds and institutional investors made a “huge mistake” and exaggerated their role in environmental, social and government (ESG) issues to promote their products, the outgoing chair of Aberdeen Group, Douglas Flint, has said.

Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:00:34 +0000

This year marks the first time that local NWS offices have stopped round-the-clock operations in the agency’s history

A brutal stretch of severe weather has taxed communities on the eastern fringes of tornado alley this spring and early summer, while harsh staffing cuts and budget restrictions have forced federal meteorologists to attempt to forecast the carnage with less data.

As of 30 June, there have already been more than 1,200 tornadoes nationwide.

Temperature records shatter as heatwave grips Europe and UK records hottest day of year – as it happened

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:38:23 +0000

Public health warnings as heatwave raises concerns about impact of climate change

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The French prime minister François Bayrou, who attended a government crisis meeting over the heatwave, was asked about the great difficulty of French schools to handle the heatwave.