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Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:01:27 +0000

Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.

It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:01:27 +0000

Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian.

These billionaires and multimillionaires, who comprise the wealthiest 0.1% of the US population, are also running down our planet’s safe climate space at 183 times the rate of the global average.

‘Storm of the century’: record-breaking Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:54:45 +0000

Minister says parish of St Elizabeth is ‘under water’ and that families are trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa: a visual guide to Jamaica’s strongest storm since 1851

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:43:04 +0000

Slow-moving giant makes landfall and will linger over the island before slamming into Cuba

Hurricane Melissa – latest updates

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began in 1851.

Bill Gates says climate crisis won’t cause ‘humanity’s demise’ in call to shift focus to ‘improving lives’

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:26:04 +0000

Billionaire’s statement comes a day after UN said humanity missed 1.5C climate target and warned of devastation

Bill Gates has called for a “strategic pivot” in the effort against the climate crisis, writing that the world should shift away from trying to limit rising temperatures to instead focusing on efforts to prevent disease and poverty.

Offshore windfarm projects may be exempted from new UK nature rules

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:04:17 +0000

Exclusive: Firms say added costs would mean they are unable to install enough turbines to meet green energy goals

Offshore windfarm companies may be exempted from new UK nature rules in an attempt to keep down the cost of renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.

The energy firms have said they would be unable to build the vast number of turbines required to meet the government’s green electricity goals if they have to meet new rules for nationally significant infrastructure projects (Nsips).

‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:00:39 +0000

Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee

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Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:00:37 +0000

From 2040 onwards the average year for marine ecosystems is likely to be more extreme than the worst years experienced up until 2015, researchers say

Australia’s oceans will enter “uncharted territory” by 2040 due to global heating, even if significant emissions cuts occur, new research has found.

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