COP28 - what happened
A ‘historic agreement’? COP28 was the first such summit in three decades of UN climate negotiations to agree the necessity of moving away from fossil fuels. Which frankly says more about the failures...
View ArticleClimate focus: Wildfires and megadrought in Chile
In the past days, wildfires have ravaged central Chile with a death toll of at least 131, and more than 300 people still missing at the time of writing. These fires are the most deadly, but not the...
View ArticleClimate focus: Coral Reefs - victims of our fossil fuel addiction
In their current form, coral reefs have been around for around 60 million years. A quarter of all marine life, including over 4,000 species of fish, are dependent on coral reefs at some point in their...
View ArticleGeneral Election 4th July
In the narrow window of time remaining to avert dangerous climate tipping points, the next UK government must bring real solutions to move our economy off fossil fuels. It must invest to transform the...
View ArticleTime for Change
After 14 years of Tory government, Labour has swept to power on a wave of disillusionment and anger at the Conservative Party. This is an opportunity to fix much that has been broken in this country,...
View ArticleTrump set to take a wrecking ball to climate action
Not just in the US, but around the world, so many woke up with grief and horror to the discovery that Donald Trump had again won the US election. We don't need to have any illusions about the status...
View ArticleTrump Climate Catastrophe protest
Below are photos of our protest at the US embassy in London. Thanks to all who came, and especially to the speakers!Trump plans to boost US oil and gas production, gut environmental protections and...
View ArticleTrump: Day One
Trump's first orders as President:the US to leave the Paris climate agreement and cease funding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).declaring an 'energy emergency',...
View ArticleScientists raise the alarm about methane emissions and carbon capture - DESNZ...
In September 2024, scientists and NGO representatives wrote to Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, calling on the government to pause plans to invest £1bn in carbon...
View ArticleElon Musk remains a Fellow of the Royal Society as he guts US aid and research
The UK's Royal Society was founded in 1660. Among its fellows have been numbered some of the most notable scientists in human history, such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. Election...
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