Environment Agency warns residents of 6m at-risk properties to prepare for wet and windy three months aheadMore than two million people in England are unaware their properties are at risk of flooding, as the UK braces for a wet and stormy start to the winter, according to the Env
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weatherHalf a million trees will be planted across England in the next three years to protect against extreme weather, the environment secretary, Angela Eagle, will pledge o
During the Sand Creek Fire, which has burned since the start of August in southwestern Montana, difficult terrain and fire-weakened trees posed hazards to crews searching for areas still smoldering on steep slopes after the blaze passed. So instead of relying only on firefighters
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Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport weighs in on overcoming a generational clash when it comes to sustainable consumption.
Incarcerated people have experienced flooded cells, a loss of running water, and power outages.
The reheated plans to scrap renewable schemes, boost fossil fuels and revive nuclear are not based on fact but ideologyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGive the Coalition points for chutzpah, if nothing else. In a press release on Wednesday, first given
Workforce programs are trying to ride out the legal, administrative, and economic headwinds of the Trump administration.
Standing on Manhattan’s High Line, Jason Baldes watched pedestrians, cyclists, cars and trucks braid their way through New York City. The executive director of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative in Wyoming was in town for New York’s first-ever buffalo march, a showcase of 4
It happened yet again. Another plume of smoke rose from Vistra’s Moss Landing battery plant Friday morning, a year and a half after a catastrophic fire wrecked the grid storage facility in Northern California. Vistra built Moss Landing on the California coast, south of Santa Cr
In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issues facing waterways around the worldDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe nicknames of the world’s biggest rivers give a sense of how we feel a
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—It’s time to act. It’s long past time. That was the case made by lawyers for the Southern Environmental Law Center, who filed a petition Wednesday in Jefferson County Circuit Court asking a judge to force local health officials to act on a 2023 air permit renewa
The federal government has scrapped its rules lowering vehicle emissions, and it's going after California's.
The state is the biggest to approve solar panels that plug into walls, giving residents a cheaper way to generate their own electricity.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) defied political expectations on Wednesday and signed into law a slate of energy-affordability legislation aimed at containing the utility spending that is driving up electricity costs in the Golden State. Among the bills he signed are two that w
A pipeline of tropical moisture is feeding a slow-moving storm system, unleashing repeated downpours from Texas to the Central Plains.
Lake Mead is at its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago, Lake Powell also at a historic lowIt was 42C (108F) degrees as we motored across Nevada’s Lake Mead in our rented pontoon boat. Colby Pellegrino with the Southern Nevada Water Authority wanted to show us so
Exclusive: Climate Change Authority chair says planning commission did not account for climate-related economic damage in NSWSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereA senior Albanese government climate adviser has challenged the stat
As the midterms approach, Americans’ digestive health has become a bizarre talking pointDonald Trump seems to spend an unusual amount of time thinking about toilets.Back in 2019, he bizarrely claimed: “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once.” He repeate
If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure and cleanest, you’d probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right? That’s one of the ideas underpinning a report the International Energy Agency issued last week about the global move toward electrification. Fatih Bi
Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy securityOf all the epithets hurled at Donald Trump since he became US president, perhaps the most unusual was delivered last week – that he is, in fact, some sort of environmenta
Climate change is making glacial lake outbursts much more frequent.
For Europe’s fishing industry, it turns out size does matter. Of 60,000 European-flagged fishing boats, just 638 are responsible for most of the harm, according to a new report by French non-profit BLOOM. The largest in the fleet, at 108 feet or longer, pose the greatest threat t
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