Environment from The Guardian
- Fracking explained: why the fossil fuel extraction process became a US election issue October 3, 2024Harris reiterates she won’t ban fracking if elected as Trump runs ads stating the opposite in tight Pennsylvania raceKamala Harris reiterated that she won’t ban fracking on Wednesday in an interview with KDKA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Though the US vice-president once backed a ban on the fuel extraction process, she said on […]Dharna Noor
- Brewer to cut emissions by making beer using a heat pump in UK first October 3, 2024Hepworth in West Sussex replaces boiler with prototype generating 130C steam that could cut fuel costs by 40%An independent brewery in West Sussex is poised to become the first in Britain to make its beer using an ultra-high-temperature heat pump in place of an oil boiler.Hepworth Brewery expects to cut the emissions from wort boiling […]Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
- How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater October 3, 2024Sea levels along the US coastline could rise as much as 12in from 2020 to 2050 due to climate crisis, scientists warnFloods affecting much of the south-east US show the destructive force of higher sea levels and warmer temperatures. Now, researchers at the non-profit Climate Central are using artificial intelligence to predict how climate-related flooding […]Aliya Uteuova
- Spider lovers scurry to Colorado as tarantula mating season gets under way October 3, 2024Hundreds of arachnophiles flock to La Junta to watch the creatures emerge in droves and look for love on the plainsLove is in the air on the Colorado plains – the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.It’s […]Associated Press
- Smokey air, nonstop nosebleeds. Life as a warehouse worker in a heatwave: ‘Products matter more than people’ October 3, 2024As the Line fire exploded, dense smoke made it difficult to breathe and heat became ‘intolerable’, but work carried onLife as a roofer in Florida’s sweltering heat: ‘It feels like 120F’Uncontrolled wildfires ripped across southern California amid a startling late summer heatwave this month, shrouding the region in thick, dark smoke as temperatures climbed past […]Maanvi Singh in Oakland, California
- Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him | Nadya Tolokonnikova October 3, 2024Nature was the painter’s ultimate muse, and he would have admired those seeking to protect itNadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot and former political prisonerI woke up to a call from Vincent van Gogh today. He told me he wants the Just Stop Oil protesters who threw soup on […]Nadya Tolokonnikova
- ‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon? October 3, 2024A row over sea life, lice and livelihoods is dividing communities as the government plans to end open-net pen farming in British Columbian watersOn a clear August morning, Skookum John manoeuvres his fishing boat, Sweet Marie, out of the Tofino harbour and into the deep blue waters of Clayoquot Sound on Canada’s west coast.On shore, […]Shannon Waters in Tofino, Canada
- ‘Because secondhand is feckin’ grand’: how clothes swapping became huge in Ireland October 3, 2024After seeing the consequences of fast fashion, one woman is on a mission to change the way we think about repurposing clothesMary Fleming was on holiday in Kenya when she saw it: a mound of secondhand clothes heaped by a river, the pile so vast and unruly it was spilling into the water.The sight shocked […]Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
- ‘It used to be a farm – now it’s a mall’: how El Salvador’s crisis-hit coffee producers are trying to adapt October 3, 2024Coffee once drove the economy but war, migration, climate and disease crippled the industry. Now, a new generation with women at the fore is focusing on quality as the answerThe new highway has taken chunks out of Ines Ortiz’s coffee farm but the land lost to the Los Chorros Megaproject, El Salvador’s largest-ever infrastructure scheme, […]Owen Racer in San Salvador
- How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil October 3, 2024Colombian environment minister Susana Muhamad once worked for Shell. Now, as the country gears up to host the biodiversity Cop16, she is calling for a just transition away from fossil fuelsShe is one of the biggest opponents of fossil fuel on the world stage – but Susana Muhamad’s political career was sparked in the halls […]Patrick Greenfield