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23/07/23
Author: 
Phoebe Weston
A stag takes a drink at Dülmen wildlife reserve in Münsterland, Germany, on a sweltering day this summer. Photograph: Imageplotter/Alamy

Jul 21, 2023

After hottest day ever, researchers say global heating may mean future of crop failures on land and ‘silent dying’ in the oceans

Successive heatwaves threaten nature’s ability to provide us with food, say researchers, as they warn of an “unseen, silent dying” in our oceans amid record temperatures scorching the Earth.

23/07/23
Author: 
Oliver Milman
Firefighters try to control a wildfire in New Peramos, near Athens, Greece. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images

 

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.

23/07/23
Author: 
Paul Hockenos
Left: Mockup of a the top third of a small module reactor made by NuScale, the only SMR developer with a design approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Visual: Courtesy of NuScale/Oregon State University/Flickr

"Even if the unlikely rollout of SMRs eventually happens, it will unfold too late to curb the climate crisis. . . . . .  Meanwhile, the siren song of nuclear energy is diverting critical resources from the urgent task of building out clean technologies."

Jul 20, 2023

23/07/23
Author: 
Telesur
President Nicolas Maduro (C), July 20, 2023. | Photo: Twitter/ @NicolasMaduro

Jul 21, 2023

Since 2011, the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela has been providing decent homes to low-income families at a low cost or free of charge.

On Thursday, President Nicolas Maduro delivered to Venezuelans house number 4,600,000 built through the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela (GMVV), a social housing program that the Bolivarian revolution has promoted for 12 years.

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20/07/23
Author: 
David GellesPhotographs by Erin Schaff Reporting from Puerto Rico.
Missy Sims, a lawyer with Milberg, one of the biggest class-action firms in the world, at a cemetery in Lares, P.R.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

July 19, 2023

A lawyer started small with a creative tactic. It grew into an effort that could force fossil fuel companies to pay hundreds of billions in damages.

Missy Sims carefully picked her way through a field of ruined tombs in central Puerto Rico, in a cemetery where walls of water from Hurricane Maria had smashed open some coffins and sent others careering into a nearby stream.

Six years later, the burial place in Lares, where more than 1,700 graves were damaged, is still shattered.

16/07/23
Author: 
George Monbiot
 Illustration: Kingsley Nebechi/The Guardian

Jul 15, 2023

With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth

Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever more creative ways to maintain the status quo

 

16/07/23
Author: 
Dongsheng News, Orinoco Tribune
China confronts the challenges posed by rapid economic development, urbanization, and the migration of recent decades. Dongsheng.

Jul 14, 2023

16/07/23
Author: 
Grey Anderson and Thomas Meaney
Virginia Mayo/Associated Press

Jul 11, 2023

NATO leaders convening this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, have every reason to toast their success.

16/07/23
Author: 
Maria Virginia Olano
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.

Jul 14, 2023

As the country pushes for clean energy at home, it is still sending record-breaking amounts of planet-warming fossil gas abroad.

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.

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