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The cost and impact of coronavirus will imperil necessary action on the climate emergency. Towns and cities must use their collective imaginations to make a difference Difficult and almost impossibly daunting as it may seem, the world is faced with not one but two existential crises and two races against time: the coronavirus and the

Signatories including Caroline Lucas and Bambos Charalambous say it is essential to deal with coronavirus as a global emergency, but that we must also work harder to predict and prepare for existential risks. They are backing the wellbeing of future generations bill As we work to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, all of us – individuals,

Planes will this week cover areas in the southern half of the reef that escaped earlier bleaching but may have undergone high levels of heat stress The full impact of coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef will become clearer this week as aerial surveys of hundreds of reefs are completed in the bottom two

Indigenous species do not grow fast enough, so imports will have to be planted in their millions to offset emissions, expert warns Last century the Forestry Commission sparked anger with a mass planting of conifer trees designed to provide a national reserve of timber because the shortages of the first world war had highlighted a

Novelist Melissa Harrison recommends the best ‘cli-fi’ fiction Q: Can you recommend some climate crisis fiction? The nonfiction is too depressing and fiction often helps the heart cope with the worldPeggy Duesenberry, 61, Massachusetts, US A: Melissa Harrison is a novelist and nature writer whose books include At Hawthorn Time and All Among the Barley.

Up to a third of the UK’s greenhouse emissions come from central heating. But a switch from natural gas to hydrogen, one of three proposals for greener energy, has experts divided On 27 June 2019, the energy and clean growth minister Chris Skidmore signed papers that committed the UK to reduce carbon emissions to effectively

Experts fear swarms like those seen in Africa will become more common as tropical storms create favourable breeding conditions The locust crisis that has now reached 10 countries could carry on to endanger millions more people, forecasters have said. Climate change created unprecedented conditions for the locusts to breed in the usually barren desert of

As climate change makes winemaking a torrid business in southern Europe, viniculture is taking off in Scandinavia In a corner of his whitewashed 18th-century homestead, Håkan Hansson – the fifth generation of his family to farm this gently undulating stretch of land in southern Sweden – keeps a worn set of diaries, but not just