2025 likely to be UK’s hottest on record, says Met Office
Scientists could not be clearer that human-caused climate change is driving the UK’s warming trend.
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Neddy Mulimo treated ranger welfare as conservation
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In much of Africa, conservation is discussed in the language of landscapes and species: elephant corridors, lechwe floodplains, and the slow arithmetic of…
Forecasters say 2025 ‘more likely than not’ to be UK’s hottest year on record
Met Office says temperatures are tracking ahead of 2022 after year of heatwaves and drought, though late cold spell could yet intervene Forecasters say 2025 is “more likely than not” to break the record for the hottest year in the…
The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.
Victoria to get first publicly owned windfarm with 33-turbine Latrobe valley project
Advocates say State Electricity Commission’s $650m Delburn windfarm will be a ‘new chapter’ for region previously home to Hazelwood coal power station Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s…
Grassroots forest protection succeeds where planting drives fail in Nepal
NAWALPUR, Nepal — At 75, Hasta Bahadur Sathighare Magar says he still remembers the time when the slopes above his village in the rural municipality of Rupsekot, in central Nepal, looked dead. Dust blew freely as cattle marauded the barren…
Trump Administration Loosens Protections for Iconic Greater Sage Grouse
The government moves to make it easier to drill, mine and graze on 50 million acres of land in the West.
Pink platypus spotted in Gippsland is cute – but don’t get too excited
Biologist says monotreme a Victorian fisher has nicknamed Pinky is ‘unusual but not exceptional’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Cody Stylianou thought he saw a…
Will Australia’s main environment law continue marginalizing Indigenous authority, despite overhaul? (commentary)
Australia’s main environmental law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), has finally been rewritten. After years of warnings that the old law was “not fit for purpose,” parliament backed sweeping changes: national environmental standards, a new…
Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo
When a young boy went missing near his mother’s rice field in Indonesian Borneo, the entire village searched for him. After nearly a day, he was found near a large strangler fig tree. The boy insisted he hadn’t been hiding.…