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In early August, in the village of Utulei on the eastern shore of Tatuila, the largest of seven islands that make up American Samoa, more than two dozen local residents gathered in an auditorium. They were there to learn about…
The first person to hoist a sail predates recorded history; humans have been harnessing the wind for thousands of years. Nevertheless, when the first windmill was first used to produce electricity 1887, it was immediately rejected as the work of…
Oil firm, which paused project in 2024, will not restart work because facility deemed ‘insufficiently competitive’ Shell has axed the construction of its biofuels plant in the Netherlands, ending what would have been one of the biggest converters of waste…
The hole – about 100 metres deep – was not visible from the surface – and there could be thousands more like it Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or…
A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs What does British summertime mean to you? Blackberries? Picnics? Festivals? Ticks? This summer has been the hottest on record in the UK.…
Francis’s gorgeous sapphire — a new-to-science species of butterfly — has just been described in the high-altitude evergreen forests of western Angola. The identification of Iolaus francisi, with its shimmering blue upper wings bordered with black, and silvery underwings patterned…
Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in extractive mining for green transition with few safeguards, research finds The financing of transition mineral mining is driving widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses, according to a report. Banks and investors have…
Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological and environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years, which have come to be dominated by a small circle of elites hoarding resources like land, research shows. Today, instead of…
Australia’s 2035 target for cutting emissions will reveal how serious we are about addressing the climate crisis Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Want to get…
For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature Communications disentangles how much of this shift can be blamed on humanity’s warming of the planet and how much on the felling of trees…