Insider's guide to Bari: raw fish and reggae on the Adriatic
Nine hundred years ago, 62 sailors landed in Bari bearing the relics of their patron saint, in a bid to revive the city’s fortunes. But it was fishing, an aqueduct and a bustling cultural scene that made Bari the thriving Italian port it is today White stone on the Adriatic. Continue reading… Source: Guardian Environment
Malaria menace: when insecticide-resistant mosquitoes bite back | Clár Ní Chonghaile
Malaria death rates have fallen 60% since 2000, but with some mosquitoes developing resistance to treated bednets, is it time to change strategy? The underlying fact seems incontrovertible: mosquito resistance to the insecticides used to treat bednets is growing. The question is what can be done to combat this resistance and ringfence the dramatic drop […]
Satellite Eye on Earth: March 2016 – in pictures
Salt lakes, dust rivers and ice shelves were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month Thousands of saline lakes span the south-western part of Western Australia, at the headwaters of the Frankland river, north of Stirling Range national park. Millions of years ago, declines in rainfall caused river flows […]
A global coalition mapping and motivating decarbonization | Joseph Robertson
A coalition of governments, oil companies, and other key parties works for climate action and carbon pricing Would it surprise you to learn that governments, oil companies, NGOs and major investors are coming together to map—and to motivate—the decarbonization of the global economy? The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) is a policy-focused alliance of national […]
New homes eroding green belt 'at fastest rate for 20 years'
Campaign to Protect Rural England accuses councils of altering boundaries and the government of facilitating the process The number of houses planned for England’s green belt has risen to 275,000, nearly 200,000 more than four years ago, making a mockery of government pledges to protect the countryside, a report says. The Campaign to Protect Rural […]
100 years ago: Food and shelter at the sewage farm
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 25 April 1916 A solitary swallow, alternately beating seaward over the sand and drifting downwind above the dunes and golf links, passed me as it coasted along the Wirral shore towards the Lancashire side of the river, but beyond a small party of white wagtails on the shingle […]
The common agricultural policy and EU solidarity | Letters
Giles Fraser says the EU “has become a huge and largely invisible way of redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich” (Why our landed gentry are so desperate to stay in the EU, 21 April). Clearly there is an element of the common agricultural policy that does do just that, to which capping payments […]
The Guardian view on the UN climate change treaty: now for some action | Editorial
It was a spectacular signal of global intent on Friday when more than 170 governments signed up to the Paris deal. But it’s just the start of a long, hard road The danger of gala events like the official signing of the climate change treaty at the UN in New York on Friday, crowned with […]
Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant decision delayed again by EDF
French economy minister says the energy giant’s green light on the £18bn project is now not expected until September The decision on whether to go ahead with the £18bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power project has been delayed again, after France’s economy minister said the country’s energy giant EDF may not give it the green […]
World heading for catastrophe over natural disasters, risk expert warns
With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise, international disaster risk reduction efforts are woefully underfunded The world’s failure to prepare for natural disasters will have “inconceivably bad” consequences as climate change fuels a huge increase in catastrophic droughts and floods and the humanitarian crises that follow, the UN’s head […]