Murder in Malaysia: how protecting native forests cost an activist his life
Malaysian activist Bill Kayong fought to save forest lands from logging and oil palm development. Like a troubling number of environmental campaigners around the world, he paid the highest price, reports Yale Environment 360 Environmentalists at risk: read part one in this series It was 8.20am on 21 June 2016. Bill Kayong, an up-and-coming political […]
Bitten by the same bug: Octogenarian couple donate insect collection to university – video
Octogenarian couple Charles and Lois O’Brien have this week announced they would donate their home collection of more than a million insects to Arizona State University. The collection was gathered over almost six decades and is worth an estimated $10m (£8m). It will help be a resource for scientists who study natural controls on the […]
How Keystone XL, the pipeline rejected by Obama, went ahead under Trump
The expansion, which was originally proposed in 2008 and faced strong protest from environmental advocates, secures permit to start building from Trump Keystone XL pipeline: Trump issues permit to begin construction 2008 TransCanada proposes expanding an existing pipeline to transport oil from Hardisty, Alberta to Port Arthur, Texas, to transfer Canadian tar sands oil to […]
Breitbart's James Delingpole says reef bleaching is 'fake news', hits peak denial | Graham Readfearn
A claim like this takes lashings of chutzpah, blinkers the size of Trump’s hairspray bill and more hubris than you can shake a branch of dead coral at It takes a very special person to label the photographed, documented, filmed and studied phenomenon of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef “fake news”. You […]
The CommBank contradiction: support for cricket and fossil fuels | David Ritter
Extreme heat endangers cricketers yet the bank is Australia’s most significant private investor in climate-change-inducing fossil fuels Contrary to most expectations, the Australia-India Test series is proving to be an absolute cracker, with the teams locked together 1-1 going into the decider that begins on Saturday in Dharamsala. Australian commercial sponsors of sport must always […]
These handsome elephant seals are helping us track climate change | Esther Tarszisz
Sedating a one-tonne elephant seal in Antarctica in no easy feat but the vital information the seals are providing about the Southern Ocean makes it worth it One question I’m asked a lot about my job is: how do you “vet” a one-tonne elephant seal? Well firstly, it makes the 300kg seals seem really titchy […]
‘Moore’s law’ for carbon would defeat global warming
A plan to halve carbon emissions every decade, while green energy continues to double every five years, provides a simple but rigorous roadmap to tackle climate change, scientists say A new “carbon law”, modelled on Moore’s law in computing, has been proposed as a roadmap for beating climate change. It sees carbon emissions halving every […]
Share your photos of these newly recognised cloud formations
As the International Cloud Atlas adds 11 “new” formations, including wave-like clouds known as asperitas, we’d like to see your pictures from around the world Wave-like clouds long seen but never officially categorised in English-language meteorological circles now have their place in the International Cloud Atlas. Related: Stunning ‘new’ cloud formations captured in updated atlas […]
Stunning 'new' cloud formations captured in updated atlas – in pictures
Roll clouds and wave-like asperitas are among the additions to the new digital International Cloud Atlas, that dates back to the 19th century. It features hundreds of images captured by meteorologists and cloud lovers from around the world Have you seen any of the “new” cloud formations? Continue reading… Source: Guardian Climate Change
Let there be light: Germans switch on 'largest artificial sun'
Scientists hope experiment, which can generate temperatures of around 3,500C, will help to develop carbon-neutral fuel German scientists are switching on “the world’s largest artificial sun” in the hope that intense light sources can be used to generate climate-friendly fuel. The Synlight experiment in Jülich, about 19 miles west of Cologne, consists 149 souped-up film […]