Coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish can be killed with vinegar, scientists find
James Cook University researchers have discovered that household vinegar has a 100% kill rate for starfish that prey on coral on the Great Barrier Reef A plague of coral-eating starfish that have caused alarm over their seemingly unstoppable attack on the Great Barrier Reef can be killed off with a simple dose of household vinegar, […]
Hillary Clinton speaks out against Keystone XL pipeline – video
Hillary Clinton breaks her longstanding silence over the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, telling voters at a campaign stop in Iowa that she opposes the project and that it is ‘a distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change’. The former secretary of state had previously said she shouldn’t […]
With Clinton and the Pope on board, the climate movement has wind in its sails | Bill McKibben
Tuesday’s announcement that Hillary Clinton opposes Keystone XL might not be a miracle, but it’s a step in the right direction I’m not a Catholic, but credit where credit is due: at the very least Tuesday’s arrival in America of the people’s Pope coincided with a small brace of minor miracles on the climate front. […]
Democrats hopeful pope's visit will end climate change denial in Congress
Republicans manage expectations on political nature of Pope Francis’s address to Congress as moderates slowly break with party leadership on climate stance Pope Francis’s arrival in Washington on Tuesday has reinforced hopes that one of the last great bastions of climate change denial – the US Congress – may be on the verge of crumbling. […]
Hillary Clinton breaks silence on Keystone XL pipeline: 'I oppose it'
Presidential candidate says the controversial project is a ‘distraction’ and not in the best interests of ‘what we need to do to combat climate change’ Hillary Clinton completed the biggest environmental conversion of her presidential campaign to date on Tuesday, pronouncing herself opposed to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline as a “distraction” in the fight […]
Would Volkswagen have got away with its pollution fiddle in the UK? | George Monbiot
The carmaker is not the only company poisoning the air. Yet still our government blocks effective legislation The latest figures suggest it now kills more people in London than smoking. Worldwide, a new study estimates, it causes more deaths than malaria and HIV-Aids together. I’m talking about the neglected health crisis of this age that […]
Zimbabwe hunter who helped kill Cecil the lion, in court on fresh charges
Theo Bronkhorst has been re-arrested and stands accused of ‘conspiracy to smuggle’ and ‘unlawful movement of animals’ The professional hunter who helped an American dentist kill Zimbabwe’s popular lion Cecil has appeared in court on new charges of planning to smuggle sable antelope out of the country. Theo Bronkhorst, 52, was initially arrested on Monday […]
Is the Hinkley Point C deal a win-win-win or a lose-lose-lose? | Letters
Your leader (Overcomplicated, overpriced and overdue. Think again, 22 September) presents a misleading impression of the alternatives to Hinkley Point C while ignoring the strengths of the project. Germany is not, as you suggest, a model that Britain should follow. It is true the country generates more electricity from renewables. But German consumers pay higher […]
The Guardian view on the VW crisis: the planet should be afraid | Editorial
It was American, not European, regulators who caught Volkswagen out. If the mis-measurement of pollution is so easily contrived, there will be political as well as commercial imperatives to distort Like the slowly stewed frog, the world has grown steadily used to the banditry of its banks. The remorseless drip of revelations about laundering, rate-fixing […]
VW scandal caused nearly 1m tonnes of extra pollution, analysis shows
Emissions could have far greater impact in Europe, where almost half passenger cars are diesel, than the US Volkswagen’s rigging of emissions tests for 11m cars means they may be responsible for nearly a million tonnes of air pollution every year, roughly the same as the UK’s combined emissions for all power stations, vehicles, industry […]