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FactCheck: what we know about the Libyan flood and climate change
Research is still underway to establish the exact role climate change could have played in Storm Daniel and the Libya flood.
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Sunak claims North Sea gas ‘four times’ less polluting than imports
On the day he announced hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licenses prime minister Rishi Sunak told reporters that producing natural gas in the UK is “better for the climate” than importing it from abroad. He said that’s because it’s “far better to have it here at home rather than shipping it here…
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Would new North Sea oil and gas make Britain more energy independent?
The government will grant hundreds of new licences to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, Rishi Sunak said on Monday. The initial decision was announced last year, but Mr Sunak reiterated the plan this week alongside “millions of pounds” for so-called “carbon capture and storage” technology — which the government says would help reduce…
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I dated AI and met the men marrying chatbots
What’s it like to get an AI girlfriend, and why are millions of people around the world doing it?
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FactCheck: were the Greek wildfires caused by climate change?
This summer has already been marked as another year with record-breaking heat right across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to Europe. In the past week at least 34 people died from spreading wildfires in Algeria, while in the Greek island of Rhodes thousands were evacuated due to wildfires following extreme…
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Rhodes fires: flights cancelled as thousands of tourists and residents evacuated on Greek island
It’s an island inferno. As flames continue to lick coastal tourist areas after ripping through the mountainous interior of Rhodes, the Greek authorities say they’re dealing with the country’s biggest fire evacuation ever. Nineteen thousand people have been rescued from villages and hotels – three thousand of those picked up in boats from the beaches…
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What’s going on with the world’s oceans – and what’s a marine heatwave?
The world’s oceans have been heating to unprecedented levels in recent months, with some scientists debating whether the climate is changing beyond expectation. In the UK, June is now set to be the hottest on record. Similar records have been tumbling elsewhere and Antarctic ice has receded to its lowest point ever. The Met Office…
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‘This is an emergency’ – Chris van Tulleken on how our diet is killing us
Chris van Tulleken’s latest book, ‘Ultra-Processed People’, explores how ultra-processed food is designed to fuel addiction and is creating an epidemic of diet-related disease.
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Sussex plans to restore kelp forests to fight climate change
It’s brown, smelly and elusive and it plays a key role in the fight against climate change. Giant
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Just Stop Oil climate protests disrupt London with roadblocks
Tens of thousands of people have taken part in four days of action organised by the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion – which they claim was the biggest climate protest ever held in the UK.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship launches but explodes minutes later
The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built – that was the boast from SpaceX, the company owned by Elon Musk, a man who has never knowingly undersold himself.
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‘Really is critical to act on climate change now,’ says Baroness Brown
We spoke to Baroness Brown, Julia King, who leads work on adaptation at the climate change committee.
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Government’s official advisors say ‘lack of leadership’ has left UK unprepared for climate change
The Climate Change Committee says that around £10 billion a year of “essential” new investment is needed — but that “adaptation in the UK remains chronically underfunded and overlooked”.
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New research reveals the extent of ExxonMobil’s secret knowledge of climate change nearly 50 years ago
The findings are the latest in a series of revelations about the company’s historic awareness of the links between climate change and fossil fuels.
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Facebook owners Meta have agreed a £600 million settlement in a US case, over a data breach linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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