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Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns
Move follows London museum’s links to Adani Group, which has partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer
Save the Children has pulled out of an event at the Science Museum in London after coming under pressure from its supporters over the institution’s sponsors.
The charity said it had decided to withdraw from an evening event called Journey of Life Lates on 11 September “following concerns from supporters about one of the museum’s sponsors, in the context of current public campaigns”.
Continue reading...Climate experts lament Harris’s vow to keep fracking in debate with ‘walking oil spill’ Trump
Harris has a progressive record on climate but indicated a shift, probably to assuage voters in swing states
Kamala Harris stridently backed new fracking and expanded US gas production in comments that raised eyebrows among some environmentalists as, yet again, the unfolding climate crisis was largely overlooked during a set piece presidential debate.
Harris, in a televised debate with Donald Trump on Tuesday night in Philadelphia, rebuffed the former president’s claim that she will end fracking “on day one” if elected by touting booming levels of drilling during her term as vice-president, in which US oil and gas production has hit record highs.
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Continue reading...How Trump and Harris Talked About Climate Change During the Debate
TikToker Caleb Graves dies after running Disneyland half-marathon in heatwave
Content creator posted video expressing worry about high temperatures day before race in Anaheim, California
A 35-year-old runner collapsed and died on Sunday after completing a half-marathon at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, during a heatwave, only a day after expressing his concern about the searing temperatures in a video posted to TikTok.
Bobby Graves, who went by Caleb on his popular TikTok page, clutched his chest as he crossed the finish line of the Disneyland Halloween half-marathon around 7am, and was then caught by a race volunteer as he collapsed, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Continue reading...Resisting fascism includes respecting our environment and fellow species | Terry Tempest Williams
I do not think it is a leap to see our exploitive relationship with Earth as part of a centuries-long war against the environment
Standing on the edge of Utah’s terminal Great Salt Lake is to witness the religion of over-water consumption in the desert. Our thirst is greater than this inland sea can bare as it is disappearing in the shadows of climate chaos, extreme heat and a megadrought not seen in 2,500 years. Twelve million migrating birds depend on this water body for food, rest and breeding. Flocks of Wilson’s phalaropes, small and handsome shorebirds, spin in saline waters creating water columns alive with brine shrimp and flies and resulting in a feeding frenzy. American avocets and black-necked stilts stand stoically in the shallows. Thousands of ducks are sprinkled on the lake like pepper. Water and sky merge as one. There is no horizon. All appears well in this serene landscape of pastel blues animated by birds. It is not.
The health of the Great Salt Lake is only as strong as the health of the human community that surrounds it. And vice versa. If the 2 million people living within the Great Salt Lake watershed with Salt Lake City at its center do not mobilize to put more water in the lake, the death of the Great Salt Lake will be their own. This will also be the demise of millions of migrating birds.
Terry Tempest Williams is a writer, naturalist and activist
Continue reading...Resisting fascism includes respecting our environment and fellow species | Terry Tempest Williams
I do not think it is a leap to see our exploitive relationship with Earth as part of a centuries-long war against the environment
Standing on the edge of Utah’s terminal Great Salt Lake is to witness the religion of over water-consumption in the desert. Our inland sea is disappearing in climate chaos evidenced by extreme heat and a megadrought not seen in 2,500 years. Ten million migrating birds depend on this water body for food, rest and breeding. Flocks of Wilson’s phalaropes, small and handsome shorebirds, spin in saline waters creating water columns alive with brine shrimp and flies and resulting in a feeding frenzy. American avocets and black-necked stilts stand stoically in the shallows. Thousands of ducks are sprinkled on the lake like pepper. Water and sky merge as one. There is no horizon. All appears well in this serene landscape of pastel blues animated by birds. It is not.
The health of the Great Salt Lake is only as strong as the health of the human community that surrounds it. And vice versa. If the 2 million people living within the Great Salt Lake watershed with Salt Lake City at its center do not mobilize to put more water in the lake, the death of the Great Salt Lake will be their own. This will also be the demise of millions of migrating birds.
Terry Tempest Williams is a writer, naturalist and activist
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Brazilian president flies into Amazon amid alarm over droughts and wildfires
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says Amazonia suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has flown into the Amazon amid growing alarm over the droughts and wildfires sweeping the rainforest region and others parts of Brazil.
Speaking during a visit to a riverside community near the city of Tefé, the Brazilian president said Amazonia was suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years. He said he had come to discover “what is going on with these mighty rivers” that in some places now resemble deserts.
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Italy’s Marmolada glacier could disappear by 2040, experts say
Rising temperatures causing largest glacier in Dolomites to lose 7-10cm of depth a day, according to scientists
The Marmolada glacier, the largest and most symbolic of the Dolomites, could melt completely by 2040 owing to rising average temperatures, experts have said.
Italian scientists who are monitoring glaciers and the impact of climate emergency, and who took part in a campaign launched by environmentalist group Legambiente, the international commission for the protection of the Alps (Cipra), with the scientific partnership of the Italian Glacier Committee, said on Monday the Marmolada was losing between 7 and 10cm of depth a day.
Continue reading...Hurricane warnings in effect as US Gulf coast braces for Tropical Storm Francine
Storm expected to make landfall in Louisiana on Tuesday evening and bring heavy rainfall to Mississippi and Texas
Communities along the US’s Gulf coast are bracing for possible impact as Tropical Storm Francine is expected to become a hurricane later in the day on Tuesday and make landfall in Louisiana the following morning.
The storm has been moving northward, the National Hurricane Center said, and is expected to be just offshore the coasts of north-eastern Mexico and southern Texas by Tuesday evening.
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G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaigners
Promise to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at Cop28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutions
Campaigners have claimed some of the world’s largest economies are turning their backs on a pledge made last year to transition away from fossil fuels.
Ministers from the G20 group of developed and developing countries, including the US, UK, China and India, will meet in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to discuss the global approach to the climate crisis.
Continue reading...We examined anti-protest laws across the west. Britain stood out, and not in a good way | Linda Lakhdhir
Under the Tories, non-violent climate protesters were jailed for up to five years – and there is little sign that Labour will change tack
- Linda Lakhdhir is the legal director of Climate Rights International
In December 2023 when Stephen Gingell was sentenced to six months in prison for slow marching for half an hour on the Holloway Road in north London, the sentence was considered shocking. Unfortunately, it is far from the exception. In fact, my organisation, Climate Rights International, has spent the past eight months looking into restrictions on climate protests among western democracies and has found that the UK – mostly under the Conservatives – has introduced some of the harshest anti-protest legislation in recent years.
You may remember Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker, who were sentenced to multi-year prison sentences in April 2023 for climbing the cables of the Queen Elizabeth II bridge to object to new oil, gas and coal projects. The three-year sentence imposed on Trowland was, at the time, the longest ever for a climate protest in the UK. But, it has since been surpassed. In July, in a case that made international headlines, five fossil-fuel protesters were sentenced to four- and five-year sentences after participating in a Zoom call about staging climate protests on the M25.
Linda Lakhdhir is the legal director of Climate Rights International
Continue reading...‘Two incredible extreme events’: Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running
Last year Antartica’s sea ice was 1.6m sq km below average – the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. This week it had even less than that
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is on the cusp of reaching a record winter low for a second year running, continuing an “outrageous” fall in the amount of Southern Ocean that is freezing over.
The Antarctic region underwent an abrupt transformation in 2023 as the sea ice cover surrounding the continent crashed for six months straight. In winter, it covered about 1.6m sq km less than the long-term average – an area roughly the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined.
Continue reading...Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study
Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south
Wealthy, democratic countries in the global north are using harsh, vague and punitive measures to crack down on climate protests at the same time as criticising similar draconian tactics by authorities in the global south, according to a report.
A Climate Rights International report exposes the increasingly heavy-handed treatment of climate activists in Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US.
Record prison sentences for non violent protest in several countries including the UK, Germany and the US.
Preemptive arrests and detention for those suspected of planning peaceful protests.
Draconian new laws passed to make the vast majority of peaceful protest illegal.
Measures to stop juries hearing about people’s motivation for taking part in protests during court cases, which critics say fundamentally undermines the right to a fair trial.
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