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Dover tractor protester says farmers could launch more demonstrations
Organiser of go-slow protest says farmers in Europe have ‘shown us what can be accomplished’
The organiser of a protest in which tractor-driving farmers caused traffic jams around the Port of Dover has said there could be more demonstrations.
Road traffic in and out of the coastal town in Kent was disrupted by the go-slow demonstration on Friday night.
Continue reading...Labour’s reduced home insulation plans ‘simply not enough’
Housebuilders and campaigners warn of cold, damp homes and UK missing legally binding targets
Labour’s slashing of proposed spending on home insulation will leave millions of people on low incomes in cold, damp homes and could prevent the UK meeting its legally binding carbon targets, campaigners and housebuilders have warned.
The Federation of Master Builders criticised the drastic scaling back of Labour’s low-carbon policies, announced by Keir Starmer on Thursday after months of speculation.
Continue reading...Cyclone Tracy cleanup to Melbourne Cup upset: archive images of 20th century Australia – in pictures
The Focus exhibition at the National Archives of Australia contains pictures drawn from its collection of almost 11m images. Government photography is usually associated with politics but the photographers also documented the lives and work of well-known and everyday Australians
Continue reading...Is Iceland entering a new volcanic era?
Bushfire survivors call for communities to support shift to renewables
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Speculators take profits across North American carbon markets, emitters make modest additions
Global carbon markets post 2% increase in value in 2023 -analysts
California carbon market watchdog urges ARB to initiate Washington linkage process
Dinosaur Island: 40 years of discoveries on Skye
Researchers reiterate insufficiency of California forest offset buffer pool
Italian climate-tech firm partners with energy major, US startup on Norway marine CDR pilot project
Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds
Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible
The circulation of the Atlantic Ocean is heading towards a tipping point that is “bad news for the climate system and humanity”, a study has found.
The scientists behind the research said they were shocked at the forecast speed of collapse once the point is reached, although they said it was not yet possible to predict how soon that would happen.
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