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The small village of Lytton in British Columbia hit the global media when it smashed Canada's highest temperature record in June 2021, at 49.6C. Two days later, a wildfire burned the entire village to the ground. In the ashes of their homes, this cohesive but diverse community, which includes a majority of First Nations people, had to confront the realities of climate displacement by being relocated away from their ancestral lands. Through the stories of three residents we find a community searching for answers while relying on a collective spirit to heal

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Sultan Al Jaber – Cop28 president and CEO of state oil firm – is ‘ally the climate movement needs’, posts say

An army of fake social media accounts on Twitter and the blogging site Medium have been promoting and defending the controversial hosting of a UN climate summit by the United Arab Emirates.

The president of the Cop28 climate talks is Sultan Al Jaber, who is also the chief executive of the state oil giant Adnoc, which has major net zero-busting expansion plans.

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The Reforestation Carbon Analyst will be working under the Reforestation Manager to provide technical expertise to support The Climate Trust’s nascent reforestation program, which has been selected for a $15 million USDA Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities Grant. This position will conduct forestry and financial analysis to develop project feasibility studies, conduct carbon monitoring and verification of projects, provide planting design and implementation, and support grant and project reporting.

Storms, droughts and record high temperatures lie ahead as US scientists confirm that El Niño has arrived.

The Reforestation Project Manager will lead The Climate Trust’s southeast reforestation program, which is part of a nationwide program that has been awarded a $15 million USDA Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities Grant. This position will lead recruitment, implementation, development, and ongoing management of reforestation carbon projects with focus on the southeast region.

Researchers say bumpier air travel is driving up costs and increasing the risks for passengers and crew

The climate crisis is leading to more turbulence during flights, driving up costs and increasing the risks for passengers and crew, according to new research.

The study found that warmer air, caused by carbon emissions, is creating bumpier flights around the world with severe turbulence in the North Atlantic up by 55% since 1979.

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The Green MP for Brighton Pavilion is leaving Westminster. It’s a sign that change will only come to a broken system from outside

With our forlorn sense that politics isn’t working and that democracy is broken, as we feel the impacts of both climate change and the decision to leave the European Union in real time, the symbolic answer to our political crisis was always staring us in the face. It was Caroline Lucas, the best prime minister we never had – and, now that she is standing down from her Brighton Pavilion seat, we will never get.

In her bold but gentle way, Lucas embodied the fact that politicians and politics could be better. Not perfect, but good enough. Good enough to know that meaningful change needs a vision of a good society to compel it, alongside bold enough policies and strong enough alliances to get us there.

Neal Lawson is director of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass

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An executive board member of the European Central Bank (ECB) has defended the institution's exploration of the economic impacts of biodiversity loss, arguing that understanding the threats is critical for the economy and “not some kind of flower power” exercise.

The low-carbon business unit of the Singaporean government’s investment company is lining up a deal to invest in a nature restoration project in Ghana that it hopes can ultimately supply Singapore with correspondingly-adjusted carbon credits to help meet the nation’s Paris Agreement emissions pledge.

A UK-based hydrogen electrolyser developer has successfully closed an oversubscribed £5-million seed funding round, it announced Wednesday.

European carbon prices jumped as much as 1.5% on Wednesday morning to their highest in more than two weeks as the market targeted a key technical level, gaining support from a nearly 12% jump in natural gas prices.

Global large- and mega-cap firms have shown minimal progress towards meeting the Paris Agreement's climate goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C by 2050, according to new research.

Children whose mothers are exposed to toxic PFAS can experience phenomenon previously linked to fetal tobacco smoke exposure

Children whose mothers are exposed to toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” during pregnancy run an increased risk of low birth weight as well as obesity and high body mass index later in life, an effect similar to prenatal exposure to tobacco, new research finds.

The low birth rate effects of some PFAS have been previously established, but the study tracked 1,400 kids and found higher BMIs and more incidences of obesity in those ages two to five. The “low birth weight-high obesity risk paradox” was previously associated with tobacco smoke exposure during fetal development.

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Activists to gather in Washington to demand Joe Biden ‘reclaim his climate legacy’ by blocking 300-mile Mountain Valley pipeline

Protesters are set to descend upon the White House on Thursday under smoky skies amid growing anger among climate activists at Joe Biden for allowing a controversial gas pipeline in Appalachia to be fast-tracked.

Several hundred protesters are expected to gather in Washington to demand Biden “reclaim his climate legacy” by blocking the Mountain Valley pipeline, a 300-mile pipeline that will bring fracked gas from West Virginia to southern Virginia.

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Smoke from wildfires has enveloped Toronto and New York. We look at the role of a changing climate.

The United Nations Development Programme has launched a new biodiversity finance resource database which aims to close the financing gap for biodiversity conservation by listing worldwide funding opportunities from public and private resources.

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A clear phase-out for oil and gas production and a halt to new investment needs to be agreed on at the year-end COP28 UN climate summit in the same way that efforts are being made to set a phase-out for coal, analysts said on Thursday.

Storm overflows group has been promoted by ministers as evidence they are taking issue seriously

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The storm overflows taskforce set up by the government to tackle raw sewage discharges by water companies in England has only met once in the last year, a freedom of information request has revealed.

The group, which was promoted by ministers as evidence that they were taking the issue of raw sewage discharges by water companies seriously, is supposed to meet fortnightly, according to its mission statement.

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Hundreds of uncontrolled forest fires have spread across Canada, threatening critical infrastructure and forcing evacuations. Wildfires are common in the country's western provinces, but this year flames have rapidly spread towards the east. About 3.8m hectares (9.4m acres) have already burned, according to government ministers. The wildfires have created a blanket of smoke that has spread across several US cities, including New York, forcing residents to stay indoors

• Canada’s wildfires are part of our new climate reality, experts and officials say

• Tens of millions under air quality alerts in US as Canada fire smoke drifts south

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