Top news of the week: 08.12.2022.
#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried
Many advocates are fleeing the platform, unnerved by the surge in climate misinformation since Musk’s chaotic takeover
New Cumbrian coalmine would prove UK hypocrisy, say experts around world
Activists and experts say green light for coal would show UK’s ‘posturing, double standards and broken promises’
Fighting climate change: international attitudes towards climate policies
This paper seeks to understand what drives support for or opposition to climate policies. Evidence shows that attitudes are influenced by three key factors: perceived effectiveness, impacts ...
Lord Stern responds to media reports that the Government is due to give approval this week for a new coal mine in Cumbria
Responding to media reports that the Government is due to give approval this week for a new coal mine in...
Elderly villagers become film stars to put Bolivia’s climate plight in focus
Don José and Doña Luisa, both in their 70s, are the true-life love story at the heart of Utama, which shows how drought is depopulating the highlands
The Guardian view on biodiversity collapse: the crisis humanity can no longer ignore
Editorial: A million animal and plant species are perilously close to extinction. Their fate and ours are intimately connected
Qatar’s gas output increase could cause catastrophic global heating, report says
If Qatar exploits all its reserves it will add 50bn metric tons of CO2 to atmosphere, more than entire annual emissions of whole world
Spoonbills rebound as UK farmers bolster tree cover and wetlands
Once common in England and Wales, the species was hunted to local extinction about 300 years ago