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As EU sets out its first ever climate law, critics fear UK may delay or water down green measures Boris Johnson should publicly declare climate deniers as wrong in order to secure the UK’s standing in vital UN climate talks this year, campaigners have urged, as climate deniers with links to the Tory party prepare

Amplified climate warming at high northern latitudes is challenging societies that depend on local provisional and cultural ecosystem services, e.g., subsistence resources, for their livelihoods. Previous qualitative research suggests that climate-induced changes in environmental conditions are affecting rural residents’ ability to travel across the land and access local resources, but detailed information on the nature

One in five children aged eight to 16 have nightmares about the state of the world. Here’s how adults can help What’s going to happen? Is everyone going to die? Questions that come up a bit in our house, from a concerned eight-year-old. In the past weeks, the focus of the anxiety might have been

UK on course to lose a quarter of its sandy coast because of human-driven erosion Almost half of the world’s sandy beaches will have retreated significantly by the end of the century as a result of climate-driven coastal flooding and human interference, according to new research. The sand erosion will endanger wildlife and could inflict

Bills to meet environmental targets while feeding industry have the right pushing back and experts unconvinced Republican lawmakers under pressure to address the climate crisis are trying to move beyond denying the problem and start proposing solutions. But they still refuse to commit to what scientists say is necessary if the US is to rapidly

One of Scott Morrison’s key messages is that radical action to reduce emissions could damage Australia’s economy. But what about the effects of inaction? The cost of the climate crisis is already becoming clear for the wine industry. In this episode of Full Story, Gabrielle Jackson talks to environment reporter Lisa Cox about how winemakers

Temperatures have not fallen far enough for grapes to freeze on the vine as process requires A warm winter means that for the first time in years Germany’s vineyards will produce no ice wine, an expensive golden nectar made from grapes left to freeze on the vine. The German Wine Institute said on Sunday that

An entire way of life is under threat in the Torres Strait, where locals have taken their case to the United Nations Kabay Tamu slows his dusty white ute to walking speed on the dirt road that runs along the south-western shoreline of Warraber, a tiny coral cay in the Torres Strait that is home