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Analysts’ forecast comes as campaigners warn windfall tax package could harm climate efforts More than £8bn of North Sea energy projects could now be given the green light rapidly as fossil fuel firms take advantage of a tax break in Rishi Sunak’s windfall tax, analysts have forecast. Last month the chancellor introduced the one-off levy

Many forests of the western United States have undergone over one hundred years of anthropogenic impacts that have led to increased tree density, homogenization in forest structure, and accumulation of woody material, which combined with a changing climate pose threats to valued social and ecological features. In California, recent waves of tree mortality and unprecedented

Unprecedented, rapid social-ecological change threatens marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of communities who depend on them. Governance scholars have identified adaptive governance principles that enable managers and decision makers to respond flexibly to such change. However, much of this work is the result of case studies undertaken in the Global North, primarily in democratic countries.

Author cites Brexit and the climate crisis as examples of previous generations ‘breaking’ their future The author Elif Shafak has said she thinks “there’s a scream building up” inside many young people, because they feel their future “is being shaped by older generations”. “It’s difficult to be young, in this age in particular,” the Turkish-British

The promotion of competition is  an existing aim of financial regulation. But in proposals around the Future Regulatory Framework in the Queen’s Speech last month, an additional objective was suggested: encouraging “competitiveness”. This modification of the regulatory remit sounds like a technical, semantic change. It is indeed technical — the devil of all financial regulation

Calls for action as decline is seen as evidence of harm caused by climate crisis, pollution and fish farming Salmon anglers have called for urgent action to protect Scotland’s wild salmon after the lowest number on record were caught last year. The latest official data shows that 35,693 Atlantic salmon were caught by anglers on

New climate minister says calls to raise Labor’s emissions target are ‘odd’ and asks Greens and independents to ‘respect our mandate across the country’ Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Australia’s new climate minister has vowed to quickly cut taxes on electric vehicles and meet with state counterparts to address a