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Exclusive: Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns expected to increase losses and make it more difficult to identify net carbon emissions Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Download the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing Fresh doubts have emerged over whether Australia can rely on boosting soil carbon to

Record-breaking number of vessels being built or on order worldwide, despite environmental concerns Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage In an era of environmental awareness and conspicuous displays of sustainability, you might not expect a rise in the number of people with the means and appetite for a £50m floating fortress of

Anger after investigation finds Imperial College London, Cambridge and Oxford among institutions to have accepted funding Some of Britain’s most prestigious universities are among those to have shared in funds totalling at least £89m from major oil companies in the last four years, an investigation has found. Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London are among

Friends of the Earth cites documents suggesting UK’s reputation could suffer if it pulled $1.15bn of promised support The UK was “embarrassed” into funding a huge gas project in Mozambique while considering ending overseas support for fossil fuels, a court has heard. During a three-day high court hearing, Friends of the Earth highlighted government documents

A hail bawbee mine and aw tae mysel  Wi joy I’m like chowking if truth I maun tell  How best I micht spend it I cannae richt say  I’m fair in a muddle tae ken what tae dae My First Bawbee, by Archibald McKay What currency would be used in an independent Scotland? Probably no

Climate change fanned intense blazes that emitted 1.76bn tonnes of carbon globally in 2021, says EU’s monitoring service Wildfires produced a record amount of carbon emissions in parts of Siberia, the United States and Turkey this year, as climate change fanned unusually intense blazes, the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said on Monday. Wildfires