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International Maritime Organization lacks urgency needed to tackle climate crisis, say campaigners A decision by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its member states not to revise its emissions reduction strategy until the spring of 2023 has been criticised as “dangerous” by environmental campaigners. At the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting, convened by the

Jessie Greengrass’s novel The High House, set in a flood-devastated Suffolk, was one of several of the nominees to focus on global heating, said judges Jessie Greengrass’s vision of a near-future Britain drowned by an apocalyptic flood, part of the expanding genre of climate-change fiction, is among the books shortlisted for the 2021 Costa book

The climate emergency is a ‘child’s crisis’, say families unhappy about fossil fuel company’s tie-up with learn-to-swim program Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Parents have spoken out against a sponsorship deal that gives the fossil fuel company Woodside Energy naming rights over a children’s learn-to-swim program, saying the climate emergency

Publication date: March 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 193 Author(s): Maria Theresia Konrad, Line Block Hansen, Gregor Levin, Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen, Hans Estrup Andersen, Louise Martinsen, Berit Hasler

Teams in British Columbia scramble to repair dykes as provincial officials forecast up to 150mm of rain in wake of ‘atmospheric river’ Crews in British Columbia raced to clear debris from motorways and repair dykes as the Canadian province braced for more downpours on Sunday, just days after record rainfall led to the deaths of

Publication date: March 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 193 Author(s): Stepan Vesely, Christian A. Klöckner, Giuseppe Carrus, Parissa Chokrai, Immo Fritsche, Torsten Masson, Angelo Panno, Lorenza Tiberio, Alina M. Udall

Traffic on Lambeth and Vauxhall bridges stopped in rally against jailing of Insulate Britain members Climate protesters have blocked off two London bridges as part of a demonstration against the jailing of nine Insulate Britain activists. Members of the group were sentenced this week after breaching a court injunction in place to stop further road