Environment Call for 1m people to join UK's biggest mass tree-planting campaignThe Guardian - Fiona Harvey Environment correspondentVolunteers are being urged to do their bit to stop the climate emergency by grabbing a spade and signing up for the biggest mass tree-planting campaign in the UK’s history. Plots in suitable sites around
Climate Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest everThe Guardian - Sandra Laville and Jonathan WattsMillions of people demonstrated across the world yesterday demanding urgent action to tackle global heating, as they united across timezones and cultures to take part in the biggest climate protest in
News Countries must triple climate emission cut targets to limit global heating to 2CThe Guardian - Adam MortonAn assessment backed by the world’s major climate science bodies has found commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions must be at least tripled and increased by up to fivefold if the world is to meet goals
Swallows see off annoying sparrows: Country diary, 23 September 1919The Guardian - Thomas CowardA large number of young swallows were gathered on the telephone wires, and many skimmed to and fro close to the grass over a field where cattle had been feeding. In the hedge below was a flock of sparrows;
Environment Country diary: the forest floor offers a rich feast for foragersThe Guardian - John GilbeyJust after dawn, mist half concealed the line of trees along the Roman road that edges the village. Hoping for one of those classic September mornings where the valley fog burns away to leave a flawless
Environment Atlassian billionaire to announce net zero emissions target at UN climate summitThe Guardian - Katharine Murphy Political editorAustralian tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes will travel to the United Nations summit on climate change in New York to announce that Atlassian will adopt a target of net zero emissions by no later
Environment Extinction Rebellion: 10 arrested at Dover protestThe Guardian - Jedidajah OtteTen people have been arrested during an Extinction Rebellion climate change protest in Dover aimed at “blockading” the port. Activists were reported to have glued themselves to streets and were told they
Environment The sinking class: the New Yorkers left to fight the climate crisis aloneThe Guardian - Emily NonkoJainey Bavishi is all business as she takes off from Battery Park to walk the perimeter of lower Manhattan. It’s a muggy afternoon, a breeze barely lifting off of the New York Harbor, after days of heavy
Climate The climate strike in portraits: the signs, faces and reasonsThe GuardianFriday saw hundreds of thousands of young people take to the streets to protest against climate change. In New York, the protests began at Foley Square with the marchers eventually making their way to
Environment Country diary: stunted stubs of nut signal a difficult year for oaksThe Guardian - Sara HudstonMarshwood’s oaks are shedding an unexpectedly large crop of black acorns this autumn. These are stunted stubs of nut with an eggshell sheen, barely rising in their brown cups. Long stalks show they are
Environment Climate strikes: hoax photo accusing Australian protesters of leaving rubbish behind goes viralThe Guardian - Naaman ZhouA hoax photo that claims to show rubbish left behind by Australian climate strike protesters is circulating on Facebook, despite being revealed as fake months ago. Though it lacks any verification, and
Environment England’s national parks ‘must do more to protect nature’The Guardian - Patrick BarkhamNational parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty have not done enough to protect nature or welcome diverse visitors, and extra government funding must help drive radical change, according to a review.
Environment Country diary: we tell the season by the island's changing visitorsThe Guardian - Sheenagh PughHow to describe autumn coming on without mentioning leaves falling or changing colour? The point being that there aren’t many trees in Shetland. There are some, in sheltered spots. But other signs come
Environment This isn't extinction, it's extermination: the people killing nature know what they're doingThe Guardian - Jeff SparrowDuring the carnage of the first world war, the poet Wilfred Owen revisited the biblical story in which God tests Abraham by commanding the sacrifice of Isaac, his son. In Genesis, Abraham dutifully prepares
Climate 'Enough is enough’: biggest-ever climate protest sweeps UKThe Guardian - Matthew Taylor in London, and Jonathan Watts in EdinburghFrom the small sun-drenched Inner Hebridean island of Iona to the packed streets of central London, parents and grandparents, children and trade unionists have stepped out of their Friday routines to their
Environment Norfolk slows down coastal erosion with sandscaping schemeThe Guardian - Patrick BarkhamAn artificial dune of nearly 2m cubic metres of sand has been created on the Norfolk coast in an innovative approach to slowing coastal erosion. In the £20m sandscaping scheme, enough sand to fill one
Liberal View The climate crisis explained in 10 chartsThe Guardian - Damian Carrington and Cath LevettThe level of CO2 has been rising since the industrial revolution and is now at its highest for about 4 million years. The rate of the rise is even more striking – the fastest for 66m years – with scientists
Salmonella Dozens of people poisoned this year by salmonella-infected British eggsThe Guardian - Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal and Fiona HarveyDozens of people have been poisoned after consuming British eggs contaminated with salmonella, an investigation has found, despite recent government assurances that the risk had been virtually eliminated.
Renewable Energy New windfarms will not cost billpayers after subsidies hit record lowThe Guardian - Jillian AmbroseThe UK’s next wave of offshore windfarms will generate clean electricity at no extra cost to consumers after record low-subsidy deals fell below the market price for the first time. New offshore wind will
Fracking Back the global fracking ban, campaigners urge UNThe Guardian - Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondentA global campaign backed by 450 activist groups and celebrities, including actors Emma Thompson and Mark Ruffalo, is calling on the UN to endorse a global end to fracking before the industry torpedoes
Australia Hundreds of thousands attend school climate strike rallies across AustraliaThe Guardian - Luke Henriques-Gomes with Helen Davidson, Lisa Cox, Ben Smee and Naaman ZhouHundreds of thousands of Australians took to the streets on Friday as they called for greater action on the climate emergency in more than 100 cities and towns across the country. Organisers of the school
Mosquitoes People v mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killerThe Guardian - Timothy WinegardWe are at war with the mosquito. A swarming and consuming army of 110tn enemy mosquitoes patrols every inch of the globe except for Antarctica, Iceland and a handful of French Polynesian micro-islands.
Climate From Alan Jones to the Daily Mail: the Australian media's bizarre reactions to the climate strikeThe Guardian - Amanda MeadeThe Daily Mail found a child at the climate strike who said they just wanted the day off school and Alan Jones quoted Joseph Goebbels. Those were just some of the more bizarre takes on the climate strike
Climate Strike Signs of the times: the best Australian climate strike placardsThe Guardian - Helen DavidsonLaughing in the face of looming apocalypse, Friday’s climate strike brought out the best in dark Australian humour. While many signs were deadly serious, teens are nothing if not witty and they came armed
Birds US and Canada have lost three billion birds since 1970The Guardian - Emily Holden in WashingtonThe US and Canada have lost more than one in four birds – a total of three billion – since 1970, culminating in what scientists who published a new study are calling a “widespread ecological crisis”. observed
World News Global climate strike: how you can get involvedThe Guardian - Guardian staffThe global climate strike kicks off on Friday and will ripple across the world in more than 4,000 locations, the start of a weeklong movement to train international attention on the climate emergency.
Environment Hundreds of Australian academics declare support for climate rebellionThe Guardian - Lisa CoxMore than 250 academics at Australian universities say the federal government’s inaction on the climate crisis requires civil disobedience in response and they feel a “moral duty” to rebel and “defend
Climate Climate crisis leaving 2 million people a week needing aid – Red CrossThe Guardian - Fiona Harvey Environment correspondentTwo million people a week need humanitarian aid today because of the climate emergency, the Red Cross has warned, as extreme weather takes an “intolerable” toll in human suffering. The number of people
Climate We can all do our bit to tackle the climate crisisThe Guardian - LettersGreta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist, has tapped into a global passion for change from the outdated, exploitative system to a holistic and responsible one (Thunberg tells US Congress: ‘I
