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Government’s official advisors say ‘lack of leadership’ has left UK unprepared for climate change
The Climate Change Committee says that around £10 billion a year of “essential” new investment is needed — but that “adaptation in the UK remains chronically underfunded and overlooked”.
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New research reveals the extent of ExxonMobil’s secret knowledge of climate change nearly 50 years ago
The findings are the latest in a series of revelations about the company’s historic awareness of the links between climate change and fossil fuels.
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Meta settles data breach case linked to Cambridge Analytica scandal for £600m
Facebook owners Meta have agreed a £600 million settlement in a US case, over a data breach linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Breakthrough in nuclear fusion could lead to ‘limitless clean energy’
The promise of near-limitless clean energy has been a Holy Grail for scientists for decades now.
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Teenage girl with leukemia in remission after world’s first experimental treatment
A 13-year-old girl is in remission after becoming the first patient in the world to receive ground-breaking gene therapy for previously incurable leukemia.
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UK prepares for first space launch from Cornish airport
A small airport in Cornwall is about to make history – when it becomes the site of the very first space launch from the UK later this month.
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Can UN experts put an end to corporate greenwashing?
The latest from day three of the COP27 climate summit.
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COP27: Call for big oil companies to be taxed to fund climate loss and damage
If Republicans gain control of the House of Representatives in the US midterms, they will hold the financial reins and that is expected to have an impact on President Biden’s climate crisis agenda.
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UN COP27 Climate summit opens in Egypt with warning of ‘catastrophe’
The UN climate summit COP27 has opened in Egypt. Negotiators have agreed for the first time to formally discuss whether vulnerable countries which have already suffered loss and damage from climate change should be paid compensation by rich countries whose emissions caused the problem.
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Action on climate change ‘cannot be put on the waiting list’, says UNEP executive director
Before the prime minister announced he would not attend COP27, we spoke to Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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2022 ‘wasted year’ of climate action, says UN report
As the price of fossil fuels soars – so do their emissions.
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How some farmers are breaking the rules on river pollution – but escaping prosecution
The pollution of our rivers has come under heavy scrutiny in recent months, with much of the focus on how water companies discharge sewage.
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It is just ‘part of the space business’, Nasa scientist says of delayed Artemis 1 launch
We spoke to Astrophysicist Dr Michelle Thaller from Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Nasa Artemis Moon rocket launch delayed
The words of a Nasa official after the abortive attempt of its next generation moon rocket, Artemis, that was due to lift off this morning on its pioneering mission to the moon – 50 years after the first Apollo landing.
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How James Webb super telescope is helping us understand Jupiter
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the broadcaster and space scientist who has worked on the James Webb telescope, speaks to us about some startling new images of Jupiter and the future of space for mankind.
