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The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency has warned.
The World Meteorological Organization says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release, driven by emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.
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The city council has agreed to explore a moratorium on new AI data centres - less than 24 hours before Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes announced plans to make the city and Scotland a leader in the field.
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https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/city-bans-new-ai-data-centres-as?
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“Today, nearly 59% of the world’s population already lives in countries with below average food security, and our projections show that climate change is likely to widen this gap.”
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Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017
Exclusive: UK regulator makes U-turn over TalkTV and TalkRadio complaints after claims it let some broadcasters ‘spout dangerous climate lies’
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The head of the UK’s national green energy champion has joined other high-profile renewable energy leaders in making the case for more North Sea oil and gas production as the government braces for an energy cost crisis.
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‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate
Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance
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A “Doge of the left,” could save up to £30bn a year for taxpayers by rooting out waste, fraud and tax avoidance, according to the first report from a new green thinktank.
Launched amid growing interest in the future manifesto of Zack Polanksi’s Green party, the Verdant thinktank will be co-chaired by James Meadway, a former adviser to Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell, and civil society campaigner Deborah Doane.
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Policy here and across most of the world appears to consist of allowing “the market” (namely a few huge global corporations) to decide what happens next. There’s another way of putting it. Our governments are leaving a group of ruthless speculators to play dice with our lives.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran
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According to a report by the Lebanese non-profit Public Works Studio, white phosphorus was used to burn more than 2,000 hectares (4,940 acres) of southern Lebanese countryside, “including 873 hectares of dense forest with gum trees and vast areas covered with oak and pine trees”.
White phosphorus can also lie hidden in the soil and spontaneously combust when uncovered by farmers, posing a continuing threat if the people of south Lebanon are able to return to their homes.
And the effects can also be systemic, the report warned, as repeated white phosphorus strikes saturate the soil with phosphoric acid along with toxic heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and zinc. Together, the report said, this accumulation “can reduce microbial diversity, deplete soil fertility [and] decrease agricultural productivity”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/israel-white-phosphorus-south-lebanon-researchers
Holyrood Park is about 650 acres or 250 hectares, in case that is useful context for anyone who struggles to picture what an acre or hectare is. 2000 hectares is an area about the size of Perth.
UK Government have refused to allow £1.5 billion Chinese wind turbine factory in Highlands which could have provided employment. Will go to another European country instead.
Looks like we'll just continue importing them. Security risk apparently if we build Chinese wind turbines here. ;-)
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Could net zero become “the next Brexit”? That is the fear stalking climate advocates as the oil crisis caused by the war on Iran starts to bite.
A powerful coalition of the well-funded Reform party, led by Nigel Farage, the Conservative party, some business interests, and the UK’s right-wing media, are engaged in an onslaught against the longstanding target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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The co-owner of GB News and “committed” Christian Sir Paul Marshall has been criticised by a group of church leaders over the TV channel’s attacks on climate science and action.
The hedge fund manager was also challenged over his own statements, which were called “misleading”, by the 100-strong group, which includes the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and two current bishops.
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While the US government continues to call climate change a hoax and attack the science, in courtrooms from The Hague to Honolulu, fossil fuel companies are taking a different approach. Shell, Chevron, RWE and TotalEnergies all accept that climate change is real, human-caused and serious. The era of corporate climate denial, at least in legal proceedings, is largely over.
What has replaced it is a more nuanced position: accepting the science of climate change while contesting their responsibility for it.
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More than 6m vapes and vape pods are still being discarded every week in the UK, with waste management companies warning the sheer volume continues to strain recycling systems despite the ban on disposable e-cigarettes.
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“Kemi Badenoch is peddling a dangerous fantasy on the North Sea and is completely out of step with the UK public who just want an affordable supply of energy,” Khan said. “More drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower energy bills, a fact that she knows and members of her Cabinet have admitted.”
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Mhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/28/badenoch-criticised-for-peddling-dangerous-fantasy-about-north-sea-oil-drilling
More drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower energy bills
Bravo UK. You had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reap the rewards of North Sea oil and gas, but instead you have squandered them. Instead of keeping a portion of the profits for enrichment and improvement of the country, you thought it was better to give carte blanche to the global petro-chem industry to line its pockets, while peddling the notion that 'the market' would encourage competitiveness and lower prices for the consumer.
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the climate crisis won’t be fixed by people who don’t care about others and “the climate movement is in grave danger if we don’t get people in who believe that the crisis is happening, which far too many politicians apparently don’t”.
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More drilling in the North Sea would do nothing to improve the UK’s energy security, former military leaders have said, as a new analysis finds no fossil fuel importer is safe from chokepoints in the global supply chain.
The government should focus on a rapid transition to a mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy to ensure the UK’s future security, the former military leaders told the Guardian, as well as a programme of energy efficiency and a “major renewal” of the electricity grid.
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That should read:
a rapid transition to a mix of wind, solar, and tidal energy, complemented by battery and hydro storage to ensure the UK’s future security
(Nuclear does not complement renewables well, it displaces them)
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‘Go get your own oil,’ Trump tells allies in angry outburst
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