Earth’s boreal forests now burning at rate unseen in ‘at least 10,000 years’, scientists warn 1 day ago Vast swathes of the Arctic are suffering from “unprecedented” wildfires, new satellite images have revealed. North of the Arctic circle, the high temperatures are facilitating enormous wildfires which are wreaking ecological destruction on a colossal scale. It […]

Last modified on Thu 25 Jul 2019 Every second Monday of the month, a small group of volunteers meets in the training room of a Birmingham supermarket. They discuss what has long seemed to many of their friends a crazy and probably doomed idea: how to excavate a contaminated 40-year-old waste dump, create an urban

Extensive historical data shows recent extreme warming is unprecedented in past 2,000 years Jonathan WattsWed 24 Jul 2019 18.00 BST sert road in Death Valley national park, California. Photograph: sara_winter/Getty/iStockphoto The scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming is likely to have passed 99%, according to the lead author of the most authoritative study

STEPHANIE COCKROFT Friday 19 July 2019 20:50 Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was taken to hospital after being knocked off her bicycle as she left Parliament. The Labour frontbencher collided with a taxi as she cycled around Parliament Square at lunchtime on Friday. She was taken to hospital and later discharged. She thanks hospital staff

Call for new Geneva convention to protect wildlife and nature reserves in conflict regions Jonathan WattsWed 24 Jul 2019 12.41 BST International lawmakers should adopt a fifth Geneva convention that recognises damage to nature alongside other war crimes, according to an open letter by 24 prominent scientists. The legal instrument should incorporate wildlife safeguards in

Story of change Car use may have risen enormously in the last 30 years in most countries, but some places have managed to get people out of motorised transport and on their bikes in huge numbers, reducing carbon emissions and increasing health and wellbeing. Globally, the market for bicycles is predicted to grow by 45%

rdrfukJuly 24, 2019 (This article appeared in the 19th July 2019 issue of Local Transport Today as “Viewpoint” – online here) Last week Lord Berkeley retired after 26 years as President of the Road Danger Reduction Forum (RDRF). So what has been achieved since we were set up in 1993? Is road danger being properly

ES News email The latest headlines in your inbox Councils that block attempts to cut road deaths and injuries in London could have key roads taken out of their control, the Standard can reveal. City Hall is investigating ways to stop boroughs from “holding the city to ransom” by refusing to allow segregated cycle lanes

How to deal with despair over climate change. Mary Annaise HeglarNov 27, 2018, 1:02pm EST The National Climate Assessment released a report last week with a startling warning: climate change could cause more damage to the American economy by 2100 than the 2008 Great Recession. It’s the second report in the last few months with

For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back. Nathan Heller …………….. For years, I counted this inability to drive as one of many personal failures. More recently, I’ve wondered whether I performed an accidental kindness for the world. I am one of those Darth Vader pedestrians who loudly tailgate couples moving