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No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:24:26 +0000

Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action

The Trump administration has confirmed that no high-level representatives will be sent by the US to upcoming UN climate talks in Brazil, underscoring the administration’s hostile stance towards action on the climate crisis.

The US has always sent delegations of various sizes to UN climate summits over the past three decades, even during periods under George W Bush and in Donald Trump’s first term, where there was scant desire to address the global heating crisis.

I tried lab-grown chocolate. Could it be the future of Halloween?

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:00:09 +0000

It could eventually cut down on the production of traditional chocolate, which degrades soil and requires much fertilizer and pesticides

Tell us: have you fallen in love this year?

Would you eat lab-grown chocolate?

Three Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:26:10 +0000

Trio argued orange powder protest day before 2024 solstice was justified because of focus on climate emergency

Three Just Stop Oil protesters have been cleared over a protest at Stonehenge during which orange powder was sprayed on to the prehistoric circle.

Rajan Naidu, 74, Niamh Lynch, 23, and Luke Watson, 36, targeted Stonehenge the day before last year’s summer solstice.

Heavy rain floods streets in New York City – video

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:23:07 +0000

At least two people died on Thursday in flooded basements after record rainfall in parts of New York City that also deluged some streets and subway stations. Preliminary reports showed 45.7mm (1.8in) of rain fell in Central Park, which exceeded its record of 41.7mm set in 1917, the National Weather Service said. LaGuardia airport recorded 50mm of rain, which broke the hub's 1955 record of 30mm

Two found dead in flooded basements as New York hit by rainstorm

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:00:23 +0000

Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.

The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:00:21 +0000

Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world

Week in wildlife: a tiger in a tube, migrating crabs and busy Highland beavers

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:00:20 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Weather tracker: Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Caribbean

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:50:21 +0000

Category 5 storm is most powerful to strike Jamaica and has caused death and destruction in Cuba and Haiti

Hurricane Melissa has wreaked havoc across parts of the Caribbean in recent days, after first making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday night as a category 5 storm – the highest strength. This was the most powerful storm to strike the island nation, packing winds of up to 185mph at its peak.

BoM says October will be hottest ever for Queensland and NT as heat records tumble

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:43:47 +0000

Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin are predicted to hit hottest October in terms of maximum temperatures, the Bureau of Meteorology says

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Distant-water fleets, local consequences: lessons from a case study in Liberia

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 31 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00153-2

Distant-water fleets, local consequences: lessons from a case study in Liberia