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Byline Times‘ coverage of the consequences of, and responses to, the climate crisis
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Climate Scientists Blind to ‘Existential Threat’ to Humanity, New Research Warns
A new report suggests that, far from being alarmist, the real social and economic dangers of the climate emergency are outside of boundaries of traditional climate science
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REVEALED: 52 Peers Sitting in House of Lords Hold Interests in Fossil Fuel Industry
The finding raises questions about the UK’s commitment to achieving net zero – with one MP telling Byline Times ‘it’s akin to asking arsonists to legislate on robust fire safety legislation’
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‘It’s Worse Than Any Time Before’: Egypt Clamps Down on Activists as COP27 Begins
Far from turning a new page, the Egyptian Government have continued their repressive measures of random detentions and mistreatment of environmental campaigners
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Can Brazil’s new President Save the Amazon from Total Destruction?
Jon Lubbock explains the challenges awaiting President Lula, and how the rest of the world is also implicated in deforestation
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Corporate Lobbying Threatens to Undermine Biodiversity
A new report shows the extent to which powerful corporations and fossil fuel interests exert their influence to delay or roll back legislation to protect the environment
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Government Investing in Carbon Polluters Funded By Major Conservative Donor
An investment firm whose CEO has given more than £1m to the Tory Party has a third of its assets tied up in petrostates which benefited from a UK Government fund
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REVEALED: Rishi Sunak Received £141,000 from Energy Interests this Year
The Conservative Party remains indebted to big money interests in oil, gas and aviation
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Trump and Putin’s War on the ‘Green Agenda’
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the Russian energy giant Gazprom planned to control Ukraine’s gas and backed Donald Trump due to Putin’s existential fear of net zero
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A Chemical in the Works? The Mystery of the Marine Deaths on Teesside
Graham Williamson reports on a spate of unexplained sea life deaths on the north-east coast – and a new freeport being built on the site of an iconic steelworks nearby
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The Myth of the Blocked Ambulance
Jet McDonald explores how a belief that environmental protesters are blocking ambulances is used to justify anti-protest legislation and divert us from the climate emergency
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Fracking Hell: Living with the Government’s Unpopular Policy
Stuart Spray speaks to the residents of Great Plumpton, close to a shale gas exploration site, about the realities of fracking – as Westminster descends into chaos over banning it
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Britain’s Stark Choice Ahead: Transformation or Collapse
The country is following a familiar pattern of environmental, energy and economic-driven state failure – and if the next government refuses to break with neoliberal orthodoxy, it will only accelerate this downwards trajectory, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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Environment Agency Investigations Fall by 30% Amid Sewage Crisis
Government cuts have hamstrung the regulator at exactly the wrong moment, reports Andrew Kersley
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Manchester and Liverpool Join Forces to Explore Green Energy Potential for Powering Both Cities
A dynamic collaboration could turn two of England’s largest cities into green technology leaders in the race to net zero, reports Stuart Spray
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Britain and the World is Falling Behind on Climate Change, as COP27 Approaches
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken an already precarious consensus on climate action, says Thomas Perrett
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Is a Big Money Coalition Influencing Liz Truss’ Climate Change Policies?
Max Colbert reports on the well-funded, well-connected groups seemingly determined to water-down Britain’s climate commitments
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The Government is Prolonging the Cost of Living Crisis and the Climate Emergency
The Conservative Party’s decision to ‘cut the green crap’ has had far-reaching consequences, writes Thomas Perrett
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Conservative MP Gets Promotion at Energy Firm He Was Called to Resign From
Mark Pritchard has been handed a new, upgraded title, weeks after he was warned to quit the £46,800-a-year role
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How Austerity has Endangered Britain’s Ability to Safeguard its Natural Environment
Debilitating cuts have reduced regulators’ role in safeguarding the natural environment and stymied the Government’s approach to net zero, reports Thomas Perrett
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Climate Activists Evicted from Labour Conference Fringe Event Sponsored by Power Station Firm
The campaigners argued that the party should not be aligning itself to the company, which emitted million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere last year
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Five Policies that Jacob Rees-Mogg Should Adopt Now on Climate Change
Stuart Spray runs through some of the immediate actions that could be taken by the Government to address global warming and fix our energy system
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Fracking Minister Funded by Fossil Fuel Investor
Nafeez Ahmed investigates Jacob Rees-Mogg’s relationship with his former hedge-fund mentor and political donor Robin Crispin Odey
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‘Liz Truss’ Premiership Will Spell Disaster for Net Zero’
A worrying environmental record and the appointment of climate change sceptics to the Cabinet doesn’t bode well for the UK’s climate commitments under the new Prime Minister, argues Thomas Perrett
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12 Years of Conservative Failure on Renewables is Costing the Environment and the Economy
Thomas Perrett tracks the administrative missteps that have incubated the current energy crisis
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‘Ecological Disaster’: Sewage Pollution in the North Sea
Stuart Heaver looks at the failures of regulation and enforcement against Northumbrian Water, owned by a Hong Kong based billionaire
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How is Energy Transformation Key to Defeating Vladimir Putin?
A mass roll-out of home insulation, heating efficiency and heat-pumps could rapidly eliminate gas dependence in Europe – and neuter Putin’s most potent energy weapon, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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‘More Girls are Being Married Off Young due to Climate Change’
Salma Zulfiqar examines how the climate emergency is causing desperation around the world, particularly for women and girls, while people lack common knowledge of the crisis
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The Food Crisis is Only Just Beginning
Patrick Galey takes a deep dive into why the global food crisis prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a sign of things to come
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‘Truss’ North Sea Drilling Plan Will Need to Prolong Cost of Living Crisis to Buoy Big Oil Profits’
The Government’s own data suggests that Britain’s fossil fuel lobbies want to use the cost of living crisis to keep themselves afloat, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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Solar and Wind Power Now Deliver ‘More than Double’ the Net Energy Produced by Oil, New Study Finds
New research confirms that renewables have been generating far more net energy than fossil fuels for years, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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A Climate Crisis is Becoming a Crisis for Gender Equality
Sian Norris reports how news that East Africa’s drought is entering its fifth year spells danger for women and girls
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‘I Do Not Know If My People Will Survive’ – A Fifth Year of Drought Is Coming to East Africa
Iain Overton reports from Kenya’s Masai region, where a fifth year of drought is devastating lives and livestock
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Missing in Action: The British Public is Being Asked to Bail Out its Own Government
From climate change to the cost of living, ordinary people are being forced to compensate for an administration in paralysis, says Lisa Young
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How Can We Guard Against the Climate Crisis When Defence is Our Biggest Carbon Emitter?
Iain Overton examines the Ministry of Defence’s carbon footprint, and asks whether plans to boost military spending are compatible with the Government’s net zero targets
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This Septic Isle
Brexit is compounding, not relieving, the UK’s slurry of economic and environmental problems, says Rachel Morris
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‘Swamping the Land and Ocean’: UK Beach Pollution Recorded by Citizen Audit
Stephen Delahunty has the details of a new report documenting the companies whose products keep washing up on domestic shores
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The Government’s ‘Jet Zero’ Plan Won’t Reduce Airline Emissions
Thomas Perrett unpicks the proposal to achieve ‘net zero aviation’ by 2050 – and the gap it falls into between rhetoric and reality
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Dystopian Modernity: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Revolutionary’ New City is Not All that it Seems
Thomas Perrett unpicks the Kingdom’s plan to build a 100-mile-long, $500 billion ‘smart city’
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Behind the Scenes of British Media’s Climate Denial
Eliz Mizon talks to journalists from across the spectrum to discover why the UK media still peddles climate denying misinformation – even during an unprecedented heatwave
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Warning Signs for Climate Action: The Environmental Records of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss
Neither of the candidates in the running to become the next Prime Minister can back up their rhetoric with actions on the climate emergency
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Winter is Coming: Can Europe Win the Energy Battle with Russia?
With the Kremlin disrupting supplies of gas to the EU as part of its war effort against Ukraine, Nikola Mikovic looks at who will suffer most in the coming showdown
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The Conservative Party’s Climate Climbdown
Sascha Lavin explores why the Tory leadership contenders are moving away from the green consensus
