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The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

The UK hit 40 degrees for first time. It’s a stark reminder of the deadly heat awaiting Australia

The heat in Europe is yet another sign that changes in Earth’s climate have reached dangerous levels. Australia must brace for even deadlier temperatures.

The New Daily

What is Just Stop Oil? Protesters charged after Theatre Royal play disrupted

A Theatre Royal show on Drury Lane was disrupted after stage invasion on Monday

Evening Standard

Europe heat wave shows world has entered new era of climate extremes

Climate change made this event possible, scientists say.

Axios

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Sunak accused of ‘economic illiteracy’ over pledge to block onshore windfarms

Tory leadership candidate’s ‘energy sovereignty strategy’ also attacked for lack of focus on climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

UK counts the cost of fires and disruption fuelled by searing heat

Temperatures soared to above 40C for the first time ever on Tuesday, in a heatwave fuelled by climate change.

The Independent UK

Biden announces U.S.-Africa summit for mid-December

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the United States will bring together leaders from across the African continent for a major summit in December in Washington to discuss pressing challenges from food security to climate change.

Reuters

Biden to announce climate actions at ex-coal plant in Mass.

President Joe Biden is preparing to announce new actions on climate change

The Independent UK

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Biden stops short of declaring climate emergency, takes steps on wind power

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that climate change is an emergency but stopped short of a formal declaration, announcing a modest package of executive actions and promising more aggressive efforts.

Reuters

Heatwave led to London firefighters’ busiest day since second world war

Mayor Sadiq Khan warns ‘the grass is like hay’ as temperatures fall and UK travel disruption continues

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds flee wildfires in Greece and Italy as Europe's heat wave set to linger into next week

Extreme weather is "going to be normal and we will see even stronger extremes" due to climate change," UN scientists say.

Axios

Postcards from a 40C future: what extreme heat means for the UK

How will transport, cities and health services cope with the climate crisis?

The Guardian - UK

Faye Flam: The world’s oldest trees can outlive anything except humans

What’s captured people’s attention about the Washburn fire raging in Yosemite isn’t just its size or scope, but the fact that it threatens a giant Sequoia with a name, Grizzly Giant, and an extreme age: It’s almost 3,000 years old.

Tribune News Service

London firefighters in busiest day since WW2 as people told to stop BBQs - even today

London mayor Sadiq Khan said the London Fire Brigade took 2,600 calls, up from 500 on a busy day, and urged everyone in the capital to stop having barbecues - 'not on balconies, not in parks, nor in your private garden'

Daily Mirror

Traditional donkey rides may be scrapped because of climate change

The seaside attraction was closed this week because of high beach temperatures

Wales Online

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The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: How will health, transport and cities cope in the 40C future?

In today’s newsletter: This week’s heatwave has brought unprecedented temperatures to the UK – can the country cope if this becomes the norm by 2050?

The Conversation

The UK just hit 40℃ for the first time. It's a stark reminder of the deadly heat awaiting Australia

A severe heatwave in Western Europe is shattering temperature records – including in the United Kingdom, where temperatures exceeded 40℃ on Tuesday for the first time on record.

The Conversation

How not to solve the climate change problem

When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. What they don’t mention is just how much these proposals or geoengineering would cost to allow the world to continue burning fossil fuels.

Daily Record

Now or never to save planet from apocalypse after Scotland's hottest-ever day

After Scotland recorded the hottest day on records, Record View says now is the time to tackle climate change.

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Chicago Sun-Times

All of us must act to rescue Earth from worst effects of climate change

The range of options has become a lot narrower, and the job has become much harder. But the worst thing that people can do is throw up their hands and say all is lost.

Salon

Europe engulfed by heat, wildfires

Europe is experiencing unprecedented wildfires that are without question worsened by climate change, experts say

Salon

"The View" blasts Joe Manchin on climate

Joy Behar and the other hosts discuss climate change hypocrisy in the face of deadly heat waves

Bangkok Post

Climate goals call for less rivalry

Climate change is an existential threat that sheds new light on the US-China rivalry. The rise of China has shaken the post-Cold War liberal order and the West has been preoccupied with whether to engage or contain China, or both.

Tribune News Service

White House considers emergency declaration to fight climate change

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will announce executive action to confront climate change after a key senator blocked legislation, but he’s holding off for now on an emergency decree that would allow him to marshal sweeping powers — and billions of federal dollars — against global warming.

The Conversation

Climate, conflict, collapse: how drought destabilised the last major precolonial Mayan city

The city of Mayapán was the largest Mayan city from approximately 1200 to 1450 AD. It was an important political, economic and religious centre, and the capital of a large state that controlled much of northwestern Yucatan in present day Mexico.

Reason

Not Everything Is a National Emergency

If the National Emergencies Act goes without reform, presidents will continue to misuse emergency declarations as leverage to shift Congress.

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