Tag: The Guardian

Daily news – January 27, 2022 a.m.

GEOPOLITICS & WORLDS Sulla crisi russo-ucraina. Tracy Wilkinson per Los Angeles Times: U.S. refuses to budge on Ukraine in response to Russian demands - Politico:...

‘A continuation of colonialism’: indigenous activists say their voices are missing at Cop26 (Nina Lakhani, The Guardian)

As world leaders inside the Cop26 conference centre in Glasgow boasted about pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions and end deforestation, indigenous delegates gathered across the...

‘We need to be much clearer’: leading Democrat questions US strategy on defending Taiwan (Helen Davidson, The Guardian)

Adam Schiff, the US chair of the influential House intelligence committee, has called for the US to be less ambiguous about its defence plans...

David Remnick: ‘There is no vaccine for climate change’ (The Guardian)

David Remnick has been the editor of the New Yorker since 1998. The Fragile Earth, a selection of the writing that has appeared in the magazine about...

The race for rare earth minerals: can Australia fuel the electric vehicle revolution? (The Guardian)

Royce Kurmelovs There are an estimated 1.4bn cars on the world’s roads today. Around 78m new cars are sold every year. To head off the...

Advances mean all new US vehicles can be electric by 2035, study finds (The Guardian)

Oliver Milman Rapid advances in the technology and cost of batteries should allow all new cars and trucks sold in the US to be powered...

‘A poor man’s rainforest’: why we need to stop treating soil like dirt (The Guardian)

Phoebe Weston The mysterious world under our feet is under threat. Protecting it is as vital as tackling the climate crisis, scientists warn https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/16/poor-mans-rainforest-stop-treating-soil-like-dirt-aoe?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20210416&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily

Morrison government can’t conceal inaction on climate from US with ‘smoke and mirrors’ (The Guardian)

Katharine Murphy Leading climatologist Michael Mann says Coalition’s policies ‘do absolutely nothing’ to address the crisis and US climate negotiators won’t be fooled https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/15/morrison-government-cant-conceal-inaction-on-climate-from-us-with-smoke-and-mirrors?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20210415&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily

Report claiming global temperature rise will top 1.5C by 2030s divides scientists (The Guardian)

Lisa Cox Climate Council report says most emissions cuts need to occur in the next decade to keep global heating below 2C https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/report-claiming-global-temperature-rise-will-top-15c-by-2030s-divides-scientists?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20210415&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily

Japan – Japanese regulator bans restart at nuclear plant over safety breaches (The Guardian)

Justin McCurry Fukushima plant operator Tepco suffers blow to plans to resume at its only operable atomic facility https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/14/japanese-regulator-bans-restart-tepco-nuclear-plant-over-safety-breaches?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20210415&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily