Media reaction: UK and Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May heat and climate change Carbon Brief
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Energy specialists say abandoning net zero and increasing oil and gas drilling would cause more instability for Britons
Abandoning net zero and drilling for more oil and gas in the North Sea would be a massive setback for the UK and would not help the economy, leading experts have said in response to claims by the former prime minister Tony Blair.
“This is a bizarre intervention to make during the worst May heatwave on record and when the Iran crisis is providing yet more evidence of the enormous costs of oil and gas,” said Ed Matthew, the UK programme director at the E3G thinktank. “Clean energy is cheaper energy - it protects our bills from prices skyrocketing, its running costs are virtually zero, and it doesn’t cause climate change which threatens economic collapse ... The government should ignore Blair’s ideological nonsense and focus on what works.”
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EU chief diplomat says: ‘Russia is on the back foot, militarily, economically, but also diplomatically’
Meanwhile, Hungary’s Magyar hits a bit more upbeat tone in his latest post on Facebook, saying that while there are still some issues that need to be resolved, the two sides managed to agree a deal on “many important questions.”
In a Facebook video, he takes viewers into a meeting room in Brussels from which he is working on ironing out the final details.
“I will obviously not anticipate or prejudge what will be the outcome of that meeting, but a series of meetings has been taking place, as you know, between the teams on both sides to make as much progress as possible. …
Let’s see what comes out of it. It’s not much more time to wait. We give it another day, and we should know more in terms of how far have we managed to get on both sides.”
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WMO warns global temperatures likely to stay near record highs through 2026–2030 Telangana Today
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With early tests suggesting the presence of crude oil, the Caribbean island has begun to debate whether it could justify becoming a producer
Jamaica is closer than ever to drilling for oil. Tests on samples from the seabed off the Caribbean island’s south coast earlier this year identified hydrocarbons, which suggest the presence of crude oil below ground.
Jamaica imports all its fuel, which costs about $1.5-2bn (£1.1bn-1.5bn) annually, depending on global oil prices. It is a persistent drag on an economy that generated $4.3bn from tourism, its biggest earner, in 2024.
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Researchers are working to create new drought-resistant varieties of the ingredient that gives Czech pilsner its character
It is the country that drinks more beer per capita than any other but in the last few years Czechia has been hit by droughts and heatwaves, which make it harder to grow the Saaz hops, one of the key ingredients that goes into the country’s world famous beer.
At the Hop Research Institute, however, scientists are working to create new, climate-resilient hop varieties that have shown promise in overcoming Czechia’s heat and its strict traditionalism.
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El Niño expected to bring next record-hot year as soon as 2027 Climate Home News
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World set for 5 years of exceptional heat & faster Arctic warming, UN report says ThePrint
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Invisible Gold: How Methane Could Ease Pressure on Gas Markets Energy Industry Review
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From ozone protection to climate action: the global transition away from CFCs and HFAs background Manufacturing Chemist
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How Climate Change Could Help Hantavirus Find More Hosts The Good Men Project
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Global warming will lead to record temperatures over the next five years Gamereactor UK
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UN warns world could break new heat records before 2030 Business News Nigeria
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Letters: U.S. doesn’t value Puerto Rico | Don’t cut property tax | Climate change is overhyped Orlando Sentinel
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Sensitivity of Antarctic ice to climate change sharply increased after Ice Age shift 1 million years ago EurekAlert!
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El Niño clashes with climate change as UN warns record heat is coming Euronews.com
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Heatwave season expanding in Europe, warns Swiss climate scientist SWI swissinfo.ch
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How climate change and water shortages could drive new Legionella risks across UK healthcare estates Building Better Healthcare
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UN Warns of Record-Breaking Global Heat Through 2030 as 1.5°C Threshold Looms Novinite.com
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Global Temperatures Likely To Stay Near Record Through 2030, UN Says Bernama
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WMO Warns Global Temperatures Likely Stay Near Record Highs Until 2030 Tempo.co English
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Global temperatures set for record highs and could hit 1.9C by 2030 The Independent
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Industry figures warn of national security risk and call for ministers to address impact of extreme weather, inflation and Iran war
Britain is “sleepwalking into a food crisis” caused by extreme weather, inflation and the impacts of the Iran war – and the government is failing to take the threat seriously, food experts have said.
Farmers are facing severe strain from the current heatwave following a dry spring, with many crops likely to yield less as temperatures rise beyond their tolerance. Livestock are also suffering heat stress and there is a rising risk of wildfires. Economic losses are likely to be measured in the hundreds of millions of pounds.
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Global temperatures expected to stay near record highs in next 5 yrs: WMO 毎日新聞
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Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Adult swallows travel across the world to breed in Britain’s supposedly temperate climate. Instead, this week’s temperatures have been deadly
Mouth gaping, the swallow chick leans perilously over the edge of the nest cup. It is young, just a scrap of body, and at least a week away from being ready to fledge. But under the tin roof the heat is rising, becoming unbearable.
The chick perches on the edge of the nest, opening and closing its mouth, trying to stay cool in the absence of sweat glands. Then, it’s hard to tell if it overbalances, seeking cooler air, or makes a decision. Either way, it plunges down, dropping with no hope of flight. Somehow it misses the hard breezeblock ledge, and fortunately lands on the horse bedding.
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Earth Headed for Record Heat Through 2030, UN Climate Agency Says Jakarta Globe
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Global temperatures likely to remain at record levels in 2026-2030, UN says France 24
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Global temperatures to reach near-record highs in next five years, report finds Reuters
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Be more strident and ambitious, take on economic inequality, and progressive voters will reward you as they have the UK’s Greens
Tarik Abou-Chadi is a professor of European politics at the University of Oxford
European Green parties have been through a phase of stagnation and crisis in recent years. Long gone seem the days of the “green wave” across Europe. Back in 2019, Green parties secured their best-ever result in the European parliament elections, with 74 seats. In the same year, Green parties also scored record results in Switzerland, Belgium and Austria. Shortly after, they were part of governing coalitions in Finland, Germany, Ireland and Austria.
But more recently, there has been much discussion of a “greenlash”: a backlash against climate policies and other green projects throughout Europe. Across the continent, Green parties dropped out of nearly all government coalitions, and these parties’ recent election results have often failed to meet expectations. With apparently declining enthusiasm for the climate movement, and the decreasing salience of climate breakdown at the ballot box, Green parties are debating how to turn their fortunes around.
Tarik Abou-Chadi is a professor of European politics at the University of Oxford
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Global temperature record could be broken as soon as 2027, with El Niño expected later this year
A record-breaking hot year is almost certain by 2030 as the climate crisis intensifies, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization has warned.
With an El Niño event expected later this year, the global temperature record could fall as soon as 2027.
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Global Temperatures Head For Record Highs In Next Five Years Health Policy Watch
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Why Europe is world's fastest warming continent China Daily - Global Edition
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UN says nations have a legal duty to fight climate change as US votes 'no' Yahoo
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UM study finds climate warming directly affects the makeup of plant communities Michigan Public
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Licensable picture: Toulouse: First Heatwave Of The Year Due To Global Warming Reuters Connect
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Licensable picture: Toulouse: First Heatwave Of The Year Due To Global Warming Reuters Connect
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With Geoengineering, a Fringe Climate Solution Moves Into the Mainstream atmos.earth
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Temporary carbon dioxide removal to offset short-lived climate forcers Nature
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A deadly flesh-eating bacterium is spreading in Europe. Is climate change to blame? Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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Solar and wind produce lots of energy — but not always at the right time. More battery storage could help Europe to stabilize prices and replace polluting fossil fuel energy, but roadblocks remain.
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Europe’s sizzling heat is a ‘brutal reminder’ of global warming, UN climate chief says politico.eu
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The former PM’s essay rightly calls for a coherent economic plan, but then sets too much store by AI – and a worldview stuck in the past
Tony Blair is right. Labour has made some big and avoidable mistakes since it came to power nearly two years ago. Keir Starmer had a strategy for winning the election but lacked a coherent plan for what his government would do next. Fair cop.
Blair is also correct when he says that unless Britain tackles some long-term structural issues, it is in danger of being relegated from the “premier league of nations”. Achieving higher levels of sustainable growth is one challenge. Welfare reform is another. And as the former prime minister notes, reversing Brexit is not a solution to those problems.
Larry Elliott is a Guardian columnist
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World's Fastest-Warming Continent Swelters Under Record 'Heat Dome' ScienceAlert
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Climate leadership from the frontlines: lessons from Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal Climate Analytics
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Climate change blamed for record May heat: Europe’s summer outlook Euronews.com
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Climate Change Weakens the Purification Function of Lakes Technology Networks
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Tearing up planning and using protest laws to criminalise local people – this isn’t how to build the broad consent needed
We will not persuade. We will not explain. We will not listen. We know best and we will force you to comply. This, I’m sorry to say, is how the government’s climate policy works. Or rather, how it doesn’t. Because nothing could be better calculated to alienate the people you need to reach than climate authoritarianism.
Three astonishing things are happening simultaneously. One is the government’s utterly baffling failure to communicate with us on this existential issue. Where are the public information videos? Where are the televised emergency briefings on climate breakdown, like the emergency briefings on Covid-19?
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
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Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference The Conversation
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Climate change could expand chikungunya into temperate regions worldwide News-Medical
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Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining ‘eternal snow’ in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice
An expedition to document the end days of the last tropical glaciers in Oceania has revealed sombre footage of “planetary destruction on fast-forward”.
The once-mighty ice sheets on Puncak Jaya, a mountain surrounded by dense rainforests in West Papua, Indonesia, have survived beyond projections they would disappear by 2026 but have shrunk to a fraction of their original size.
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Global warming is heating rivers, endangering human food supplies World Socialist Web Site
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Global warming is ‘nowhere close to the world’s top 5 or 10 problems,’ Energy secretary says Post Register
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Lethal humidity and the systemic risks of climate change Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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Global warming is ‘nowhere close to the world’s top 5 or 10 problems,’ Energy secretary says North Platte Post
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Climate change-related heat increases the risk of premature birth in 13 countries – new study The Conversation
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Himalayan Rivers Are Shifting Their Course Faster Due to Climate Warming PR Newswire
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Even with fierce opposition, offshore wind projects are multiplying along US coasts — signaling a massive shift in energy.
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Why Scientists Retired the Dire Climate Scenario Used for Over a Decade The New York Times
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Global Warming Icon “Doomsday Glacier” in Trouble Pressenza - International Press Agency
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Cities across south and south-east Asia are becoming places where informal workers can no longer recover from the heat
By the time Jalaj Jha begins getting ready for work each morning, he already feels drained. Awakening in a cramped room in Delhi, with no ventilation except a rattling fan pushing hot air around, the 24-year-old gig worker has ahead of him a 12-hour shift delivering groceries.
“I barely sleep three or four hours in this heat,” Jha said, wiping dust off his motorbike, which he uses for deliveries. “I wake up exhausted. It feels like my body is pulling me down.”
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Tropical cyclones now release ocean carbon, but warming could flip role by 2035 Phys.org
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Artificial lights are blotting out the moon and stars, harming human health, and disrupting the natural world. Why is this a problem? And how can we stop it without sitting in the dark?
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The rapid rollout of renewable energy is helping to shift emissions trends, but expected temperature rises remain high as the UN moves to tighten countries' commitments.
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Researchers have observed two humpback whales swimming between Australia and Brazil. It's the longest travel distance humans have ever recorded for the species.
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With binding cut targets scrapped, the European Union's pledge to halve pesticide use is stalling — even as controversial chemicals like glyphosate remain on sale across the bloc.
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Scientists Tweaked the Global Warming Outlook. So Trump Weighed In. The New York Times
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The world's clean energy superpower also emits the most CO2. But coal-fired power may have peaked as China electrifies its economy with ever more renewables.
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From petro-masculinity to electric trucks: why men disengage from climate action and what might bring them back.
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More than 150 million hectares — over twice the size of Texas — burned globally in the first months of 2026. With a high chance of a supercharged El Nino, the second half of the year could be even worse.
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Antarctic sea ice defied global warming for decades – now, hidden ocean heat is breaking through The Conversation
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The world's largest inland body of water is retreating at an alarming speed. From stranded buildings to vanishing habitats, scientists warn the Caspian Sea may be approaching a tipping point.
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A Strong El Niño May Be Coming. Global Warming Is Changing Its Effects. The New York Times
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Calculation framework for new building life-cycle Global Warming Potential energy.ec.europa.eu
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Frustrated by blocking coalitions, 50-plus nations at the inaugural talks on exiting fossil fuels made one thing clear: it's all about how — not whether — to phase out coal, oil and gas.
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Europe's climate extremes have hit new highs — but renewables are now supplying nearly half of the continent's electricity.
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Narwhals are fleeing Canada's far north. Researchers suspect a link to noise pollution from increasing ship traffic.
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At an unprecedented meeting in Colombia, delegates from more than 50 countries want to chart a practical path to wean the world off fossil fuels. Can they succeed where the UN climate talks have failed?
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Nuclear disaster is not just an abstract concept in Ukraine. It is both history and an ongoing threat that is pushing communities to turn to the sun for energy.
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Renewable energy is increasingly being used to supply power-hungry data centers. As the sector swells, much of the electricity demand is being met by polluting fossil fuels.
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As many Indians celebrate spring festivals, climate change has become an unwanted guest at the table. What does this mean for harvests, water and rural life?
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A massive solar tower in the Moroccan desert is the beacon of an ambitious push for a clean energy future. But fossil fuels and grid constraints stand in the way.
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Global warming is making the strongest hurricanes stronger Yale Climate Connections
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US toilets use far more water than many of their global counterparts. President Donald Trump is pushing to loosen water pressure standards, a move critics say would increase waste.
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An advanced recycling process claims it can handle hard-to-recycle plastics, like packaging. But critics say it's not worth the effort.
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Global warming already impacts daily lives around the globe, study finds Mongabay
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Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study Carbon Brief
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