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• My moth hell has given me sympathy for all fellow sufferers – even the 1% | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  14-11-2024 18:04 via theguardian.com
  When infestations affect Notting Hill billionaires, it reminds you that it’s the little winged bastards who truly own this cityWhile reading of the case of the super-rich couple suing the previous owners of their west London mansion over its moth infestation, one particularly detail prompted warm memories. Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak had to tip away glasses of wine after discovering moths floating in them, Hunyak told the court. Ah yes, I thought, I too have found a moth taking
  
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• Cop29 live: solidarity levy on cryptocurrency could raise billions for climate action, says report

  14-11-2024 16:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Charging $0.045 per kWh for energy used in intensive bitcoin mining could produce $5bn for the climate crisis, says Global Solidarity Levies taskforceJosh Gabbatiss, from Carbon Brief has published an update on social media about where negotiations at Cop29 have got to.You may have seen talk of new texts about the climate finance negotiations doing the rounds.These proposals have been produced by the co-chairs and circulated among negotiators and civil society observers, but for some reason they
  
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• World’s largest known coral discovered in Solomon Islands

  14-11-2024 14:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Gigantic multicoloured organism is visible from space and has grown for between 300 and 500 yearsThe world’s largest known coral, visible from space, has been discovered in the waters of the Solomon Islands.With a circumference of 183 metres, the gigantic multicoloured organism is an intricate network of individual coral polyps that have grown for between 300 and 500 years. Continue reading...
  
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• Washington state farm workers worry about boom in legal foreign workers

  14-11-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The H-2A program will likely only grow under Trump and mass deportationsAgriculture rules in Quincy, Washington. Sprawling apple, cherry and peach orchards surround this rural city of about 8,000. Packing sheds dot the middle of downtown. Railroad tracks run close to the Columbia River, so produce can make its way to market by both train and waterway.Farm workers such as Alberto, who is only using his first name for privacy reasons, are the backbone of the industry. Once a migrant farm worker tr
  
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• As Trump promises deportation, US farm workers worry about boom in legal foreign laborers

  14-11-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The H-2A program lets growers bring in guest workers. In a part of Washington, some say they’re getting squeezed outAgriculture rules in Quincy, Washington. Sprawling apple, cherry and peach orchards surround this rural city of about 8,000. Packing sheds dot the middle of downtown. Railroad tracks run close to the Columbia River, so produce can make its way to market by both train and waterway.Farm workers such as Alberto, who is only using his first name for privacy reasons, are the backb
  
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• ‘I had to fight the flames burning down my own house’ – This is climate breakdown

  14-11-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  I was part of the firefighting group. Then the fire overtook us. This is Panagiotis’ storyLocation Penteli, GreeceDisaster Attica Wildfires, 2024Panagiotis, a student and volunteer firefighter, ended up defending his own home when a wildfire broke out in the summer. The Attica wildfires killed one person and burned more than 8,000 hectares of forest and land, including many homes. Dozens of people were hospitalised due to smoke inhalation. Continue reading...
  
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• Can southern Brazil’s deadly floods spur the shift to green energy?

  14-11-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Months after devastating rains displaced 420,000 people in Rio Grande do Sul, an unusual consensus has formed around the need for a faster transition to renewablesBeside a narrow canal that runs through the outskirts of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, a row of wooden houses with makeshift fences lean among piles of debris and power poles tangled in sagging wires. From the dirt road, Alexandra Marina Romero, 27, gazes at the aftermath of a disaster. “There used to be a church here,”
  
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• Cop29 live: Planet on course for 2.7C temperature rise, report warns, with ‘minimal progress’ in 2024

  14-11-2024 09:53 via theguardian.com
  Join us for all the latest developments from day 4 of the climate summit in AzerbaijanJosh Gabbatiss, from Carbon Brief has published an update on social media about where negotiations at Cop29 have got to.You may have seen talk of new texts about the climate finance negotiations doing the rounds.These proposals have been produced by the co-chairs and circulated among negotiators and civil society observers, but for some reason they are not being published on the UNFCCC website. Continue reading
  
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• Shell’s successful appeal will not end climate lawsuits against firms, say experts

  14-11-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Dutch appeal court ruled in favour of oil and gas company over judgment telling it to limit emissionsA court ruling in favour of Shell does not spell the end of climate litigation against companies, legal experts have said.The oil and gas company celebrated on Tuesday when it won an appeal against a landmark climate judgment by a Dutch court. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm

  14-11-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaignA unique farm that was “accidentally” rewilded 35 years ago and is now a haven for endangered nightingales and other rare wildlife has been saved, thanks in part to the generosity of Guardian readers.Strawberry Hill in Bedfordshire has been successfully bought by the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants (BCN) after a crowdfunding appeal raised £1.5m. Continue reading
  
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• Survival of the richest: Trump, climate and the logic of the doomsday bunker | Jonathan Watts

  14-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The climate crisis created the setting for Trump’s economy-first win and it’s the global south that will suffer mostDonald Trump’s election is a triumph for the politics of the doomsday bunker, which is bad news for the world’s environment.This is the idea that in an age of climate disruption, nature extinction and ever wider social inequality, the best chance of survival for those who can afford it is to construct a personal shelter, where they can keep the desperate mas
  
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• Poorer nations need $1tn a year by 2030 in climate finance, top economists find

  14-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Study says funding to cope with climate breakdown needed five years earlier than expectedPoor countries need $1tn a year in climate finance by 2030, five years earlier than rich countries are likely to agree to at UN climate talks, a new study has found.Waiting until 2035 to receive the funding, which is to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with extreme weather, would place damaging burdens on vulnerable countries, warned the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance,
  
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• ‘Minimal progress’ made this year on curbing global heating, report finds

  14-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis by Climate Action Tracker puts median temperature rise by 2100 at 2.7C if current policies continueWorld leaders have promised to try to stop the planet heating by more than 1.5C (2.7F). But current policies put the temperature rise on track for 2.7C, a report has found.The expected level of global heating by the end of the century has not changed since 2021, with “minimal progress” made this year, according to the Climate Action Tracker project. The consortium’s estim
  
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