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Experts warn fracking in UK is neither safe, viable, nor popular and “amounts to climate suicide”

Last week, new British Prime Minister outlined plans to frack in the UK. However, experts, scientists, activists, NGO’s and even Truss’s own MPs, believe that fracking will fail in the UK.

New study suggests we are heading for 2-3 degrees warming, making “climate tipping points” irreversible

Last week, a new scientific report was published looking at climate tipping points. As one of the authors notes: “The world is heading towards 2-3C of global warming. This sets Earth on course to cross multiple dangerous tipping points that will be disastrous for people across the world".

“Victory for the planet” as South African court quashes Shell’s exploration licence

The history of Shell on the African continent is wrapped in a vortex of controversy that stretches back decades. However, last week, in a significant victory, a High Court in South Africa ruled that Shell’s exploration right to conduct seismic surveys on the so-called “Wild Coast” of the country was granted unlawfully.

Britain’s new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, will be a “disaster” for the climate

Today Britain has a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. As Truss takes the top job after winning the Conservative election race, she is under intense pressure to deliver on a range of issues, including the cost of living crisis and soaring energy prices.

China experiences “worst heatwave ever recorded”

In a year when climate records – from floods, fire and drought - are being shattered daily like shards of glass, there is one country that beats them all: China. The country is experiencing a heatwave like no other.

Big Oil’s global climate scenarios will “bust” the 1.5 degree warming of Paris Agreement

A peer reviewed paper, published today in Nature Communications, examines the global decarbonisation scenarios produced by BP, Shell and Equinor and finds they are incompatible with the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement.

Cheniere’s new LNG greenwashing scheme exposes the deep flaws in industry’s methane strategy

Oil Change International and Greenpeace USA released a report today raising serious questions about both the methodology and the intent of Cheniere’s so called cargo emission tags or CETs.

UK shreds climate credibility in race for new Prime Minister

They say that politicians often operate in a bubble, removed from the rest of us. They have a blinkered view of reality, distorted by privilege and power.

As Europe suffers “heat apocalypse,” UK smashes temperature record

As I write, the UK has just experienced its hottest ever night. It has literally also just smashed the record for the hottest day ever.

Climate momentum: Electric vehicle sales in U.S. reach “tipping point”

Hundres of thousands of Americans, concerned about climate change and increasingly shocked at how much they are paying at the pump for their gas, are voting with their feet and ditching their gas-guzzling vehicles and going electric.