The British state has assigned just 20 officials to climate adaptation inside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. That’s 20 out of 6,613 staff — only 0.3 percent of the department responsible for protecting the environment and maintaining…
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The Trump administration has agreed to pay German energy giant RWE $1.2bn (£892m) to abandon its US offshore wind projects, freeing the company to redirect the money into fossil fuel expansion. RWE will surrender leases off the coasts of California…
Britain could face its worst harvest on record after months of drought and extreme heat devastated crops across England and Wales. Farmers are warning that working people will be made to pay through higher prices and smaller portions in supermarkets….
Half of England and the whole of Wales are now officially in drought, after extreme heat and almost nonexistent rainfall left rivers shrinking, crops under threat and vast areas of the country scorched brown. England received just 7 percent of…
As the United States endures another summer of dangerous heat, drought and flooding, more and more working people are recognising what they’re experiencing isn’t just bad luck. According to new polling by Data for Progress, 61% of likely voters believe…
