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Participating world leaders and delegates pose for a family photo during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 12, 2024.

Did COP29 deliver real climate solutions?

The world needed to agree on how much rich nations would pay poorer nations for climate financing. After a walkout in Baku, delegates agreed on a figure that was cheered by some and derided by others.

Nazareth Seferian 27, Nov 2024

The technology powering our current industrial revolution needs so much energy and water that data centres are now competing with cities, with the environment and net-zero targets losing out

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How AI is draining the world of its energy sources

The technology powering our current industrial revolution needs so much energy and water that data centres are now competing with cities, with the environment and net-zero targets losing out

Khaled Kassar 14, Sep 2024

A circular economy offers a solution to the type of resurgence that is required if we are to move away from boom-and-bust economics, to a truly sustainable economic model.

Luca D'Urbino

World Environment Day 2023: How London is paving the way toward a circular future

A circular economy offers a solution to the type of resurgence that is required if we are to move away from boom-and-bust economics, to a truly sustainable economic model

Bassam Mahfouz 05, Jun 2023

The search for victims, both human and non-human, continues on November 12, 2018 in Paradise, California, where the death toll from the Camp fire has reached 29. A crew recovers the remains of a canine on Lawndale Lane in Paradise. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Climate Change Means an End to Paradise

When people used to ask me where I’m from, they would smile and shake their heads in disbelief when I said Paradise. “Paradise?” they would ask. “Where is that?” Now, when I tell them I’m from…

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