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Earth News

Discuss Earth isn’t just the best place for English language learners to learn about the environment in English. It’s also the best place to get a round up of all the environment news from around the web, all in one place. 

• Drax announces £150m share buyback after record profits
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-26 By Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
• Bitcoin is terrible for the environment – can it ever go green?
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-26 By Erum Salam
• Flooding threat from melting snow prompts Yosemite park closures
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-26 By Gabrielle Canon
• Revealed: most of EU delegation to crucial fishing talks made up of fishery lobbyists
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-26 By Karen McVeigh
• ‘Explosive’ growth means one in three new cars will be electric by 2030, IEA says
  Source: CarbonBrief Published on 2023-04-26 By Josh Gabbatiss
• Labor extends gas price cap to 2025 to protect power bills
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-26 By Peter Hannam Economics correspondent
• Protecting Large Trees for Wildlife Also Benefits Climate, Study Says
  Source: EcoWatch Published on 2023-04-25 By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
• China Approved More Coal Plants in 2023 Q1 Than in All of 2021: Greenpeace Report
  Source: EcoWatch Published on 2023-04-25 By Paige Bennett
• Europe’s New Tax on Greenhouse Gases
  Source: The New York Times Published on 2023-04-25 By Manuela Andreoni
• Biden Establishes Office of Environmental Justice
  Source: EcoWatch Published on 2023-04-25 By Climate Nexus
• Climate protesters call out US banks for funding fossil fuel projects
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Erum Salam in New York
• Unprecedented heat extremes ‘could occur in any region globally’
  Source: CarbonBrief Published on 2023-04-25 By Ayesha Tandon
• Here Are the Places Most at Risk From Record-Shattering Heat
  Source: The New York Times Published on 2023-04-25 By Raymond Zhong
• Tory former net zero tsar calls for halt to Rosebank North Sea oil project
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Fiona Harvey Environment editor
• Guest post: How land use drives CO2 emissions around the world
  Source: CarbonBrief Published on 2023-04-25 By Carbon Brief Staff
• Farne Islands to remain closed after three new cases of bird flu detected
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Mark Brown North of England correspondent
• John Kerry: relying on technology to remove carbon dioxide is ‘dangerous’
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Fiona Harvey Environment editor
• Peak District deal to protect birds of prey ends as illegal killing continues
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Helena Horton Environment reporter
• Hosepipe ban affecting swathes of Devon could last until December
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Steven Morris
• Conservatives face ‘judgment day’ on sewage crisis as Labour forces Commons vote – UK politics live
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Andrew Sparrow
• Chelsea flower show gardens to rebrand weeds as ‘hero’ plants
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Jamie Grierson
• ‘Like a dam breaking’: experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advance
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Hilary Beaumont
• Authorities still baffled by headless crocodile found on north Queensland beach
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Khaled Al Khawaldeh
• Life in Ny-Ålesund, the world’s northern-most research station – in pictures
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Lisi Niesner of Reuters
• Dam fine work: record number of barrier removals helps restore rivers across Europe
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25 By Graeme Green
• Aurora Australis lights up New Zealand sky over Christchurch – video
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-25
• Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
• North Sea drilling: Greenpeace prepares to challenge ‘disastrous’ UK decision
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Alex Lawson
• North Sea Nations Promise to Quadruple Offshore Wind Capacity by 2030
  Source: EcoWatch Published on 2023-04-24 By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
• Algae Growing Under Arctic Sea Ice Found Contaminated by Microplastics
  Source: EcoWatch Published on 2023-04-24 By Paige Bennett
• ‘A Sense of Place’: Three 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Protect Their Homes
  Source: EcoWatch Published on 2023-04-24 By Olivia Rosane
• Britain and the Netherlands Agree on a North Sea Power Link
  Source: The New York Times Published on 2023-04-24 By Stanley Reed
• Climate protests in London end without ministers agreeing to fossil fuel deadline
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Sandra Laville
• US supreme court denies oil companies’ bid to move venue of climate lawsuits
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Guardian staff and agency
• Governors Island to Be Site of $700 Million Climate Campus
  Source: The New York Times Published on 2023-04-24 By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Dana Rubinstein
• How south-east Asia is fighting back to save corals – photo essay
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Guardian Staff
• Fears Natural England may lose powers amid row with Dartmoor farmers
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Helena Horton Environment reporter
• EPA accused of failing to regulate use of Monsanto and other toxic herbicides
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Tom Perkins
• Analysis: Half the global population saw all-time record temperatures over past decade
  Source: CarbonBrief Published on 2023-04-24 By Tom Prater
• 2023 Goldman environmental prize winners include Texas Gulf coast defender
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Nina Lakhani Climate justice reporter
• Former president of Kiribati backs legal case against Australia over inaction on climate crisis
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Sarah Collard and Australian Associated Press
• Catalonia’s farmers face threat of drought … and a plague of hungry rabbits
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
• Scientists discover why sea urchins are dying off from US to the Caribbean
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Richard Luscombe in Miami
• BP facing green rebellion at annual shareholder meeting
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
• China ramps up coal power despite carbon neutral pledges
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-24 By Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
• Europe ‘failing its children’ on air pollution, EEA says
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-23 By Fiona Harvey Environment editor
• ‘Kill it, smash it’: spotted lanternflies due to return this spring with a vengeance
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-23 By Maya Yang
• Majority of Australians keen to switch from gas to electric to lower emissions, survey finds
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-23 By Amy Remeikis
• Bannau Brycheiniog: new name for the park but poor state of nature harder to fix
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-23 By Patrick Greenfield
• ‘Green colonialism’: Indigenous world leaders warn over west’s climate strategy
  Source: The Guardian Published on 2023-04-23 By Jenni Monet in New York