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Barnsley Reform council look to scrap climate emergency declaration
Zero45 is it’s strategy to make the entire borough net-zero by 2045.
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Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York
A proposed “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to roughly 27,000 flights from London to New York, according to planning documents. The East Havering Data Centre Campus, put forward by developer Digital Reef on 218 hectares of green belt in north Ockendon, would be…
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Israeli criminal probe into Gaza killings, US Army drone U-turn and Amazon’s drone delivery push
Tonight: Israel opens its first war-crimes probes into troops over Gaza deaths, the US Army reverses its drone unit plans as Amazon expands Prime Air, Chester Zoo fights a carbon pipeline, and Arsenal’s title defence dominates football talk.
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Little Animals review – Motherland milquetoast creates a clever climate plea
Traverse at Royal Lyceum Studio, Edinburgh Paul Ready’s playwriting debut expertly utilises his bumbling acting persona to examine what is enough in our response to climate emergency Nobody does self-effacement as well as Paul Ready. The Motherland/Ann Droid actor excels at playing the kind of man who apologises for his own existence, well-meaning, but insecure…
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Relax, everyone: Elon Musk has a mantra to make the climate crisis go away | Emma Brockes
In this comment piece, Guardian columnist Emma Brockes mocks Elon Musk’s enthusiasm for the “Kardashev scale”, a 1964 concept devised by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev to rank civilisations by their ability to harness energy. Musk has cited it as justification for moving energy production and datacentres “off-planet” via space infrastructure, which Brockes frames as the…
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Zoo boss calls pipeline plan on site ‘unacceptable’
Chester Zoo’s chief executive, James Christon, has described plans for an underground carbon pipeline crossing the zoo’s land as “unacceptable”, warning it would damage sensitive habitats used for regional conservation work. The Peak Cluster project aims to transport carbon dioxide emissions from cement and lime factories in the Peak District to be stored under the…
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Oxfam ‘can’t guarantee future’ of charity shops as it also reviews warehouse business
Oxfam has said it “cannot give guarantees” over the future of its high street charity shops as it reviews its warehouse operations, amid falling donations and stiffening competition from online secondhand marketplaces such as Vinted. The charity insists it has no immediate plans to close shops or warehouses, but insiders fear its Batley site in…
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Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears
Sea ice loss along East Greenland’s coast has opened up previously inaccessible waters to giant baleen whales, according to a decades-long scientific study. Researchers recorded humpback, fin and minke whales feeding in newly ice-free coastal seas each summer, describing the phenomenon as seasonal Arctic “feeding frenzies” that mark a major regime shift in the region’s…
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‘Degree of Uncertainty’ Filmmaker Simon Schneider Tackles The Ironic Origins Of Climate Change Data — HollyShorts Film Festival
German-born filmmaker Simon Schneider’s AFI thesis film Degree of Certainty, screening at the HollyShorts Film Festival, dramatises the origins of oil companies’ knowledge of climate change. Set in 1982, the 16-minute short follows a young risk analyst at a major US oil firm who, while under pressure to prove his worth amid falling oil prices,…
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Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It’s wrong | Larry Elliott
Larry Elliott criticises Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice for dismissing concerns about the UK’s record summer temperatures, arguing that Tice’s suggestion to simply “enjoy” the heat rather than act on climate change is both callous and economically illiterate. The piece argues against the framing, pushed by Reform and echoed to some extent by the…