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In this era of mega-fires, diverse strategies are urgently needed so we can safely live with fire. Rachael Helene Nolan, Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University Grant Williamson, Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania Katharine Haynes, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong Mark Ooi, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Workers at nearly 80 grocery stores accuse corporation of making big profits during pandemic while not paying employees enough

Over 8,000 workers at nearly 80 Kroger-owned King Soopers grocery stores around Colorado started a three week strike on Wednesday as new union contract negotiations stalled.

The dispute is the latest in which workers have accused a corporation of making big profits during the pandemic while not paying high enough wages.

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Heating and habitat loss drive birds and mammals to cooler areas where plants can not follow, study shows

The decline of seed-dispersing animals is damaging plants’ ability to adapt to climate breakdown, a study has found.

Almost half of all plant species depend on animals to spread their seeds, but scientists fear these plants may be at risk of extinction when animals are driven to migrate to cooler areas, as plants cannot easily follow.

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The first seven large-scale projects to receive funding from the EU's Innovation Fund will prevent 73 million tonnes of CO2 over the next decade, European Commission officials said on Thursday.

The European cement industry has reacted strongly against calls for EU carbon border measures to more quickly replace the sector's free allocation of EU ETS allowances, arguing that this would strike a fatal blow against the competitiveness of the bloc's producers.

Peru is among the latest countries to join a group of nations that have pledged to apply corresponding adjustments to voluntary carbon market units, potentially forcing changes to how the country's raft of offset projects can sell their credits.

Their Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has already broken all records for 3D galaxy surveys.

• Last year was sixth hottest ever recorded, scientists find
• US experts say 1.8bn people experienced record hot year

Nearly a quarter of the world’s population experienced a record hot year in 2021, as the climate crisis continues to unleash escalating temperatures around the globe, according to new data from leading US climate scientists.

Last year was the sixth hottest ever recorded, with the global temperature 1.1C above the pre-industrial average, a new annual analysis from Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) found.

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A new venture led by a carbon market veteran launched on Wednesday, with plans to tokenise offsets from GHG removal projects and make them tradeable on blockchain.

The implementation of Canada’s ambitious climate and clean energy policies is running up against its position as a major fossil fuel exporter, while the government should better leverage its advantage in clean electricity generation, the IEA said in its review of the country’s energy policy on Thursday.

EUA prices dropped for the fourth time in the last five sessions as technical selling dominated, while energy prices continued to drift amid improving renewables output and easing LNG supply concerns.

Because the global south is bearing the brunt of climate breakdown, it’s people of colour who are suffering most

It’s 4am, and sparks from the circular saw are flying by my head. I have been given goggles to protect my eyes from the debris and although I’ve been told that I’m in safe hands, I do not feel safe at all. I’m cold from sitting on the road for five hours; my back is stiff, my hands are numb and, to top it all off, humanity is on the edge of extinction. This probably seems an odd way to spend my time to some of you, but this is how climate activists who engage in direct action try to be heard. We have tried everything else. We are exhausted and terrified. So we keep doing it.

Last year I was included in an article about climate activists. In the original article, I was the only person pictured without my placard. My placard said: “Climate inaction = racism.” I want to talk about what this means.

Elise Yarde is a climate justice activist from London

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Proposed ban on trophy hunting imports ignores African perspectives and could reverse conservation gains, says open letter

A proposed UK ban on trophy hunting imports risks undermining the conservation of rhinos, elephants and other endangered wildlife, according to a group of leading scientists and conservationists who said African perspectives have been ignored by the government.

On Friday, MPs will vote on a private member’s bill to ban trophy hunting imports while, separately, the government is preparing legislation to ban hunting trophies from thousands of species, including lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and polar bears.

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A carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in China’s western Xinjiang region that will become China’s biggest of its kind when it is fully operational plans to launch its first phase this year.

We can’t just sit back and watch what’s happening to the planet. We are not an audience. Like it or not, we are in this story

As a scientist and a movie maker, we both once naively assumed that data and storytelling would converge to help prevent the imminent collapse of our habitable climate. Fire tornadoes, mega hurricanes, biblical floods, fossil fuel companies misleading the public and gambling our lives for huge profits – of course, such apocalyptic imagery would lead to gripping newscasts, dramatic interpretations, and stirring speeches from our leaders, sparking action at every level of society.

After all, the real-life story of the climate crisis makes even the wildest, biggest-budget film like Don’t Look Up seem like a charming EM Forster adaptation. But does this story-of-all-stories get wall-to-wall news coverage? Nope. Not by a long shot.

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England's rivers are contaminated by a "chemical cocktail" of pollution- what's being done to tackle the issue?

Study finds that Americans overall are becoming increasingly worried about global heating and more engaged with the issue

A new report has revealed that a record number of Americans are now alarmed about the climate crisis.

The study, published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, found that Americans overall are becoming increasingly worried about global heating, more engaged with the issue and more supportive of finding solutions to the issue.

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Water companies should each designate one area as fit for use by 2025, says environmental audit committee in highly critical report

Water companies in England should each designate a stretch of river as bathing water by 2025 to drive the cleanup of a chemical cocktail of sewage, agricultural waste and plastic pollution that is suffocating biodiversity and risking public health, MPs have said.

In a report published on Thursday, MPs on the environmental audit committee said they wanted more assertive regulation and enforcement from Ofwat and the Environment Agency to restore rivers to good ecological health, protect biodiversity and adapt to a changing climate. They also called for Ofwat to act to limit bonuses paid to water company bosses who continue to oversee the dumping of raw sewage into England’s rivers.

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Danish shipping giant Maersk has accelerated its net zero emissions target by a decade to 2040, and has set a more ambitious interim emissions goal to be reached by 2030.