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Time and Water review – Iceland’s doomed glacier tells its own story of climate disaster

This study of author Andri Snær Magnason is somewhat indulgent, with endless musings where piercing climate crisis commentary should be Is Iceland dying? Is the world dying? These would appear to be the very relevant questions behind this well-intentioned but ultimately exasperating and obtuse documentary from National Geographic, which is burdened with tasteful NatGeo stateliness and visually pleasing production values. It is directed by film-maker Sara Dosa, whose earlier documentary Fire of Love was about doomed vulcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who in 1991 perished in the eruption they were studying. Now Dosa has made a study of award-winning Icelandic climate author Andri Snær Magnason, whose book on climate change Of Time And Water was published in 2019 and who wrote a piercingly sad “obituary” of the Ok glacier, the first Icelandic glacier completely to disappear. It very clearly won’t be the last. Continue reading...

Australian snow season begins amid El Niño fears

Webcams showed snow blanketing the ground in some areas. In others, it was patchy or nonexistent Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s snow season has officially begun, with resorts predicting a good season despite climactic threats and the cost-of-living crisis. Between 20cm and 40cm of snow fell across the Victorian and New South Wales alps before the long weekend, with the falls bolstered by snowmakers. Continue reading...

The Independent (World)

Visa problems shut poorest countries out of crucial UN climate talks in Bonn

Several of the world’s poorest and most climate vulnerable countries say their negotiating abilities will be hurt at talks in Germany this month due to their delegates being unable to obtain visas

Super El Niño is inching closer: A swell of warm water HUNDREDS of miles wide has arrived in the Pacific Ocean, NASA reveals - hinting the rare climate event is imminent

Using satellite data, NASA has detected a swell of warm water off the coast of South America.

Scientists warn Trump plan to axe US ocean monitoring system will leave world ‘flying blind’

Experts say dismantling the ocean observation system will ‘severely degrade’ the accuracy of weather predictions The Trump administration’s plan to dismantle an ocean observation system vital to understanding the climate crisis and marine ecosystems would “severely degrade” the accuracy of weather predictions and El Niño forecasts, with economic consequences for the US, European and American scientists have warned. Decommissioning the US system, which plays a major part in a global ocean observation network, would lead to a massive increase in error in the annual estimates of ocean heating rates, according to research published last month. Continue reading...

BBC News

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Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.

‘That’s a bad combination’: why Australia may be in for a slushy snow season

Snow arrives in time for the start of ski season, but climate change and El Niño mean it may not stick around for long, experts say Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast There was optimism across Australian alpine resorts this week as their social media channels filled with footage of snow flurries that arrived just in time for the opening of the ski season this weekend. “We couldn’t be more excited,” said the Instagram account of Perisher, the southern hemisphere’s biggest ski resort in Kosciuszko national park in New South Wales, as hands swept the fresh snow from outdoor tables. Continue reading...

Retired teacher, 58, buys gorgeous off-the-grid cabin in Maine to escape Florida climate change that sent his home insurance bills skyrocketing

Ted Borduas, 58, left teaching in Naples after 26 years and purchased an off-the-grid hut in Chesterville, close to Farmington, where he plans to relocate this summer.

The ominous sign a SUPER El Niño is inching closer: Satellite image reveals how large areas of the Atlantic Ocean are 5°C hotter than usual - suggesting the unusual climate event could be imminent

Large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea are currently 5°C (9°F) hotter than usual, amid warnings a Super El Niño is imminent.

QUENTIN LETTS: Will Labour win over voters with a manifesto opposed to hot buttered crumpets and clotted cream - courtesy of a man who increasingly resembles a spluttering lunatic?

Put down that loaded sausage and raise your hands in the air, writes QUENTIN LETTS. Climate fanatic Ed Miliband may soon be after our meat and dairy addiction.

BBC News

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Ex-UK political aide and Biden cabinet secretary lead California governor primary vote count

Another Democrat, billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer, is in third place as the tally continues.

El Niño expected to develop in coming months bringing hotter and drier weather to eastern Australia

BoM and other agencies expect transition to the first El Niño since spring 2023 sometime during winter Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Australia should prepare for an imminent El Niño, with the Bureau of Meteorology and other agencies forecasting that the weather phenomenon is likely to develop in the coming months. “The models are really aligning now,” Felicity Gamble, a senior BoM climatologist, said. “We are expecting a transition to El Niño sometime during winter.” Continue reading...

Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system

Ocean Observatories Initiative, $368m network that has provided crucial climate data, latest victim of Trump cuts The Trump administration plans to dismantle a $368m deep-sea observation system that has for more than a decade provided crucial data on ocean systems and climate change. In a notice, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it had “initiated descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative” (OOI), a vast ocean observation network comprising more than 900 instruments that collect data on ocean health, including current patterns, climate variability and marine biodiversity. Continue reading...

The Independent (World)

Seven states sue Trump administration over offshore wind project deal

The states contend the deal will harm their states’ economies, energy grids and climate goals

Cut down on meat and dairy! Ed Miliband to impose stringent new climate targets despite net zero backlash

The Energy Secretary has signed up to a legally binding goal to cut the UK's carbon emissions by 87per cent by 2040.

The Guardian Culture

My Only Boy by Rosa Rankin-Gee review – a darkly funny near-future dystopia

A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novel Rosa Rankin-Gee follows her 2021 near-future climate-crisis dystopia, Dreamland, with a similar but more politically focused work. As I read My Only Boy, I kept having to remind myself that the nation it describes is not (yet) real, because, for a reader living abroad, the novel’s England seems unnervingly close to what might come next. Any political dystopia risks being overtaken by reality, but in this case the gap between truth and fiction feels claustrophobic. At the beginning of the novel, Elle is at a party held to mourn that day’s election of a far-right populist government. She’s the communications director for the almost too brilliantly named Gigr, a company connecting people seeking immediate shift work with businesses offering it. Elle is freshly upset by witnessing and immediately containing the reputational damage of a worker’s jump from a balcony. She knows how to do this, because “we’d had a death every four weeks, then every three weeks, then every two”: exhausted, starving people taking underpaid shifts from Gigr after finishing public sector jobs that no longer pay enough for survival. Almost everyone, in this slightly more desperate, divided and unfair nation, ends up doing some work for Gigr sooner or later, to buy faster access to emergency healthcare or food for crisis-stricken family, and Gigr has algorithms to ensure that each person is paid the least their particular circumstances oblige them to accept. Continue reading...

Super El Niño is on its way: Scientists warn there's now an 80% chance the unusual climate pattern will arrive this summer - bringing extreme heat 'nearly EVERYWHERE'

The World Meteorological Organisation warn there's now an 80 per cent likelihood of an El Niño event during June-August 2026, and a 90 per cent chance this will continue until at least November.

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UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds

Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline – the UK’s green economy is powering ahead, according to research by the country’s leading business organisation. The net zero economy, which is worth more than £100bn a year, benefits all of the UK, according to the CBI Economics analysis commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit thinktank, despite critics who want to abolish the UK’s net zero targets. Continue reading...

The Guardian Culture