Ministers accused of blocking plans to ban burning of UK peatlands

Ministers have been accused of deliberately stalling plans to ban the environmentally damaging process of burning…

The left channels its fury toward McConnell

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‘Nothing is off the table’: Supreme Court fight could reshape the Senate

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Susan Collins says Senate should not vote on SCOTUS nomination before election

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to…

The 6 Republican senators who will decide the Supreme Court fight

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Wild plants of Barbados illustrated on plantation ledgers – in pictures

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The tipping points at the heart of the climate crisis

The warning signs are flashing red. The California wildfires were surely made worse by the impacts…

Greener BP must do more than talk tough on the climate crisis

‘This is serious stuff,” said BP’s Bernard Looney. The chief executive, speaking last week at the…

America is at war with wildfires. Yet Trump is on the side of the inferno | David Sirota

The fires that continue to incinerate the west coast, pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and…

Climate change, Covid – our hearts ache. But a new era is possible. We can do it | Rebecca Solnit

If you’re heartsore at the quadruple crisis of the mismanaged pandemic, the resultant financial catastrophe grinding…