HARD-PRESSED families shouldn’t have to pay an unaffordable price to reach net zero. That’s my guiding principle when it comes to tackling climate change. Rishi Sunak explains how his guiding principle when it comes to tackling climate change is to make sure hard-pressed families don’t pay an unaffordable priceReuters It was the message of The…
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Home wood burning pollution expected to rise due to UK cost of living crisis | Air pollution | The Guardian
This December will be the 70th anniversary of the 1952 London smog, when five days of choking smoke killed about 12,000 Londoners. It was partially caused by a fuel crisis, specifically a shortage of coal, requiring people to burn poor quality mining waste. Air pollution from home fires is expected to increase this winter as…
Ancient valleys may show how ice sheets will respond to climate change : NPR
An aerial view of icebergs and the ice sheet near Pituffik, Greenland. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images hide caption An aerial view of icebergs and the ice sheet near Pituffik, Greenland. During Earth’s ice ages, much of North America and northern Europe were covered in massive glaciers. About 20,000 years ago, those ice sheets began…
