The Latest Breaking News from Environment

City Council approves Lightfoot’s $16.4 billion budget by 32-18 vote

The vote was closer than many expected and tighter than last year’s 35-15 cakewalk, which included a $76.5 million increase in the city’s property tax levy.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 7, 2022

‘Smells like sewage’: blackwater from Victorian floods causes mass fish deaths

‘We’re measuring for E. coli,’ says state’s chief environmental scientist who advises: ‘Stay out of the water’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 7, 2022

Climate justice at COP27: ‘Richer countries cannot turn their backs on this’

The UN's annual climate change conference grows more urgent every year. With just over 1.1°C of warming above pre-industrial levels, the world is already seeing devastating consequences. As COP27 opens in Egypt, we discuss the stakes at this year's summit with Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environment…

France 24 · Nov 7, 2022

Japan PM vows to strengthen military at int'l naval review

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his country urgently needs to strengthen its military capabilities amid a worsening security environment in the East and South China seas and threats from North Korea and Russia's war on Ukraine

The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2022

Turbo Island is no more - the end for a controversial Bristol institution

The owners want a 'more welcoming' environment

Bristol Post · Nov 6, 2022

Bob Brown accuses Tanya Plibersek of putting industry above environment on Tarkine trip

Environment minister visited Tasmania for two days and insists she’s taking mine decision seriously but Brown wanted her to visit rainforest with him

The Guardian - AU · Nov 6, 2022

Gold Coast conservationists say Coomera Connector environment report a 'final cut' for koalas

There are calls for greater detail about suitable habitat and long-term survival of critical koala populations to be displaced by Coomera Connector road construction.

ABC News · Nov 5, 2022

Immigration officials target mosques, temples and churches to advise people to return home

Exclusive: Migrant groups called for the ‘hostile environment’ policy to be scrapped, arguing that people expecting to find safe spaces to pray are being ‘duped’

The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2022

NBA agent Daniel Hazan, an orthodox Jew, navigates antisemitism with fears and hope

PHILADELPHIA — The environment sowed by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving — that antisemitic vibe casting a cloud over the NBA — has sent Daniel Hazan into feelings of sadness and doubt.

Tribune News Service · Nov 5, 2022

Ban all UK plastic waste exports by 2027, say cross-party MPs

British waste being burned oversees with ‘irreversible and shocking’ health and environmental impacts, committee told

The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2022