We are aware of a number of horses that are currently loose in central London and are working with colleagues, including the Army, to locate them

So sorry to hear the inimitable Frank Field has died. Over the years I wrote countless stories with him, often at his insistence, and all of them intended to help his struggling constituents. His wit was sharp and his intellect fierce, but biggest of all was his heart. In 20

For better or worse, the EU playbook for the Trump 2.0 climate agenda amounts to this: project confidence + hope investors believe them.

From a big look at the military, climate and trade quake that could roll across the Atlantic in November.

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The European election campaign of Matteo Salvini's Lega party, a coalition partner in Giorgia Meloni's government, using a far-right conspiracy theory asserting the EU wants to make people eat insects.

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Business and Finance Journalist of the Year category winner Anna Isaac / The Guardian

Scotland is dumping is goal to cut emissions by 75% by 2030

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'In the European Union, clean energy accounted for nearly one-third of GDP growth in 2023.'

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Nice to see Liz Truss confirming Esther Webber and my reporting from 2021 that she opposed the UK's hosting of COP26 — vigorously denied by the gvmt at the time.

One other cabinet member joined her rebellion: Rishi Sunak.

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'Defense and green deal will be competing interests for public money.”

The inside view in Brussels is that the EU's most urgent priorities are going to cut across one another.

w. ace team Barbara Moens, Giovanna Faggionato and Giorgio Leali

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There's a lull as EU leaders meet tonight in Brussels so I'll take the opportunity to say: Come work with us! We're looking for a Politics reporter POLITICOEurope.

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The Australian government has quietly released the map of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef this summer, confirming that the 5th event in just 8 years is the most severe & the most widespread ever.

This time, only the far north has escaped.

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'They say history is written by the victors, but that hasn’t stopped Liz Truss having a go.'

👌 Noah Keate

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[MEDIA RELEASE]: New data shows the Great Barrier Reef has suffered through its worst-ever heat stress with more than 80% of reefs enduring dangerous levels of heating, as scientists grapple to quantify the irreparable, cumulative damage from repeated such events.

The Brexit crew are planning to weaponise this week's climate win in the Europe Court of Human Rights to try and take the UK out of the court altogether.

Story from Andrew McDonald

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It’s game over for gas heating in Augsburg, first major city in Germany (300,000 people) that has announced plans for ending the use of fossil gas in its heating system & informed customers of its intention to cut off the gas grid within the next years.

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Unbleached reefs this year are coloured blue.

This is the most widespread and most severe mass bleaching and mortality event ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef.

'What Europe needs instead is a fair deal that addresses the systemic issues underpinning our food system in order to restore dignity in farming.'

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EU and US are shaping for a showdown with China as they push the biggest polluter to help them raise cash for poor countries climate needs.

Two experts say the shame game will backfire.

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There is also incredible General aviation interest in the eclipse—a more than 116% increase in GA flights this morning over the US. Here's today, compared to last Monday morning.