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The EU announces a deal on helping nations fight climate change. But – there are some unanswered questions. While they agree that they need to spend 100 billion Euros per year, it is not clear that they have actually agreed to spend that money or how the cost would be divided. In fact it even [...]

A billion – that’s a 1 with 9 zeroes after it,  or put another almost 17 times the entire population of UK are officially not getting enough food, undernourished, in the 21st century of an alledgedly civilised society. This is a figure that is getting worse, not better, as the international crisis leads to unempoyment [...]

The clearest evidence yet is emerging that climate change is real and is having potentially enormous impact. An explorer trekking across the ice cap taking over 1500 readings discovered an average thickness of only 1.8m, typical of ice frozen in the current year, rather than the thicker depths of multi year permafrost. This means that [...]

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