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La production alimentaire et les combustibles fossiles causent 5 milliards de dollars de dégâts environnementaux par heure Un rapport du PNUE affirme que mettre fin à ces dommages est essentiel à la transformation mondiale nécessaire « avant que l’effondrement ne devienne inévitable ».

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Exclusive: Ben Goldsmith will work on issues including fishing and green belt preservation to attract green Tories

Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’

Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

The world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” that is harming billions of people, a UN report has declared. The overuse and pollution of water must be tackled urgently, the report’s lead author said, because no one knew when the whole system could collapse, with implications for peace and social cohesion. All life depends on water but the report found many societies had long been using water faster than it could be replenished annually in rivers and soils, as well as over-exploiting or destroying long-term stores of water in aquifers and wetlands.

Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

L’effondrement de la biodiversité menace la sécurité du Royaume-Uni, avertissent les chefs du renseignement […] La destruction des écosystèmes va accroître les pénuries alimentaires, le désordre et les migrations de masse, des effets déjà visibles.

Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

As climate and geopolitics shocks bite, countries are rebuilding food buffers. The UK clings to neoliberal ideas while households pay the price

US demand to own Greenland leaves little scope for compromise, and forcing the issue would entail end of Nato Greenland, with a population of fewer than 57,000, might not seem to be the territory on which the future of the relationship between Europe and the US, the viability of Nato as the world’s most successful defence alliance, or even the fractured relations between the UK and Europe would be determined. But battlefields are sometimes the product of chance, rather than choice. It now feels as if Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on eight fellow Nato states for sending troops last week to support Greenland’s sovereignty may be one of those clarifying moments in which Europe had no option. Successive European leaders condemned Trump’s blackmail and intimidation on Sunday and they sounded as if they meant it.

Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI

Nous vivons une époque de polycrises. Si vous vous sentez coincé·e, vous n’êtes pas seul·e. Je n’avais pas pleinement compris à quel point l’idée d’un avenir meilleur me soutenait – aujourd’hui, comme beaucoup d’autres, j’ai du mal à être productive

We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone. I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive

Bronwen Maddox says Trump’s rejection of international law leaves UK and Europe facing huge dilemma

Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas

Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans

The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival

From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made

Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost