Veille 2.1

Last year I was fortunate enough to be joined by four remarkable women in the British environmental movement. We were speaking at a Deep Adaptation conference in Glastonbury. The way the discussion…

A coalition of British Columbians are organizing their municipalities to take oil and gas companies to court over the costs of the climate crisis

Permafrost and glaciers in the high Arctic form an impermeable ‘cryospheric cap’ that traps a large reservoir of subsurface methane, preventing it from reaching the atmosphere. Cryospheric vulnerability to climate warming is making releases of this methane possible. On Svalbard, where air temperatures are rising more than two times faster than the average for the Arctic, glaciers are retreating and leaving behind exposed forefields that enable rapid methane escape. Here we document how methane-rich groundwater springs have formed in recently revealed forefields of 78 land-terminating glaciers across central Svalbard, bringing deep-seated methane gas to the surface. Waters collected from these springs during February–May of 2021 and 2022 are supersaturated with methane up to 600,000 times greater than atmospheric equilibration. Spatial sampling reveals a geological dependency on the extent of methane supersaturation, with isotopic evidence of a thermogenic source. We estimate annual methane emissions from prog

Le régulateur britannique de l'énergie, Ofgem, a annoncé jeudi lancer une enquête à l'encontre de British Gas, accusé d'avoir installé de force des compteurs dits prépayés chez des consommateurs vulnérables incapables de payer leurs factures du fait de la flambée des prix.Dans une enquête publiée jeudi, le Times révèle comment une société de recouvrement de créances agissant pour le fournisseur British Gas a envoyé ses agents pour installer ces compteurs prépayés de force dans les logements de personnes fragiles n'arrivant plus à payer leur facture.