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YouTube and TikTok amplified disinformation that “sowed confusion” during the worst flood in Spain’s history, according to a new report. A year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours on Valencia in October 2024, killing 237 and causing widespread destruction to buildings and infrastructure, making it Europe’s most catastrophic flooding event since 1967. False […]

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Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the landmark Finch Supreme Court ruling on a Surrey oil well confirmed that applications for major developments should consider all significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. However, a review of 35 proposed developments across the UK’s largest farming counties since the June 2024 ruling found that applications routinely ignored […]

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When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon Valley tech bosses for dinner with King Charles. Among the guests seated in the gold-flecked banquet hall of Windsor Castle: Jensen Huang, CEO […]

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A Portuguese version of this story was published by Climainfo. Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin, DeSmog can reveal. The Earthshot Prize, backed by celebrities including naturalist David Attenborough and former England football captain David Beckham, worked with this PR […]

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The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 26 November 2025 Alimentos e agricultura estarão no centro dos holofotes na próxima rodada de negociações climáticas globais, no Norte do Brasil. De 6 a 21 de novembro, representantes de quase todos os países se reúnem em Belém, capital regional e porta de entrada da […]

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In early September, the Danish climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg travelled to São Paulo to deliver a stark warning. On the sidelines of a conference called the Forum Caminhos da Liberdade, happening just as Brazil was gearing up to host annual global climate talks (known as “COP30”) in November, Lomborg claimed that if implemented poorly, government […]

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Labour is facing pressure after one of its MPs joined forces with a far-right group in attacking the party, DeSmog can reveal. Over recent months, Graham Stringer – who has been the MP for Blackley, Manchester since 1997 – has been cosying up to individuals and groups involved in spreading radical anti-migrant, anti-abortion, anti-climate views. […]

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During the past five years, all seven of the fully operational LNG export terminals in the U.S. violated the Clean Air Act, America’s cornerstone law on air pollution, a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds.  The report comes as the Trump administration has moved to accelerate the approval of new export terminals […]

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“I miss recess,” said Asher, a Grade 5 student when asked for comment by CityNews on the Alberta’s teachers strike, adding that he even missed math class. “It’s fun. I get to learn more skills.” Adults are supposed to ensure students like Asher have an opportunity to learn, that teachers are properly paid and that […]

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Four years after Boris Johnson’s Conservative government hosted the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the party has ditched its environmental credentials – declaring that it would scrap the UK’s net zero emissions targets and repeal the flagship Climate Change Act. As DeSmog has reported previously, this dramatic change has coincided with the party coming under […]

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This story is being published in collaboration with The Tyee, an award-winning independent media outlet based in B.C.  At a right-wing political conference in Calgary, Bruce Pardy, the executive director for an organization called Rights Probe spoke on a panel about the need to extinguish Indigenous rights as a part of a push to separate Alberta […]

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