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Down to Earth newsletter

Down to Earth is a newsletter featuring an exclusive weekly piece from our top climate crisis correspondents, as well as a digest of the biggest environment stories – plus the good news, the not-so-good news, and everything else you need to know

16 May 2024

  • A worker is seen during clearing work in front of the destroyed building of the country guest house 'Jaegerstuebchen' in Laach, part of the municipality of Mayschoss, district of Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 23, 2021.

    I’ve seen how deadly floods are devastating Europe – we are not prepared for what’s next

    In this week’s Down to Earth newsletter: what the Guardian’s Sirin Kale saw when reporting on environmental disasters in Germany, Belgium and the UK

15 June 2023

  • A plate of lab-grown tuna sushi by Finless.

    Down to Earth: Is this lab-grown fish the future of seafood? We put it to the taste test

    In this week’s newsletter: A California company thinks its cell-cultured tuna may be the way to enioy fish – without the fish

20 April 2023

  • File photo of Ratcliffe On Soar power station.

    Down to Earth: The path to radically lower emissions tucked away inside the devastating IPCC report

    In this week’s newsletter: The world has no choice but to halve carbon output by 2030 – one chart shows the way forward

17 February 2023

  • Phoenix Arizona with its downtown lit by the last rays of sun at the dusk. Hot cities

    Down to Earth: The Arizona teen whose death in extreme heat is a warning of tragic things to come

    In this week’s newsletter: Caleb Blair’s death showed how the climate crisis is a ‘risk multiplier’, amplifying problems with housing, mental health and addiction services, policing and more

19 January 2023

  • Illustration picture showing gas on a gas stove.

    Down to Earth: How gas stoves ignited an American culture war

    In this week’s newsletter: In the US, rightwing politicians and commentators are red hot about a future without gas stoves – but it’s the change America needs

8 December 2022

  • Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech during the opening of COP15, the two-week U.N. biodiversity summit, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada December 6, 2022.

    Three ways Cop15 can help save a million species from extinction

    In this week’s newsletter: Dismal results from previous conferences mean the stakes are high at this year’s event – this time it simply has to be different

1 April 2022

  • Just Stop Oil activists during one of their blockades at Kingsbury early on Friday 1 April, 2022

    Inside Just Stop Oil, the youth climate group blocking UK refineries

    A band of 20-year-olds have made headlines disrupting football games, the Baftas and now oil facilities across the UK. But what do they want?

11 March 2022

  • Turning down our thermostats by 1C could save 10bn cubic metres of gas

    Can turning down our radiators turn up the heat on Vladimir Putin?

    Russia has used its gas supply as an “economic weapon”. The West should counter with its own energy-saving measures

25 February 2022

  • Pretty Little Thing, a fast fashion brand, is looking to expand into the clothing resale market.

    Can we enjoy fast fashion without destroying the planet?

    The global fashion industry in desperate need of an ecological plan, but London fashion week proved there still isn’t – yet

16 February 2022

  • Joe Biden<br>FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during the "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" event at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, blocked the Biden administration's move to increase the government's cost estimate of future damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions, a key component of federal rules for oil and gas drilling, automobiles and other industries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

    Biden his time: how the US president is failing on the climate crisis

    After the Trump administration gutted environmental agencies and abandoned the Paris agreement, Biden’s climate legacy is starting to take shape – and it doesn’t look good
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