‘Don’t play Wordle’ is the plea from striking New York Times workers who are complaining about what they say are unfair labour practices. The New York Times Tech Guild, which works on things like election content and recipes alongside the newspaper and website’s popular array of puzzles, began industrial action earlier this week. The union said it gave management “months ...
Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producer accused of serious human rights abuses, is “perfectly suited” to host a critical global climate summit, according to its man in charge. Before the COP29 climate talks kick off in the capital Baku on Monday, the president of the talks, Mukhtar Babayev, told Sky News the country has plenty to bring to the ...
The Prince of Wales will attend next year’s COP climate conference in Brazil, it has been confirmed, as he pushes to “use his platform to spread urgent optimism” around the environmental debate. It follows Prince William’s week-long trip to South Africa where he celebrated the fourth year of his annual Earthshot prize. He launched the environmental awards in 2021 to ...
After a year of ever more extreme weather and continually rising global temperatures, it’s no wonder this year’s UN climate summit has been called – once again – the “last-chance saloon”. Yet swaggering out through its swing doors goes president-elect Donald Trump. The timing of his election win, with its promise to withdraw the US from the global climate process, ...
HS2 is spending more than £100m on a “shed” to protect bats on a section of the line, even though there is “no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats”, the project company’s chairman has said. Sir Jon Thompson said the 1km (0.6 mile) curved structure at Sheephouse Wood in Buckinghamshire will create a barrier so the creatures can fly ...
China says it’s a developing country, so it doesn’t have to pay into a major new fund to help poor countries cope with climate change. The United States disagrees. This is at the heart of an almighty row about to boil over at the UN COP29 climate talks next week in Azerbaijan. Or is it all just an elaborate “distraction”? ...
Another case of the new strain of mpox has been detected in the UK, health officials have said. It brings the total number of confirmed cases of the Clade 1b variant in the UK to four. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said all of the cases belonged to the same household. How is the new mpox strain different? Last ...
Australia’s government has pledged to introduce what it described as “world-leading” legislation to ban children under the age of 16 from social media. “Social media is doing harm to our kids and I’m calling time on it,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “I’ve spoken to thousands of parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles. They, like me, are worried sick about ...
The presenter of Prince William’s Earthshot Awards says he’s been “crying all day” following Donald Trump’s win in the US presidential election. Billy Porter, the Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actor and singer spoke to Sky News ahead of presenting William’s environmental award ceremony in Cape Town. He said he had been feeling “horrible” following the election result and could ...
“The future is gonna be fantastic,” America’s unlikely kingmaker posted on X, above a photograph of his Starship rocket blasting into space. It was, after all, Elon Musk who strapped boosters to Donald Trump’s campaign and helped propel him to a decisive victory. The world’s richest man bombarded his 200m+ followers on the platform he controls with pro-Trump content, some ...