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Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor is an environment correspondent for the Guardian

January 2025

  • String jellyfish collected from the waters of south-western Norway in October

    Campaigners call for action as jellyfish threaten Scottish salmon farms

    String jellyfish species that has killed millions of salmon in Norwegian sea farms reported in Scotland
  • Sunset behind oil rig with sea in foreground

    Bring North Sea oil and gas under greater public control, report urges

    Common Wealth thinktank warns that communities and taxpayer may have to pick up pieces when production ends
  • Blood Hill windfarm in Norfolk

    UK electricity cleanest ever in 2024, with record 58% from low-carbon sources

    UK has more than halved amount of electricity generated from fossil fuels but gas still had largest share at 28%

December 2024

  • A protester raises a banner reading 'Just Stop Oil' on top of an electronic traffic sign on the M25

    Record number of protesters will be in UK prisons this Christmas

    Forty people, aged 22 to 58, incarcerated for direct actions on climate and Gaza actions amid crackdown on dissent
  • Graduates sitting in rows clapping

    University bans on big oil firms at recruitment fairs rise by 30%

    Survey finds post-1992 universities leading the way on sustainability and ethics
  • Birmingham City University

    More than three-quarters of UK universities join fossil fuel pledge, say activists

    Move to exclude fossil fuel firms from investment portfolios follows years of campaigning by staff and students

November 2024

  • Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

    Cop 29: new draft text criticised as ‘totally unacceptable and inadequate’ – as it happened

  • A demonstrator holds a sign that reads ‘climate justice now’ during Cop29

    Cop29: UN chair ‘so sick’ of Saudi Arabia’s defence of fossil fuels – as it happened

  • People holding posters saying 'cancel the debt'

    Cop29: campaigners say talks are ‘reaching point of real emotion’ – as it happened

  • Members of Greenpeace International display personal items and symbolic objects impacted by extreme weather and the climate crisis.

    Cop29: ministers told to ‘cut theatrics’, ‘move faster’ and ‘get down to business’ amid growing frustration at slow progress – as it happened

  • Cop29: oil bosses given red carpet treatment at climate summit – as it happened

  • Cop29: solidarity levy on cryptocurrency could raise billions for climate action, says report – as it happened

  • Cop 29: Argentina’s negotiators ordered to withdraw from climate summit; French minister cancels trip – as it happened

  • Farming in Europe
    Climate crisis leaves European farmers vulnerable to far right, say campaigners

October 2024

  • The Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast

    UK should ‘repurpose’ Belfast shipyard to make green infrastructure

  • Tangle of electric cables plugged into an extension lead on a brown floor

    Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage

September 2024

  • (From left) Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Labour Leader Keir Starmer - all in hi-vis jackets - take a boat trip on the River Tees during a visit to PD ports on April 18, 2024 in Teesside, England.

    Climate scientists call on Labour to pause £1bn plans for carbon capture

  • Greta Thunberg is carried away by police officers.

    Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study

August 2024

  • Sparks fly as robotic arms weld panels of cars on a production line

    ‘These ideas are incredibly popular’: what is degrowth and can it save the planet?

  • Numerous lit windows in high-rise buildings at night

    The alternatives
    ‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?

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