22-08-2026 02:00 via theguardian.com

Home comforts: can remote work be better for the environment?

Many Australians now have the option to work from home. But is it better or worse for the environment?Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at [email protected] normalisation of working from home and flexible work has been one of the Covid-19 pandemic’s few positive legacies.Today more than a third of Australians &nd

‘Unsafe for swimming’: Ironman Leeds is latest casualty of heat-fuelled toxic algae

Young country diary: Camping in my garden, nose to nose with a fox | Ada

‘Its pretty much a guarantee you’ll get stung’: jellyfish keep swimmers out of Delaware beaches

‘It’s pretty much a guarantee you’ll get stung’: jellyfish keep swimmers off Delaware beaches

Why am I called The Black Farmer? Because there are so few of us in Britain. I’d like that to change | Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

Subterranean salad: underground farmers seek solution to food crisis in disused UK mines

Battery fires at recycling centres are costing UK £1bn a year, figures show

The US has a plan to save the Colorado River. Experts say it won’t be enough to stop the crisis

33m tons of toxic seaweed clogs Caribbean beaches – video

Britain’s railway prepares for more extreme weather as intense El Niño develops

Biggest El Niño for a century forecast to bring UK more autumn rain and storms

Brazil’s vast iron mine that supplies the world and fractures the Amazon – in pictures

Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York

Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint

Desktop versie

Home comforts: can remote work be better for the environment?

Environment news