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Karen McVeigh

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Karen McVeigh has been a senior news reporter for the Guardian since December 2006.

11 Articles

Inuit warn ‘rock concert’ of noise from ships is hurting Arctic wildlife

Calls grow for mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise pollution as melting ice opens up shipping routes.
State Of The Animal
News | February 10th 2023

Plastic ‘nurdles’ stop sea urchins developing properly

Chemicals that leach out of plastic are shown to cause fatal abnormalities, including a gut developing outside the body.
Race Against Climate Change
News | January 11th 2023

World’s largest ocean reserve off Hawaii has spillover benefits

Researchers say yellowfin and bigeye tuna catches are on the rise outside a 1.5-million-square-kilometre marine protected area, proving the value of a no-catch zone.
Race Against Climate Change
News | October 24th 2022

Outrage fizzles over Coco-Cola’s sponsorship of COP27 climate summit

Plastics campaigners call it "astounding" that a multinational they say is the world’s top polluter has sponsored the key UN climate meeting.
News | October 5th 2022

‘Perfect storm’ of crises widening inequality, UN boss says

António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.
Race Against Climate Change
News, Climate Solutions Reporting | July 7th 2022

Deep-sea mining authority accused of hashing out industry rules behind closed doors

The International Seabed Authority, which creates the rules on deep-sea mining, got rid of the independent body responsible for reporting on the negotiations this week.
Race Against Climate Change
News | April 5th 2022

World leaders agree to treaty to solve plastic waste crisis

The UN environment assembly resolution is being hailed as the biggest climate deal since the 2015 Paris accord.
Race Against Climate Change
News | March 8th 2022

‘Oil spills of our time’: Experts sound alarm about plastic

Sri Lankan beaches buried in pellets are only the "tip of the iceberg" of environmental harm after analysis of nurdles from burning ship.
Race Against Climate Change
News | February 15th 2022

Nurdles: The tiny toxic plastic waste choking our oceans

Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet they are still not classified as hazardous.
Race Against Climate Change
News | December 2nd 2021

Using a Nobel-winning stock market theory to save the reefs

Portfolio selection rules on evaluating risk used to pick 50 reefs as ‘arks’ best able to survive climate crisis and revive coral elsewhere.
Race Against Climate Change
News | November 30th 2021
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