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Labour warned to keep spending review in line with net zero or face legal action

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:00:34 +0000

Exclusive: Friends of the Earth tells Keir Starmer any major green cuts by Rachel Reeves will be challenged

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If the decisions the UK government makes in its upcoming spending review are not in line with the net zero climate target it risks being taken to court again, campaigners have said.

‘It’s goodbye to French fishermen’: Macron under pressure as crucial UN ocean summit opens

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:00:27 +0000

As delegates prepare for the global gathering, the president is caught between opposing sides in a row over bottom trawling in France’s marine protected areas

On his trawler in Saint-Malo, one of France’s most important ports for scallops and crabs, Laurent Mevel is fixing his nets. “We really want to protect the seas,” says the 60-year-old fisher. “But we’ve got crews, we’ve got employees.

“If you don’t fish any more, the fish will come from Ireland, from Scotland. Now the fish you buy from shops comes by plane. And costs less.”

Week in wildlife: an elephant goes shopping and a tiger gets a pedicure

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:00:27 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

I love the graffiti I see in Paris – but tagging is just visual manspreading | Alexander Hurst

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:00:25 +0000

Call me a middle-class ‘bobo’, but inspired street art has nothing in common with sprayed-on assertions of ‘me, me, me’

Endangered sharks being killed at alarming levels in Pacific, Greenpeace claims, after cutting 20km of vessel’s longline

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 02:28:02 +0000

Activists on Rainbow Warrior in waters north of New Zealand claim Spanish vessel hauled in and killed three mako sharks in 30 minutes

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Bonuses banned for 10 English water bosses over sewage pollution

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:30:16 +0000

Sanctions, including for Thames Water CEO, announced as part of new government powers under Water Act

Bonuses for 10 water company executives in England, including the boss of Thames Water, will be banned with immediate effect over serious sewage pollution, as part of new powers brought in by the Labour government.

The top executives of six water companies who have overseen the most serious pollution events will not receive performance rewards this year, the environment secretary, Steve Reed, said.

Dehorning rhinos reduces poaching by 80%, study finds

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:00:12 +0000

Cutting off the animals’ horns more effective than traditional protection methods such as rangers and costs less, say experts

Cutting the horns off rhinos causes a large reduction in poaching, according to a new study, which raises questions about the effectiveness of expensive anti-poaching techniques used to protect the African mammals.

Norway to set up compensation scheme for 1980 oil rig disaster victims’ families

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:50:35 +0000

Parliament backs scheme for relatives of 123 men who died in worst disaster in Norway’s waters since second world war

Forty-five years after the Alexander L Kielland oil rig capsized in the North Sea, Norway’s parliament has voted to set up a compensation scheme for relatives of the 123 men who died in the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since the second world war.

Australia’s critically endangered alpine tree frogs sidestep deadly fungus with sexual plan B

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:00:11 +0000

Infected males produce higher-quality sperm, display brighter throat patches and sire nearly a third more offspring

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The number of critically endangered alpine tree frogs, found only in the Australian alps, has crashed by about 80% since the 1980s.

For the first time in my life I’m in charge of a garden. Is it too late to plant? | Ashe Davenport

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:00:10 +0000

I envy people with strong opinions about this flower or that. They seem to know what they’re doing in life, what any of it means

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