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Andy Burnham: UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:48 +0000

Exclusive: PM, who is facing pressure over whether to approve North Sea oil and gasfields, makes strongest comments yet on issue

British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it

British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it | Andy Burnham

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:48 +0000

With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution

Andy Burnham: UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050

Khan addresses Polanski in Urdu at London assembly, mocking Green leader’s byelection video – UK politics live

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:08:01 +0000

It comes after the Green leader, who is standing as a candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, recorded a campaign video in Urdu

Andrew Griffith has delivered his speech, and he is now taking questions.

Q: You want the government to pause the making tax digital programme. Is that an admission that the last government got this wrong when it introduced it?

Trump’s love of fossil fuels is about more than money | Moira Donegan

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:00:45 +0000

The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industries

Access-to-nature crisis ‘on par with that of Victorian Britain’s filthy air’

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:41 +0000

Research finds many in England lack proximity to green and blue spaces as Labour urged to speed up manifesto pledge

Nearly half of all parliamentary constituencies in England have low access to nature despite a government target to ensure everyone is within a 15-minute walk from a green or blue space, new research reveals.

The analysis by the Wildlife Trusts comes as the charity presents a green paper to ministers in an attempt to speed up Labour’s manifesto promise to improve access to nature and promote biodiversity.

2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:40 +0000

Analysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last year

Rivers across the world experienced one of their driest years in more than three decades in 2025, a comprehensive study of global water resources has found.

‘Like a Disney movie’: Three wild dog brothers make Africa’s longest journey

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:39 +0000

As three siblings came of age and had to leave their pack, scientists tracked the dogs’ perilous 2,500-mile odyssey to find their own territory

It sounds like a Disney movie: three wild dogs, all brothers, on an epic journey to find a home of their own after their family tells them to leave. They dodge cars and hunters in search of a new life, navigating bushmeat snares and the hostility of a human-dominated landscape until they find a new haven on the African savannah.

English Heritage trains new generation of scythers to maintain meadows and craft

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:39 +0000

Initiative aims to keep alive age-old skill, and at Muchelney Abbey in Somerset improve habitat for rare shrill carder bee

It sounds like something out of a Thomas Hardy novel: a merry band of men and women roaming the West Country cutting meadows by hand in exchange for hunks of bread and cheese.

But the conservation charity English Heritage is recruiting a team of volunteer scythers to maintain 21st-century meadowland in the old-fashioned way.

Do whales grieve? Rare footage of humpback alongside stillborn calf suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:22:11 +0000

The behaviours we observed could represent grief, but they could also reflect maternal attachment, confusion or instinctive caregiving

It was a tragic sight.

One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the seafloor, just a kilometre off Australia’s Gold Coast. The encounter was captured through underwater video.

Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:01:32 +0000

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing catastrophic floods and killing hundreds of people in Nepal and Tibet last month, the first scientific study of the disaster has found.