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Tories challenge chancellor to rule out tax rises in budget as Badenoch labelled ‘embarrassment’ for Bank of England gaffe – UK politics live

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The Conservatives want to brand Burnham’s administration as a ‘traditional tax and spend socialist government’

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

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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’

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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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

Trump EPA’s arguments for letting power plants spew unlimited pollution ‘dead wrong’

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:20 +0000

Claims that dismantling pollution rules will lower energy bills and have little climate impact are far from convincing

In allowing US power plants to emit any amount of planet-heating pollution they wish to, the Trump administration made two striking claims – that this will cut Americans’ electricity bills and that the pollution itself doesn’t really matter anyway. Both claims struggle to stand up to even basic scrutiny.

Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:19 +0000

Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots with an increase of antibiotic-resistant genes, study finds

Microplastics act like a “Trojan horse” delivering pollutants, pesticides and bacteria through the soil, a five-year multinational research project has found.