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‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:00:37 +0000

Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness

When Joe Harkness received a message from a friend about macerating moth abdomens to check their genitalia to identify the species, it sparked an idea for a new book about wildlife obsessions. But over time, this developed into a completely different book: a clarion call to embrace neurodiversity in the fight against the extinction crisis.

From punk rock to gardening classes: the cemeteries getting a new lease on life

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:00:22 +0000

‘Instead of just a choral group in a chapel, now it’s a rock group in a mausoleum,’ says one unspooked supporter

Rodney Anonymous, lead singer of the punk rock band The Dead Milkmen, has performed in venues around the world. His favorite place to play live is filled with the dead at the Laurel Hill cemetery in Philadelphia, where he used to ride his bike as a kid.

Caribbean leaders hail ICJ climate ruling as ‘historic’ win for small island states

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:00:56 +0000

PM of St Vincent and the Grenadines says ruling will strengthen the Caribbean’s negotiating power when it comes to climate change reparations

Leaders in the Caribbean have hailed the outcome of the international court of justice (ICJ) climate change case as a “historic legal victory” for small island states everywhere.

Week in wildlife: a rescued monkey, squabbling jays and an amputee camel

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:00:51 +0000

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

Do you want to know what state capture looks like? Chevron is winding down oil production on Barrow Island | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:52:49 +0000

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Volunteers map 10,000 routes in Great Britain to help make walking accessible

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:00:49 +0000

Campaign group Slow Ways developing app for disabled people, parents with children, older people and others

Volunteers have mapped 10,000 walking routes across Great Britain in an attempt to make rural walking more accessible.

The group has been researching and mapping these walking routes since 2020, and has now made them available on a dedicated website.

Closing classroom windows does not cut air pollution, study finds

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:00:49 +0000

Tests conducted at 500 UK sites show particle pollution exceeded health guidelines on 6% of school days

Keeping the classroom window closed is not the answer to reduce the amount of pollution coming into schools, a recent study has found.

A project called SAMHE (Schools’ Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education) operated air pollution monitors in nearly 500 classrooms for an academic year and found that days with high outdoor pollution led to higher pollution inside the classrooms.

Fortescue axes two green hydrogen projects after Trump administration’s shift on renewables

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:33:28 +0000

‘Lack of certainty’ and step back in green ambition has made it hard for previously feasible projects to proceed, mining company says

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Air pollution raises risk of dementia, say Cambridge scientists

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:30:41 +0000

Most comprehensive study of its kind highlights dangers of vehicle emissions and woodburning stoves

Exposure to certain forms of air pollution is linked to an increased risk of developing dementia, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind.

The illness is estimated to affect about 57 million people worldwide, with the number expected to increase to at least 150m cases by 2050.

Two more killed amid raging wildfires in Cyprus and Turkey

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:49:24 +0000

Deaths in Cyprus bring overall toll on the eastern Mediterranean island and neighbouring Turkey to 12

Two people have been killed in a huge blaze in Cyprus, bringing the death toll from a series of wildfires on the eastern Mediterranean island and in neighbouring Turkey to 12 amid a brutal heatwave that has pushed temperatures to more than 44C (111F).