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Liz Truss ‘will approve more oil drilling if she becomes PM’ | Tory leadership candidate criticised by campaigners after reports her team have met energy firms
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| ['Rob Davies', '@ByRobDavies'] | Liz Truss will sign off on a push for more oil drilling in the North Sea if she wins the Conservative leadership election, according to reports, drawing criticism from environmental campaigners.Amid mounting public dismay about soaring energy bills, Truss’s policy advisers are thought to be discussing proposals to issu... | 2022-08-30 |
Renewed Highland golf course plan has environmentalists crying 'Fore!' | Scottish government rejected a new links at Coul to protect the complex dune system but investors have revived the scheme | ['Ewan Murray', '@mrewanmurray'] | It is an area so tranquil that the notion of bitter dispute is hugely anomalous. The serenity of Coul - in east Sutherland, north of Dornoch – is in fact fundamental to a backdrop of unrest.When the Scottish government rejected a plan for a golf course at Coul early last year, it appeared those with grand plans had now... | 2021-03-22 |
Visiting green spaces deters mental health drug use, researchers find | Positive effects were stronger among those reporting the lowest annual household income, says Finnish study | ['Damien Gayle', '@damiengayle'] | Visits to parks, community gardens and other urban green spaces may lower city dwellers’ use of drugs for anxiety, insomnia, depression, high blood pressure, and asthma, research has found.Researchers in Finland found that visiting such areas three to four times a week cuts people’s chances of turning to drugs for ment... | 2023-01-17 |
Bought too much red cabbage? Turn it into a festive nut roast – recipe | This fantastic vegan centrepiece makes full use of those outer cabbage leaves that all too often just get thrown away | ['Tom Hunt'] | I devised today’s nut roast for Oddbox, a veg box outfit that supports farmers by buying wonky fruit and veg that they might otherwise find hard to shift. It’s moist, flavourful and a fun use for outer cabbage leaves, which often get thrown away; it’s also a wonderful vegan centrepiece for a celebratory table.Chest-nut... | 2023-12-22 |
‘This year has been very good’: readers’ UK butterfly sightings | Readers share their favourite sightings over the summer, after news that numbers have risen since last year
UK butterfly numbers bounce back after last year’s all-time low
| ['Guardian readers'] | ‘Constant companions to our gardening’A peacock butterfly perched on a yellow ragwort, pictured on 9 August. Photograph: Guardian communityWe try to encourage as many pollinators as possible to visit our allotment. As well as growing lots of fruit and veg we have planted many different flowers. Across the summer we saw... | 2023-12-19 |
Country diary: Willow tits are here, but good luck with seeing one | Tittesworth Reservoir, Staffordshire: It’s easy to see why these wonderful but maddeningly elusive birds have inspired great poetry | ['Mark Cocker'] | The numerous bird feeders here are permanently stocked and flocked around by garden birds. Long-tailed, blue, coal and great tits pop up every second or so; and sparrows come and go with goldfinches, while reed buntings and nuthatches slip in and out among the gaps. But the briefest, most maddening, if most wonderful o... | 2022-04-05 |
Scaly stowaway: lizard makes an appearance at Chelsea flower show | Gardeners at the Yeo Valley Organic display were delighted to find the common brown lizard in a pile of logs | ['Helena Horton'] | Visitors to Chelsea flower show come from all over the country, and range from senior royals to interested gardeners looking for some new plants.This year, however, there has been a rather special guest – a common brown lizard. Gardeners at the Yeo Valley Organic display were delighted to find him in a pile of logs.In ... | 2019-12-01 |
Climate crisis could lead to rise of smaller bees, study finds | Danger looms for larger species such as bumblebees, which have lower heat tolerance, leading to ‘cascading effects’ on ecosystems | ['Agence France-Presse'] | The climate crisis could lead to more small-bodied bees but fewer bumblebees, according to research warning of potential “cascading” effects on plant pollination and across whole ecosystems.Scientists in the US trapped and studied more than 20,000 bees over eight years in an area of the Rocky Mountains to find out how ... | 2022-04-21 |
UK energy industry urges ministers to stick with net zero plan | Some rightwingers claim renewables have increased costs, but Energy UK blames over-reliance on gas | ['Fiona Harvey', ' Environment correspondent'] | Energy companies want the government to implement policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the industry’s leader has said, despite claims from some on the political right that high energy prices should spark a rethink.Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of Energy UK, which represents the industry, said: “The ... | 2022-01-20 |
The bear truth: why happy pandas can’t be bothered to find a partner | Researchers now think pandas’ notoriously low libido is because they are too comfortable to make the effort to search for a mate | null | Name: Panda sex.Age: 18m years old.Frequency: Famously rare.Yes, why is that? If I were a panda, I’d be at it all the time. I think from this we can determine two things: first that you are a pervert, and second that you are unhappy.Hey, I’m not unhappy! Maybe you have more in common with pandas than you thought. Resea... | 2021-03-12 |
Shell chief vows to bolster emissions strategy after court ruling | Ben van Beurden pledges to ‘rise to challenge’ after court ordered oil firm to cut global carbon emissions by 45% | ['Joanna Partridge'] | Royal Dutch Shell has vowed to accelerate its strategy towards becoming a net zero emissions business, two weeks after a Dutch court ruling ordered the company to cut its global carbon emissions by 45% by the end of 2030 compared with 2019 levels.Shell’s chief executive, Ben van Beurden, promised to “rise to the challe... | null |
Country Diary: Down on the floor with the solitary bees | Holywell, Flintshire: In my attempts to make my garden more suitable for Mediterranean herbs, I created the conditions for these fascinating insects | ['Jan Miller'] | I’m lying on my front on the moist, mossy lawn, the sun warming my back. Around me swallows are swooping in and out of the barn while dandelions, lady’s smock and cowslips attract the butterflies and bees. But down here, my attention is focused under the box hedges of my herb garden. I am watching volcanoes form. Not t... | 2023-06-02 |
Monday briefing: The dramatic, agonising, crucial talks that will decide Cop27’s success | In today’s newsletter: For the next two weeks, ministers, negotiators from countries large and small will gather in Egypt. Can they get anything done? | ['Archie Bland'] | Good morning. Last year, the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow kept alive the target of holding global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels; but, conference president Alok Sharma said, “its pulse is weak”. The vital question for the Cop27 summit at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, which began yesterday, is whether i... | 2022-11-07 |
Egg prices could rise for UK consumers as farmers cut flock numbers | Fewer laying birds are being placed on farms as producers respond to poor retail profit margins | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Tom Levitt'] | Consumers could be hit with higher egg prices as UK farmers reduce their flock numbers, in response to escalating costs and insufficient profit margins.The numbers of chicks being placed by egg producers in April was down 15% year on year, according to the latest government figures.Egg farmers have been warning for mo... | 2022-05-19 |
Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires Mary Stockdale | Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threat | null | Small fires crackle into life on the hills around us at the slightest provocation. Creeks swell with flash floods, as upland snow melts at record speed. Our town’s beloved colony of great blue herons fall stunned out of the trees in their dozens. Animals, from cougars to rattlesnakes, leave their hidden places to seek ... | 2021-08-31 |
This article is more than 5 months oldSunak’s plan for carbon capture is good news: he shouldn’t muddy it with party politicsThis article is more than 5 months oldSimon Jenkins | Consensus on tackling the climate crisis is what’s needed now – and direct action against CO2 must be the next move | null | For as long as the United Kingdom needs to use oil and gas, we should be making an effort to capture any resulting CO2 and store it. That clearly makes sense. It also makes sense to produce our own oil and gas, so we are less beholden to exporters (though of course ours, too, would be sold on the international markets)... | 2023-07-31 |
This article is more than 11 months oldFood, feed and fuel: global seaweed industry could reduce land needed for farming by 110m hectares, study findsThis article is more than 11 months old | Scientists identify parts of ocean suitable for seaweed cultivation and suggest it could constitute 10% of human diet to reduce impact of agriculture | ['Graham Readfearn', '@readfearn'] | An area of ocean almost the size of Australia could support commercial seaweed farming around the world, providing food for humans, feed supplements for cattle, and alternative fuels, according to new research.Seaweed farming is a nascent industry globally but the research says if it could grow to constitute 10% of hum... | 2023-01-27 |
This article is more than 4 months oldUS behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report findsThis article is more than 4 months old | Study highlights conflict between Washington’s claims of climate leadership and its fossil fuel growth plans | ['Fiona Harvey', ' Environment editor'] | The US accounts for more than a third of the expansion of global oil and gas production planned by mid-century, despite its claims of climate leadership, research has found.Canada and Russia have the next biggest expansion plans, calculated based on how much carbon dioxide is likely to be produced from new developments... | 2023-09-12 |
The Guardian view on switching off: in an always-on culture, we need time to thinkEditorial | Midwinter is for hibernation and the chance to make different kinds of connections | null | “Disconnect from the internet for at least two hours a day and treat your own thoughts like a garden through which you are strolling,” was the advice offered by the novelist Ian McEwan to younger writers after being made a Companion of Honour in December. The capacity to be curious about mental processes – while simult... | 2024-01-06 |
Britain arrives at Cop27 in disarray over the climate – and the world’s leaders know itLucy Sherriff | After Johnson’s weak energy plan and Truss’s scepticism, we have Rishi Sunak, who didn’t even want to attend | null | “Unless we take urgent action, we will get 3C hotter,” Boris Johnson told the UN climate talks in 2020. “As a country … we must now act.” The former prime minister’s words were a rallying cry to galvanise the government into taking action on global heating.Johnson’s administration had been under heavy fire for its lack... | 2022-11-06 |
Taronga and Melbourne zoos move to protect animals from foot-and-mouth disease | New biosecurity measures include suspension of walkthroughs in some enclosures and a request that recent travellers to Indonesia wait 48 hours before visiting
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| ['Mostafa Rachwani', '@Rachwani91'] | Taronga and Melbourne zoos have introduced measures to protect their animals from the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that is threatening Australia.Although there have been no domestic cases reported yet, both zoos have implemented added biosecurity restrictions as precautionary measures amid the outbreak in Indonesia.... | 2022-07-26 |
Are debt-for-nature swaps the way forward for conservation? | Agreements to reduce developing countries’ debt burden in exchange for spending on nature will be on the agenda at a finance summit in Paris this week | ['The age of extinction is supported by', 'About this content', 'Patrick Greenfield', '@pgreenfielduk'] | After decades in the wilderness, and familiar to only those in the know, “debt-for-nature swaps” are becoming one of the hottest things in conservation finance. Last month, Ecuador struck the biggest deal of its kind: refinancing $1.6bn (£1.3bn) of its commercial debt at a discount in exchange for a consistent revenue ... | 2023-06-21 |
Climate protesters gather in person and online for Fridays for Future | Campaigners target Standard Chartered, urging bank to stop funding coal in emerging markets | ['Robyn Vinter', '@robynvinter'] | Climate protesters from as many as 60 countries have gathered in person and online for Fridays for Future, a movement created by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.Campaigners raised local issues alongside the globally co-ordinated campaign #cleanupStandardChartered, which calls on the London-headquartered Standard Ch... | 2018-03-09 |
There's a simple way to make our cities greener – without a wrecking ballPhineas Harper | Architecture’s top prize has been awarded to a design duo who could show Britain how to bring its emissions under control | null | This week the highest honour in the architecture world was awarded to a pair of Parisian designers better known for revitalising existing buildings than creating new ones. The Pritzker prize, which includes a $100,000 jackpot, went to Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, whose most impressive projects – the Palais de... | 2018-07-18 |
Can we enjoy fast fashion without destroying the planet? | The global fashion industry is in desperate need of an ecological plan, but London fashion week proved there still isn’t one – yet
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| ['Lucy Siegle'] | This piece first appeared in Down to Earth, the Guardian’s climate crisis newsletter. Sign up here to read more exclusive pieces like this and for a digest of the week’s biggest environment stories every ThursdaySign up to Down to Earth, our exclusive weekly newsletter from our top climate crisis correspondents.How do ... | 2022-02-25 |
Anti-logging protest becomes Canada’s biggest ever act of civil disobedience | At least 866 arrested since April, as police condemned for violence against protesters defending Vancouver Island’s ancient forests | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Jen Osborne in Fairy Creek and ', 'Leyland Cecco', ' in Toronto'] | A string of protests against old-growth logging in western Canada have become the biggest act of civil disobedience in the country’s history, with the arrest of least 866 people since April.The bitter fight over the future of Vancouver Island’s diminishing ancient forests – in which activists used guerrilla methods of ... | 2021-09-10 |
This article is more than 3 months oldThreats to Germany’s climate campaigners fuelled by politicians’ rhetoric, says activistThis article is more than 3 months old | Luisa Neubauer, of Fridays for Future, cites language used by the chancellor amid protest crackdown
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| ['Ajit Niranjan'] | Severe policing and “scary” political rhetoric is fuelling abuse against climate activists, Germany’s best-known environmentalist has said.“It’s not a shift any more, it’s a slide,” said Luisa Neubauer, from the German branch of Fridays for Future, the protest movement that grew out of Greta Thunberg’s school strikes. ... | 2023-10-12 |
This article is more than 5 months old‘Misunderstood’ red-bellied piranhas go on display at Chester zooThis article is more than 5 months old | Despite fearsome reputation, fish prefers scavenging to hunting and swims in shoals for protection, say experts | ['Morgan Ofori'] | Forty red-bellied piranhas have made their debut at Chester zoo in a move aquarists say they hope will help to rehabilitate the fish's name away from its fearsome reputation.People associate piranhas with viciously attacking unsuspecting prey, as depicted in numerous blockbuster movies, but experts say they prefer to s... | 2023-07-28 |
This article is more than 8 months old‘Like a dam breaking’: experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advanceThis article is more than 8 months old | Cities bringing climate litigation against oil majors welcome US supreme court’s decision to rebuff appeal to move cases to federal courts | ['Hilary Beaumont'] | The decision, climate experts and advocates said, felt “like a dam breaking” after years of legal delays to the growing wave of climate lawsuits facing major oil companies.Without weighing in on the merits of the cases, the supreme court on Monday rebuffed an appeal by major oil companies that want to face the litigati... | 2023-04-25 |
This article is more than 10 months oldUS justice department sues two companies over pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’This article is more than 10 months old | Japanese company Denka, along with US chemicals giant DuPont, have operated the plant that produces cancer-causing chloroprene | ['Oliver Laughland', ' in New Orleans', '@oliverlaughland'] | The US justice department has sued the two petrochemical giants behind a facility in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” responsible for the highest cancer risk rates caused by air pollution in the US in a major federal lawsuit that seeks to substantially curb the plant’s emissions.Unveiled on Tuesday, the lawsuit alleges emiss... | 2023-03-01 |
‘It’s a struggle for survival’: why Kenya – and its wildlife – need tourists to return | Covid dealt a blow to tourism and the conservation funds it provides. But as visitors slowly return, the sector is looking for new ways to thrive | ['Supported by', 'About this content', 'Peter Muiruri'] | Every day, for the past 20 years, Joyce Naserian has laid out her handmade curios near an entrance to the Masai Mara park to sell to passing tourists. Her earnings have helped the 46-year-old feed and educate all four of her children.In northern Kenya, about 1,200 semi-nomadic women earned more than 9m Kenyan shillings... | 2022-10-19 |
‘Extinct’ parrots make a flying comeback in Brazil | The Spix macaw, a bird that had once vanished in the wild, is now thriving in its South American homeland after a successful breeding programme | ['Robin McKie'] | Twenty years ago, the future of the Spix’s macaw could not have looked bleaker. The last member of this distinctive parrot species disappeared from the wild, leaving only a few dozen birds in collectors’ cages across the globe. The prospects for Cyanopsitta spixii were grim, to say the least.But thanks to a remarkable ... | 2022-07-10 |
NT government rejects Glencore bid to build toxic dump near sacred site | Mining company’s proposed rock dump at McArthur River zinc and lead mine would have been largest built structure in the territory
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| ['Royce Kurmelovs', ' and ', 'Lorena Allam'] | An application by mining company Glencore to build a massive toxic tailings dump on the edge of a sacred site has been rejected by the Northern Territory government.The controversial McArthur River mine, which is one of world’s largest zinc and lead mines, is roughly 900km south-east of Darwin and borders the Barramund... | 2022-02-16 |
null | One of the world’s great natural spectacles is under way in the eastern US, stretching from the deep south to upstate New York | null | At first, the noise pulsing from the drooping elm tree boughs seemed to be coming from the power lines erected nearby. Like a surging electrical current, the sound fizzed to a crescendo on the ears before receding slightly, only to build up again to a loud, vibrating whirr.It was only on the approach to the tree, as de... | 2019-09-21 |
Iguanas with chips: Florida seeks solution to invasive reptile problem | ‘Tag day’ initiative opposed by some owners of exotic petsState official ‘proud that Florida is looked at as a leader’ | ['Richard Luscombe', ' in Miami', '@richlusc'] | From Key West’s high-summer Hemingway Days, in which bearded hopefuls vie for the title of best Papa lookalike, to the annual hunt for the elusive (and imaginary) skunk ape, Florida is renowned for its calendar of curiosities.Toilet-invading iguanas among invasive species now banned in FloridaRead moreNow another bizar... | 2020-01-27 |
Push for post-Brexit trade deals may threaten UK pledges on deforestation | Government criticised over ‘indefensible’ proposal that could undermine climate efforts while yielding benefit of only £1.38m | ['Fiona Harvey', ' Environment correspondent'] | The UK government may be undermining its commitments to end deforestation overseas because of conflicts over trade policy, the Guardian has learned.A war of words is raging within the government over deforestation and trade, with green campaigners warning that a proposed policy could have dire consequences for efforts ... | 2022-07-19 |
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