Concerns raised as $10bn Bezos Earth Fund halts funding for Science Based Targets initiative, which monitors companies’ decarbonisation
Jeff Bezos’s $10bn climate and biodiversity fund has halted its funding of one of the world’s most important climate certification organisations, amid broader concerns US billionaires are “bowing down to Trump” and his anti-climate action rhetoric.
The Bezos Earth Fund has stopped its support for the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an international body that assesses if companies are decarbonising in line with the Paris agreement. Earth Fund had been one of two core funders of the SBTi, with the Ikea Foundation: the two accounted for 61% of its total funding last year. Earth Fund’s decision was first reported by the FT.
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02/06/2025 - 07:21
02/06/2025 - 06:27
Even brief exposure to particulate matter found to impede selective attention and emotional recognition
A person’s ability to focus on everyday tasks is affected by short-term exposure to air pollution, a study has found.
Researchers analysed data from cognitive tests completed by 26 participants before and after they were exposed either to high levels of particulate matter (PM) using smoke from a candle, or clean air for an hour.
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02/06/2025 - 06:00
New EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s pillars pledge to help auto industry and have no mention of the climate crisis
A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration – one that involves mass staff cuts, an influx of industry lobbyists and, unusually, the promotion of artificial intelligence as a key agency priority.
A set of five “pillars” issued by new EPA administrator Lee Zeldin to guide the agency, set up under Richard Nixon in 1970 to protect US public health and the environment, does include one referencing “clean land, air and water for every American”.
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02/06/2025 - 02:00
More than 1,000 staff at Devon-based group will get about £1,000 each after profits more than doubled
Employees of Riverford will share in a payout of £1.3m after the organic vegetable box company more than doubled profits last year.
More than 1,000 staff at the Devon-based group, which began making deliveries from an old Citroën in 1993, will receive about £1,000 each as the employee-owned company nearly tripled its annual payout to workers.
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02/06/2025 - 01:26
Dylan Cooper and Cory Kerewaro from Reptile Relocation Sydney have removed 102 red-bellied black snakes from a single mulch pile on a property in western Sydney. Upon arrival they had expected to remove only four red-bellies which had been seen by the owner of the Horsley Park home. But during summer it can be common for some female snakes to congregate and share the same birthing site
‘Totally amazing’: 102 red-bellied black snakes found in Sydney garden
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02/06/2025 - 00:00
Chicken used in dog treat was cultivated from single sample of cells taken from one egg, says manufacturer Meatly
A dog treat made from lab-grown meat has gone on sale at Pets at Home in a move the retailer claims is a world first.
Chick Bites are made from plant-based ingredients combined with cultivated meat, which is produced by growing cells and does not require the raising or slaughter of animals.
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02/05/2025 - 22:40
A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the region's coral trout fishery catch.
02/05/2025 - 22:23
Forecasters warn of more wet weather in some locations, including Townsville, as soldiers assist in recovery efforts
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Help is on the way for a flood-ravaged region after the army flew in to assist recovery efforts and rebuild a key bridge that collapsed in a deadly deluge.
But the flood threat remains with more widespread showers and storms forecast, ensuring more anxious moments for north Queensland residents.
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02/05/2025 - 19:01
Prime minister vows to ‘push past nimbyism’ and calls on tech firms to help build small modular reactors to power AI datacentres
Keir Starmer will unveil plans for a historic expansion in nuclear power across England and Wales, pledging to use Labour’s large majority to make new sites across the country available for new power stations.
The announcement follows the prime minister’s call for tech companies to work alongside the government to build small modular reactors (SMRs) to power energy intensive AI datacentres across Britain.
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02/05/2025 - 19:01
The UK’s food supply has been threatened by recent events, such as the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic
Urgent action is needed to secure the UK’s food supply in the face of climate change-induced extreme weather, the imposition of tariffs and global insecurity, a report has warned.
Days after the US president, Donald Trump, warned Europe would be next for tariffs on trade after he imposed tax levies on Canada, China and Mexico, the report said the UK’s post-second world war food system was no longer fit for purpose, and the country’s food security was in a precarious state.
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