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Prince William describes ‘brutal’ impact of wife’s and father’s cancer diagnoses

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 23:50:15 +0000

Royal says ‘it’s probably been the hardest year in my life’ as Catherine and King Charles underwent cancer treatment

Prince William has described the past year as “brutal” and “probably the hardest year in my life” as he dealt with his wife and father having cancer.

‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:26:46 +0000

Newfoundland Memorial Univeristy team find white masses are likely material used to clean pipes in oil industry

When the chemist Chris Kozak finally got his hands on a sample of the mysterious blobs that recently washed up on the shores of Newfoundland’s beaches, Project Unknown Glob officially began.

Ben Jennings on Trump’s victory and a bleak outlook for the planet – cartoon

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:45:36 +0000

Activists fear Florida enshrining right to fish and hunt will lead to trophy hunting

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:34:18 +0000

Critics say amendment 2 is intentionally ‘open to applying chicanery’ and outdated hunting practices

Black bears in Florida could soon again be in the crosshairs of trophy hunters after a controversial wildlife ballot measure was approved by voters, environmental advocates say.

Planting trees in the Arctic could make global warming worse, not better, say scientists

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:50:55 +0000

Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees' ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But, an international group of scientists argue that tree planting at high latitudes will accelerate, rather than decelerate, global warming. Why? Because soils in the Arctic and Subarctic store immense amounts of carbon that may be released into the atmosphere when disturbed, and the trees will soak up more heat from the sun than white snow.

‘Used like taxis’: Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:00:44 +0000

Analysis of 19m flights between 2019 and 2023 reveals 50% rise in emissions, condemned as ‘gratuitous waste’

Private jet flights have soared in recent years, with the resulting climate-heating emissions rising by 50%, the most comprehensive global analysis to date has revealed.

Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:00:43 +0000

Pollution is affecting the climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, ocean acidification and human health, according to analysis

Plastic pollution is changing the processes of the entire Earth system, exacerbating climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, and the use of freshwater and land, according to scientific analysis.

Plastic must not be treated as a waste problem alone, the authors said, but as a product that poses harm to ecosystems and human health.

Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 14:13:06 +0000

Jon Thompson tells industry conference there was ‘no evidence’ that bats were at risk from the trains

The cost of a “bat shed” to protect a species in woodland along the new HS2 high-speed line has risen to more than £100m, HS2’s chair has revealed.

The 1km-long mesh structure will be built where the London-Birmingham high-speed line emerges from a tunnel in Buckinghamshire, to protect a colony of Bechstein’s bats.

From local pond to outback dunny, Australia’s biggest frog count is here – and researchers need your help

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 14:00:56 +0000

Annual FrogID week aims to collect thousands of recordings of country’s 250 frog species using downloadable smartphone app

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They moan, hum, whistle and click, and can be found almost everywhere, from the neighbourhood pond to the most remote outback dunny.

Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:58:43 +0000

Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says Unicef

Two years of severe drought in the Amazon rainforest have left nearly half a million children facing shortages of water and food or limited access to school, according to a UN report.