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Alaska’s 2025 mega tsunami highlights risk to cruise lines as glaciers retreat

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:19 +0000

Researchers say 481-metre wave in fjord was triggered by rockslide linked to climate crisis

A mega tsunami in Alaska last year in a fjord visited by cruise ships is a stark warning of the risks of coastal rockslides and glacier retreat fueled by the climate crisis, a new study warns.

A reason to vote Labour tomorrow: we are the only party taking the climate crisis seriously | Katie White

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:21:55 +0000

Climate action is something the vast majority of Britons agree on. But even the Greens are blocking the vital infrastructure we need to electrify Britain

Katie White is the Labour MP for Leeds North West and minister for climate in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Strip away the politics, and the climate crisis debate isn’t complicated. We’re changing the planet in ways that are “damaging and dangerous”, and every country will be affected. “No one can opt out.”

How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:06 +0000

With most major European cities well-served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn

The only train station in Houston, the US’s fourth-largest city and one of the fastest-growing conurbations in the country, is a diminished, morose sight. Intercity trains arrive at this squat, shed-like Amtrak building, which cringes in the shadows of roaring highways, just three times a week.

From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:05 +0000

In the UK capital, Bomb Crater Pond is full of wildlife, while scientists studying land obliterated by recent Russian blasts 1,500 miles away have seen ‘how quickly nature begins to heal itself’

In February 1945, towards the end of the second world war, a German V2 rocket struck Walthamstow Marshes in east London. The explosion tore a crater into the marshland. Left untouched, it slowly filled with water, sediment … and life. Today, this wartime scar has become a thriving pond.

Horrified Wagga residents call for proper sanitation at homeless camp where baby was found dead

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:11:00 +0000

Tent where twins were born up to a 15-minute walk away from nearest public toilets or running water

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Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:00:03 +0000

Wastewater from nearly 40,000 people and businesses pumped straight into sea as territory still has no treatment plant

Raw sewage from nearly 40,000 people and businesses is being pumped straight into the sea because the British overseas territory of Gibraltar does not have, and has never had, a wastewater treatment plant.

For decades, untreated sewage has poured into the Mediterranean from the southern tip of the peninsula at Europa Point, where the government of Gibraltar says there are “high levels of natural dispersion”.

Thank you, David Attenborough, for 100 incredible years of life on Earth | Jess Harwood

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:28:33 +0000

As a kid I would do his voice, put on my dad’s work shirt and host my own nature documentaries in the backyard

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As household bills soar, is it time for a ‘working-class climate agenda’?

admin — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:30:38 +0000

Group that worked with AOC and Bernie Sanders seeks to counter claim that climate policy is politically toxic

Americans do not care about the climate crisis, only economic issues: that’s the message some wonks have put forth in the past year, as the Trump administration has dismantled environmental protections. But the shift away from climate is misguided, an influential group of progressives is arguing.

‘It’s a special tree’: campaign to save mother of beloved bramley apple for nation

admin — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:51:48 +0000

Appeal launched to buy Nottinghamshire cottage, where tree was planted in 19th century, and turn it into heritage centre

Campaigners have launched an appeal to try to save for the nation the mother tree of perhaps the most popular cooking apple in the world.

UK electric car sales leap ‘could be hit by Iran war inflation and energy price rises’

admin — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:36:24 +0000

BEV sales jumped nearly 60% in April, taking total electric car registrations to more than 2m, says SMMT

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A recent jump in electric car sales in the UK is likely to be “tempered” by worries over rising inflation and energy prices caused by the Iran war, a leading industry body has warned.