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Jason White on water management – cartoon

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Farmers and scientists join forces in Cornwall to vaccinate badgers against TB

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The groups have long been at odds over culling of badgers in England as a way to control TB in cattle

The first farmer-led programme to vaccinate badgers against tuberculosis is beginning in Cornwall with an aim to prevent transmission of the disease to cattle.

Coalition is wedging itself on climate crisis with net zero debate, warns Liberal MP in Scott Morrison’s former seat

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Exclusive: Simon Kennedy warns closed-door party meeting against backsliding on efforts to cut carbon emissions

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Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations – can anything stop this?

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:00:55 +0000

EPA tries to rescind ‘endangerment finding’ – part of ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda that experts say poses grave threat

The Trump administration is attempting to unmake virtually all climate US regulations in one fell swoop.

At an Indiana truck dealership on Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a proposal to rescind the 16-year-old landmark legal finding which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources.

US lightning flash was longest on record at 515 miles, scientists say

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:00:54 +0000

The 2017 flash, which stretched from east Texas to near Kansas City, beat the previous record by almost 50 miles

A 515-mile (829km) lightning flash has set a new record as the longest ever identified.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed the new world record for the flash registered on 22 October 2017 over the Great Plains in the US. It stretched from east Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, roughly the distance between Paris and Venice.

Chinese official makes rare admission of failings over deadly Beijing floods

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:18:33 +0000

Local Communist party secretary says there were ‘gaps’ in city’s readiness for extreme weather after at least 40 killed

A Beijing city official has issued a rare public acknowledgment of official failings in the authorities’ response to the severe flooding that hit China’s capital this week.

After nearly 100 years, adult winter-run Chinook salmon seen in California river

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:00:40 +0000

State’s fish and wildlife department posted a video showing an adult female guarding a nest of eggs

Adult winter-run Chinook salmon have been spotted in northern California’s McCloud River for the first time in nearly a century, according to the California department of fish and wildlife (CDFW).

‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:00:39 +0000

Newly appointed expedition botanist Matthew Jeffery feels ‘daunted’ but inspired by his unique globetrotting role collecting wild species

It was described as “the best job in the natural world”: an expedition botanist for Cambridge University Botanic Garden who would follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and go on plant-collecting adventures around the world.

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:16:18 +0000

The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

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Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:32:11 +0000

Breeding event known as Cuttlefest takes place in waters off Point Lowly but this year scientists warn the effect of toxic algae could be ‘catastrophic’

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