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‘Holy crap, this is insane’: mineworkers describe being caught in huge outback dust storm

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:13:22 +0000

Lachlan Marchant says the massive cloud over the Tanami desert in Northern Territory ‘reminded us of Uluru’

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Lachlan Marchant and his colleagues were driving their golf buggies back to their shed when they saw the earth sweeping towards them.

More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:29 +0000

Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds

More than 520 chemicals have been found in English soils, including pharmaceutical products and toxins that were banned decades ago, because of the practice of spreading human waste to fertilise arable land.

‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:28 +0000

Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

Soon after I returned home to Altamira from Cop30, I found myself talking about dinosaurs, meteors and “ambassadors of harm” with Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva.

Tesla privately warned UK that weakening EV rules would hit sales

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:00:56 +0000

Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker also called for support for the secondhand market, documents reveal

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Tesla privately warned the UK government that weakening electric vehicle rules would hit battery car sales and risk the country missing its carbon dioxide targets, according to newly revealed documents.

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years, says report

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:01:52 +0000

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken

The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals.

National Trust launches fundraiser to help buy land around Cerne Giant

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:00:53 +0000

Deal expected to pave way for further scientific study, boost conservation and open up access to Dorset chalk figure

The mystery of when, how and – perhaps most importantly – why a giant naked figure was carved into a dizzyingly steep hillside in the English West Country has been a source of wonder and intrigue for centuries.

Future generations may come closer to solving the puzzle of the Cerne Giant after the National Trust stepped in to buy 340 acres of land around the 55-metre (180ft) figure.

Nike, Superdry and Lacoste ads banned in UK over ‘misleading’ green claims

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:01:46 +0000

Advertising watchdog says all three firms misled shoppers by using term ‘sustainable’ in paid-for Google adverts

Ads for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned in the UK for misleading consumers about the environmental sustainability credentials of their products.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said paid-for Google ads run by all three retailers used terms such as “sustainable”, “sustainable materials” or “sustainable style” without providing evidence proving the green claims.

Trump administration puts Fema workers back on administrative leave

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:23:02 +0000

Fourteen workers who signed a petition that warned cuts put the US at risk were initially suspended in August

The Trump administration is reversing the reinstatement of workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) who were placed on administrative leave after writing an open letter of dissent.

Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:19:02 +0000

Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive storms

Death toll from Indonesia floods passes 700 as 1 million evacuated

Families stranded on their rooftops. Homes buried by fast-flowing mud. Jagged brown craters scarring lush green hillsides.

Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:00:34 +0000

Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health

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An industrial boom in a US manufacturing hub in Mexico is contributing to a massive air pollution crisis that is threatening residents’ health, according to new research by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab.