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Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:23:30 +0000

Children as young as three will have lessons on wildfires and flooding under 10-point emergency response plan

Spanish children will be taught how to respond to floods, wildfires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in a drive to help prepare them for the growing impact of the climate emergency.

Reform council to ‘rescind’ climate emergency declaration

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:15:49 +0000

Kent council condemned by opposition parties, which say county is ‘at the forefront of climate impacts’

Plans by Reform UK to “rescind” the declaration of a climate emergency at one of the English county councils it now controls have been condemned by opposition parties.

Hundreds of local authorities across Britain have made the declarations, which serve as acknowledgments that they need to act on the causes and impacts of climate change and are linked to efforts to achieve net zero targets.

‘A last resort’: is culling foxes the only way to save Britain’s vanishing curlews?

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:07:22 +0000

Keeping predator numbers down may be last hope for the ground-nesting birds – but critics say real problem is farming practices

Should we be organising mass culls of foxes and crows in the UK in order to save the plummeting numbers of curlews? That is the argument put forward by certain bird conservation groups.

Streets submerged in Indonesia after deadly floods – video

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:53:13 +0000

Fifteen people are dead and 100 missing as Indonesia reels from floods caused by extreme rainfall. Rescuers search for survivors after at least 112 neighbourhoods were submerged by rising rivers. Torrential rain began on Monday, causing flooding and landslides in Bali and East Nusa Tenggara province. As river levels returned to normal on Thursday, authorities worked to clear streets of mud and debris

Flash floods in Indonesia leave at least 15 people dead and 10 missing

‘It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet’: striped bass in a Canadian river are gobbling up all the salmon. Is a mass cull the answer?

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:00:51 +0000

Whether to kill one species to save another has split biologists, anglers and Indigenous communities in the Miramichi

Photographs by Brittany Crossman

Green energy entrepreneur calls on UK to subsidise North Sea oil and gas firms

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:58:07 +0000

Dale Vince urges ministers to ‘optimise’ resources in fossil fuel basin to help smooth transition to renewables

One of Britain’s leading green industrialists has called on the government to offer subsidies to North Sea oil companies to help support a “just transition” to renewables.

Hedgehog highways could become requirement for new buildings

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:00:23 +0000

Lords amend planning bill to include protections for wild animals, including bird-safe glass and swift bricks

Hedgehog highways and bird-safe glass could become requirements for all new buildings as members of the House of Lords push through amendments to the government’s planning bill.

Sydney Water failed to properly test before declaring ‘no known Pfas hotspots’ in catchments, inquiry finds

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:07:19 +0000

More attention needs to be given to rapidly evolving issue of contamination of waterways with ‘forever chemicals’, committee’s chair says

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Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:00:09 +0000

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have been directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for the first time, according to a new analysis. The research has been hailed as a “leap forward” in the legal battle to hold big oil accountable for the damages being caused by the climate crisis.

Misinformation, fear and politics – how a South Dakota county drove away millions in solar energy

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:00:03 +0000

Colton Berens was looking forward to the added income from his farm, but armed with rightwing falsehoods, other Selby residents opposed the move

Like most of South Dakota, Walworth county is built on farming. To the east of Selby, the county seat, vast fields of soybeans and wheat grow between roads that run straight to the horizon. To the west, beyond the county line, the Standing Rock Indian reservation spreads across miles of rumpled green prairie studded with creamy erratics and dark clumps of trees.