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Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:30:12 +0000

Exclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent housing approvals

Ministers have told officials at the Environment Agency to wave through planning applications with minimal resistance, as part of a major regulatory shakeup designed to increase economic growth and plug the government’s financial hole.

Kenya’s Turkana people genetically adapted to live in harsh environment, study suggests

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:21:37 +0000

Research which began with conversations round a campfire and went on to examine 7m gene variants shows how people survive with little water and a meat-rich diet

A collaboration between African and American researchers and a community living in one of the most hostile landscapes of northern Kenya has uncovered key genetic adaptations that explain how pastoralist people have been able to thrive in the region.

Sussan Ley says she ‘misspoke’ after comments that Coalition doesn’t believe in setting climate targets

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:28:53 +0000

Liberal leader later clarifies she doesn’t support setting targets while in opposition

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Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, report says

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:00:36 +0000

London assembly committee says move will increase cleanliness of waterways and offer more access to outdoors

Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, a report from the London assembly has said, to boost cleanliness of the capital’s waterways and increase access to the outdoors.

Week in wildlife: a flying teddy, a fishy shipwreck and a globe-trotting sea slug

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:00:36 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:00:34 +0000

Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says

The UN aviation organisation has been captured by the industry, a report has concluded, leading to the urgent action required to tackle the sector’s high carbon emissions being blocked.

Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at the recent “environmental protection” meeting of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the report found. The ICAO is the forum where nations agree the rules governing international aviation.

TfL says persistent offenders owe more than £700m in Ulez fines

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:01:33 +0000

Transport body promises to crack down on the small minority of people with four or more penalty notices

Transport for London is promising to crack down on drivers who flout its ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) after revealing that 94% of the £790m owed in fines has been racked up by persistent offenders.

Non-payers have been fined up to £17,000 this year, including one driver whose car was seized and sold at auction after he ignored 130 warning letters and 14 visits by enforcement officers.

Powerful owls’ grisly crime scenes in urban parkland remind us we share suburbia with a magnificent predator

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:00:22 +0000

The magnificent apex predator of the night, forced out of forests into urban landscapes, now confronts yet another silent killer: rat poison

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‘Sun day’: US climate activists to rally for clean energy amid Trump attacks

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:00:14 +0000

Some 450 events are planned across the US this Sunday to celebrate growth of solar power and energy efficiency

As the Trump administration wages an all-out assault on climate protections and renewable energy, activists are gearing up for demonstrations this Sunday to hype up solar power and energy efficiency.

The national “day of action”, called Sun Day, will be spearheaded by the veteran climate activist Bill McKibben.

The Indiana town suffering under the shadow of a BP refinery: ‘They’ve had way too many accidents’

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:00:14 +0000

Whiting residents worried after facility, which has had multiple problems, shut down temporarily after rain

It was the biggest news story around the midwest as the Labor Day weekend approached earlier this month: the unexpected surging price of fuel at the gas station.

But for residents of Whiting, Indiana, petroleum has been presenting an altogether bigger problem.