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The restaurateur chronicling hardships of immigrant staff in US kitchens: ‘These are the stories that make it work’

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:00:25 +0000

In Voices from the Kitchen, Marc Meyer pulls the curtain back on the harrowing journeys of the people who run his restaurants

Throughout his lifetime, celebrated chef and author Anthony Bourdain was unequivocal in his belief that the restaurant industry in the US could not function without immigrant labor. These indispensable workers, Bourdain argued, were not only willing to do the jobs that most US-born citizens would look down upon, but also they did them better and faster.

Maha v Maga: feud grows as Trump EPA rolls back rules on toxic chemicals

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:00:27 +0000

‘Make America healthy again’ leaders call for Lee Zeldin to quit for favoring chemical companies over US families

“Make America healthy again” (Maha) movement leaders have put out a petition calling for Donald Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin, who, since being appointed in late January, has quickly moved to undo toxic chemical regulations and fast-track pesticide approvals.

Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:00:24 +0000

Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says

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Zipcar’s demise means people such as me are back in the slow lane – and stuck needing their own costly car | Phineas Finn

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:00:23 +0000

The impending collapse of UK carsharing is an embarrassment for a government attempting to curb the dominance of cars

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk in 500 years

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:00:15 +0000

Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve

A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.

It was filmed dragging logs and establishing a lodge in a “perfect beaver habitat” on the River Wensum at Pensthorpe, a nature reserve near Fakenham in Norfolk.

California officials warn foragers after person dies from poison mushroom

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:19:53 +0000

Several additional people, including children, have severe liver damage amid 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning

California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children.

Drag queen Pattie Gonia completes 100-mile trek raising $1m to make outdoors more ‘equitable’

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:00:55 +0000

Drag queen, environmentalist, diversity and inclusion advocate and social media star arrives in San Francisco

Pattie Gonia, the drag queen and environmentalist, arrived in San Francisco on Friday afternoon and crossed the Golden Gate Bridge with $1m more than when she set out on her journey last week.

Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:00:48 +0000

Exclusive: ‘extremely unhelpful’ policy seen as deterrent to clearing thousands of dump sites across England

Millions of pounds in landfill tax owed to the government has to be paid by the Environment Agency (EA) if it clears any of the thousands of illegal waste dumps across the country.

Of the £15m that taxpayers are paying for the clearance of the only site the agency has committed to clearing up – a vast illegal dump at Hoad’s Wood in Kent – £4m is landfill tax.

Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:52:39 +0000

Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia blew hole in painstakingly erected €1.5bn shield meant to allow for final clean-up of 1986 meltdown site

The protective shield over the Chornobyl disaster nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was hit by a drone in February, can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced.

Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:42:17 +0000

Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence