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Amazon makes ‘largest ever’ UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:05:19 +0000

Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts

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Amazon is to deploy nearly 150 electric heavy goods vehicles as well as piling packages on to trains and post-style trolleys in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of delivering goods in the UK.

Dream come true for Australian funnel-web spider enthusiast after he discovers a new species

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:01:15 +0000

Newcastle funnel-web spider’s last shared common ancestor with the Sydney funnel-web was 17 million years ago, experts say

Nobel prize winners call for urgent ‘moonshot’ effort to avert global hunger catastrophe

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:01:01 +0000

More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates sign open letter calling for immediate ramping up of food production

More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates have signed an open letter calling for “moonshot” efforts to ramp up food production before an impending world hunger catastrophe.

The coalition of some of the world’s greatest living thinkers called for urgent action to prioritise research and technology to solve the “tragic mismatch of global food supply and demand”.

Ministers to appeal against river pollution ruling won by Yorkshire anglers

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:00:01 +0000

High court had ruled government was not meeting legal duty to clean up Costa Beck near Pickering

The UK environment secretary, Steve Reed, is pursuing legal action against a group of anglers who are trying to restore the ecosystem of a river.

Lawyers for Reed will argue on Tuesday in the court of appeal that cleaning up individual rivers and streams devastated by pollution is administratively unworkable.

‘Down but not out’: Queensland farmers end 11-year legal fight against New Acland coalmine expansion

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 05:15:38 +0000

Oakey Coal Action Alliance says it will still oppose ‘inappropriate’ mining after abandoning court appeal to stop New Hope Group’s project

Cost to clean up toxic PFAS pollution could top £1.6tn in UK and Europe

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Exclusive: Costs of UK cleanup will reach £9.9bn a year in UK if emissions of ‘forever chemicals’ remain uncontrolled

Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation

The cost of cleaning up toxic forever chemical pollution could reach more than £1.6tn across the UK and Europe over a 20-year period, an annual bill of £84bn, research has found.

LA fires forecast to be costliest blaze in US history with estimate of over $200bn in losses

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:58:16 +0000

Fires have killed at least 24, displaced thousands, destroyed over 12,000 structures as winds predicted until Wednesday

Fire crews are trying to get the upper hand on blazes that are tearing through Los Angeles before expected high wind gusts threaten their progress. The fires, which may become the most expensive in US history, have killed at least 24 people, displaced thousands, destroyed more than 12,000 structures and have 100,000 people under evacuation orders.

Biden urges Congress to ‘step up’ on California aid as LA warned of ‘explosive fire growth’ – as it happened

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:18:10 +0000

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Dangerous winds expected to amplify California wildfires as death toll hits 24

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:22:43 +0000

Warning of ‘particularly dangerous situation’ with gusts expected as LA fire chief says: ‘We are not in the clear yet’

Firefighters battling the disastrous wildfires around Los Angeles were prepared for a return of dangerous winds that could again stoke the flames as the death toll in the tragedy has hit at least 24.

Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Los Angeles blazes raise fears of ‘super toxic’ lung damage

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:16:23 +0000

Concerns that dangerous fine particle pollution can become embedded in bloodstream and lungs

Los Angeles wildfires: full report

The Los Angeles wildfires have claimed the lives of at least 24 people and have burned more than 100,000 structures. While the focus is understandably on avoiding the flames, another immediate danger lurks across the county and beyond, one more difficult to escape: smoke.