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Equinor considers suing Trump administration over halted US windfarm

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:46:53 +0000

Norway’s state energy company’s $2.5bn project off coast of New York was almost a third finished

Norway’s state energy company may take Donald Trump’s administration to court after it ordered an “unprecedented” halt to a $2.5bn (£1.87bn) windfarm project off the coast of New York.

Equinor is considering its legal options after the US interior secretary, Doug Burgum, ordered the company to “immediately halt all construction activities” on an offshore windfarm last month.

Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:25:31 +0000

Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering

Scientists hope sequencing genome of tiny ‘functionally extinct’ frog could help save it

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:05:21 +0000

Corroboree frog belongs to 100m-year-old family of amphibians but is now found only in the puddles and peat bogs of Kosciuszko national park

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the critically endangered southern corroboree frog – one of Australia’s most threatened amphibians – in hope that the information could be used to aid its recovery.

Tony Blair’s climate crisis views ‘absolutely aligned’ with government policy, Starmer says – UK politics live

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:54:10 +0000

PM says he and Blair aligned ‘if you look at the detail of what he said’

PMQs is starting soon.

Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.

Common pesticide caused mass death of little corellas, NSW environment watchdog confirms

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:00:49 +0000

EPA says toxicology tests after distressing March event detected fenitrothion – which is currently under review – in all dead birds

‘Alarming’ bug splat decline on UK cars raises fears for flying insect numbers

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:00:16 +0000

Annual survey of numberplates from more than 25,000 journeys reveals 63% fall in squashed bugs since 2021

The long-term decline in the number of flying insects being splattered on cars after a journey is well recognised by older drivers. But the latest survey has revealed that the number of insects found on vehicle number plates has plummeted by 63% since 2021.

An analysis of records from more than 25,000 journeys across Britain since 2021 reveals an alarming apparent drop in flying insect abundance, although the rate of decrease slowed in 2024.

Company supplying critical EV metal ‘did not disclose’ Erin Brockovich pollutant in drinking water

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:00:16 +0000

Leaked documents indicate Harita, owner of key nickel mine in Indonesia, did not reveal water contamination

One of Indonesia’s largest nickel-mining companies, which supplies a mineral critical to the global electric car industry, did not tell the public that local drinking water was polluted, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

UK watchdog bans coffee pod ads over ‘misleading’ composting claims

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:00:14 +0000

Advertising Standards Authority says neither Lavazza UK nor Dualit’s product can be recycled at home

Descriptions of coffee pods as “compostable eco capsules” were misleading as they could not be composted at home, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.

The ASA has banned adverts by Lavazza UK and Dualit, which both made claims about the eco credentials of their coffee products.

India and Pakistan already sweltering in ‘new normal’ heatwave conditions

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:00:14 +0000

Temperatures south Asians dread each year arrive early as experts talk of ever shorter transition to summer-like heat

The summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it’s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what scientists say is fast becoming the “new normal”.

Australia’s best photos of the month – April 2025

admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:00:08 +0000

Wild weather, elections and rabbit jumping are all part of some of the month’s best images in Australia for April