Week in wildlife: a huge tuna, cows on the lawn and a Dorset beaver’s adventure
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading…
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Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent More than 750,000 tonnes of liquid from landfills are mixed with sewage at water treatment works and spread on farmland across England each year, it…
In the Pacific, Unkept U.S. Promises on Climate Cut Deep
Pacific island nations have seen American pledges and attention come and go with geopolitical winds. Recent U.S. pullbacks are met with disappointment but not surprise.
In the Pacific, Unkept U.S. Promises on Climate Cut Deep
Pacific island nations have seen American pledges and attention come and go with geopolitical winds. Recent U.S. pullbacks are met with disappointment but not surprise.
Relief for campaigners as five-star hotel on Milos’s famous ‘moon beach’ halted
Authorities revoke building licence for cascading hotel complex on one of Greece’s most photographed shorelines Environmental campaigners have welcomed a decision to halt construction of a disputed five-star hotel on a Greek beach known for its outstanding natural beauty. Local…
Indonesia flooding traced to corporate canals that drain peatlands: Report
JAKARTA — Flooding disasters in Indonesia are increasingly traced not to natural causes, but to corporate destruction of peatlands, NGO Pantau Gambut warns in its newest report. The report reveals how the construction of industrial-scale canals, not just haze, poses…
Department of Energy Allocates $134 million for Fusion Funding
Most of the money will go to teams working to close the gap between the private nuclear industry and research labs and universities. By Arcelia Martin The U.S. Department of Energy announced $134 million in funding for two fusion programs…
Ebony’s uncertain future without elephants
In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Congo Basin Institute in Cameroon to study African ebony, he soon realized the fate of the tree lay with another species. Around campfires and during treks, the Indigenous Baka people told him that…
Water firm bans tankers from transporting water for billionaire’s lake
Tankers taking water for US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman have been told to stop by Southern Water.
US Energy chief tells BBC nuclear fusion will soon power the world
AI will soon enable harnessing of the energy that powers the sun and stars, says Chris Wright