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Early this year, Augusta Charter Township resident Travis Matts had seen a few headlines about the problems data centers caused in towns across the country. He thought the impacts on water, air and utility bills sounded awful, but it also…
The state has rejected the proposal before, but environmental activists are angered by the way officials have ignored their repeated requests for in-person hearings. The pipeline would run from Pennsylvania, through New Jersey, to Queens in New York City. By…
Natural forest regrowth in the world’s tropical rainforests is expanding. According to the Forest Declaration Assessment 2025, more than 11 million hectares (27 million acres) of tropical moist forests are under some stage of forest regrowth between 2015 and 2021.…
Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030. The newly published 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment shows that nations are 63% off track…
From Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, researchers have described what is officially recognized as the 1,500th bat species known to science, according to a recent study. The newly described bat is a species of pipistrelle, a group of tiny insect-eating…
Changes intended to reduce ‘burdensome bureaucracy’ and make it easier to build windfarms, reservoirs and housing Ministers are making it easier to build new windfarms, reservoirs and large housing developments as part of a series of changes to the government’s…
As the final hours of Guardian Australia’s 2025 bird of the year draw near, Penny Sharpe, the New South Wales environment minister, makes a last-minute appeal for votes for the endangered bush stone-curlew. In a boisterous session of state parliament,…
Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp Almost all the external insulation fitted under the previous government’s energy efficiency scheme was installed so poorly it will have to be repaired or replaced, an…
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable The flood-prone Worcestershire town being abandoned by insurers Doors, drains and paving perils: protecting your home from flooding Millions more homes in England, Scotland and…
Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planet’s original information network. In a commentary published on Mongabay, Al Mubarak, president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, offers a…