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Thames Water bidder says it is offering £1bn extra cash injection

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:47:23 +0000

Castle Water says restructuring plans do not go far enough and extra funds will help resolve pollution crisis

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A bidder for Thames Water has said it would inject £1bn more into the struggling utility company than rival proposals if it gained control.

‘Damned if we do but completely stuffed if we don’t’: heatwaves will worsen longer net zero is delayed

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:00:04 +0000

A new study suggests heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least 1,000 years after emissions target reached

Heatwaves will become hotter, longer and more frequent the later net zero emissions is reached globally, new research suggests.

Another COP already? Surely you’ve all worked this out by now? | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:25:25 +0000

Wait … I’m hearing you have worked it out you’re just not doing it

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With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:00:03 +0000

Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades

Insect-eating bird populations in France appear to be making a tentative recovery after a ban on bee-harming pesticides, according to the first study to examine how wildlife is returning in Europe.

Have courage to create fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at Cop30, Brazilian minister urges

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:14:13 +0000

Marina Silva says contentious plan would be ‘ethical answer’ to climate crisis but does not commit Brazil to it

Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, has urged all countries to have the courage to address the need for a fossil fuel phaseout, calling the drawing up of a roadmap for it an “ethical” response to the climate crisis.

She emphasised, however, that the process would be voluntary for those governments that wished to participate, and “self-determined”.

Can Cop30 begin the process of phasing out fossil fuels?

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:00:49 +0000

Ending use of coal, oil and gas is essential in tackling climate crisis – but even talking about it is controversial

The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:00:35 +0000

Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive

At first light in Massachusetts bay, a North Atlantic right whale threads the shallows with her calf tucked into her slipstream. She surfaces, and the V-shaped breath – two brief feathers of vapor – vanishes in the cold air.

Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:55:18 +0000

Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare?

Coalition pitches ‘affordable and responsible’ energy plan as Ley flags immigration as next policy battleground

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:35:11 +0000

Nationals and Liberals agree on new emissions plan after joint party room as opposition leader promises new immigration policy within weeks

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We have lift-off! Melbourne’s skyscraper peregrine chicks take to the sky

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 03:35:04 +0000

Falcon fledglings’ inaugural flight watched by dedicated fans includes dramatic crash-landing

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