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• Flights hit at Frankfurt and Oslo airports as climate protests continue

  25-07-2024 15:09
  
  Service at Germany’s busiest airport gradually resuming as ‘oil kills’ protests spread from Europe to North AmericaClimate activists have disrupted flights at Frankfurt and Oslo airports on the second day of coordinated “oil kills” protests across Europe and North America.Demanding an end to fossil fuels by 2030, supporters of Letzte Generation (Last Generation) briefly suspended flights at Frankfurt airport on Thursday morning. The activists said they had cut a wir
  
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• Starmer to take on Labour councils that block pylons delivering clean energy

  25-07-2024 14:48
  
  At formal launch of state-run GB Energy, PM sets out plan to build enough offshore wind facilities to power 20m homesUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has pledged to take on Labour MPs and councils that try to block pylon networks delivering a planned new generation of clean electricity, as he promised the government’s plans would lower people’s bills in this parliament.Formally launching GB Energy, the state-run green energy generation company, one of his flagship
  
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• ‘They are so handsome’: the unusual day in the life of a pangolin carer

  25-07-2024 14:00
  At a wildlife centre in Mozambique, trafficked animals are fed, nursed, taken for walks and eventually released back to the wild. Vet Mércia Ângela describes what it’s like to bond with these rare and charismatic mammalsI had never seen a pangolin before I started working with them in Mozambique’s Gorongosa national park. They are the only mammal in the world covered with scales. I think they are so handsome – just seeing them makes me fall in love.If you have never
  
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• Life at 115F: a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink

  25-07-2024 13:00
  Record heat is killing hundreds in Clark county. But one of America’s fastest-growing metro areas just keeps getting biggerHot air wafted through the heavy, gold-lined doors of a Las Vegas casino as they opened, offering a reminder of a disaster quietly unfolding outside. Even though the sun had just set on an evening in mid-July, temperatures were yet to dip below 100F (37C).Spawned from a paved-over oasis in the Mojave, this desert metropolis has always been hot. But a string of brutal h
  
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• Typhoon Gaemi makes landfall in Taiwan and brings floods to Manila – video

  25-07-2024 12:01
  
  The storm has made landfall in Taiwan, unleashing torrential rain and strong gusts that have claimed at least three lives. Typhoon Gaemi also exacerbated rains in the Philippines, flooding the capital, Manila, and nearby cities, forcing authorities to shut schools, offices and declare a state of calamityTyphoon Gaemi: oil tanker and cargo ship sink amid stormy seasIn pictures: monsoon rains strike Philippines Continue reading...
  
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• The Trans Mountain contradiction: how can Canada lead on climate while doubling down on oil?

  25-07-2024 12:00
  Despite climate-friendly plans, the government’s controversial decision to take over the pipeline made it one of world’s biggest promoters of fossil fuel projectsLike all major rivers winding through the country, Canada’s most controversial oil pipeline is destined for the ocean.The Trans Mountain pipeline crosses two provinces, threads a national park in the Rocky Mountains, dips underneath bodies of water and passes through dozens of First Nations communities before terminati
  
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• The Canadian contradiction: how the country proposing to lead on climate is doubling down on oil

  25-07-2024 12:00
  Despite climate-friendly plans, the government’s controversial decision to take over the Trans Mountain pipeline made it one of world’s biggest promoters of fossil fuel projects‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion‘This used to be a beautiful place’: how the US became the world’s biggest fossil fuel stateLike all major rivers winding through the country,
  
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• Canada is proposing to lead on climate – but it’s doubling down on oil

  25-07-2024 12:00
  Despite climate-friendly plans, the government’s controversial decision to take over the Trans Mountain pipeline made it one of world’s biggest promoters of fossil fuel projects‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?Like all major rivers winding through the country, Canada’s most controversial oil pipeline is destined for the ocean.The Trans Mountain pipeline crosses two provinces, threads a national park in the Rocky Mountains, dips unde
  
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• Point break? Why sharing its ‘secret’ wave with the Olympics could cost a tiny Tahitian village dear

  25-07-2024 07:00
  
  This week all eyes will be on Teahupo’o as it hosts the world’s best surfers. Many islanders welcome the new infrastructure brought by the 2024 Paris Games, but are concerned that any benefits will be undone by longer-term damagePhotographs by Atea Lee Chip SaoFPeva Levy, often called the “godfather” of Teahupo’o, has witnessed his home town change from remote fishing village to surfing mecca in a matter of decades. Levy was a child of the ocean. He grew up swimming
  
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• Country diary: Watching a skylark watching me | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

  25-07-2024 06:30
  
  Northam Burrows, Devon: Normally noted for their jump-jet takeoffs, this one is grounded, in among the wind-blown grasses, utterly stillThrough the shift of the grasses in the wind, through marram and fescue, in between the feathered seedheads is an eye, small and glittering. The skylark watches as I watch, both of us locked in the moment of encounter. On the path in front, a footstep away, it cocks its head, so I see the fullness of its crest as its eyes continue to arrest me. Dark and spa
  
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• Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand? - podcast

  25-07-2024 06:00
  
  A series of super tusker elephant killings has sparked a bitter international battle over trophy hunting and its controversial, often-counterintuitive role in conservation. Biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston speaks to Amy Dickman, professor of wildlife conservation at the University of Oxford, about why this debate has become so divisive, and the complexities of allowing killing in conservationTrophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants Continue reading.
  
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• Offshore wind to power 20m homes within five years, Starmer to pledge

  25-07-2024 06:00
  
  Scheme will use taxpayer money to develop parts of seabed owned by the royal familyKeir Starmer will promise to build enough offshore wind over the next five years to power 20m homes, by using taxpayer money to develop parts of the seabed owned by the royal family.The prime minister will announce details of the government’s energy generation company, known as Great British Energy, during a visit to the north-west designed to highlight the government’s promises on green energy. Contin
  
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• UK getting more hot and more wet days – Met Office

  25-07-2024 02:10 via bbc.com
  
  The increase in the number of 'very hot days' of 30C or more has also been dramatic.
  
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• Great British Energy is becoming a reality – bringing with it cheap, clean and secure energy | Ed Miliband

  25-07-2024 01:01
  
  We’re making the case for 21st-century, modern public ownership that serves our communities
  Ed Miliband is the energy secretaryThe public voted for change at the general election. Perhaps nowhere more than when it comes to energy. Every person and business has paid the price of our country’s energy insecurity. As Vladimir Putin sought to use energy as a weapon in his illegal invasion of Ukraine, bills went through the roof in a cost of living crisis unprecedented in modern times.As t
  
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