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• Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed

  27-09-2024 17:35 via theguardian.com
  Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022Climate activists have thrown tomato soup over two Sunflowers paintings by Vincent van Gogh, just an hour after two others were jailed for a similar protest action in 2022.Three supporters of Just Stop Oil walked into the National Gallery in London, where an exhibition of Van Gogh’s collected works is on display, at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, and threw
  
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• In the bag: six ways to reduce your environmental impact at the grocery store

  27-09-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Avoid packaging by shopping in bulk, store produce properly to prolong its shelf life, and check out your local independent grocerChange by Degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at [email protected] it’s once a week or once a day, going grocery shopping is a fact of life. But be it a ritual or a chore, it is also a chance
  
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• Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them

  27-09-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Builders already have the tools needed to build cooler homes for an increasingly hotter worldThe US sweltered under record-breaking heat this year, with new research suggesting that air conditioning is no longer enough to keep homes cool. Spiraling energy demands and costs of indoor cooling now have planners looking to alternative ways to keep buildings cool – some fresh out of the lab, others centuries old.“The amount of buildings we expect to go up in the next couple decades is jus
  
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• Queen's Brian May quits RSPCA over its food welfare label

  27-09-2024 15:12 via bbc.com
  
  The association has had to run spot checks on farms using its label amid welfare concerns.
  
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• Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

  27-09-2024 14:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Phoebe Plummer, 23, recieves two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incidentTwo Just Stop Oil activists have been jailed for throwing tomato soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after one of them told a judge she would “accept whatever sentences I receive with a smile”.Phoebe Plummer, 23, was sentenced to two years in prison for causing an estimated £10,000 worth of damage to the artwork’s frame at the National Gallery in London
  
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• Country Diary 100 years on: sheep and dogs dominate over rabbits and house martins

  27-09-2024 14:46 via theguardian.com
  Domesticated creatures feature heavily in contemporary contributions to Guardian column compared to diaries of 1920sIn the early 1920s, the British countryside was a place where blackbirds sang, rabbits scurried and the summer skies were animated by swallows and house martins. A century on, blackbirds still sing and ancient oaks stand proud but the landscape is dominated by sheep, cows and dogs – according to Guardian country diarists.A study of the most-featured species in the Country Dia
  
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• Net zero or not: will the next Tory leader embrace green agenda or oppose it?

  27-09-2024 13:12 via theguardian.com
  Environment has barely figured in leadership campaign but soon the party must decide where it standsUK politics live – latest updatesWhen the Conservatives gather in Birmingham this weekend for their first party conference out of government in 15 years, the environment is not likely to be top of most members’ minds, amid the fever of a leadership campaign.That is probably a good thing, many green-tinged Tory insiders feel. The leadership campaign is dominated by the right wing of the
  
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• Net zero or not: will next Tory leader embrace green agenda or oppose it?

  27-09-2024 12:42 via theguardian.com
  Environment has barely figured in leadership campaign but soon the party must decide where it standsUK politics live – latest updatesWhen the Conservatives gather in Birmingham this weekend for their first party conference out of government in 15 years, the environment is not likely to be top of most members’ minds, amid the fever of a leadership campaign.That is probably a good thing, many green-tinged Tory insiders feel. The leadership campaign is dominated by the right wing of the
  
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• ‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges

  27-09-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Climate activists opposed to the Mountain Valley pipeline were accused of breaking West Virginia’s new critical infrastructure lawIt was around dawn on a chilly day last November when West Virginia state troopers forcibly extricated Jerome Wagner out from a 25ft-deep pit where he was locked to a drilling machine being used to finish construction of a beleaguered gas pipeline.The veteran climate activist was trying to draw attention to the Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) – a 300-mile (
  
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• North Sea oil and gas firms in UK ‘failing to invest in renewable energy’

  27-09-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Three-quarters plan to invest solely in continued fossil fuel production between now and 2030, research showsNorth Sea oil and gas companies are failing to switch their investments to renewable energy, research has shown.Three-quarters of the offshore oil and gas companies operating in the UK plan to invest solely in continued fossil fuel production between now and the end of the decade, according to data compiled by the analyst company Rystad. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Rivers you think are pristine are not’: how drug pollution flooded the UK’s waterways – and put human health at risk

  27-09-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  High levels of antibiotics and other drugs have been found in water in the country’s most treasured and protected landscapes, raising concerns over antimicrobial resistancePhotographs by Christopher ThomondNestled within the Peak District national park, the stream known as Brook Head Beck meanders between undulating green hills. It is mossy and dank by the river, surrounded by the gentle trickling sound of water, the smell of leaves starting to rot underfoot, and a weave of branches overhe
  
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• ‘Rivers you think are pristine are not’: how drug pollution flooded England’s national parks – and put human health at risk

  27-09-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  High levels of antibiotics and other drugs have been found in water in the country’s most treasured and protected landscapes, raising concerns over antimicrobial resistancePhotographs by Christopher ThomondNestled within the Peak District national park, the stream known as Brook Head Beck meanders between undulating green hills. It is mossy and dank by the river, surrounded by the gentle trickling sound of water, the smell of leaves starting to rot underfoot, and a weave of branches overhe
  
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• Week in wildlife in pictures: a penguin ballerina, the spooky spookfish and a sociable octopus

  27-09-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them killed? | George Monbiot

  27-09-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We should be celebrating the revival of the bluefin tuna – but a ravenous fishing industry, backed by government and ‘science’, is already licking its lipsOver the past three weeks, I’ve been watching one of the greatest natural spectacles on Earth, here in south Devon. At a certain station of the tide, within a few metres of the coast, the sea erupts with monsters. They can travel at 45mph. They grow to 2.5 metres (8ft 2in) in length and 600kg in weight. They herd smalle
  
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• A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them all killed? | George Monbiot

  27-09-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  We should be celebrating the revival of the bluefin tuna – but a ravenous fishing industry, backed by government and ‘science’, is already licking its lipsOver the past three weeks, I’ve been watching one of the greatest natural spectacles on Earth, here in south Devon. At a certain station of the tide, within a few metres of the coast, the sea erupts with monsters. They can travel at 45mph. They grow to 2.5 metres (8ft 2in) in length and 600kg in weight. They herd smalle
  
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• Once thought to be extinct, the night parrot is back in the news! Is it saved? | First Dog on the Moon

  27-09-2024 08:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Why are so many settler Australians haunted by this almost mythical bird? Why?Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
  
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• Weatherwatch: Labour’s stance on nuclear power is worryingly familiar

  27-09-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  There is little difference between this government’s and its Conservative predecessor’s policies on expansionThere seems to be no difference between Conservative and Labour policies on nuclear power. Both support the current building of Hinkley Point C in Somerset, the planned Sizewell C station in Suffolk, an unspecified number of small modular reactors all over Britain as well as the far-off dream of nuclear fusion.However, few scientists serious about the threat of the climate cri
  
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• Country diary: Spotted regal sawflies make moves to repel me | Clare Stares

  27-09-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Langstone, Hampshire: When I extend a finger towards them, they rear up in unison, curling their bodies into an S shapeThroughout the summer, two potted hazels have stood proudly in front of our bay window. Drawing back the curtains one morning, I immediately noticed that something didn’t look quite right – on some branches all of the leaf blades had been chewed down to their veins and midribs. When I went outside to investigate, I discovered hundreds of spotted regal sawfly (Nematus
  
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• ‘Trees of hope’: Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted around UK

  27-09-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Project asks people to make ‘promises to nature’ after ‘rollercoaster’ year for the Northumberland landmarkIts illegal felling brought feelings of grief, distress and anger but after a “rollercoaster” 12 months custodians of the Sycamore Gap tree say they want its legacy to become one of hope.The National Trust and Northumberland national park have announced an initiative inviting the public to request one of 49 saplings from the tree. Continue reading...
  
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• Sycamore Gap saplings to become symbols of hope

  27-09-2024 02:46 via bbc.com
  
  The National Trust is encouraging people to apply for 'Tree of Hope' descendants of the famous sycamore.
  
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