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• Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton

  29-09-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are“Kids these days are such snowflakes! So flaccid and self-involved, so doomy and anxious. If it’s not the drugs, it’s the screen time, right? I mean, what’s their problem?”I try to sidestep conversations like these. Engaging saps so much time and energy. But avoiding them leaves me feeling dirty. Not because I&rsquo
  
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• Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border

  29-09-2024 16:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Two countries agree to modifications beneath Matterhorn peak, one of Europe’s highest summitsSwitzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier.The two countries agreed to the modifications beneath the Matterhorn, one of the highest mountains in Europe, which straddles Switzerland’s Zermatt region and Italy’s Aosta valley. Continue reading...
  
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• This winding LA highway is notoriously treacherous. Extreme weather is making it worse

  29-09-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘The Grapevine’, which connects the metropolis to the state’s agricultural hub, now serves as a window to the effects of climate crisisWildfires. Snowstorms. Falling boulders. DC Williams has long given up on predicting what the day will bring on Interstate 5 near Tejon Pass, an eight-lane stretch of highway that winds through the steep mountains north of Los Angeles.Williams has been an officer with the California Highway Patrol and worked in this area for 11 years. On a chill
  
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• Force companies to report their food waste, say leading UK retailers

  29-09-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 30 businesses have written to the environment secretary calling for mandatory reporting of wasted foodFood companies should have to report how much they throw away as a first step towards reducing the vast amounts of edible food squandered in the UK, a group of prominent businesses have said.About a third of the food produced globally every year is binned, much of it before it reaches the consumer at a cost of almost £22bn annually to the UK economy. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Every tree used to be blanketed with them’: photographer captures campaign to save monarch butterfly

  29-09-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Climate change and pesticides have combined to pose a deadly threat to the vivid species. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards celebrate the fightbackJaime Rojo has been following the fate of the monarch butterfly for more than 20 years. In the process the Spanish photographer has watched one of the planet’s most colourful, flamboyant insect species succumb to the combined onslaught of habitat destruction, climate change, pesticides, drought and wildfires. Its population has crashe
  
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• Flood warning as heavy rain expected in southern England and Wales

  29-09-2024 09:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Two weather warnings for wind and rain, with river levels already high and ground saturated in some placesEngland and Wales are braced for heavy rain and strong winds just days after homes and businesses were flooded.Two fresh weather warnings come into force on Sunday for wind and rain which will hit areas already saturated by downpours earlier in the week. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Wicked problem’: Coalition doesn’t rule out EV road user tax as fuel excise falls with uptake of greener vehicles

  29-09-2024 07:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Bridget McKenzie tells Insiders she is working on the opposition’s transport policy ahead of the next federal election – including EV plansFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiberal senator Bridget McKenzie has again left the door open for a Coalition government to level a road user charge against owners of electric vehicles, indicating concern about decreasing fuel excise and the impact on budgets for road
  
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• SpaceX on mission to return two stranded astronauts

  29-09-2024 00:42 via bbc.com
  
  A capsule heads to the International Space Station, where two crew are spending months longer than planned.
  
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