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• Detox your kitchen: three things you can do right now to avoid toxic chemicals

  07-02-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Pfas and microplastics lurk everywhere – from pots and pans to storage containers and utensils. These simple changes are a first step in reducing them quicklySign up for the Detox Your Kitchen newsletterIt seems like every week there is a new scientific study about microplastics in food, Pfas in pans, BPA in plastic containers, or any other number of toxic chemicals that can stow away in our food.I’ve been writing about toxic chemicals for years, and my friends always ask me: what do
  
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• Peter Garrett: ‘This is the worst deal ever done by a sovereign Australian government’

  07-02-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The Midnight Oil frontman, former Labor MP and conservationist muses on politics, prescient lyrics, and whether the Rolling Stones should give up touringGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDescribing Peter Garrett as highly recognisable is a bit like saying the Sydney Opera House is quite noticeable.Some stop in their tracks upon encountering him while meandering, dog walking and running in parklands snaking through inner-western Sydney’s Annandale, home to the rock’n’ro
  
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• From paradise to hell and back: why leaving isn’t an option for some flood-hit north Queenslanders

  07-02-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Residents of Bluewater are picking up the pieces and rebuilding their homes – with or without insuranceTamika Tilbrooke emerges from a diner by the side of the Bruce Highway beneath a pair of sodden and forlorn mango trees holding a litre of Coca-Cola and two plastic cups. One is for her husband, Bobby, still working hard on their Bluewater home, a few kilometres up the creek that gives this outer suburb north of Townsville its name.Tamika bought the cups and the soft drink because the hou
  
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• Elon Musk’s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump

  07-02-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Musk believes Tesla’s rivals are more vulnerable to Trump’s moves against electric vehiclesDonald Trump’s attempts to slash incentives for electric cars would cause sales of the vehicles to plummet, with this effort cheered on by a seemingly confounding supporter – Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and erstwhile champion for action on the climate crisis.Trump has said that he “will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and k
  
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• Week in wildlife in pictures: a newborn turtle, a tiny frog and a rare tiger

  07-02-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Fancy a stroll? Across Europe, young people like me are finding friends by walking our cities | Viola Di Grado

  07-02-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We are the post-pandemic flâneurs: stepping out of social media silos to meet people and connect with the world around usWhen I moved back to London from Rome just before the second lockdown in 2020, I found a city that was hardly welcoming, with shops closed and an atmosphere of silent apprehension. Young, single people like me were only socialising online with existing friends, and opportunities to make fresh connections were rare.When I met Irenka from Poland at a literary festival, she
  
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• Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year

  07-02-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarterBradford’s clean air zone has reduced air pollution and saved the health service about £30,700 a month in its first year, a study has found.Low emission or clean air zones are often controversial, especially when they are first proposed. The expansion of London’s ultra-low emission zone became a major election issue, spawning disinformation, protest, van
  
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• Concern UK's AI ambitions could lead to water shortages

  07-02-2025 02:48 via bbc.com
  
  Data centres can use vast quantities of water to cool them - but it's not clear where it will come from.
  
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• Elephant in the womb? Thailand brings in birth control for pachyderms

  07-02-2025 02:05 via theguardian.com
  Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humansThailand will begin giving birth control to a small number of wild female elephants this year, as the country struggles with the growing problem of human-elephant conflict.Asian elephants have been classified as endangered since 1986. But Thai authorities say that conservation efforts mean the country’s population is growing at a rate of 8% each year, overwhelming its depleted forests. This has caused the anim
  
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• £22bn for 'unproven' green tech could raise bills, MPs warn

  07-02-2025 01:12 via bbc.com
  
  The Public Accounts Committee warns the government of gambling public money on carbon capture.
  
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