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• ‘Our moral responsibility’: Australia’s beef industry under pressure over deforestation as election looms

  07-03-2025 22:00 via theguardian.com
  From the end of 2025 exporters will need to prove products sold in the EU have not come from land that has been deforested since December 2020Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletterBeef farmer Glenn Morris only had to look up to know the world was changing.During a heatwave in 1998, Morris stood on a cattle property in the New South Wales Hunter Valley and saw the trees cowering.Sign up to receive Guardian Australia’s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter Continue reading...
  
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• Toppled private spacecraft can't complete Moon mission

  07-03-2025 17:51 via bbc.com
  
  The mission was supposed to last 10 days but less then a day after landing, the craft is running out of power.
  
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• UK Treasury weighs up ‘funding cuts at GB Energy’ in blow to Ed Miliband

  07-03-2025 16:37 via theguardian.com
  Government considering such a move over state-owned firm set up by Labour in June’s spending review, say reportsBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK government is making plans to cut the funding for GB Energy, the state-owned company set up by Labour to drive renewable energy and cut household bills, in June’s spending review.Cuts to the £8.3bn of taxpayer money promised over the five-year parliament would be another blow for Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, after he wa
  
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• Switzerland told it must do better on climate after older women’s ECHR win

  07-03-2025 16:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Council of Europe says Swiss government failing to respect human rights court’s ruling on emissionsEurope live – latest updatesThe Swiss government has been told it must do more to show that its national climate plans are ambitious enough to comply with a landmark legal ruling.The Council of Europe’s committee of ministers, in a meeting this week, decided that Switzerland was not doing enough to respect a decision last year by the European court of human rights that it must do
  
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• A growing appetite for jellyfish promised a boom for fishers in Honduras. But then the storms came

  07-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A decade after Chinese investment, La Mosquitia’s processing plant is sitting idle and jobs have been lost as the climate crisis takes its tollIn 2014, Chinese investors visited La Mosquitia, a remote region in eastern Honduras. Amazed by the abundant jellyfish, they eagerly installed a processing plant to export the product to China, where they are served as a delicacy.Encouraged by the new investments, local communities adopted jellyfish fishing, which quickly became a critical source of
  
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• The secret life of the Congo rainforest – in pictures

  07-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Using high-definition camera traps on trails in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki national park, Will Burrard-Lucas, a photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, has captured Africa’s most elusive and rarely seen animals Continue reading...
  
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• Dangerous heat is a real threat for the 2026 World Cup. Are teams ready?

  07-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Experts warn that cooling breaks and later kickoff times may be needed to cope with scorching temperatures when North America hosts the tournamentOver the course of a playing career that wound through Spain, Mexico and the sunbaked fields of Major League Soccer’s summers, American midfielder Tab Ramos was never hotter than at the 1994 World Cup in the United States.The day before the United States men’s national team opened its tournament against Switzerland in the Pontiac Silverdome
  
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• Just Stop Oil protesters’ jail sentences shortened after appeal

  07-03-2025 11:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Sixteen activists argued sentences had not adequately taken into account their conscientious motivationSix protesters jailed for their roles in various climate demonstrations have had their sentences reduced on appeal.The Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam was originally jailed for five years for agreeing to disrupt traffic by having protesters climb on to gantries over the M25 for four successive days. His sentence was reduced to four years. Continue reading...
  
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• Allowing foreign firms to sue governments for lost profits is legal terrorism – it must end | Joseph Stiglitz

  07-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Investor–state dispute settlements don’t just mean growing debt burdens for countries: they are also a barrier to action on the climate crisisDonald Trump has thrown a hand grenade into the global economic architecture, destroying some things that are working well. But amid the devastation, some things seem to be surviving that really should be taken down. Among the most notable of these is an arcane set of international agreements by which private investors can sue governments, know
  
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• Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion

  07-03-2025 10:39 via theguardian.com
  
  People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areasPeople in London have been breathing significantly cleaner air since the expansion of the ultra low emission zone (Ulez), a study has found.Levels of deadly pollutants that are linked to a wide range of health problems – from cancer to impaired lung development, heart attacks to premature births – have dropped, with some of the biggest improvements coming in the capital&r
  
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• UK Treasury ‘plans funding cuts at GB Energy’ in blow to Ed Miliband

  07-03-2025 10:29 via theguardian.com
  Government considering such a move over state-owned firm set up by Labourin June’s spending review, say reportsThe UK government is making plans to cut the funding for GB Energy, the state-owned company set up by Labour to drive renewable energy and cut household bills, in June’s spending review.Cuts to the £8.3bn of taxpayer money promised over the five-year parliament would be another blow for Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, after he was overruled by the government when th
  
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• Week in wildlife: a curious monkey, a Dorset beaver and a football rat

  07-03-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• How cooking with gas releases harmful air pollution in the home

  07-03-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Nitrogen dioxide, normally associated with diesel exhausts, is among pollutants released by using gas cooker and hobThe transition away from gas cooking envisaged by the UK’s Climate Change Committee will mean big improvements to air pollution in many homes.Most of us spend about 90% of our time indoors but relatively little is known about the air we breathe at these times. Continue reading...
  
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• Gas hob can raise indoor air pollution higher than busy UK road, study finds

  07-03-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Research by Which? compared levels nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter in homes and street in LondonCooking on a gas hob can create higher levels of indoor air pollution than found on one of the UK’s busiest roads, a study has found.The research by Which? compared levels of two of the most damaging air pollutants – nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) – in the homes of four people with gas hobs, one person with an induction hob and on Marylebone R
  
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• Before and after: the beaches in the path of Tropical Cyclone Alfred – video

  07-03-2025 06:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Cameras stationed by Swellnet to monitor swells on Australia's east coast show the difference a couple of days can make when a tropical cyclone like Alfred approaches. The cameras record how eight beaches, in Queensland and New South Wales, change from Monday to Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: The Highland tiger who came to me | Amanda Thomson

  07-03-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Abernethy Forest, Cairngorms: Wildcats are critically endangered, but there is hope. I’ll keep my cameras outThe nights are getting lighter, but it still feels like a winter sky, with a spectacular array of stars and planets as well as the Milky Way. From early morning, the woods are full of the sounds of spring: thrushes and robins sing on repeat and, among the calls of great and blue tits, I hear the tinkle of a crested tit in the still bare birches dotted among the Scots pines.I’m
  
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• Tropical Cyclone Alfred approaches the Queensland coast – in pictures

  07-03-2025 02:03 via theguardian.com
  Cyclone Alfred is heading for the south-east Queensland coast, causing high winds and big surf. It’s expected to make landfall late on Friday or early Saturday between Noosa and Coolangatta. Alfred’s slow progress to the mainland could prolong already severe conditions to the south of its projected path, particularly in parts of the Gold Coast and northern New South WalesTropical Cyclone Alfred LIVE: latest news and updates Continue reading...
  
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• London air pollution down since Ulez extended to outer boroughs, study finds

  07-03-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Levels of deadly pollutants have dropped, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areasPeople in London have been breathing significantly cleaner air since the expansion of the ultra low emission zone (Ulez), a study has found.Levels of deadly pollutants that are linked to a wide range of health problems – from cancer to impaired lung development, heart attacks to premature births – have dropped, with some of the biggest improvements coming in the capital&rsquo
  
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• Dramatic fall in London air pollution after Ulez expansion

  07-03-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Levels of deadly pollutants have dropped, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areasPeople in London have been breathing significantly cleaner air since the expansion of the ultra low emission zone (Ulez), a study has found.Levels of deadly pollutants that are linked to a wide range of health problems – from cancer to impaired lung development, heart attacks to premature births – have dropped, with some of the biggest improvements coming in the capital&rsquo
  
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