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• Miliband in blistering attack on Farage’s UK net zero ‘nonsense and lies’

  19-04-2025 20:05 via theguardian.com
  
  The energy secretary has accused Reform UK’s leader of peddling dangerous falsehoods about renewable power• Tories and Reform use the steel crisis to knock clean energy. They’re wrong: it will secure all our futuresEd Miliband has torn into Nigel Farage and the Tories for peddling dangerous “nonsense and lies” by suggesting the UK’s net zero target is responsible for destroying Britain’s businesses, including its steel industry.Cabinet ministers are deter
  
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• There’s only one way to fight the climate greenlash: appeal to the naysayers’ self-interest | Martha Gill

  19-04-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  If green policy is going to survive the backlash, it needs a new pitch – cleaner air, cheaper bills and healthier citiesFor a decade, green activists in Britain have been congratulating themselves on their luck. Unlike in many countries in Europe, where motorists, farmers and rightwing groups have been driving anti-climate action, the UK has long enjoyed a comfortable political consensus on the subject. But conditions for a greenlash are assembling.Most Britons still say they support clima
  
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• Meet the seed collector restoring California’s landscapes - one tiny plant at a time

  19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Native seed demand far outpaces supply for the state’s ambitious conservation plan. This group combs the landscape to address the deficitDeep in California’s agricultural heartland, Haleigh Holgate marched through the expansive wildflower-dotted plains of the San Luis national wildlife refuge complex in search of something precious.She surveyed the native grasses and flowering plants that painted the Central valley landscape in almost blinding swaths of yellow. Her objective on that
  
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• Climatologist Friederike Otto: ‘The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster’

  19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The German scientist on her new book arguing that inequality, wealth and sexism are making the climate crisis worse – and what we need to do about itFriederike Otto is a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London. She is also the co-founder of the World Weather Attribution initiative, which seeks to determine the influence of global warming on intensity and likelihood of an extreme weather event. The project also examines how factors such as ill-suited architecture and p
  
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• Fears that UK military bases may be leaking toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into drinking water

  19-04-2025 15:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Bases in Norfolk, Devon and Hampshire face MoD investigation over possible leaching of dangerous PFAS into environmentThree UK military bases have been marked for investigation over fears they may be leaking toxic “forever chemicals” into drinking water sources and important environmental sites.The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will investigate RAF Marham in Norfolk, RM Chivenor in Devon and AAC Middle Wallop in Hampshire after concerns they may be leaching toxic PFAS chemicals into thei
  
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• ‘It will be beautiful to see our kids grow up with this’: how communities around the world are planting trees

  19-04-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  City residents are working out how to fill their streets with trees as evidence grows of their benefits“I wanted to do something that would benefit as many people from the community as possible,” says Chloe Straw, pointing at a small but promising sapling visible through the window of her local cafe.In 2023, Chloe began chatting to her neighbours in Haringey, north London, about trees. “I thought it’d be really nice to raise some money for trees on the main road. Everyone
  
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• Country diary: We’re obsessed with the blue tits – all it took was a birdbox webcam | Country diary

  19-04-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Langstone, Hampshire: She’s brought in clematis, moss and cat fur to build the nest. Soon, surely, the egg-laying will beginFor the past three years, blue tits have nested in a box on the wall beneath my bedroom window, and we’ve become curtain-twitchers, peering covertly out to watch the adults come and go and listen to the peeping chicks. But what goes on inside the cavity? Curiosity piqued, we installed a new box with a solar-powered camera over the winter.On 19 March, a female bl
  
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• Country diary: a webcam gives us a bird’s eye view | Country diary

  19-04-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Langstone, Hampshire: She’s brought in clematis, moss and cat fur to build the nest. Soon, surely, the egg-laying will beginFor the past three years, blue tits have nested in a box on the wall beneath my bedroom window, and we’ve become curtain-twitchers, peering covertly out to watch the adults come and go and listen to the peeping chicks. But what goes on inside the cavity? Curiosity piqued, we installed a new box with a solar-powered camera over the winter.On 19 March, a female bl
  
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• Growers criticise UK supermarkets for heavy Easter discounts on vegetables

  19-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fears produce could be permanently devalued by price war, as it ‘creates unrealistic expectations about costs’Supermarkets have been criticised for using vegetables as the latest weapon in their burgeoning price war, charging as little as 8p for a 2kg bag of potatoes in an attempt to lure shoppers over Easter.Growers said they feared the massive discounts, which are also deployed at Christmas, could permanently devalue their produce. Continue reading...
  
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