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• Trump’s ‘gas-guzzling’ parade will produce planet-heating pollution costs, analysis says

  13-06-2025 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Among other concerns, the US military parade will produce as much pollution as created to heat 300 homes for a yearDonald Trump’s military parade this weekend will bring thousands of troops out to march, while dozens of tanks and armored personnel carriers roll down the streets and fighter jets hum overhead.The event has prompted concern about rising autocracy in the US. It will also produce more than 2m kilograms of planet-heating pollution – equivalent to the amount created by prod
  
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• Devon farm footage prompts calls to ban restrictive pens for pregnant pigs

  13-06-2025 13:27 via theguardian.com
  Welfare of sows confined to farrowing crates was compromised and they displayed signs of extreme stress, experts sayThe use of restrictive pens to temporarily house pregnant pigs in the UK severely compromises their welfare, can traumatise them and should be banned, experts have said.Analysis by Animal Equality UK of footage collected from a farm in Devon showed that three pregnant sows in farrowing crates spent more than 90% of their time lying down, with one not standing up at all for a day. O
  
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• A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town

  13-06-2025 13:02 via theguardian.com
  
  When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoodsOne day in 1983, while studying a hand-drawn map from 1792 of his home town in Ecuador, Galo Ramón, a historian, came across a dispute between a landowner and two local Indigenous communities, the Coyana and the Catacocha. The boundary conflict involved an ancient lagoon, depicted on the map.“The drawing depicted
  
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• Weather tracker: Europe and China in midst of record-breaking heat

  13-06-2025 12:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Temperatures over 40C recorded in Portugal and Spain, while China endures heatwave conditions in high 40sTemperature records for early June are being broken across large parts of Europe, with the mercury reaching 40.5C (104.9F) in Mértola, Portugal, on Sunday. On the same day, several weather stations in Spain recorded temperatures in excess of 42C, with dozens of sites at record levels for early summer. Across the Balkans, temperatures reached 37C. On Monday, 37.6C was recorded in Tirana
  
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• ‘It really is possible to be zero waste’: the restaurant with no bin

  13-06-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Baldío in Mexico City is part of a new wave of restaurants embracing a regenerative ethos – with delicious resultsHunched over the pass in the open restaurant kitchen, a team of chefs are dusting ceviche with a powder made from lime skins that would, in most cases, have been thrown away. The Mexico City restaurant where they work looks like most restaurant kitchens but it lacks one key element: there is no bin.Baldío was co-founded by brothers Lucio and Pablo Usobiaga and che
  
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• Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot

  13-06-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom?I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “marine protected areas” (MPAs). At last, some solid research on seabed carbon and the vast releases caused by the trawlers ploughing it up. But still I feel that almost every
  
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• Extreme heat poses a danger to players and fans at Club World Cup

  13-06-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Already controversial because of extra fixtures and Fifa involvement, the new tournament in the US is likely to be played in temperatures above 30CAcross this weekend, the US National Weather Service is predicting “moderate” heat risk for Miami and Los Angeles. With temperatures likely to exceed 30C, the agency warns “most individuals sensitive to heat” will be affected, a group that contains those “exercising or doing strenuous activity outdoors during the heat of
  
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• Week in wildlife: a flying zebra, chilling pelicans and a ghost elephant

  13-06-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting Cop30

  13-06-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sale covering 56,000 square miles set to go ahead despite opposition from Indigenous and environmental groupsThe Brazilian government is preparing to stage an oil exploration auction months before it hosts the Cop30 UN climate summit, despite opposition from environmental campaigners and Indigenous communities worried about the environmental and climate impacts of the plans.Brazil’s oil sector regulator, ANP, will auction the exploration rights to 172 oil and gas blocks spanning 56,000 squ
  
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• How does air pollution affect mental health? New study aimed to find out

  13-06-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Research looked at records of 14,800 people in Bradford to see what happened after they moved to more polluted areaWhat happens to your mental and physical health when you move to an area with worse air pollution? That’s the subject of a fascinating new UK-based study.Prof Rosie McEachan, the director of NHS Born in Bradford, asked: “Do already unhealthy communities, who are often poorer members of our society, end up in unhealthier environments because no one else wants to live ther
  
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