Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023
The Santa Claus effect: how expanding tourism ate into Lapland’s green space
Europe is losing green space that once harboured wildlife, captured carbon and supplied food at the rate of 600 football pitches a day, an investigation by the Guardian and partners has revealed.
Analysis of satellite imagery across the UK and mainland Europe over a five-year period shows the speed and scale with which green land is turning grey, consumed by tarmac for roads, bricks and mortar for luxury golf courses and housing developments.
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10/01/2025 - 01:00
09/30/2025 - 22:27
Crisafulli government wants coal plants to run longer – reversing previous Queensland Labor government’s plans to end reliance on coal power by 2035
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The co-owner of Queensland’s biggest coal-fired power station in Gladstone has said it could close the plant in March 2029 – six years earlier than expected.
The power station – one of the least reliable in the national electricity market – is seen as a critical part of the region’s heavy industry, providing power to Rio Tinto’s own aluminium smelter, as well as alumina refineries and LNG and cement plants in the region.
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09/30/2025 - 21:34
Brown bear’s nearly 100,000 votes leads him to victory despite suffering for most of season with broken jaw
“The merely chubby have been winnowed away,” a naturalist intoned. “We are left with a clash of titans.”
After a record-breaking week of public voting, Katmai national park and preserve in Alaska has announced the winner of its “biggest Fat Bear Week yet”.
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09/30/2025 - 21:01
Anthony Albanese pledges to continue talks with rival, as sources say previous climate summits have been co-hosted
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Australia could split hosting rights for the Cop31 climate summit under a potential compromise being considered with Turkey, as Anthony Albanese concedes Ankara is determined to stay in the race, even risking both countries’ claims on the 2026 event.
Returning home from the UN general assembly and visits to the UK and the Middle East on Wednesday, Albanese told Guardian Australia he wished host countries were not decided using consensus rules, but pledged to continue diplomatic talks with the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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09/30/2025 - 21:00
The National Climate Risk Assessment is attacked in the Daily Telegraph, while wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels a source of mountains of landfill waste
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On the front page of the Daily Telegraph, Australia’s first comprehensive assessment of the risks from climate change became “SCIENCE FICTION”.
In other leading stories, wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels were a source of mountains of landfill waste.
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09/30/2025 - 19:37
Ukrainian president says Russian shelling is preventing work to restore links to grid and that one of the plant’s diesel generators has failed
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been off the grid for seven straight days, warning of the potential threat of a “critical” situation.
It is the longest outage at Zaporizhzhia since Russia invaded and seized the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest.
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09/30/2025 - 18:01
Species’ population has almost halved in a generation and urgent action is needed to protect it, analysis finds
They are an iconic part of Britain’s natural world, inspiring myths, fairytales and at least one of its most-loved children’s book characters. But the number of toads hopping through British grasslands, forests and gardens has almost halved in a generation.
“Vast numbers of toads are being lost every year,” said Silviu Petrovan, a senior researcher at the University of Cambridge, who was lead author on the study showing just how uncommon the common toad is becoming.
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09/30/2025 - 18:00
Despite a deep conviction planet Earth is heading in the wrong direction, voters are trusting Labor to navigate the wormholes
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Our prime minister has navigated the world stage this past week as if being shepherded by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the fictional intergalactic wiki that predated the internet, bearing the reassuring aphorism: “Don’t panic.”
From setting mildly ambitious climate targets, to joining a belated coalition recognising the Palestinian state, to enduring the US president’s best impression of Vogon poetry at the UN, Anthony Albanese has proceeded with calculated sobriety.
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09/30/2025 - 12:55
Efficiency employees reportedly told to avoid ‘climate change’ and similar terms in their work in latest clampdown
The US Department of Energy has told employees in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) to avoid using the words “climate change” in what seems to be the latest incident in a crackdown on discussing the climate crisis in the US government.
“Please ensure that every member of your team is aware that this is the latest list of words to avoid – and continue to be conscientious about avoiding any terminology that you know to be misaligned with the administration’s perspectives and priorities,” says an email from an agency acting director seen by the Guardian.
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09/30/2025 - 10:26
Investors in talks about supporting up to 15 government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland
Private investors are in talks about spending tens of millions of pounds on government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland, the country’s conservation agency has said.
NatureScot said its so-called nature investment partnerships were on course to raise more than £100m for up to 15 projects, as it sought to fend off detailed criticisms of its fundraising efforts by an economics thinktank.
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