Environmental groups, immigration advocates and Native Americans decry idea to set up the outdoor detention camp
Environmental groups, immigration rights activists and a Native American tribe have decried the construction of a harsh outdoor migrant detention camp in the Florida Everglades billed by state officials as “Alligator Alcatraz”.
Crews began preparing the facility at a remote, largely disused training airfield this week in support of the Trump administration’s aggressive goal of arresting and incarcerating 3,000 undocumented migrants every day.
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06/27/2025 - 05:00
06/27/2025 - 04:00
Residents on British Columbia island fiercely divided over whether to relocate, euthanize or ignore ‘Tex’ the bear
Most visitors to Texada Island, a 30-mile sliver of land off the west coast of British Columbia, choose one of two main methods of arrival: a provincial ferry service with 10 daily sailings or a 3,000ft air strip, which welcomes the occasional chartered plane.
But a four-year-old grizzly bear recently took a far more challenging route, braving strong currents and frigid water to swim nearly three miles across the Malaspina Strait.
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06/27/2025 - 01:00
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
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06/27/2025 - 01:00
Sustainable period care brand says report from rival Mooncup is flawed and contains inaccuracies
The sustainable period care brand Here We Flo, which launched in 2017 selling “plant powered” pads and liners that are “100% free of nasties”, is removing the terms “plastic-free” and “no synthetic fibres” from its packets.
The company said it had been working on a “packaging refresh” for the past year.
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06/26/2025 - 22:30
The winter crop growing season requires three days of steady rain – but many inland parts of southern Australia did not receive an autumn break this year
How often do you mow your lawn in winter? It may seem like an odd way to start a conversation about drought, but the answer helps explain why our current drought has not broken, despite recent rain – and why spring lamb may be more expensive this year.
Southern Australia has been short of rain for 16 months. Western Victoria, the agricultural regions of South Australia (including Adelaide) and even parts of western Tasmania are suffering record dry conditions. Those rainfall measurements began in 1900 – 126 years ago.
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06/26/2025 - 21:00
Greens leader says redesign of ‘ridiculous’ Howard-era rules must include explicit consideration of climate
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Greens leader Larissa Waters warns Labor’s rewrite of national environmental laws will not be credible if the government uses its planned 18-month timeline to continue to approve new coal and gas projects or allow continued habitat destruction.
Labor’s proposal to create a federal environment protection agency collapsed in the final months of the last parliament. A deal with the Greens was being negotiated by the then environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, but Anthony Albanese pushed the changes off the agenda, fearing an electoral backlash in Western Australia.
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06/26/2025 - 13:00
Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed
New generations of wild ash trees are rapidly evolving resistance to the fungus devastating their numbers, scientists have discovered.
The discovery gives hope, the researchers said, and shows that allowing the natural regeneration of woodlands is vital to enabling this evolution to take place. However, it remains too early to say if the development of resistance in the ash trees can outpace the destruction being caused by the ash dieback fungus.
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06/26/2025 - 11:00
Democratic senator leads calls for answers over provision that could cut fossil fuel firms’ income tax to zero
Democratic lawmakers led by the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren are pressing two energy companies about their efforts to “win a $1.1bn tax loophole” in Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”.
The proposed exemption, which Senate Republicans inserted into their version of the reconciliation mega-bill this month, would exempt fossil fuel companies from paying a tax codified by Biden in 2022.
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06/26/2025 - 08:56
Storm naming competition raises idea to remind public of link between fossil fuels and extreme weather
The Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, campaigners have said, after the weather forecasting service opened a storm naming competition.
Climate campaigners have recommended the Met Office names its storms after various oil and gas corporations to remind the public of the link between burning fossil fuels and extreme weather.
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06/26/2025 - 08:43
South Australia’s tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have tried a bold fix—move it. Three separate populations were shifted from the parched north to cooler, greener sites farther south. At first the lizards reacted differently—nervous northerners diving for cover, laid-back southerners basking in damp burrows—but after two years most are settling in, suggesting they can ultimately thrive.
