Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
The environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.
According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags is unknown.
Continue reading...
Breaking Waves: Ocean News
10/04/2025 - 10:02
10/04/2025 - 09:00
Some parks are closed, some are trying to function with a skeleton staff – and visitors and employees are frustrated
Kim Nachazel had been looking forward to a road trip to Mesa Verde national park in Colorado this week. Her husband had been mesmerized by the park since he read about it in high school, and she’d planned them a full day of adventure – two tours of famous cliff dwellings, a camping spot on BLM land, and even a spot for her pup at a dog-boarding place inside the park grounds.
She knew about the government shutdown, but that didn’t deter her. “I had hope and optimism that this park wouldn’t really be affected,” she says, “and that we would have an amazing day exploring.”
Continue reading...
10/04/2025 - 07:00
Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought
Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – Pfas “forever chemical” pollution.
Big tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon often need datacenters to store servers and networking equipment that process the world’s digital traffic, and the artificial intelligence boom is driving demand for more facilities.
Continue reading...
10/04/2025 - 05:00
Democrats and environmental groups slam move as ‘sick political game’ and say it will drive up energy bills
The Trump administration is cancelling $7.6bn in grants that supported hundreds of clean energy projects in 16 states, all of which voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election.
The move comes as Donald Trump threatens deep cuts in his fight with congressional Democrats over the government shutdown.
Continue reading...
10/04/2025 - 01:00
Royal couple’s desire for more privacy means 2.3-mile perimeter exclusion zone and less public land for walkers
For almost two decades Tina has enjoyed early morning walks through Windsor Great Park’s ancient-oak studded open fields with the freedom to let her dog off the lead.
In recent weeks, however, she has noticed disturbing changes: fencing appearing around her regular route near Cranbourne Gate, trenches being dug, hedges planted and CCTV cameras erected.
Continue reading...
10/04/2025 - 00:00
Shift raises food safety and welfare concerns as imports can bypass standards for domestic producers
Ukraine and Poland have overtaken other EU countries to become the UK’s biggest egg suppliers, sparking warnings that imports of eggs from caged hens are slipping “through the back door” despite welfare pledges.
Freedom of information data from the Animal and Plant Health Agency shows that, while the Netherlands supplied a large proportion of UK eggs in 2022, its share has steadily fallen. By 2025, Ukraine and Poland together accounted for more than 15m kilograms, with Spain, Italy and other southern and eastern European countries also having increased their exports.
Continue reading...
10/03/2025 - 23:00
EVs rise nearly a third in September compared with a year earlier, as plug-in hybrids jump by 56%
British electric car sales hit a record high in September as new taxpayer subsidies helped to attract buyers in the most important month for the market.
Battery EV sales rose by nearly a third in September compared with a year earlier, to 72,800, according to preliminary figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), a lobby group.
Continue reading...
10/03/2025 - 08:33
Leader tells party’s conference he is ready to take the fight to Labour and speak out in support of immigration
UK politics live – latest updates
The Greens are coming directly to challenge Labour, the party’s new leader, Zack Polanski, has told its conference, saying that as things stand, Keir Starmer would “hand this country on a plate” to Reform UK.
Addressing a packed event in Bournemouth, Polanski condemned what he called Labour’s “managed decline” and the aping of Reform policies in areas such as migration.
Continue reading...
10/03/2025 - 08:33
NZBA had nearly 150 members but banks began leaving when Trump was re-elected on promise to ‘drill, baby, drill’
The global banking industry’s net zero target-setting group has announced it will shut down immediately, amid faltering climate commitments around the world.
The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which was rocked by a wave of departures after Donald Trump’s re-election, said its remaining members had “voted to transition from a member-based alliance and to establish its guidance as a framework”.
Continue reading...
10/03/2025 - 07:00
Gavin Newsom, who has vetoed environmental bills before, feeling push from industry and celebrity chefs on next steps
Gavin Newsom, the California governor, is facing intense pressure from industry, and even some celebrity chefs, as he weighs whether or not to sign a bill that bans the sale of cookware made with Pfas or “forever chemicals”.
The legislation, approved by the California legislature on 12 September, comes as Newsom contemplates a run for the Democratic presidential nomination, heightening the scrutiny of his decision.
Continue reading...
