Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Week in wildlife – in pictures: warthog drama, a fox at the museum and our rarest whale

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Eco homes near the sea for sale in Great Britain – in pictures

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From a Grand Designs-style property nestled underground to a remote timber-framed home on a hillside

Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns

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Friends of the Earth says older people and young children are most at risk in heat-vulnerable neighbourhoods

Inadequate climate protections mean at least 6 million lives are at risk from extreme heat in England, an analysis has found.

A report by the campaign group Friends of the Earth found older people and young children were the most high-risk groups for heatwaves, with 1.7 million under-5s and 4.3 million people over 65 living in the most heat-vulnerable neighbourhoods in England.

Windows outage live: Albanese government holds emergency meeting as airlines, supermarkets and banks affected; PM says ‘no impact’ to critical infrastructure

admin — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 21:52:58 +0000

Blue screen of death error screens seen on Windows workstations across the globe due to Crowdstrike ‘content deployment’. Follow today’s news headlines live

Spoonbills return to E for first time since 17th century

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Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England

With their long, spoon-shaped beaks, it is perhaps little surprise that the RSPB has nicknamed the offspring of a spoonbill a “teaspoon”.

It has been a bumper year for the snow-white wading birds, which have been found nesting and breeding in Cambridgeshire for the first time since the 17th century.

‘It is devastating’: unprecedented floods in US strain small businesses

admin — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:00:15 +0000

As the climate crisis causes heavier and more frequent floods across the US, one in four small businesses are one disaster away from shutting down

Alejandra Palma lives in perpetual fear of the next storm.

“We are constantly checking the weather,” said Palma, who co-owns Root Hill Cafe in Brooklyn’s low-lying Gowanus neighborhood. “If we see that there’s a hurricane in Florida, it’s like, oh my God, please let it not come here.”

Labour has left farmers facing agriculture budget ‘cliff edge’, says NFU

admin — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:29:49 +0000

Union says members being ‘kept up at night’ over failure to commit to continue payments at current rate

Farmers are facing a “cliff edge” as the Labour government refuses to commit to maintaining the agriculture budget for England, the president of the National Farmers’ Union has said.

The issue is one of the first pressures Labour is facing over its tight fiscal rules, along with a rebellion on the party’s refusal to remove the two-child benefit cap.

Colombia gives assurances over UN biodiversity summit after rebels’ threat

admin — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:55:58 +0000

Organisers working to ensure safe environment for attenders in October after guerrillas’ warning of disruption

Colombian authorities have insisted it will be safe to attend a UN biodiversity summit in Cali later this year, after a dissident rebel group threatened to disrupt the event.

This week Central General Staff (EMC), a guerrilla faction that rejected the country’s 2016 peace agreement, said the UN nature summit Cop16 would “fail”, in a post on X addressed to the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25

admin — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:37:32 +0000

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms by a judge who told them they had “crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic”.

US oil company ran 1977 article predicting climate crisis could cause starvation

admin — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:00:34 +0000

Marathon Petroleum predecessor warned of potential for ‘social and economic calamities’ in decades-old publication

The corporate predecessor to America’s largest refiner of oil, Marathon Petroleum, explained in a company periodical nearly 50 years ago that global temperature rise potentially linked to “industrial expansion” could one day cause “widespread starvation and other social and economic calamities”.