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Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:05:48 +0000

Exclusive: Government failure to close loophole allows 600,000 tonnes to be shipped abroad each year

A plastic recycling industry potentially worth £2bn and 5,000 jobs is dying in the UK because of government failure to close a loophole that allows 600,000 tonnes of plastic waste to be exported each year.

US west coast faults could trigger catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes, study finds

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:00:23 +0000

Study shows high-magnitude temblor in north-west could set off another in California, causing unrivaled disaster

Warnings about the looming threat of “the big one” – a catastrophic earthquake that could devastate cities – have stoked fears across the US west coast for decades. But according to a new study, a high-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific north-west could set off a secondary one on California’s San Andreas fault, causing an unrivaled catastrophe.

“The bigger one” would have the potential to wreak havoc up and down the coast at once, researchers say.

‘We don’t want to be a toy town’: has Brexit sunk this historic UK fishing fleet?

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:00:22 +0000

Struggling fishers in Hastings say the industry is dying after a deal giving away access to its waters made a tough job impossible

A small flotilla of gaily coloured fishing boats line the shingle beach at Hastings, East Sussex. Behind them are the bulldozers that shunt them into the waves and beyond, in neat rows, are black wooden fishermen’s huts and fish stalls, where on a good day teenage daughters, wives and retired skippers sell some of the day’s catch.

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:06:27 +0000

Labor backbencher is calling for drastic intervention to secure supplies for the east coast

Dogs name toys while elephants name each other. Animal language is more complex than we imagine | Helen Pilcher

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:00:19 +0000

If we really want to grasp what animals are ‘saying’, we need to understand their communication on their terms, not ours

Another day, another cute story about how dogs can grasp elements of human language and use them to communicate with us.

Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:49:25 +0000

Competition watchdog agrees to requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, South East, Southern and Wessex to increase charges

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Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:00:15 +0000

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

For two years, a team of Swiss researchers crossed the country by train, car and foot, carrying with them a red frame measuring 30 by 30 centimetres. At 277 sites they placed the frame in the grass and counted all of the plant species within it.

The scientists were retracing a path set more than 100 years earlier, when two botanists had done the same thing in exactly the same meadows, long before such plant inventories became common.

The Guardian view on Cop30: Starmer must stop havering and announce that he’s going to Brazil | Editorial

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:51:03 +0000

With global heating on a dangerous trajectory, it would be unforgivable for the prime minister to miss the summit in Belém

Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:00:03 +0000

Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report finds

An illegal gold rush has cleared 140,000 hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon and is accelerating as foreign, armed groups move into the region to profit from record gold prices, according to a report.

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:52:02 +0000

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, a powerful report by the UK’s intelligence chiefs is due to warn.

However, the report, which was supposed to launch on Thursday at a landmark event in London, has been delayed, and concerns have been expressed to the Guardian that it may have been blocked by number 10.