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Australian scientists produce kangaroo embryos using IVF for first time

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:00:24 +0000

Team has produced more than 20 embryos using method used in humans, though there are no plans for live joeys

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Scientists have produced kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation for the first time, in a development they say could help conservation of endangered animals.

Norwegian firm lobbying to open Rosebank oilfield halves green investments

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:56:49 +0000

State-owned Equinor becomes latest fossil fuel firm to backtrack on clean energy pledges with move to halve budget to $5bn

The Norwegian oil company fighting to open a giant new oilfield off Shetland has cut billions of pounds from its green spending plans in favour of producing more fossil fuels.

Equinor set out plans on Wednesday to halve its investments in low-carbon energy while producing more oil and gas, becoming the latest in a line of fossil fuel firms to backtrack on its green promises.

Badger admiring art wins wildlife photographer of the year public vote

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:28:00 +0000

Ian Wood wins Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award with photo taken in St Leonards-on-Sea

A badger captured glancing up at a graffiti version of itself has won the Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award for wildlife photographer of the year.

The image was taken by a British photographer, Ian Wood, on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.

East Anglian farms breach environment regulations 700 times in seven years

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:00:31 +0000

Freedom of information data reveals violations on intensive poultry and pig farms

Industrial-scale livestock farms across East Anglia have breached environmental regulations more than 700 times in the past seven years, freedom of information (FoI) data has revealed.

The farms across Norfolk and Suffolk are among the largest in the country. Pig and poultry farming is concentrated in the region and 28% of England’s pig population was farmed in the area in 2023.

It seems the end of everything is upon us. Is no one coming to our rescue. How about … the molluscs?! | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:33:24 +0000

Did you know molluscs protect the citizens of Poland from water pollution? It’s true!

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:11:36 +0000

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency.

Minister promises to spend £250m to top up England’s flood defences

admin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:30:20 +0000

Labour pledges to protect 66,500 more properties, criticising previous Tory efforts

Ministers are topping up flood defence investment in England to a “record” £2.65bn, after accusing the previous government of “putting lives at risk” by under-spending.

An extra £250m is being pledged on top of the £2.4bn previously announced, to shore up defences and protect an extra 66,500 properties from flooding over a two-year period, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.

Labour facing defeat in vote to ban green energy investments tied to Uyghur exploitation

admin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:32:30 +0000

Exclusive: cross-party backing likely for amendment to GB Energy bill aiming to block solar panels made by forced labour

The government is facing defeat next week over a move to guarantee that companies using forced labour do not drive the UK’s green energy transition.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have thrown their weight behind an amendment by the cross-bench peer David Alton to the Great British Energy bill, which is making its way through the House of Lords.

New study assesses impact of agricultural research investments on biodiversity, land use

admin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:18:59 +0000

New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the environment and food system sustainability.

Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist

admin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:31:22 +0000

Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree

The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”.

A new analysis by Hansen and colleagues concludes that both the impact of recent cuts in sun-blocking shipping pollution, which has raised temperatures, and the sensitivity of the climate to increasing fossil fuels emissions are greater than thought.