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Roots of resilience: the experts working to bolster apples against the climate crisis

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:00:03 +0000

Scientists are focusing on improving apples’ resilience after stressors like wild temperature swings and drought

Terence Robinson still remembers the Valentine’s Day Massacre – of 2015, not 1929.

New revelations show WA is putting Australia’s climate targets at risk. Will Anthony Albanese do anything about it? | Clear Air

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:00:02 +0000

Premier Roger Cook has the prime minister’s implicit support but he’s making it harder for federal Labor to meet its much-vaunted climate targets

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Nissan ponders building cars for Chinese rivals at Sunderland plant

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:54:50 +0000

CEO admits talks with Chery as other European carmakers discuss plans with Chinese firms to share factory space

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Nissan’s chief executive has confirmed he would consider building cars for other manufacturers at the UK’s largest car factory in Sunderland, amid talks with China’s Chery.

‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:30:56 +0000

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area

A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state’s stressed water supplies.

‘You have to be where the pollution is’: the inventor hoping to fix your washing machine to stop microplastics

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:00:23 +0000

Matter Industries founder Adam Root has developed a filter to trap microfibres at home and on an industrial scale. But is it just a drop in the ocean?

The dinky device slots seamlessly into the modest space above my washing machine. A pipe snakes down from it, drawing in wastewater from my clothes washes. At the end of each wash cycle, the machine makes a polite whirring noise: that’s the sound of the groundbreaking bit of technology working, according to its inventor, Adam Root. That invention is a microplastics filter.

David Attenborough is not just a national treasure: he is also the most radical person on TV | Jonathan Liew

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:23 +0000

The naturalist is venerated as a cuddly Paddington Bear, but he’s more than that. Don’t let the superficial backslaps obscure the political critique he makes

The excesses the capitalist system has brought us have got to be curbed somehow. Ordinary people worldwide are beginning to realise that greed does not actually lead to joy. Our economic system has been based on the profit principle: you have to come out at the end of the year having made a profit, and the bigger profit you have made, the better it is. In the short term that works, but it ends with disaster.

Jim Chalmers’ budget doesn’t fix everything – but it’s an overdue first payment to future generations | Ken Henry

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:57:41 +0000

The treasurer has shown economic reforms should not be left to the too-hard basket, and instead be pursued with a sense of urgency

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Labour must fulfil promise to introduce clean air act, charities urge

admin — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:02:12 +0000

Party held out prospect of act while in opposition but plan did not make it into election manifesto

Ministers should bring forward a new clean air act that would ban wood burning, clear diesel vehicles from the roads and force councils to cut pollution, a group of more than 60 charities have urged before the king’s speech on Wednesday.

Don’t reach for the bug spray: scientists find insects may feel pain after crickets nurse sore antennae

admin — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:01:12 +0000

The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say

Huge plumes of smoke rise over Florida as Everglades wildfire rages – video

admin — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:36:00 +0000

South Florida fires that burnt through 45 sq km (11,000 acres) of land over the weekend spread on Monday as emergency crews worked to contain them.

Florida Forest Service said 'the growing fires were producing smoky conditions with reduced visibility'. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported.

Dry conditions have led to wildfires in other parts the country, including fires that destroyed dozens of homes in southern Georgia last month