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US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:35 +0000

Local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants, analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows

Congressional lobbyists working for fossil fuel firms that are exacerbating the climate crisis are simultaneously representing more than 300 local governments raising funding to recover from climate damage, according to a new analysis.

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:04:56 +0000

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

The carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of the fossil fuel company ExxonMobil’s UK emissions, analysis has revealed.

Experts have said this demonstrates the “serious threat” datacentres pose to the UK’s legally binding climate goals.

Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:34 +0000

Trump administration proposes new rule to dismantle requirement for datacenters to publicly report air pollution

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration aims to kill public notification for datacenter air pollution, public health advocates warn, and allow emission permits to be issued behind closed doors.

The datacenters are often sources of nitrogen oxide, which helps form ozone, carbon monoxide and heavy metals, among other pollutants.

Fishy business: who really profits when sardines go viral? - video

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:46 +0000

Once a cheap store-cupboard staple, sardines are fast becoming a luxury food item. Last year, #SardineGirlSummer saw influencers promoting the health benefits of sardinemaxxing, while sardinecore became the must-have fashion trend. Now, demand is accelerating just as Morocco’s sardine stock has collapsed, causing shortages on supermarket shelves. The Guardian travels to Matosinhos in Portugal, the cultural home of the sardine industry, to investigate who is profiting from the boom, how it has affected local fishermen, and what sustainability looks like in an era of global heating

US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:34 +0000

There has been a 76% increase in under-construction gas-fired projects amid ‘frenzy’ to build more datacenters

The US has surged ahead of China in the building of new gas-fired power generation, largely to feed a boom in artificial intelligence (AI) that is adding vast amounts of planet-heating emissions, a new analysis has found.

‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:53 +0000

New documentary To Use a Mountain spotlights the pain and triumph of resisting government efforts to turn parts of rural US into disposal sites

From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:53 +0000

Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:17:21 +0000

A local initiative is testing simple ways to stop algal blooms in the River Fal threatening some of England’s most biodiverse marine habitats

On a rocky beach in Cornwall, a group of wetsuit-clad freedivers and snorkellers are wading into the shallows. Below St Mawes Castle, built by Henry VIII to defend Falmouth harbour, they disappear in a swish of florescent pink and green fins.

They are volunteers, trained by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust to use underwater cameras and floating GPS devices to detect changes in marine habitats over time.

The war on ‘loudcasting’ phones can be won, but it will take some very British nudging | Dan Hancox

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:00:51 +0000

Although mobiles blared in public are nothing new, this crop of headphone-dodging irritants are truly maddening. It’s time to take them on

‘Interesting cities can’t be quiet”, runs one of grime DJ and music industry thinker Elijah’s epigrams – and in its essential spirit, he is right. Silent, tidy, prim cities should be treated with suspicion. Any such atmosphere denotes that something has gone wrong at a macro level: either you’ve wound up in an authoritarian regime or, worse, Switzerland.

Going with the grain: how restoring biodiversity led one farmer back to heritage wheat

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:00:50 +0000

Henry Astor looked back to his grandfather’s time for the inspiration to find older varieties that could help nature on his Cotswold farm

It is the earliest harvest Henry Astor can remember. But walking through the scorched wheatfields of his Cotswolds farm, signs of life are everywhere – swarms of insects, kaleidoscopic wildflower meadows, bushy hedgerows several metres wide. A yellowhammer perches on a nearby tree.