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Wessex Water must pay £11m over wastewater failures, says regulator

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:04:23 +0000

Company failed to effectively operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater assets, Ofwat finds

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Wessex Water has been ordered to pay £11m over wastewater failures and told to spend it on improvements to reduce sewage spills and other measures.

Violent reprisals after DRC whistleblowers discover profiteering in protected land

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:00:12 +0000

Environmentalists seeking to end logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC’s Mangrove Marine park faced threats, violence and rape

People who have tried to expose unlawful ownership and profit-making from protected land in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have faced threats, violence and rape, an investigation has found.

Advance launches last-minute lobbying campaign pressuring Liberal MPs to dump net zero target

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:06:24 +0000

Rightwing lobby group’s email blitz targets party ahead of Liberal shadow ministry meeting at 9am on Thursday

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The rightwing lobby group Advance has launched a last-minute lobbying campaign to pressure Liberal MPs to dump a net zero emissions target at a special meeting in Canberra on Wednesday.

‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 03:42:31 +0000

The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rife

As a familiar smoky evening haze gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists were all united by a basic but desperate demand: the right to breathe safely in India’s capital.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:01:03 +0000

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

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China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule.

Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:58:06 +0000

An expert describes how communities in some of the world’s driest areas are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment

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‘We need this food’: Las Vegas teens on hunger and anxiety amid Snap cuts

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:10:40 +0000

Children may not understand politics of shutdown, but fear of future hunger can affect young brains, research reveals

Jailed climate activist wins appeal against deportation from UK

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:48:11 +0000

Marcus Decker was served with deportation order while in prison for unveiling Just Stop Oil banner over Dartford Crossing

A climate activist who served one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for a peaceful protest has won his appeal against deportation.

‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:15:33 +0000

Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30

Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at the start of the Cop30 climate talks.

Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:00:49 +0000

Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk

The Trump administration is poised to again approve a new Pfas “forever chemical” pesticide ingredient, a move that is drawing criticism from public health advocates who say the nation’s food and water supply is being put at more risk from the dangerous compounds.