Intensive livestock farms such as those found across the US are spreading across the continent, according to new data
American-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with new data revealing more than 24,000 megafarms across the continent.
In the UK alone, there are now 1,824 industrial-scale pig and poultry farms, according to the data obtained by AGtivist that relates to 2023.
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06/12/2025 - 08:38
Hosepipe bans possible as low reservoir levels make region second in England to enter drought status
Yorkshire has become the second area of England to enter drought after the country recorded its driest spring in 132 years.
Hosepipe bans could be possible if the region did not have significant rainfall in the coming weeks as, despite recent showers, reservoir stocks were continuing to dwindle. Yorkshire Water reservoir stocks dropped 0.51% over the last week to 62.3%, significantly below the average of 85.5% for this time of year.
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06/12/2025 - 06:02
From Northern Irish handkerchief-makers to Scilly Isles fisherman who know when to let stocks replenish, a new book showcases radical solutions to our environmental problems
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06/12/2025 - 06:00
The US president vowed to cut food costs, but experts warn metal tariffs may raise prices in a matter of months
Canned foods make up a big part of 20-year-old Cale Johnson’s diet: tuna, corned beef hash, beans, chicken soup, Spam and fruit. They’re affordable and have a long shelf life, which is essential for many people in the US like Johnson, who earns a low income and works two part-time jobs in addition to being a full-time student in Omaha, Nebraska.
In the days after Donald Trump’s recent decision to double tariffs on steel and aluminum, Johnson says he’s worried.
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06/11/2025 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00128-3
Seascape connectivity: evidence, knowledge gaps and implications for temperate coastal ecosystem restoration practice and policy
06/11/2025 - 20:59
The 43% emission reduction target is not aligned with the Paris agreement – it should be at least 59%
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Australian officials are gearing up for next week’s mid-year climate talks in Bonn where they’ll be going full tilt lobbying other governments to support the bid to host next year’s COP31 negotiations. But can the government claim enough climate leadership?
Our latest Climate Action Tracker shows the government’s efforts to cut emissions are still rated “insufficient”. Australia is not on track to meet its renewable energy target, its flagship industrial emissions policy is deficient, and its support for the fossil fuel industry – especially exports – remains unwavering.
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06/11/2025 - 19:00
Senior lecturer says staff and students have struggled to get answers from university leadership about arrangement
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Monash University is under fire for an event at its Italian campus jointly organised with Woodside Energy, as staff criticise the institution for hosting “shadowy conferences paid for by fossil fuel corporations” and a lack of transparency around the relationship.
Monash co-hosted a “climate change and energy transition” conference with the gas giant at the university’s Prato campus in June 2024. The conference website, no longer directly available but accessible via the Wayback Machine, shows speakers were invited to submit papers on “the role of climate activism/nimbyism” in “thwarting emissions reductions” and how “activism”, “lawfare” and “cancel culture” were harmful to the energy transition.
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06/11/2025 - 14:03
More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades
US power plants will be allowed to pollute nearby communities and the wider world with more unhealthy air toxins and an unlimited amount of planet-heating gases under new regulatory rollbacks proposed by Donald Trump’s administration, experts warned.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a plan on Wednesday that would repeal a landmark climate rule that aims to mostly eliminate greenhouse gases from power plants by the 2030s and would, separately, weaken another regulation that restricts power plants’ release of hazardous air pollutants such as mercury.
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06/11/2025 - 13:16
Ed Miliband’s vehicle for investing in renewables lost 30% of its pot to small modular nuclear reactors in the spending review
GB Energy’s promised £8.3bn budget raided to pay for small nuclear reactors
There was a weirdness in the government’s welcome announcement this week that Rolls-Royce SMR had been selected as preferred bidder to build the UK’s first small modular nuclear reactors, and that £2.5bn of public money would be thrown behind the project. The government body backing the project was something called Great British Energy – Nuclear.
This, it turned out, was the new name for Great British Nuclear, the unit set up in 2023 by the last government to oversee delivery of the nuclear programme. But why risk confusion with Great British Energy, Ed Miliband’s publicly owned company for investing, we thought, in renewables projects such as wind, solar and hydro with a side-mission to ensure that lots of the kit is manufactured in the UK?
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06/11/2025 - 13:01
National energy company effectively loses £2.5bn to separate body tasked with spearheading nuclear renaissance
Nils Pratley: Great British Energy’s budget has been nuked
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Rachel Reeves has effectively cut £2.5bn from the government’s national energy company by sharing the £8.3bn it was promised with a separate nuclear power body set up by the Conservatives.
The Labour manifesto had pledged the full amount to Great British Energy to invest in clean power projects. However, the chancellor’s spending review said the company would share this funding with a separate body tasked with spearheading Britain’s nuclear renaissance.
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