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Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:00:30 +0000

Before the Spanish study, some scientists had been sceptical about the mammals attacking migratory birds

Bats are generally viewed as harmless, if spooky, creatures of the night. But scientists have revealed a more savage side, after witnessing a greater noctule bat – Europe’s largest bat species – hunting, killing and devouring a robin mid-flight.

Prince William to attend Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:09:25 +0000

Prince of Wales’s decision welcomed as a means of drawing attention to the event and galvanising talks

The Prince of Wales will attend the crunch Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil next month, the Guardian has learned, but whether the prime minister will go is still to be decided.

Prince William will present the Earthshot prize, a global environmental award and attend the meeting of representatives of more than 190 governments in Belém.

One of world’s biggest windfarm developers to cut quarter of workforce

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:45:03 +0000

Ørsted plans to shrink company after Trump administration causes share price to plunge to all-time low

One of the world’s biggest windfarm developers will cut its workforce by a quarter in the next two years after a series of setbacks for the industry.

Danish wind giant Ørsted plans to remove about 2,000 positions from its 8,000-strong workforce by the end of 2027 through a combination of redundancies, natural attrition and selling off parts of its business.

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:00:28 +0000

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

Among the autopsy reports that made my heart skip a beat was Hannah Rose Moody.

One morning last May, the 31-year-old set out on a favourite desert hike near her home in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was already 91F (33C) when she set off. On Instagram, she told her 50,000 followers: “Conquering this trail as a last hurrah before summer hits ☀️… I have like 5 gallons of water with me don’t worry .”

Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:05:48 +0000

Exclusive: Government failure to close loophole allows 600,000 tonnes to be shipped abroad each year

A plastic recycling industry potentially worth £2bn and 5,000 jobs is dying in the UK because of government failure to close a loophole that allows 600,000 tonnes of plastic waste to be exported each year.

US west coast faults could trigger catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes, study finds

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:00:23 +0000

Study shows high-magnitude temblor in north-west could set off another in California, causing unrivaled disaster

Warnings about the looming threat of “the big one” – a catastrophic earthquake that could devastate cities – have stoked fears across the US west coast for decades. But according to a new study, a high-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific north-west could set off a secondary one on California’s San Andreas fault, causing an unrivaled catastrophe.

“The bigger one” would have the potential to wreak havoc up and down the coast at once, researchers say.

‘We don’t want to be a toy town’: has Brexit sunk this historic UK fishing fleet?

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:00:22 +0000

Struggling fishers in Hastings say the industry is dying after a deal giving away access to its waters made a tough job impossible

A small flotilla of gaily coloured fishing boats line the shingle beach at Hastings, East Sussex. Behind them are the bulldozers that shunt them into the waves and beyond, in neat rows, are black wooden fishermen’s huts and fish stalls, where on a good day teenage daughters, wives and retired skippers sell some of the day’s catch.

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:06:27 +0000

Labor backbencher is calling for drastic intervention to secure supplies for the east coast

Dogs name toys while elephants name each other. Animal language is more complex than we imagine | Helen Pilcher

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:00:19 +0000

If we really want to grasp what animals are ‘saying’, we need to understand their communication on their terms, not ours

Another day, another cute story about how dogs can grasp elements of human language and use them to communicate with us.

Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:49:25 +0000

Competition watchdog agrees to requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, South East, Southern and Wessex to increase charges

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