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The Guardian view on the carnivore diet: red meat for influencers, but bad news for health | Editorial

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:00:56 +0000

A fad for consuming high-protein, high-fat food, while avoiding vegetables, has taken off online. Followers are doing themselves no favours

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:00:02 +0000

Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn

Repeated exposure to heatwaves is accelerating ageing in people, according to a study. The impact is broadly comparable with the damage smoking, alcohol use, poor diet or limited exercise can have on health, the researchers said.

Extreme temperatures are increasingly common owing to the climate crisis, potentially causing widespread and long-lasting damage to the health of billions, the scientists warned.

Major Australian environmental law overhaul to be put to parliament this year as Watt warns delays risk ‘destruction’

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:05:01 +0000

Labor will seek to legislate national standards and federal EPA in one package rather than multiple stages, as it tried and failed to do last term

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The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:00:01 +0000

After Ice’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home

When Danielle Duran Zecca saw military-style immigration raids and people being snatched off the streets and put into unmarked vehicles in her native Los Angeles earlier this summer, she was in disbelief.

Thousands of illegal marijuana plants removed from California national park

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Rangers cleared about 2,377 marijuana plants and 2,000lbs of trash and hazardous chemicals from Sequoia park

Park rangers have removed an illegal marijuana cultivation site in California’s Sequoia national park spanning approximately 13 acres (5 hectares).

Ørsted shares at all-time low after Trump halts work on US windfarm

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:28:04 +0000

Shares drop by 17% after stop-work order on $1.5bn project off Rhode Island, which was 80% complete

Shares in Ørsted hit an all-time low on Monday after the Trump administration ordered Europe’s largest wind power company to stop work on a near complete windfarm.

Ørsted’s shares plunged 17%, after it was forced to stop construction on its $1.5bn (£741m) Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island.

Australia’s youngest senator describes depression, ‘wack’ responses and a pet-related white lie in first speech

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:58:44 +0000

Charlotte Walker, 21, spoke of being bullied and battling mental health issues, and said she will focus on issues including housing, domestic violence and the climate crisis

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What is happening with Australia’s emissions? Electricity is improving. Transport is not

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:27:21 +0000

According to latest government figures, heat-trapping pollution dropped by 1.4% in the year to March

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Net zero! It’s not even a real thing so why does everyone hate it? | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:49:39 +0000

You can sell fossil fuels overseas till the cows come home as long as you don’t burn it here

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The genius of trees: how forests have shaped humanity, from chocolate cravings to our ability to dream

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:00:51 +0000

Since our early ancestors came down from the canopy, we may think we have learned how to live without trees. But our lives remain intertwined in incredible ways

Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a tree. She had deep-set brown eyes and brown hair. She ate fruit – orange mangosteen and black juniper berries – crunched on nuts, sucked on sweet grasses and chewed juicy leaves, and dug up tubers and roots, knowing which ones were good, and which were hard or poisonous.