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Experts push to uphold credible climate science findings as Trump administration spreads doubt

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:00:27 +0000

Veteran scientists organize response to recent energy department report while top group of advisers ‘fast-track’ review of greenhouse gas evidence

Veteran climate scientists are organizing a coordinated public comment to a US Department of Energy (DOE) report which cast doubt on the scientific consensus on the climate crisis.

Flash flooding leaves at least three dead in Tennessee

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:47:50 +0000

State of emergency declared around Chattanooga as child and two adults killed and heavy rain closes roads

Flash flooding and torrential rain has cost at least three lives in Tennessee on Wednesday and caused havoc on the roads around Chattanooga, as the county mayor declared a state of emergency.

A tree uprooted from saturated ground and fell on a family in their car early on Wednesday morning, in East Ridge, on the outskirts of Chattanooga, killing a child and two adults, according to authorities in the area.

‘Mind blown’: scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:00:23 +0000

Almost all of the ‘sex discordant’ birds were genetically female but had male reproductive organs, study finds

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More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat in Arizona county

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:20:14 +0000

August is on track to be hottest on record, with temperatures hitting at least 110F (43C) nearly every day

More than 400 people are suspected to have died from extreme heat in Maricopa county, Arizona, so far this summer, according to official figures, as the brutal current heatwave enters its 12th day.

Alaska’s Juneau orders evacuations as record glacier flood looms

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:14:45 +0000

Mendenhall Glacier outburst threatens homes, with scientists warning events are intensifying

Spain wildfires are ‘clear warning’ of climate emergency, minister says

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:12:42 +0000

Environment minister says blazes, in which two people have died, are proof of country’s vulnerability to global heating

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EV drivers set to pay road user charges as record number of electric cars selling in Australia

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:00:18 +0000

PM says sustainable revenue for roads is needed as report shows nearly one in 10 new car sales are electric vehicles

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Labor to use black summer-era measure to fast-track algal bloom response as dolphin carcass washes up on beach

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:16:48 +0000

Murray Watt and Sussan Ley survey devastation in Adelaide as scientists call for urgent funding for affected species

‘It’s destruction disguised as progress’: how the oil industry is sucking Iraq’s ancient wetlands dry

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:00:41 +0000

Hawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water

At dawn, a veil of mist clings to the canals of Hawizeh, where sky and water seem to blur into a mirror. In the stern of a narrow wooden boat, 23-year-old Mustafa Hashim scans the marshes’ shallows, cutting the motor and switching to a traditional pole to avoid snagging on invasive roots or thickening mud.

Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 05:00:40 +0000

Chair Tony Juniper celebrates successes but says ‘collective endeavour’ needed to halt country’s decline in nature

England needs a massive “collective endeavour” to halt the country’s nature decline, its top conservation official says, after multimillion-pound investments in nature helped dormice, voles, willow tits and other species thrive.

Targeted conservation projects led by Natural England as part of its £13m species recovery programme’s capital grants scheme, have supported the recovery of 150 species, according to findings published on Wednesday.