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Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:33:11 +0000

NZBA had nearly 150 members but banks began leaving when Trump was re-elected on promise to ‘drill, baby, drill’

The global banking industry’s net zero target-setting group has announced it will immediately shut down, amid faltering climate commitments around the world.

The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which was rocked by a wave of departures after Donald Trump’s re-election, said its remaining members had “voted to transition from a member-based alliance and to establish its guidance as a framework”.

California governor under pressure over bill to ban cookware made with Pfas

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:00:36 +0000

Gavin Newsom, who has vetoed environmental bills before, feeling push from industry and celebrity chefs on next steps

Gavin Newsom, the California governor, is facing intense pressure from industry, and even some celebrity chefs, as he weighs whether or not to sign a bill that bans the sale of cookware made with Pfas or “forever chemicals”.

Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:14:36 +0000

Plantlife charity enlisted help of 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in places such as private gardens

Graveyards, sheep farms and garden lawns are among the hundreds of new sites for rare pink and purple fungi discovered by citizen scientists.

The charity Plantlife has enlisted 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in their local areas, so scientists can get data from places such as private gardens to which they have not previously had access.

Week in wildlife: a shy polar bear, whirling waders and a pilchard platoon

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:00:26 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Snowy Hydro 2.0 flags another cost blowout with $12bn price tag now considered unachievable

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:24:42 +0000

Pumped hydro project in Kosciuszko national park is 67% complete, but supply chain cost increases and issues with a borer have caused cost overrun

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Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:00:11 +0000

Of 200 fires in the past 44 years, half of the fires that cost US$1bn or more were in the last decade

Wildfires tore through central Chile last year, killing 133 people. In California, 18,000 buildings were destroyed in 2018 causing US$16bn (A$24bn, £12bn) in damage. Portugal, Greece, Algeria and Australia have all felt the grief and the economic pain in recent years.

The Guardian view on climate policy: Britain needs clean power, not culture wars | Editorial

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:32:45 +0000

Kemi Badenoch’s plan to scrap the Climate Change Act is reckless. Ed Miliband offers a bolder, fairer vision. The future must be built on renewables

Jem Cresswell’s striking whale images – in pictures

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:00:56 +0000

Photographer Jem Cresswell spent five years documenting the southern hemisphere’s humpback whales in the waters surrounding the Tonga Trench for his new book Giants, out now

A pheasant coucal is a mass of contradictions: a bewildered bravo rolling through my house like a feathered wrecking ball | Bronwen Scott

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:00:54 +0000

Swinging wildly from confident to confused, and permanently dishevelled, this most relatable of cuckoos blunders through life as best it can

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BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:45:06 +0000

Latest disposal by ‘punk’ beer company follows £37m loss and closure of 10 pubs

BrewDog has sold a Highlands rewilding estate it bought with great fanfare in 2020 after posting losses last year of £37m on its beer businesses.

The company paid £8.8m for Kinrara near Aviemore and pledged it would plant millions of trees on 50 sq km of land, initially telling customers the project would be partly funded by sales of its Lost Forest beer.