In the wake of Hurricane Helene, No Taste Like Home aims to rebuild trust between students and the land
Juniper Stewart just turned 12. She wears a cropped orange sweater and her ginger curls in a bob. She used to like Taylor Swift, but now she’s more into the Cranberries and other indie rock.
Juniper also knows how to identify a Pilobolus mushroom, which grows on “cow poop”, according to Juniper. She can confidently harvest plantain leaf, a ubiquitous wild plant that’s tasty in salads and sautées, and useful as a poultice on stings and poison ivy. She has paper bags full of sourwood leaves drying at home to make tea, and she’s delighted by the fact that when you touch jewelweed seed pods, they explode.
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11/27/2025 - 08:00
11/27/2025 - 06:00
Contamination of wildlife with Pfas, which can increase risk of cancer, a growing problem in US
Hunters in Maine have been warned not to eat wild turkeys in parts of the state, after the birds were found to contain “forever chemicals” that can cause an increased risk of cancer.
Maine officials warned that high levels of Pfas – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – have been detected in wild turkey and deer killed and harvested in areas in the south-west of the state.
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11/27/2025 - 03:00
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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11/27/2025 - 02:00
Councils will end contracts allowing private enforcers to receive 50% to 100% of each fine served
Ministers have signalled an imminent crackdown on so-called “for-profit” litter enforcement arrangements in England, where private firms are paid for each fixed penalty notice issued.
Under long-awaited statutory guidance, councils would have to end contracts that allow private enforcers to receive between 50% to 100% of each fine they serve.
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11/27/2025 - 01:29
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act changes are an improvement, but the rush to pass them was purely political
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We should start at the beginning in assessing the Labor-Greens deal to revamp Australia’s national environment law. And the beginning is that, ideally, you would not start from here.
Despite its name, the 1999 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act was designed under John Howard to allow developments to go ahead, usually with conditions attached that may limit the damage to nature.
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11/27/2025 - 01:00
A boom in places offering petting sessions is linked to a rise in the illegal movement of exotic and endangered species, say experts
The second floor of an unassuming office building in central Bangkok is a strange place to encounter the world’s largest rodent. Yet here, inside a small enclosure with a shallow pool, three capybaras are at the disposal of dozens of paying customers – all clamouring for a selfie. As people eagerly thrust leafy snacks toward the nonchalant-looking animals, few seem to consider the underlying peculiarity: how, exactly, did this South American rodent end up more than 10,000 miles from home, in a bustling Asian metropolis?
Capybara cafes have been cropping up across the continent in recent years, driven by the animal’s growing internet fame. The semi-aquatic animals feature in more than 600,000 TikTok posts. In Bangkok, cafe customers pay 400 baht (£9.40) for a 30-minute petting session with them, along with a few meerkats and Chinese bamboo rats. Doors are open 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
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11/27/2025 - 01:00
Treasury says concession could be worth £30m next year and then £70m annually until 2030
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Rachel Reeves has eased inheritance tax on agricultural property after pressure from farmers.
As the chancellor made her budget speech on Wednesday, the Treasury announced changes it said could save farmers and business owners £30m next year when passing on property and £70m a year in the following four years. Farmers, who had driven tractors up to the doors of parliament, were protesting outside at the same time.
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11/26/2025 - 22:44
The minister says quick approvals can happen while protecting the environment, but my experience tells me that haste brings unintended consequences
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I got a text from a biodiversity advocate around midday on Thursday asking me: are you glad, or sad?
I wasn’t sure how to reply.
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11/26/2025 - 19:37
Queensland supreme court orders Pennings, a campaigner against the Carmichael coalmine, not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information
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The Indian mining company Adani has agreed to end its marathon legal pursuit of the environmental activist Ben Pennings.
Pennings declared victory on Thursday, after the Queensland supreme court signed off on orders on Wednesday, ending the five-and-a-half-year court battle. The order requires Pennings not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information or to ask others to do so, but the company has dropped a demand for payment of damages which at one stage stood at $600m.
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11/26/2025 - 17:18
Swimmers aged in their 20s bitten by shark at Kylies beach in Crowdy Bay early on Thursday morning, with woman dying at the scene
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A woman has died after a “large bull shark” attacked her and a man on the New South Wales mid-north coast at Kylies beach.
The pair, both aged in their 20s, were swimming together at the beach at Crowdy Bay on Thursday morning when they were bitten, police said.
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