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Low-carbon homes can save £1,341 in bills and should be compulsory, study shows

admin — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:00:14 +0000

UK government urged to change regulations so new homes incorporate solar panels, heat pump, high-grade insulation and battery storage

Building new homes to low-carbon standards would save the occupants thousands of pounds, new research has shown, as experts urged the government to change the regulations on housing development.

People living in a typical three-bedroom, semi-detached newly built house would save an average of £1,341 a year if it was equipped with solar panels, a heat pump, high-grade insulation and battery storage.

Europe saved its predators from the brink of extinction. So why is it killing thousands of bears, wolves and lynx?

admin — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 04:00:13 +0000

With Sweden issuing permits to kill a fifth of its bears, and Romanian MPs voting to double its quota, and the debate over hunting season has become a political issue

Don’t eat up the claim, peddled by the Coalition and conservative media, that greenies are ‘coming for your steak’ | Temperature Check

admin — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:07 +0000

Climate Change Authority’s report didn’t even contain a recommendations section, let alone a command to eat less red meat

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The notion that “greenies” are coming for the Aussie barbecue and want to rip that eye fillet from your cold dead hands is a recurring culture war flash point for many conservatives.

Massachusetts man buys $395,000 house despite warnings it will ‘fall into ocean’

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:55:57 +0000

David Moot nabs ‘dream’ Cape Cod home next to eroding cliff in imminent danger of crumbling due to climate crisis

A man who says life’s too short to resist buying a home that might fall off a cliff in a few years has taken ownership of a house with a beautiful view that’s just 25ft (7.6 metres) from a sandy, crumbling cliff.

David Moot paid $395,000 for the house on Cape Cod on the Massachusetts coast and said he intends to enjoy it while it lasts.

2024 Wainwright prizes are ‘heartwearming’ tribute to a new generation of nature writers

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:45:02 +0000

Top nature writing honour goes to Late Light by Michael Malay, which explores modern Britain through the ‘unloved’ lives of eels, moths, crickets and mussels

A book that explores modern Britain by examining four “unloved” animals – eels, moths, crickets and mussels – has won this year’s Wainwright prize for nature writing.

Fracking explained: the controversial extraction process that Harris and Trump sparred over

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:34:48 +0000

Thanks to hydraulic fracturing, record amounts of oil and gas have been produced in the US in the past six years

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump clashed over fracking during Tuesday’s presidential debate. Here’s an introduction to the gas and oil extraction process that has transformed the US fossil fuel industry.

Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:24:54 +0000

Move follows London museum’s links to Adani Group, which has partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer

Save the Children has pulled out of an event at the Science Museum in London after coming under pressure from its supporters over the institution’s sponsors.

Climate experts lament Harris’s vow to keep fracking in debate with ‘walking oil spill’ Trump

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:25:05 +0000

Harris has a progressive record on climate but indicated a shift, probably to assuage voters in swing states

Kamala Harris stridently backed new fracking and expanded US gas production in comments that raised eyebrows among some environmentalists as, yet again, the unfolding climate crisis was largely overlooked during a set piece presidential debate.

Thai cave boys’ coach trapped again six years later by typhoon floods

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:34:17 +0000

Ekkapol Chantawong, who spent nearly three weeks underground in 2018, forced to spend night on roof of home

The coach of the young Thai footballers who captured the world’s attention when they spent nearly three weeks trapped in a cave has found himself in another watery predicament – stuck on his roof by flash floods.

Ekkapol Chantawong said he was drawing on his 2018 experience with the Wild Boars team to get through the situation at his home in the northern Thai district of Mae Sai.

‘Chronic threat’ of PFAS firefighting foams raised in 2003 secret UK report

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:00:06 +0000

Exclusive: Environment Agency warned about ‘forever chemicals' 20 years before it started to regulate them

The Environment Agency was warned about the “chronic threat” that firefighting foams containing PFAS “forever chemicals” pose to the environment in 2003, 20 years before it started the process of regulating the chemicals, it can be revealed.