Researchers are deploying sniffing dogs to combat spread of leaf-hopping pests that can damage trees and fruit crops
The spotted lanternfly, a leaf-hopping invasive pest first detected in the US a decade ago, has steadily spread across the East coast and into the midwest with little getting in its way.
But now researchers are deploying a new weapon to slow it’s advance: specially trained dogs with the ability to sniff out the winged insect’s eggs before they hatch.
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05/19/2025 - 17:37
05/19/2025 - 13:02
Report finds Nestlé used purification treatments that were unauthorised for natural mineral water
France’s lucrative mineral water industry is under scrutiny after a report by the senate found the French government had covered up a scandal over illegal filtering treatments of premium brands.
At the heart of the report, released on Monday, is France’s world-famous fizzy water, Perrier. Obtained from a source in southern France and traditionally served on ice with a slice of lemon, Perrier has long been long known as the “champagne of table waters”.
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05/19/2025 - 11:00
Introduced bees could be harming native species and risk driving them to extinction, researchers say
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Scientists have recommended limits on urban beekeeping after a peer-reviewed study found introduced honeybees could be harming Australian native bees and risked driving them to extinction.
The Australian research, published in Frontiers in Bee Science, found native bees living in areas with high densities of introduced honeybees had fewer female offspring and a higher death rate in their first year of life.
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05/19/2025 - 10:00
How fast we cut climate pollution will define how safe or scary the world becomes as our children grow up
At its core, the most fundamental duty of any government is to safeguard the security and wellbeing of its people. The climate crisis is hitting Australians hard.
Right now, farmers in South Australia and Victoria are battling drought, while Queensland farmers pick up the pieces after heartbreaking floods. Globally, 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first time average temperatures surged 1.5C above preindustrial levels. We are living through longer, deadlier heatwaves, devastating bushfires, more frequent and intense floods, and rising sea levels that threaten coastal communities.
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05/19/2025 - 09:00
Clichy-Batignolles, in the city’s north-west, is emblematic of the ‘15-minute’ city approach to urban planning
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05/19/2025 - 04:00
More and more people are hooked on watching animals in real time. Now researchers say it could even improve your mood, help you relax and give you better sleep
In 2012 Dianne Hoffman, a retired consultant, became a peeping Tom. For five hours a day she watched the antics of a couple, Harriet and Ozzie, who lived on Dunrovin ranch in Montana.
The pair were nesting ospreys, being streamed live as they incubated their clutch of eggs. The eggs never hatched, but the ospreys sat on them for months before finally kicking them out of the nest.
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05/18/2025 - 23:00
Analysis suggests there could be 500,000 additional plug-in hybrid electric cars on Britain’s roads by 2030
The UK government’s weakening of rules on electric car sales is likely to result in significantly more carbon emissions as sales of plug-in hybrids rise, according to analysis.
Relaxed rules could result in as many as 500,000 additional plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) on UK roads by 2030, according to modelling by T&E, a campaign group on transport and the environment. PHEVs combine a small battery with a polluting petrol engine and tend to be much more profitable than pure battery electric cars.
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05/18/2025 - 20:49
Energy retailer says carbon offsetting ‘not the most effective way’ to reduce emissions
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A major Australian energy company has acknowledged that carbon offsets do not prevent or undo damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions and apologised to its customers for allegedly misleading marketing.
More than 400,000 Australians had signed up to Energy Australia’s “go neutral” carbon offset program that since 2016 had promised to offset emissions released due to their electricity and gas consumption.
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05/18/2025 - 10:00
In January I journeyed to the iron ore-rich region of Western Australia with Guardian Australia senior correspondent Sarah Martin and senior audio producer Joe Koning to provide the visuals for our series on Gina Rinehart, Gina: power, privilege and influence. Here’s a selection of my shots
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05/18/2025 - 08:00
During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours
In 1913, on a remote, windswept stretch of buffalo-grass prairie in western North Dakota, Roald Peterson was born – the ninth of 11 children to hardy Norwegian homesteaders.
The child fell in love with the ecosystem he was born into. It was a landscape as awe-inspiring and expansive as the ocean, with hawks riding sage-scented winds by day and the Milky Way glowing at night.
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