Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk
The Trump administration is poised to again approve a new Pfas “forever chemical” pesticide ingredient, a move that is drawing criticism from public health advocates who say the nation’s food and water supply is being put at more risk from the dangerous compounds.
The substance would be sprayed on corn, soybeans and wheat, and it marks the fifth Pfas pesticide ingredient the US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed for approval under Donald Trump’s second term as US president.
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11/10/2025 - 08:00
11/10/2025 - 07:33
Marcus Decker is supported by climate experts, religious leaders and celebrities as he fights being first person in UK to be ‘deported for peaceful protest’
A climate activist who is appealing against his deportation after serving one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for peaceful protest has criticised his “crazy double punishment”.
Marcus Decker was jailed for two years and seven months for a protest in which he climbed the Queen Elizabeth Bridge over the Dartford Crossing and unveiled a Just Stop Oil banner in October 2022.
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11/10/2025 - 07:15
In 1995, as one of the Ogoni Nine, he was hanged after protesting against Shell’s oil pollution. With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacy
Earlier this year, my father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and his eight colleagues, known collectively as the Ogoni Nine, were pardoned for a crime they never committed. After peacefully campaigning against environmental degradation of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the oil industry, they were imprisoned by the military dictatorship on false charges of treason and incitement to murder, following a trial condemned by the international community as a sham.
On 10 November 1995, the men were executed by hanging.
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11/10/2025 - 07:06
Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be “the Cop of implementation”.
The opening plenary is starting now. Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s minister for ecology and the president of the previous COP in Baku has passed the baton to Brazil.
He stressed the importance of building on the climate finance commitments made last year, when wealthy nations agreed to provide $300bn annually by 2035, with a broader aspiration to scale this up to 1.3trillion a year with support from private sources. “Delivering the Baku finance goal will be essential to success,” he said. “We ask vulnerable Communities to accept the limits of how much support they could expect. Now in eagle measure we see the donors deliver in full with developed countries taking the lead.
When children are invisible in data, budgets, and strategies, they are invisible in the solutions that shape their lives. Policies that fail to track how resources reach girls and boys are failing the very generation most affected by the climate crisis.
We are entering an age of hungry futures. Children are on the frontlines of climate change, yet their needs and voices are almost invisible in the world’s climate blueprints. COP30 in Brazil must be a turning point. Children cannot be an afterthought in climate policy - they must be at the heart of it.
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11/10/2025 - 06:06
Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals
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Southern Water has taken responsibility for the catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads that polluted the Sussex coastline.
Local charities reported a huge spill of millions of biobeads over the weekend, washing up on beaches including Camber Sands. Andy Dinsdale, the founder of the plastic pollution campaign group Strandliners, said it was the worst pollution event he had seen.
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11/10/2025 - 05:00
After bully-like behavior last month over a small emissions levy, diplomats will be relieved if the US stays away from climate talks
For years, countries around the world pressed the US to engage with them in addressing the climate crisis and to show it was serious about taking action. Now, with key United Nations climate talks under way in Brazil this week, other nations have been quietly hoping the US stays well away.
Under Donald Trump, who has called the climate crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, the US has not only pulled back from climate action but openly agitated for greater global fossil fuel use and for other countries to tear down their own climate policies.
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11/10/2025 - 05:00
Two decades ago, the city’s council chose to prioritise playgrounds and youth clubs to help its poorer families – and the benefits are plain to see
• Read more: Last youth centre in one of England’s most deprived coastal areas faces closure
Three schoolboys in black sweatshirts dart from a wooden fort across a sandpit, weaving and jostling past prams, scooters and bystanders, after a pink football. A pony-tailed girl launches herself on to a moving roundabout, while a young man wrestles a half-naked toddler into a pair of training pants before she scampers off back to the sandpit in the autumn sunshine.
This is Buckland adventure playground in Portsmouth, surrounded by trees and a mix of two-storey flats, terrace houses and tower blocks, mostly social housing built to replace the city’s demolished slums.
Buckland adventure playground has now had three generations of children enjoying its facilities
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11/10/2025 - 02:00
The spread of African swine flu among the wild boars the animals eat has led to the deadliest winter for attacks on people in the Russian region for decades – and a spike in tiger killings
The attacks seemed to come from nowhere. At first, the tigers snatched guard dogs on the edge of villages in Russia’s far east, emerging from the forest at night to prey. Others went for livestock, going after horses and cattle.
Then the attacks on people began. In January, an ice fisher was mauled at night and dragged away by a big cat, just weeks after a forester had been killed. In March, another man was attacked and partly eaten by a tiger. It was the deadliest winter for tiger attacks in Siberia for decades.
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11/10/2025 - 01:33
In today’s newsletter: As the world’s leaders gather in Brazil, the urgency of the climate crisis collides with political inertia. The Guardian’s journalists will be following all the stories from Belém
Good morning. I was warned when I agreed to sit in on First Edition that sometimes your early Monday morning could get derailed by a big breaking news story. So imagine my face yesterday when it happened on my very first weekend, as the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, both resigned.
The decisions come in the wake of Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, describing the BBC as “100% fake news” over the way a speech by the US president was edited. A week of hostile rightwing media headlines – very clearly set out by Jamie Grierson in this piece – seems to have taken its toll at the top of the corporation. Culture secretary Lisa Nandy’s judgement will also no doubt be in the spotlight, having said, prior to his resignation, that she “retained confidence” in how Davie was handling the situation. Davie himself clearly didn’t agree.
UK news | Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and Deborah Turness, head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights.
Remembrance day | Veterans of the second world war were applauded as they arrived at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall to honour those who have died in conflict.
US news | More than 2,500 flights were cancelled as US transportation secretary Sean Duffy said flight reductions could reach 20% if the federal government shutdown persisted.
The Philippines | More than a million people were evacuated from their homes in the Philippines and at least two people were killed as Typhoon Fung-wong – the second big storm to hit in the space of a few days – made landfall on the east coast.
Business news | The Barclay family is set to lose control of another part of their former business empire with a US private equity firm taking control of online retailer the Very Group.
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11/10/2025 - 00:00
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins
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Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for combating the climate crisis while China is surging ahead in producing and using clean energy equipment, the president of the UN climate talks has said.
More countries should follow China’s lead instead of complaining about being outcompeted, said André Corrêa do Lago, the Brazilian diplomat in charge of the Cop30 conference, which begins on Monday.
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