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‘You had to fend for yourself’: Hurricane Katrina haunts New Orleans as Trump guts disaster aid

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:30:00 +0000

As survivors and experts reflect on the storm 20 years on, fear is growing that the US is just as unprepared to take on extreme weather amid cuts to Fema

Darren McKinney grew up in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. When Hurricane Katrina struck 20 years ago this week, he watched his neighborhood wash away. From his second floor apartment, he saw flood waters rise up to his window.

Fossil fuel extractors bend the world to their will – help fund the journalism that exposes them

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:00:03 +0000

Across the globe, oil, gas and coal companies use an ever-widening set of tactics to crush competition and opposition. With the world’s most powerful man helping them at every turn, it’s critical we reveal their full impact

Today the Guardian launches its annual environment support campaign. To back our vital climate journalism, please click here

India’s supreme court orders inquiry into giant zoo run by son of Asia’s richest person

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:37:50 +0000

Activists claim Anant Ambani’s Vantara facility has no plan to return its endangered species to the wild

India’s supreme court has ordered an investigation into allegations of illegal animal imports and financial misconduct at a vast private zoo set up by the son of Asia’s richest person.

Vantara, which describes itself as the “world’s biggest wild animal rescue centre”, is run by Anant Ambani, a son of Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire head of the conglomerate Reliance Industries.

Tuesday briefing: How ‘climateflation’ is pushing food prices ever higher – and changing how we eat

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:43:57 +0000

In today’s newsletter: Extreme heat, droughts and floods are proving disastrous for farmers on the frontline of climate change, and consumers in the supermarket, too

Good morning. My mum is a livestock farmer in Kent. This year her hay crop was down by 50% because the spring rains never came. She’s not alone – up and down the UK, farmers have watched their fields turn brown and their hay crops collapse.

Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:00:21 +0000

Views of forward-thinking artist and writer who lived off land in national park celebrated at museum in Glastonbury

She was considered an eccentric by some, eking out a frugal existence on a wild English moor, surviving off the land and exchanging her sketches of the countryside for meals.

But the first museum exhibition on the life and work of the largely forgotten nature writer and artist Hope Bourne highlights that her views on the environment, recycling, access to the countryside – even rewilding – were ahead of her time.

Nature loss will cut UK GDP by 5% without action from private sector, say experts

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:18 +0000

Report finds regenerative approach could yield economic benefits while helping to meet environmental targets

The degradation of nature in the UK will lop nearly 5% off the country’s GDP if the private sector does not make a greater effort to halt the decline, experts have warned.

Marks & Spencer to open secondhand clothing store on eBay

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:01:12 +0000

Customers to get £5 vouchers for donating M&S clothes to Oxfam, which will get 15% of profits from eBay sales

Marks & Spencer is opening a secondhand clothing store on eBay to find new homes for “old favourites” as the household name taps into booming demand for preloved clothing.

Fema staff warn Trump’s cuts risk exposing US to another Hurricane Katrina

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:02:51 +0000

Workers say president’s attacks on the agency and lack of qualified leadership could lead to deadly catastrophe

Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) risk exposing the US to another Hurricane Katrina, staff at the agency have warned Congress in a withering critique that also takes aim at its current leadership.

The Guardian view on the carnivore diet: red meat for influencers, but bad news for health | Editorial

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:00:56 +0000

A fad for consuming high-protein, high-fat food, while avoiding vegetables, has taken off online. Followers are doing themselves no favours

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:00:02 +0000

Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn

Repeated exposure to heatwaves is accelerating ageing in people, according to a study. The impact is broadly comparable with the damage smoking, alcohol use, poor diet or limited exercise can have on health, the researchers said.

Extreme temperatures are increasingly common owing to the climate crisis, potentially causing widespread and long-lasting damage to the health of billions, the scientists warned.