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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

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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.

Major environmental law overhaul to be put to parliament this year as Murray Watt warns delays risk ‘destruction’

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:05:01 +0000

Labor will seek to legislate national standards and federal EPA in one package rather than multiple stages, as it tried and failed to do last term

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The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:00:01 +0000

After Ice’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home

When Danielle Duran Zecca saw military-style immigration raids and people being snatched off the streets and put into unmarked vehicles in her native Los Angeles earlier this summer, she was in disbelief.

Thousands of illegal marijuana plants removed from California national park

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Rangers cleared about 2,377 marijuana plants and 2,000lbs of trash and hazardous chemicals from Sequoia park

Park rangers have removed an illegal marijuana cultivation site in California’s Sequoia national park spanning approximately 13 acres (5 hectares).