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Scotland ‘likely to miss net zero climate target by up to 20m tonnes’

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:44:02 +0000

Exclusive: Top officials and climate policy experts believe delays in cutting emissions make it improbable 2045 target will be met

Scotland is likely to miss its legally binding climate target by up to 20m tonnes, according to official data seen by the Guardian.

The Scottish government set itself the world-leading target of reaching net zero – the point where any excess carbon emissions are soaked up by trees, peat or carbon capture – by 2045.

Labour hopes to heal rift with farmers with public sector food targets

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:19:37 +0000

Hospitals, schools and prisons to be given food welfare targets that should benefit British growers

Flea treatments are turning our pets into an environmental hazard – there has to be a better way | Sophie Pavelle

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:00:41 +0000

Startling evidence of the dangers to birds and rivers from over-the-counter drugs should be a wake-up call for owners to press for alternatives

When I was 10, I succeeded in my campaign for a family dog. Part of her care, and our joy as owners, was the monthly application of spot-on worm and flea treatment. With veterinary medicine on my mind as a career, I relished the theatre of vets-at-home. We bought doses over the counter, scheduling the dog’s treatment on the calendar like a five-a-side.

Backyard chickens: Floridians start raising hens to combat rising egg prices

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:00:40 +0000

Despite conflicting laws, a wave of amateur homesteaders have started keeping fowl in the spirit of self-sufficiency

Katie Whalen’s backyard in the Florida city of Port St Lucie is testament to her journey towards a life of self-sufficiency. She grows mangoes, avocados, starfruit, jackfruit and coconuts. She is cultivating a tropical tree spinach known as chaya.

Keir Starmer pledges £200m for Grangemouth oil refinery site

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:18:42 +0000

Unions have accused UK government of failing to act quickly enough to save jobs, but Labour says it took time to build credible proposal

Keir Starmer has announced £200m in funding to boost investment at Grangemouth oil refinery, which is closing down with the loss of more than 400 jobs.

The prime minister said the national wealth fund would provide £200m in state investment for up to five companies who moved to Grangemouth, where several thousand jobs in the wider supply chain are also at risk. He said that should leverage up to £600m more in private investment.

‘Fixing a problem we didn’t cause’: the Black Appalachian activists cultivating community power

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:00:36 +0000

Robust group of organizers – including midwives, environmental justice advocates and urban gardeners – rewrite what it means to be from the US mountain region

Man bitten by shark off Queensland’s Moreton Island in second attack in less than a month

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:01:44 +0000

Victim is in a stable condition at a Brisbane hospital with abdominal and leg injuries, authorities say

These people protected US forests and lands. Their jobs have now vanished due to Trump

admin — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:00:11 +0000

Former federal employees devastated by president’s mass firings: ‘We’re at risk of losing our public lands to the billionaire agenda’

Approximately 2,300 people have been terminated from the agencies that manage the 35m acres (14m hectares) of federal public lands in the US.

UK soil breakthrough could cut farm fertiliser use and advance sustainable agriculture

admin — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:00:08 +0000

Research group says discovery could lead to new type of environmentally friendly farming

A biological mechanism that makes plant roots more attractive to soil microbes has been discovered by scientists in the UK. The breakthrough – by researchers at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Norfolk – opens the door to the creation of crops requiring reduced amounts of nitrate and phosphate fertilisers, they say.

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

admin — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:00:04 +0000

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

As an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not a glorious legacy. But two scientists exploring which items from our technological civilisation are most likely to survive for many millions of years as fossils have reached an ironic but instructive conclusion: fast food and fast fashion will be our everlasting geological signature.