2 h. ago EPA pushes White House to ignore scientific finding that helped form current climate policy

The 2009 finding says carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health

Society

3 h. ago A Cruel Love star Lucy Boynton shares huge challenge of playing Ruth Ellis

The last woman in the UK to be hanged was Ruth Ellis, and now actress Lucy Boynton is taking on the role in new ITV drama A Cruel Love, alongside Laurie Davidson, who plays David Blakely

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4 h. ago Carbon emissions in Cardiff reduce but huge challenge remains to reach net

Cardiff Council's cabinet member for climate change, Cllr Dan De'Ath, told councillors last year that Cardiff needed a 'green revolution'

Events

14 h. ago ITV A Cruel Love star Lucy Boynton reveals huge challenge playing last woman to be hanged

Lucy Boynton stars in ITV's true crime drama A Cruel Love as Ruth Ellis, who shot her boyfriend dead in 1955 and became the last woman in the UK to be hanged for her crime

Politics

7 d. ago BP investors demand vote on any plans to scrap climate goals

The oil giant is expected to go back on a promise to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at a strategy meeting next week.

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7 d. ago ‘We paid a high price for human rights’: a road trip through the new Syria

In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the futureAmid the rubble of Saraqib, some of the wall graffiti dating back to its time as a centre of the the 2011 Arab spring uprising remains. “The revolution will go on,” one reads. “Tomorrow the sun rises,” says another. A week after the astonishing rout of Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, this small town of concrete, red earth and olive groves in Syria’s north-west was a stop on the Guardian’s 280-mile (450km) journey along the M5, the highway threading all of the country’s major cities and six provinces together.Suffering was palpable everywhere, from children rummaging through bins for food in Aleppo and Homs, to relatives searching for loved ones in Damascus’s prisons, to displaced people still living in tents in Idlib. There are huge challenges ahead for HTS’s transitional government, and in some places, sectarian vio...

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