33 h. ago Restoring species such as beavers, elk and bison ‘crucial’ for nature – charity

Rewilding Britain is supporting 13 initiatives, including ones restoring lost species to help nature, people and climate.

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47 h. ago NatureScot presents Galloway National Park consultation report to Scottish Government

The body handed its findings over to Holyrood on Monday, although they have not yet been published.

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5 d. ago Revealed: Forecasts of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels soar in Trump’s first 100 days

Tariff chaos hampers Trump’s pledge to ‘drill, baby, drill’, but analysis still shows surge in planet-heating emissions‘A ruthless agenda’: charting 100 days of Trump’s onslaught on the environmentDonald Trump’s ambitions for the US to “drill, baby, drill” for more fossil fuels have ironically been hampered by the economic chaos unleashed by his own tariffs, but the US is still on track to increase oil and gas extraction, causing a surge in planet-heating emissions, a new analysis shows.The US was already the world’s leading oil and gas power, producing more of the fossil fuels than any country in history during Joe Biden’s administration. But Trump has sought to escalate this further, declaring an “energy emergency” to open up more land and ocean for drilling and launching an unprecedented assault on environmental regulations in his first 100 days back in the White House. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Israel declares national emergency as wildfires force evacuations

Witnesses tell of ‘walls of flame’ surging across woodland, while high winds disrupt Independence Day eventsWildfires continued to threaten swaths of forest and fields in Israel on Thursday, though firefighters successfully reopened the main road linking the country’s two principal cities.Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, declared a national emergency after the fires broke out on Wednesday along the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, prompting police to shut the route and evacuate thousands of people from nearby communities. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Israel declares state of emergency with 'largest ever' wildfires raging out of control towards Jerusalem

The Fire and Rescue Service's Jerusalem District commander said firefighters had a long way to go before they could contain the blazes.

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7 d. ago Israel wildfires mapped: Netanyahu declares national emergency as record blaze nears Jerusalem

Fire is being whipped up by strong winds and hot, dry weather

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7 d. ago New Zealand city declares state of emergency as streets and homes flood

Forecasters are warning of a ‘threat to life’ from falling trees and flying debris

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7 d. ago Jerusalem fires latest: Israel declares national emergency and appeals for international aid over ‘largest ever’ wildfires

Netanyahu warns fire could reach close to Jerusalem as officials struggle to control it

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9 d. ago Is Net Zero to blame for Spain blackout chaos? Why green power may have exacerbated anarchy as 30,000 officers are deployed to the streets and panic

The country declared a state of emergency last night and said it was deploying 30,000 police officers as part of security measures to deal with the mayhem caused by the calamitous outage.

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9 d. ago State of emergency declared in blackout stricken Spain as 30,000 police are deployed to keep order, panic

Spain's Interior Ministry on Monday added the emergency status will be applied in the regions that request it.

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9 d. ago Spain in state of emergency with 15,000 guards deployed over outage chaos as shops emptied

Following a massive power outage across several countries in Iberian Peninsula, Spain has declared an official state of emergency and have deployed 15,000 guards

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9 d. ago State of emergency declared as in blackout stricken Spain as 30,000 police are deployed to keep order, panic

Spain's Interior Ministry on Monday added the emergency status will be applied in the regions that request it.

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9 d. ago State of emergency declared as ‘rare atmospheric phenomenon’ causes huge power outages in Spain and Portugal

The Portuguese grid operator Ren warned that it could take up to a week to fully restore power

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9 d. ago Spain declares state of emergency in the wake of huge power outage

Many face night without electricity after train network, traffic lights and mobile connections shut down by mystery blackout

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9 d. ago Spain power outage LIVE: State of emergency declared amid major power outage across Iberian peninsula

Outage hits cities across Spain and Portugal, including capitals Madrid and Lisbon, knocking out metro networks, phone lines, traffic lights and ATM machines

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1 week ago Weedkiller ban could help swifts, starlings and toads thrive, says MP

Sian Berry warned that the Government had shown ‘worrying attitudes’ to nature ahead of a debate about banning toxic weedkillers.

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1 week ago US interior agency to fast track fossil fuel and mining permits over ‘fake emergency’

Department cites Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration to expedite permissions from multiple years to 28 daysUS politics live – latest updatesThe US interior department has announced plans to radically fast track permitting for projects involving fossil fuels and mining citing Donald Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration that many experts say does not exist.The move would reduce to a maximum of 28 days permitting procedures that previously could take multiple years, the department said late Wednesday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moment 'chemical' seen exploding out of tanker before emergency incident declared in Oldham

Emergency services raced to the scene with cordons put in place

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2 w. ago Pope Francis hailed as ‘unflinching global champion’ on climate crisis

Officials and campaigners from around world pay tribute to pontiff who put environment at heart of his papacyPope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88He declared destroying the environment a sin, warned that humanity was turning the glorious creation of God into a “polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth”, and located the cause of the climate crisis in people’s “selfish and boundless thirst for power”.The messages Pope Francis delivered on the climate and environmental crises were forceful and direct. He called the leaders of fossil fuel companies into the Vatican to hold them to account; declared a global climate emergency, in 2019; and in his final months, held a conference on “the economics of the common good”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Major tourist destination declares 'pre emergency' in warning to British holidaymakers

Holidaymakers may want to avoid the destination over the next few days, as a number of alerts about hazardous weather conditions have been issued.

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