1 hour ago Over 1,500 flights canceled and 6,500 delayed as FAA forced cuts continue to cause havoc for travelers

The FAA has plans to ramp up reductions in the coming days

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2 h. ago Over 1,000 flights canceled and 6,500 delayed as FAA forced cuts continue to cause havoc for travelers

The FAA already reduced flights by 4 percent Friday, with plans to ramp up reductions in the coming days

Transport

3 h. ago Vandalized monuments, illegal base jumping and ‘bear jams’: The shutdown is causing havoc at national parks

Despite the warnings of advocacy groups, the Trump administration allowed many parks to be at least partially open with few staff and services

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4 h. ago Desecrated monuments, illegal base jumping and ‘bear jams’: The shutdown is causing havoc at national parks

Despite the warnings of advocacy groups, the Trump administration allowed many parks to be at least partially open with few staff and services

Events

5 h. ago Over 1,000 flights canceled and 5,000 delayed as FAA forced cuts continue to cause havoc for travelers

The FAA already reduced flights by 4 percent Friday, with plans to ramp up reductions in the coming days

Transport

6 h. ago Over 1,00 flights canceled and 5,000 delayed as FAA forced cuts continue to cause havoc for travelers

The FAA already reduced flights by 4 percent Friday, with plans to ramp up reductions in the coming days

Transport

8 h. ago Trump wants to see his name on DC’s new NFL stadium and has lobbied the team owner to make it happen: report

The D.C. Council and the National Parks Service would have to sign off on the stadium’s name before it could bear the president’s moniker

Politics

2 d. ago ‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?

After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark futureSolomon Morris Makau checks the fallen tree for snakes before he wraps a tape measure around the trunk. The early morning sun is overwhelming in the dryland forests of the Kasigau corridor, which separates the east and west Tsavo national parks in southern Kenya. Two guards keep watch for elephants and lions. There is little sign of green among the sprawling acacias, which stand silently in their punishing wait for the end of the dry season. Despite the threat from puff adders, Makau and his team have a job to do: measure the trees and shrubs in this 50 sq metre area to calculate their growth and change in carbon stock.“This one is lying dead,” says Makau, of one of the trees pushed over by elephants – but tens of thousands around it are still alive, stretching out in the distance as far as the eye can see.Solomon Morris...

Economics

4 d. ago ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisisIn 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage ($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains. Cities instituted water restrictions. That summer, unrelentingly hot temperatures killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and Yellowstone national park suffered the worst wildfire in its history.Amid the disaster, George HW Bush, then Ronald Reagan’s vice-president, met with farmers in Michigan reeling from crop losses. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, consoled them: if elected, he would be the environmental president. He acknowledged the reality of intensifying heatwaves – the “greenhouse effect”, to use the scientific parlance of the day – with blunt clarity: the burning of fossil fuels contr...

Politics

5 d. ago Trump administration considers revoking ban on oil and gas development near Chaco historical park

The Trump administration is initiating formal meetings with Native American tribes in the southwestern U.S. as it considers revoking a 20-year ban of oil and gas development across of hundreds of square miles of federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Politics

6 d. ago Hiking with the wildlife author who studies Yosemite’s high peaks: ‘These animals are equal to us’

Inspired by childhood encyclopedias and Jane Goodall, Beth Pratt writes about the more than 150 species in the national park – and transports readers to a rarefied worldA shrill call was followed by a flash of movement through a pile of boulders on a high country slope in Yosemite national park. “Hello, Sophie!” Beth Pratt responded to the round, feisty pika who had briefly emerged to pose defiantly in the sun.Pratt, a conservation leader and wildlife advocate, has spent more than a decade observing the tiny mammals and the other inhabitants of these serene granite domes and the alpine meadows they overlook, which gleamed gold on a crisp afternoon in mid-October. Continue reading...

Events

6 d. ago Bride and grooms slimming down with fat jabs causing havoc for wedding dress makers

Experts have revealed they are seeing a huge rise in last minute alterations with 98% of brides experiencing rapid body changes before the big day

Politics

7 d. ago What links Leonora Carrington, Steve McQueen and Leon Trotsky? The Saturday quiz

From State of Play and The Hack to Tilly Norwood and The Velvet Sundown, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which media giant began in 1997 as a DVD rental service?2 Which Hindu god is often depicted holding a bowl of sweets?3 #BalanceTonPorc was the French counterpart of which movement?4 Which fruit frequently contains a dead wasp?5 In what Asian language does “one, two” sound like “itchy knee”?6 Slugworth, Prodnose and Fickelgruber were whose commercial rivals?7 What competition does Alaska’s Katmai national park hold each autumn?8 Cornwall in 1337 was the first English creation of what?What links: 9 Actor Tilly Norwood; band The Velvet Sundown; Guess advert model in Vogue?10 Anne, 1987; Mary, 1932; Louise, 1905; Victoria, 1841?11 Barbados; Britannia; Manchester United; Maserati; US Navy Seals?12 Saint Augustine; Jean-Jaques Rousseau; Robin Askwith; Usher?13 John Candy; Leonora Carrington; Marty Feldman; Steve McQueen; Leon Trotsky?14 After Life; Field of Blood; Lou Grant...

Politics

8 d. ago Kenya’s growing towns are leaving elephants with nowhere to go

In this week’s newsletter: As settlements expand across northern Kenya, people and elephants are increasingly clashing over land, food and waterDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt is remarkably hard to see an elephant in the wild. In Oldonyiro, northern Kenya, they pass through the settlement almost every night. Piles of dung appear metres from the primary school and local church each morning, where smooth circles have been padded into the earth by the enormous beasts shuffling past in the dark. But when I went looking for them in September, they were nowhere to be found. More after this week’s most important reads.How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of WightCarnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern OceanCan communities living side by side with wildlife beat Africa’s national parks at conservation?Nairo...

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8 d. ago ‘You don’t have to hurtle down slopes or dance like crazy at après parties’: readers’ favourite winter mountain holidays in Europe

The Alps, Spain’s Sierra Nevada and the national parks of Sweden and Albania feature among our readers’ treasured winter mountain breaks• Tell us about a stay in a historic building – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherInnsbruck offers lots of options for a winter holiday. I found it’s a place where you don’t have to hurtle down ski slopes or dance like crazy at après-ski parties. In fact I was amazed when I took the 20-minute cable car from the city centre up 2,000 metres to an area where locals were sitting in deckchairs on the snow reading books and sipping hot chocolate in the strong Tirolean sunshine. You can ski to your heart’s content on slopes just half an hour from the famous Imperial Palace in the city centre. The city authorities provide some guided free walks and winter activities, including a cross-country skiing taster if you have a Welcome Card provided by your hotel. Then again, you can just sit and sample strong Austrian coffee or Gerschtnsuppe (soup with barle...

Politics

9 d. ago Stop composting 'nightmare' bindweed and use 1 trick to kill it for good

Bindweed is a type of wildflower but it can cause havoc in your garden

Events

1 week ago Hollyoaks legend Gemma Bissix admits 'Clare Devine couldn't stay in the village'

Hollyoaks villain Clare Devine has been causing havoc in the village since her return from the dead earlier this year and actress Gemma Bissix has hinted at her future

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1 week ago How mountaineer Jim Morrison made the first skiing descent of Everest's most dangerous route

Mountaineer Jim Morrison has skied the last un-skied route on Mount Everest

Politics

1 week ago From Steel City to Cottonopolis: a new walking trail through a post

The nostalgic Steel Cotton Rail Trail between Sheffield and Manchester has 14 day-length sections, with walks for urban explorers and summit-bagging hikers alikeThe Pride of Cumbria train carried me out of Piccadilly station and, eventually, beyond built-up Manchester. After Marple, everything turned green as the valleys narrowed. It was a classic northern autumn day: the clouds were low, the mizzle and mist were closing in and the world was grey-filtered but for the glow of dead leaves all around.South-east of Manchester is a bit of an unknown for me. Between the city and the Derbyshire borough of High Peak, you don’t quite enter national park territory, but it’s nonetheless a charming and eye-calming landscape. The Mancunian Kinder Scout trespassers of 1932 probably came this way, as do Pennine Way-farers bound for Edale. But the region is also post-industrial and close to conurbations. The Steel Cotton Rail Trail, which officially launched earlier this month after several years o...

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1 week ago Police rules if 'youths on bikes' and cars 'screeching' cause havoc on your road

While performing stunts on bikes or cars might appear to be harmless, frequent antisocial vehicle use can have substantial impacts on a community

Transport