10 h. ago Key climate change reports removed from US government websites

The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming worldLegally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their back yards from a warming world.Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the US Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within Nasa to comply with the law, but gave no further details. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared the federal websites built to display them

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18 h. ago People on PIP never need to report any of these changes to the DWP

Not every change in circumstances will affect your entitlement to PIP or see payments paused.

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20 h. ago Martin Lewis slams 'mistake' cash ISA changes in scathing four

Martin Lewis has broken his silence to slam reports that a huge change to ISAs will be announced by the Chancellor, and he only needed four words to make his point

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22 h. ago Volatility to value creation: Five key takeaways from London Climate Action Week 2025

Volatility to value creation: Five key takeaways from London Climate Action Week 2025  ERM - Environmental Resources Management

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22 h. ago Paris on red alert as Europe faces extreme heat with weather warnings in place across continent

Public health warnings as heatwave raises concerns about impact of climate change It’s not only Europe: Japan experienced its hottest June on record, the weather agency said Tuesday, as climate change prompts sweltering heat waves across the globe, AFP reported.“Japan’s monthly average temperature in June was the highest for the month since statistics began in 1898,” said the Japan Meteorological Agency. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago DWP update for people on PIP due award review after new reforms start next year

Reporting a change in circumstances or nearing the end of the current award will trigger a DWP reassessment.

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46 h. ago Calls to reform Lifetime ISAs over ‘nonsensical’ rules causing savers to lose their own money

A 25 per cent boost on a first-house deposit sounds a terrific deal - but the product itself can be complex and limiting

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49 h. ago UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harmsA leading UN expert is calling for criminal penalties against those peddling disinformation about the climate crisis and a total ban on fossil fuel industry lobbying and advertising, as part of a radical shake-up to safeguard human rights and curtail planetary catastrophe.Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change who presents her damning new report to the general assembly in Geneva on Monday, argues that the US, UK, Canada, Australia and other wealthy fossil fuel nations are legally obliged under international law to fully phase out oil, gas and coal by 2030 – and compensate communities for harms caused. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago How do we resist and rise? We have to believe the impossible is possible | V (Formerly Eve Ensler)

Every action matters now. Every effort small or large counts. And moving, movement is the essential key to dispelling despairIn this authoritarian and suffocating climate where being an American feels like a curse, where just breathing here feels like complicity with genocide, psychotic imperialism, misogyny and endless racism, it is hard to move, let alone imagine what one can do to transform this horror to good.Every day people are kidnapped by masked men in unmarked cars, taken to hidden sites and left in deplorable conditions; starving people in Gaza are slaughtered as they clamor for a bag of flour; public officials and leaders humiliated and murdered; the T erased from LGBT; brain-dead women forced to give birth; the glib language of hate and cruelty and easy thoughtless threats of world war, assassination, and dehumanization circling like invisible poison. What feels most perilous is the steady evaporation of the boundaries of what seemed impossible only a few weeks ago. Mora...

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4 d. ago Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say

Long-awaited ILC report examines what should happen to vulnerable countries as sea levels riseStates should be able to continue politically even if their land disappears underwater, legal experts have said.The conclusions come from a long-awaited report by the International Law Commission that examined what existing law means for continued statehood and access to key resources if sea levels continue to rise due to climate breakdown. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Jay Clarke admits PTPA lawsuit was ‘much bigger than I anticipated’

The British number six was initially listed as a plaintiff in the case against tennis’ governing bodies before removing his name from the lawsuit.

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5 d. ago The arithmetic is tricky for a Shell bid for BP today. Next year may be different

Shell says it has ‘no intention’ of making an offer for BP. But if its share price rises, the numbers could work BP is a sitting duck for a takeover bid by most criteria. Its share price has underperformed rivals’ for years. The latest strategic “re-set” was a bits-and-pieces production involving disposals, which do not happen overnight, plus a dilution of green energy ambitions that upset one sub-set of shareholders and didn’t go far enough according to another. Meanwhile, the chair, Helge Lund, is set to exit next year after being pursued by an activist investor.So Shell, the most credible possible bidder by a distance, would be asleep at the wellhead if it were not taking a look and calculating what costs could be removed, which development licences it fancies and how regulators and governments might react. That’s standard stuff, and Shell, one assumes, will have maintained a version of such modelling for about 20 years, which is roughly as long as tales of a combination of the t...

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5 d. ago DWP could stop £441 payment if you don't report these changes

Attendance Allowance is just one of many welfare payments that can be stopped by the DWP if a claimant fails to report a change of circumstance

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7 d. ago Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles

Amazon founder reportedly forced to change venue for his wedding celebrations in Italian cityCampaigners in Venice have claimed victory after Jeff Bezos was reportedly forced to change the venue for his wedding celebrations in the city as his guests started arriving on Tuesday for the three-day jamboree.The main reception for the wedding of Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV journalist, was due to be held in the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, a majestic 16th-century building in the city centre. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Jeff Bezos changes wedding reception location in Venice after threatened protest

Activists threatened to fill the canal around the Scuola della Misericordia with inflatable crocodiles to block accessCampaigners in Venice have claimed victory after Jeff Bezos was reportedly forced to change the venue for his wedding celebrations in the city as his guests started arriving on Tuesday for the three-day jamboree.The main reception for the wedding of Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV journalist, was due to be held in the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, a majestic 16th-century building in the city centre. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago UK politics: Starmer to ‘press forward’ with welfare cuts despite rebellion – as it happened

PM says current system is ‘broken’ and there is a ‘clear moral case for change’Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare billFrances Ryan reports for the Guardian:Downing Street’s disability cuts will have a “devastating” impact on women’s health and dignity and could breach equality law, the government has been warned. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Starmer to ‘press forward’ with welfare cuts despite rebellion – UK politics live

PM says current system is ‘broken’ and there is a ‘clear moral case for change’Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare billFrances Ryan reports for the Guardian:Downing Street’s disability cuts will have a “devastating” impact on women’s health and dignity and could breach equality law, the government has been warned. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke MP welcomes UK Government’s expansion of Warm Home Discount

Over six million households in the UK will see their energy bills cut by £150 this winter after the UK Government removed restrictions that previously excluded many who needed support, and increased the level of spend available in Scotland for energy suppliers.

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1 week ago 'Deansgate's new bike lane is a smooth ride — but I can’t help but think one thing'

Deansgate's new bike lane, which was finished in the Spring, has proved controversial with taxi drivers, business owners, and motorists - but cyclists are firm fans. To see how it's changed the road, Local Democracy Reporter Ethan Davies took a ride down Deansgate

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