32 h. ago Muir ‘fast losing patience’ with Infrastructure Department over water pollution

The Agriculture Minister also warned that Belfast Lough ‘has the potential to become the next Lough Neagh’.

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8 d. ago Man United star ‘wants’ January transfer amid update as Ruben Amorim stance clear

One Manchester United star is beginning to lose patience with his lack of game time and is now considering his future at the club amid dreams of playing at the World Cup

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1 week ago Man Utd bosses will lose patience if results do not improve – Ruben Amorim

Amorim’s future is in the spotlight again after defeat last Saturday to Brentford.

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1 week ago ‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countriesAdoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report.The diet – which allows moderate meat consumption – and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by half by 2050. Today, a third of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food system and taming the climate crisis is impossible without changing how the world eats, the researchers said. Food production is also the biggest cause of the destruction of wildlife and forests and the pollution of water. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago NHS slammed for treating children who need A&E care as ‘second

Many emergency departments lack the infrastructure to meet the growing needs of child patients, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said

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3 w. ago Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disasterPhotographs by Nicole KrammPatricia Silva lays out an array of medicines and doctors’ letters on her kitchen table. She lives a few kilometres from a copper foundry operated by the British-headquartered mining company Anglo American in Catemu, a town in central Chile. Every morning and evening, she says, the air is filled with a faint blue smoke.“It irritates your throat and makes you cough,” Silva says, remembering a day when her son Cristián, then three years old, began to have convulsions. “His face turned purple and he couldn’t breathe. He still has a red mark on his face from that episode.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘You could drink from that pond’: the city digging for a solution to toxic runoff

A project in Brighton to stop harmful chemicals from seeping into a chalk aquifer could set an example for managing such pollution“The designer claims that you could drink the water from there,” says Nick Bean, an engineer for the local council, at a large shallow basin in a nature reserve in Brighton. It is a blazing summer day and a group of researchers, engineers, students and a city councillor, dressed in hi-vis clothing and safety goggles, are gathered at the site of the city’s new and ambitious project to help manage the toxic problem of road runoff.After six years, the Wild Park rainscape, formed of a vegetated swale linked to four planted basins, is at the tail end of development. Dry and golden beneath the sun, the landscape, if all goes well, will soon teem with lush greenery and wildlife. But it will also be performing a much more critical function: filtering pollutants from runoff to prevent them from seeping into the precious chalk aquifer that lies beneath the city. Co...

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4 w. ago Russell Martin told exactly when Rangers decision makers will lose patience with under fire boss

The boss is facing major pressure after a winless start to the Premiership campaign

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last month Lesotho villagers complain of damage from water project backed by African Development Bank

About 1,600 people file complaint to AfDB demanding transparency over forced relocations and compensationEighteen rural communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank (AfDB) over its funding of a multibillion-pound water project whose construction process they claim has ruined fields, polluted water sources and damaged homes.About 1,600 people living in the villages in Mokhotlong district in north-east Lesotho are demanding transparency over planned forced relocations and compensation they say they have not been consulted on. Continue reading...

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last month Inside the 'chaotic' sentencing of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon: What behaviour made judge completely 'lose patience' with couple who caused baby Victoria's death?

Caroline Cheetham, who has covered the case in its entirety, said she felt the judge had finally 'run out of patience' with the couple.

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