4 d. ago Pig and poultry farming continues to harm the environment on huge scale, report warns

Waste from the pig and poultry farming is around 10.4 million cubic metres annually

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4 d. ago Report reveals ‘true scale’ of environmental impact of pig and poultry farming

A study for the Wildlife Trusts highlights the scale of waste produced by the livestock sectors and the land used to grow feed.

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4 d. ago Pig and poultry farming harms environment on huge scale, report warns

Waste from pig and poultry farming is around 10.4 million cubic metres annually

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5 d. ago Bosses who forced dying patients into ambulances and shut hospice without warning blasted in damning report

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice, in Leeds, inadequate and placed it into special measures.

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5 d. ago ‘I’m proud of them going out into the world’: Young naturalists on their quest to save harvest mice

Spurred into action by the species’ threatened future, two best friends embarked on a project to release 250 of the animals in DevonDoing somersaults in the corner of a field in Devon this week were the fluffy results of an audacious wildlife project by two 13-year-old girls.Best friends Eva Wishart and Emily Smith had become devoted to harvest mice, and were upset, a couple of years ago, to find out the species is threatened in England due to farming practices and habitat loss. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Australia’s drowning death toll highest since records began three decades ago

Report reveals 357 deaths from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 – 27% more than the 10-year averageFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralians’ swimming skills are at crisis levels, lifesaving organisations warn, as a new report shows 357 people drowned last financial year, the highest drowning death toll since records began in 1996.The annual drowning report released by Royal Life Saving Australia and Surf Life Saving Australia on Tuesday recorded 357 deaths between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025 – 34 more than the previous year’s total of 323, and a 27% increase on the 10-year average. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Bernie Sanders in urging US to end Gaza famine

Breaking from most of her peers in Congress, far-right Georgia Republican has also described crisis as a genocideAmid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine in parts of Gaza.“Let’s be clear: President Trump has the power to end the starvation of the Palestinian people,” Vermont’s politically independent senator Bernie Sanders posted on X. “Instead he is doing nothing while watching this famine unfold. Enough is enough. No more American taxpayer dollars to Nethanyahu’s [sic] war machine.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Low river levels in Dumfries and Galloway causing concern for environment experts

The Esk, Annan, Nith, Dee and Cree have all been moved to 'early warning' status in the latest water scarcity report.

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2 w. ago Government must stop children using VPNs to dodge age checks on porn sites, commissioner demands

Dame Rachel de Souza warns it is ‘absolutely a loophole that needs closing’ as new report finds proportion of children who report accessing pornography online has increased over last two years

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2 w. ago Kings Hill LIVE as 'men in balaclavas' scale huge building with armed police rushing to scene

Armed police have rushed to a "disused" building in Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, in an ongoing "disturbance" and masked people having been seen on a roof top

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2 w. ago Last year was the most HUMID on record, scientists warn, bringing people into 'potentially life

Climate change drove record levels of global humidity in 2024, posing a rising risk to people's health, a new report has warned.

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2 w. ago Scots benefitting from 'economic strength' of UK as public spending remains higher north of the Border

The annual GERs report warned public finances in Scotland are "weakening" as expenditure grew faster than revenue.

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3 w. ago Notting Hill Carnival should be ticketed to avoid Hillsborough

Cost of policing annual event is almost £12m, and rising safety concerns mean it should be overhauled, report warns

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3 w. ago Going to university costs an extra £56K on top of student loans

The Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) found rising costs are increasing the burden on families of sending their child to study away from home.

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3 w. ago Growing pains: can rice production in Africa keep up with demand?

Africa Rice initiative aims to give farmers more control over their land in order to reduce flooding and increase yieldsSalmata Ouattara remembers 2023 as the turning point for her rice farm.June is usually the peak of the rainy season in Ivory Coast, but in the preceding years she and other farmers in M’Be on the outskirts of Bouaké, the country’s second biggest city, would wait weeks for rainfall. Then in September, they would watch helplessly as their farmlands were flooded. Some abandoned their farms, frustrated by fluctuating crop yields. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Joe Biden is complicit in Gaza’s starvation. Blood is on his hands | Mohamad Bazzi

At several points during his presidency, Biden could have stopped starvation from spreading in Gaza. He didn’t do thatIn March 2024, the global authority on food security warned that Palestinians were experiencing “catastrophic levels of hunger”, and famine was imminent in northern Gaza as Israel continued its siege of the territory. That report was one of the most direct warnings from the UN and international relief groups, which had been raising alarms about the potential for widespread starvation in Gaza since December 2023.Joe Biden was in the White House at the time, and his administration not only failed to heed those repeated warnings, but it worked to undermine UN agencies and humanitarian groups that tried to focus attention on Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Today, Donald Trump and his administration are deeply complicit in the human-made famine unfolding in Gaza, but it’s important to remember that US complicity predates Trump – and it’s another sta...

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3 w. ago Kristi Noem responds to South Park’s crude takedown of her in episode targeting Ice

Cartoon series highlighted homeland security chief’s repeated animal killings and poked fun at her looksUS politics live – latest updatesSouth Park’s recent satirical depiction of Kristi Noem as having undergone a defective cosmetic procedure and shooting dogs has rankled the US homeland security secretary, she said in a new interview.“It’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem remarked on Thursday’s episode of the Glenn Beck Program podcast – a little more than a year after her disclosure in a memoir that she shot and killed her family’s dog on a farm. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago UKHSA warning as France, Italy and others report Chikungunya virus cases

Holiday hotspots like France, Italy and Cuba have all reported locally acquired cases of the mosquito-borne illness

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3 w. ago Warning of NHS staffing crisis as fifth of doctors tempted to move abroad

General Medical Council warns of ‘ongoing risks to retention of doctors’ in latest report

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3 w. ago Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says

Figure down from 4% in April, suggesting Israel has continued to target farmland in once-abundant Gaza StripIsrael’s destruction of Gaza has left starving Palestinians with access to only 1.5% of cropland that is accessible and suitable for cultivation, according to new figures from the UN.This is down from 4% in April, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), suggesting Israel has continued to target Palestinian farmland since initiating a complete blockade in early March, severely restricting aid from entering the Gaza Strip, where 2 million starved people are trapped. Continue reading...

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