20 h. ago ‘Global red alert’: forest loss hits record high – and Latin America is the heart of the inferno

With little state support, villagers are left to battle wildfires armed with little more than shovels and bottles of water • Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last yearWildfires engulfed vast swathes of South America last year, devastating ecosystems, closing schools and grounding flights. With its worst fire season on record, Bolivia was especially hard hit. “We felt powerless and angry to be unable to protect what is ours,” says Isabel Surubí Pesoa.Surubí Pesoa was forced to migrate to the nearest town after the spring that fed her village in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands dried up after the fires and the drought that preceded it. “It’s very painful,” she says. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair

Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach challengesAccording to Rebecca Solnit, a lot of us are suffering from something called moral injury. She describes this as the “deep sense of wrongness” that can infiltrate our lives when we realise we are complicit in something seriously bad.The first time I experienced this in relation to climate change, I was changing my baby’s nappy soon after one of the worst Australian wildfire seasons on record in 2020. The nappy featured a smiling cartoon koala on the front. I immediately recalled the scene of a singed, parched koala being fed water from a plastic bottle by a human as it fled the inferno. A disposable nappy takes up to 500 years to decompose. I felt disgust and despair at the degree of consumption, waste and exploitation that even a modest lifestyle in a high-income country seems to entail. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The 'medieval' flats where residents have to fill containers just to wash and 'can't live properly'

Residents have been forced for years to get up early to shower, boil kettles to help relatives wash and spend a fortune on bottled water

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9 d. ago Drinking hydrogen water helped me sleep better, but is a £299 bottle worth the investment?

Could this water bottle improve my health and slow the process of ageing?

Economics

9 d. ago Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most enviable physiques

The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 80s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”. And that last part, really, was the trick: by crediting his results to a regime that nobody else would dare try, he gave them a faint veneer of plausibilty. Maybe, if you followed a less extreme version of his protocol, you could get comparable (though less extreme) results. And if you couldn’t stomach an all-organ diet, well, you could always get the same nutrients from his line of supplements.The Liver Kin...

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9 d. ago Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most envied physiques

The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 80s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”. And that last part, really, was the trick: by crediting his results to a regime that nobody else would dare try, he gave them a faint veneer of plausibilty. Maybe, if you followed a less extreme version of his protocol, you could get comparable (though less extreme) results. And if you couldn’t stomach an all-organ diet, well, you could always get the same nutrients from his line of supplements.The Liver Kin...

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1 week ago These water bottles are so massive, they are nearly socially unacceptable

Apocalypse-ready personal reservoirs to keep you hydrated all day

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2 w. ago Christian Horner responds to McLaren F1 boss over cheeky dig written on water bottle

Zak Brown took a shot at McLaren's rivals Red Bull at the Miami Grand Prix with a message taped to the side of his drinking bottle, to which Christian Horner has now responded

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2 w. ago Households told to save empty water bottles and put them in your garden

If you have a load of empty bottles lying around don't toss them in the bin just yet - experts say they can be transformed into highly efficient tools to help your plants thrive

Politics

2 w. ago Keir to the rescue! Prime Minister springs into action to hand Queen Camilla a bottle of water during VE Day military procession

The UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer came to Queen Camilla's rescue during today's VE Day festivities.

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2 w. ago Doctor's warning on how often you should clean your reusable water bottle

Your go-to water bottle could be far dirtier than you realise

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3 w. ago Stanley cups and other water bottles that could be causing 'premature ageing' doctor warns

The trending tumblers could leave a mark but it is reversible

Events

3 w. ago Spain over the worst, investigating the causes and determined to prevent repeat of massive power blackout, PM says – Europe live

Spain and Portugal electricity services returning to normal after being hit by biggest power cut in recent European history Portuguese power network operator REN denied on Tuesday it was behind a message circulated on social media attributing the massive blackout across the Iberian peninsula to a rare atmospheric event, AFP reported.“REN confirms we did not put out this statement,” spokesperson Bruno Silva told AFP, without giving further details. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lawyer in coma after hitting speed bump on bike while taking selfie on phone

Daiane Vasconcelos, a social media influencer and lawyer with a massive following, has spent months in a coma after she fell off her bike while trying to take a selfie

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4 w. ago Massive change to online knife laws with social media bosses facing huge fines

Tech bosses will face personal fines of £10,000 while their companies could also be hit with £60,000 demands if they advertise or glorify knives - much higher than originally planned

Politics

4 w. ago Doctor always does the same one thing everytime he boards a cruise ship

Travel expert Dr. Steve Burgess, CEO and founder of CME Vacations, suggests taking a water bottle and placing it on the floor of your cabin when boarding a cruise ship

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