3 h. ago Voices: ‘Complete mess’: Readers slam Kemi Badenoch’s proposal to put asylum seekers in ‘migrant camps’

Our community described the Tory leader’s suggestion as cruel – and a distraction from deeper political failures

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3 d. ago Metropolitan Police arrest more than 200 protesters at London demonstration defying Palestine Action ban

Up to 700 people, including Left-wing activists and Muslim community leaders, gathered in Westminster

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3 d. ago Metropolitan Police make record 365 arrests at London demonstration defying Palestine Action ban

Up to 700 people, including Left-wing activists and Muslim community leaders, gathered in Westminster

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3 d. ago Metropolitan Police make record 400 arrests at London demonstration defying Palestine Action ban

Up to 700 people, including Left-wing activists and Muslim community leaders, gathered in Westminster

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3 d. ago Metropolitan Police make record 466 arrests at London demonstration defying Palestine Action ban

Up to 700 people, including Left-wing activists and Muslim community leaders, gathered in Westminster

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3 d. ago Metropolitan Police make record 532 arrests at London demonstration defying Palestine Action ban

Up to 700 people, including Left-wing activists and Muslim community leaders, gathered in Westminster

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3 w. ago Vocational skills to be offered at new secondary school in Swansea

'There is a great will in the community to see this delivered,' says council leader

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3 w. ago Mining companies are pumping seawater into the driest place on Earth. But has the damage been done?

In Chile’s drought-stricken Atacama desert, Indigenous people say desalination plants cannot counter the impact of intensive lithium and copper mining on local water sourcesPhotographs by Luis BustamanteVast pipelines cross the endless dunes of northern Chile, pumping seawater up to an altitude of more than 3,000 metres in the Andes mountains to the Escondida mine, the world’s largest copper producer. The mine’s owners say sourcing water directly from the sea, instead of relying on local reservoirs, could help preserve regional water resources. Yet, this is not the perception of Sergio Cubillos, leader of the Indigenous community Lickanantay de Peine.Cubillos and his fellow activists believe that the mining industry is helping to degrade the region’s meagre water resources, as Chile continues to be ravaged by a mega-drought that has plagued the country for 15 years. They also fear that the use of desalinated seawater cannot make up for the devastation of the northern Atacama region’...

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4 w. ago Australia’s Indigenous elders lose landmark environment case of Torres Strait Islands

Indigenous elders lose climate case as judge says protecting islands is a political, not legal, responsibility

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4 w. ago Australia’s Indigenous elders lose landmark environment case over Torres Strait Islands

Indigenous elders lose climate case as judge says protecting islands is a political, not legal, responsibility

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4 w. ago Torres Strait community leaders in ‘deepest pain imaginable’ as federal court dismisses landmark climate case

Class action led by two community leaders argued government had legal duty of care to prevent or deal with damage linked to global heatingSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesTwo Torres Strait community leaders are shocked and devastated after the federal court dismissed a landmark case that argued the Australian government breached its duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islands from climate change.The lead plaintiffs, Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai from the islands of Boigu and Saibai, sought orders requiring the government to take steps to prevent climate harm to their communities, including by cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the pace climate scientists say is necessary.Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Federal court dismisses landmark Torres Strait climate case but warns of ‘bleak future’ without urgent action

Class action led by two community leaders argued government had legal duty of care to prevent or deal with damage linked to global heatingSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesThe federal court has dismissed a landmark case brought by two Torres Strait community leaders that argued the Australian federal government breached its duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islands from climate change.In delivering the decision, however, Justice Michael Wigney noted: “There could be little if any doubt that the Torres Strait Islands and their inhabitants face a bleak future if urgent action is not taken to address climate change and its impacts.”Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...

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