The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
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07/25/2025 - 01:00
07/25/2025 - 00:52
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07/25/2025 - 00:00
Campaign group Slow Ways launches app for disabled people, parents with children, older people and others
Volunteers have mapped 10,000 walking routes across Great Britain in an attempt to make rural walking more accessible.
The routes provide accessible and scenic walks for disabled people, parents with children, and older people, according to Slow Ways, the campaign group behind the project.
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07/25/2025 - 00:00
Tests conducted at 500 sites show particle pollution exceeded health guidelines on 6% of school days
Keeping the classroom window closed is not the answer to reduce the amount of pollution coming into schools, a recent study has found.
A project called SAMHE (Schools’ Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education) operated air pollution monitors in nearly 500 classrooms for an academic year and found that days with high outdoor pollution led to higher pollution inside the classrooms.
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07/24/2025 - 22:33
‘Lack of certainty’ and step back in green ambition has made it hard for previously feasible projects to proceed, mining company says
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The iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue company has cancelled two major green hydrogen projects, laying some of the blame on the Trump administration’s shift away from renewable energy.
Fortescue’s decision to cancel the two ventures in Queensland and Arizona are the latest in a run of canned hydrogen projects in Australia and elsewhere that will raise further questions about the future of the clean fuel.
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07/24/2025 - 17:30
Most comprehensive study of its kind highlights dangers of vehicle emissions and woodburning stoves
Exposure to certain forms of air pollution is linked to an increased risk of developing dementia, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind.
The illness is estimated to affect about 57 million people worldwide, with the number expected to increase to at least 150m cases by 2050.
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07/24/2025 - 11:49
Deaths in Cyprus bring overall toll on the eastern Mediterranean island and neighbouring Turkey to 12
Two people have been killed in a huge blaze in Cyprus, bringing the death toll from a series of wildfires on the eastern Mediterranean island and in neighbouring Turkey to 12 amid a brutal heatwave that has pushed temperatures to more than 44C (111F).
Police said two charred bodies were found on Thursday in a burnt-out car that had been caught up in the Cyprus blaze, which began outside Limassol on Wednesday and, fanned by strong winds, rapidly engulfed a string of mountain villages north of the city.
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07/24/2025 - 09:00
Architect of landmark EPA ‘endangerment finding’ says repealing it will lead to more extreme weather in US
One of the architects of a landmark 16-year-old finding on pollution’s impact on health that the Trump administration now wants to eliminate says that doing so would ignore “clearcut” science that has only become clearer today because of extreme weather.
The Trump administration plans would sweep away the US government’s legal authority to limit greenhouse gases in order to address the climate crisis.
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07/24/2025 - 08:29
Centrica keen to stem losses from North Sea Rough storage after company profits halve
Britain may have lower gas stockpiles going into the winter after the owner of British Gas indicated it plans to sell its stored gas to help reduce losses at a North Sea gas storage facility.
Centrica said the financial losses from its Rough gas storage business were not sustainable, meaning it would aim to sell the existing gas at the site without restocking before winter.
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07/24/2025 - 07:40
Conservationists feared 10cm threadsnake as thin as a strand of spaghetti had become extinct
The world’s smallest snake has been rediscovered in Barbados, 20 years after its last sighting.
The Barbados threadsnake, which had been feared extinct, was rediscovered under a rock in the centre of the island during an ecological survey in March by the environment ministry and the conservation organisation Re:wild.
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