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Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:00:24 +0000

Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says

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Zipcar’s demise means people such as me are back in the slow lane – and stuck needing their own costly car | Phineas Finn

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:00:23 +0000

The impending collapse of UK carsharing is an embarrassment for a government attempting to curb the dominance of cars

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:00:15 +0000

Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve

A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.

It was filmed dragging logs and establishing a lodge in a “perfect beaver habitat” on the River Wensum at Pensthorpe, a nature reserve near Fakenham in Norfolk.

California officials warn foragers after person dies from poison mushroom

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:19:53 +0000

Several additional people, including children, have severe liver damage amid 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning

California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children.

The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely caused by death cap mushrooms, the health department said Friday. The toxic wild mushrooms are often mistaken for edible ones because of their appearance and taste.

Drag queen Pattie Gonia completes 100-mile trek raising $1m to make outdoors more ‘equitable’

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:00:55 +0000

Drag queen, environmentalist, diversity and inclusion advocate and social media star arrives in San Francisco

Pattie Gonia, the drag queen and environmentalist, arrived in San Francisco on Friday afternoon and crossed the Golden Gate Bridge with $1m more than when she set out on her journey last week.

Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:00:48 +0000

Exclusive: ‘extremely unhelpful’ policy seen as deterrent to clearing thousands of dump sites across England

Millions of pounds in landfill tax owed to the government has to be paid by the Environment Agency (EA) if it clears any of the thousands of illegal waste dumps across the country.

Of the £15m that taxpayers are paying for the clearance of the only site the agency has committed to clearing up – a vast illegal dump at Hoad’s Wood in Kent – £4m is landfill tax.

Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:52:39 +0000

Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia blew hole in painstakingly erected €1.5bn shield meant to allow for final clean-up of 1986 meltdown site

The protective shield over the Chornobyl disaster nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was hit by a drone in February, can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced.

Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:42:17 +0000

Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence

Just not that into ewes: ‘gay sheep’ escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:00:26 +0000

Designer Michael Schmidt’s 36-piece collection was made from the wool of rams who have shown same-sex attraction

When a ram tips its head back, curls its upper lip, and takes a deep breath – what is known in the world of animal husbandry as a “flehmen response” – it is often a sign of arousal. Sheep have a small sensory organ located above the roof of the mouth, and the flehmen response helps to flood it with any sex pheromones wafting about.

South Australian bus ads misled public by claiming gas is ‘clean and green’, regulator finds

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:00:27 +0000

Ads to be removed from Adelaide Metro buses after advertising regulator rules they breach its environmental claims code

South Australia’s transport department misled the public by running ads on buses claiming “natural gas” was “clean and green”, the advertising regulator has found.