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About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls, court told

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:00:04 +0000

Ford denies having created ‘defeat devices’ in legal action on behalf of 1.6 million owners against five carmakers

About a million Ford diesel cars were sold in the UK with serious defects in components supposed to curb toxic exhaust emissions, the high court has been told.

The highly polluting vehicles were produced and sold between 2016 and 2018 after Ford’s engineers became aware of the issues, and many were never formally recalled or fixed, lawyers said.

Learning to handle some of the world's most venomous snakes – video

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:44:58 +0000

With a reported boom in people becoming snake handlers, Guardian Australia's Joe Hinchcliffe attended a venomous snake handling course in Queensland to investigate what's involved in training to wrangle some of the world's deadliest snakes. Christina Zdenek and Chris Hay, the herpetologist pair running the course, say they've observed a growth in their industry: '[The] number of snake catchers has exploded in Australia, and that's in every Australian state,' says Chris. 'And every year we hear about this increase in snake numbers.

The Guardian view on Cop30: someone has to pay for the end of the oil and gas age | Editorial

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:30:47 +0000

The fossil-fuel era is drawing to a close, but at a pace far too slow for the planet’s good or a fair transition to a clean energy future

Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:53:35 +0000

Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end

Protesters blockade Cop30 summit over plight of Indigenous peoples

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:23:20 +0000

Munduruku people demand to speak to Brazil’s president, saying they are never listened to

Cop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil

Protesters blockaded the main entrance to the Cop30 climate conference for several hours early on Friday morning, demanding to speak to Brazil’s president about the plight of the country’s Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous protesters block entrance to Cop30 summit venue – video

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:40:32 +0000

Dozens of Indigenous activists blocked the entrance of the Cop30 summit venue on Friday, demanding that the Brazilian government halt all development projects in the Amazon, including mining, logging, oil drilling and the building of a new railway for transporting mining and agricultural products. The protesters staged a sit-in creating long queues and forcing delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling the climate crisis

What are bio-beads used for and how did they get spilled on to Camber Sands beach?

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:06:33 +0000

Plastic pellets attract algae and smell like food so can be eaten by birds, fish and dolphins, which can prove fatal

Beads spreading on Sussex coast after ‘catastrophic’ spill, meeting told

Plastic beads spreading on Sussex coast after ‘catastrophic’ spill, meeting told

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:05:13 +0000

Local people describe devastating impact of millions of toxic beads from Southern Water site near Camber Sands

What are bio-beads used for and how did they get spilled on to Camber Sands beach?

The massive spill of plastic beads at Camber Sands is devastating for local people, wildlife and tourism and the beads are dispersing along the coast, residents heard at an emotional public meeting on Thursday.

National parks facing ‘nightmare’ under Trump, warns ex-director of service

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:00:42 +0000

Jonathan Jarvis, who led the agency from 2009 to 2017, laid out the dire consequences of not closing parks in shutdown

Americans should “raise hell” to protect US national parks through the “nightmare” of Donald Trump’s presidency, according to a former National Park Service director, amid alarm over the impact of the federal government shutdown.

Facebook community groups and maggot-infested rats: the inner workings of Australia’s climate misinformation war

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:00:41 +0000

Senate inquiry hears how ‘propagandised misinformation’ is drowning out legitimate concerns in Australia’s regions over renewable energy

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