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US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:14 +0000

Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule

The EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba, newly released internal agency documents show.

‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:00:16 +0000

Trump says he digs coal – but pneumoconiosis cases are at a 50-year high, and sick miners are mired in benefit delays

For 38 years, Josh Armes worked as a coal miner in West Virginia and Virginia.

After retirement, Armes, 74, of Grundy, Virginia, was diagnosed with black lung disease, medically known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP), caused by breathing in coal dust over long periods, which irreversibly damages the lungs.

‘It’s transformed the village’: the volunteers greening up Britain’s train stations

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:00:13 +0000

Exclusive: Five gardening teams shortlisted for Royal Horticultural Society’s new Railway Stations in Bloom award

Every year since 1964, towns across the UK have bloomed with hanging baskets and brightly coloured flowerbeds planted by residents.

They wield their trowels in aid of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Britain in Bloom competition, a coveted accolade for the 1,600 communities that enter each year.

Outfoxed: How well do you know your native animals? Australians’ questionable quoll knowledge exposed

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:49:26 +0000

About one in six NSW, QLD and Vic residents think foxes are native animals and a third believe quolls are introduced, survey shows

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Hurricane Hunters reveal 4 warning signs that a storm is about to strengthen

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:29:23 +0000

Nearly three decades of Hurricane Hunter data reveal four features that can help a tilted tropical cyclone straighten its circulation and become capable of intensifying. The findings could give forecasters an earlier warning that a seemingly disorganized storm is becoming primed to strengthen.

Sea dragon populations decimated in ‘mind-blowing’ mass mortality event caused by South Australian algal bloom

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:19:30 +0000

Thousands of sea dragons, pipefishes and seahorses have washed up along state’s coastline according to analysis of citizen scientist records

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Trump administration pushes on with construction of controversial Big Bend border wall

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:07:25 +0000

Customs and Border Protection faces bipartisan backlash from locals for 30ft border wall through west Texas

Drone footage shows severe drought hitting river in Brazil – video

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:04:13 +0000

Drone footage from 17 September shows the Araguaia River drying up, as severe drought grips parts of Brazil. The country is preparing for potential El Niño impacts in late 2026-27, with the Tocantins-Araguaia basin already experiencing severe drought conditions

US veterans have greater levels of Pfas in their blood than civilians, new study finds

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:00:19 +0000

Soil and water around military bases show elevated levels of Pfas pollution due to chemicals used in firefighting foam

Many US military veterans have much higher levels of Pfas “forever chemicals” in their blood than non-veterans, new peer-reviewed research finds, raising more questions about health risks the nation’s service members face after serving at polluted bases.

Fat Bear Week has returned – and the salmon are swimming for their lives

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:00:18 +0000

The public will, for the 12th year in a row, vote for the fattest of brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai national park

The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week begins at Katmai national park.

The 12th annual Fat Bear Week, in which the public will vote for the fattest of Katmai’s brown bears as mothers, cubs and males gather along the salmon-run at Brooks river in Alaska begins on Monday.