Venture Global’s plant depletes water, emergency services and road space, say local officials, people and paramedics
When America’s newest gas giant arrives in your town, the world turns upside down.
Residents of Plaquemines parish, 70 miles south of New Orleans, say they have faced unreliable essential services, water shortages and impassible traffic since 2021, when Venture Global began construction on what will become one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) hubs.
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09/03/2024 - 09:00
09/03/2024 - 07:22
Bella Nilsson’s company Think Pink accused of dumping at least 200,000 tonnes of waste
Eleven people, including an entrepreneur who once called herself the “queen of trash”, have gone on trial in Sweden accused of illegally dumping toxic waste in the country’s biggest ever environmental crime case.
The closely watched trial at Attunda district court in Sollentuna, near Stockholm, centres on the recycling company Think Pink, its former chief executive Bella Nilsson, who has since changed her name, and her ex-husband Thomas Nilsson.
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09/03/2024 - 07:12
Exclusive: Cut would mean at least 239,000 fewer hectares of nature-friendly farmland, according to RSPB
The government is to slash the nature-friendly farming budget in England by £100m in order to help fill what ministers say is a £22bn Treasury shortfall, the Guardian can reveal.
Nature groups and farmers have called this a “big mistake”, saying it jeopardised the government’s legally binding targets to improve nature.
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09/03/2024 - 04:00
Most of the time safety divers do not need to step in, but our presence gives athletes the security needed for their remarkable underwater feats
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Things started to go wrong as Gary McGrath was coming up from 95 metres below the surface, a feat managed entirely on one breath. McGrath, who holds the British freediving record of 112 metres, was met on his ascent by a team of safety divers who quickly noticed he was struggling as his movements started to slow. Then he stopped rising.
Protocols designed for such emergencies instantly came into play. One diver sealed Gary’s airways while another grabbed his hips, bringing him to the surface together, all while holding their breaths, too.
Gary McGrath in Dahab, on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. He holds the British record after freediving to 112 metres
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09/03/2024 - 01:44
£1.5bn auction awards record funding for new windfarms, solar farms and tidal power projects
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Great Britain’s renewable energy auction has secured enough new clean electricity projects to power 11m UK homes after the Labour government made record funding available to suppliers.
The £1.5bn auction will support 131 new projects including windfarms, solar farms and tidal power projects after ministers increased the amount of funding available to seven times the sums offered last year.
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09/03/2024 - 00:11
Climate scientists have already predicted that 2024 will be the hottest year ever
Japan has recorded its hottest summer on record after a sweltering three months marked by thousands of instances of “extreme heat”, with meteorologists warning that unseasonably high temperatures will continue through the autumn.
The average temperature in June, July and August was 1.76C higher than the average recorded between 1991 and 2020, the Japan meteorological agency said, according to Kyodo news agency.
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09/03/2024 - 00:00
Friends of the Earth says pollution exceeds healthy levels for nature in 9,062 localities
More than a quarter of neighbourhoods in England have pollution levels that are highly harmful to wildlife, new data shows.
Friends of the Earth has named 27.5% of areas “nature pollution hotspots” in new research. These are defined as places where air, water, noise and light pollution all exceed levels that are damaging to nature.
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09/02/2024 - 23:00
Rachel Reeves should reform vehicle taxes to fill £5bn ‘black hole’, says Campaign for Better Transport
Campaigners have called on the chancellor to introduce a controversial pay-per-mile road charging scheme on electric cars, warning of a £5bn “black hole” in tax revenues from motoring.
In a letter to Rachel Reeves, the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) urged her to reform vehicle taxes, with fuel duty poised to dwindle in the coming decade as petrol and diesel cars are phased out.
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09/02/2024 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s44183-024-00074-6
Is tuna ecolabeling causing fishers more harm than good?
09/02/2024 - 22:00
Will its bark be worse than its bite?
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