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  • Burnham criticised for EV and North Sea approach amid climate crisis

    Cut in electric vehicle sales targets could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions in UK, say green campaigners

    Andy Burnham has been criticised for moving to cut electric vehicle (EV) sales targets and accept North Sea drilling at a time of devastating wildfires caused by the climate emergency.

    The prime minister for the first time acknowledged on Friday that the climate crisis was behind hundreds of wildfires that have ripped across the parts of the UK.

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  • ‘The eww holds power’: why disgust shapes how we see nature, queerness and each other

    We learn what to fear and reject from those around us. But if disgust can be learned, it can also be unlearned

    Vote for your favourite invertebrate of the year

    It was the summer of 2021 and I was standing in Hyde Park, London, trying to persuade passing tourists to come bug hunting with me. I was working on a campaign to increase public appreciation of invertebrates and, while I adore bugs, this job was teaching me how differently other people see them.

    A woman and her young daughter stopped to chat. Grateful for a few minutes of respite, the woman turned to her phone while the child followed me to a nearby log. We lifted it to reveal one of the largest earthworms I’ve ever seen.

    Voting is open for invertebrate of the year and will close at midnight BST on Sunday 16 August; vote here

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  • Country diary: Down the road from the Edinburgh fringe … a true local tradition of costume and whisky | Doc Rowe

    South Queensferry, West Lothian: The Burryman procession is one of Scotland’s most remarkable customs – and a changing of the guard is about to occur

    While the Edinburgh festival grabs the headlines, just 10 miles away, one of Scotland’s most remarkable traditions takes place every August – the Burryman procession.

    In this, part of the Ferry Fair, a local volunteer is covered in thousands of hooked burdock seedheads, which are attached in dense patches like Velcro. He spends up to 10 hours perambulating a seven-mile route around town, accompanied by two attendants, pausing at some 20 stops to collect charitable donations and accepting a libation of unmeasured whisky through a straw. This year’s procession is especially significant, as the identity of the Burryman is changing.

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  • El Niño may peak at the worst time for the Amazon – and it should worry us all

    Delay to rainy season in forest already damaged by human-driven heating could trigger powerful ‘Godzilla’ El Niño

    As a supercharged climate scorches Europe with wildfire and deluges Asia with floods, the Amazon is bracing for a drought that strikes fear into the hearts of forest defenders and food producers alike. But it should worry even more of us.

    Scientists are predicting that the peak of El Niño will occur at the worst possible time for the world’s biggest tropical rainforest: the end of the dry season between October and December, when rivers are at their lowest and undergrowth is most likely to be tinder dry. This will be a period of extreme vulnerability for the forest, which plays a globally important role in stabilising the climate and irrigating crops.

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  • Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds

    Marine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered population

    Spanish officials have launched an investigation after the matriarch of an orca pod known for jostling and ramming boats off the Iberian Peninsula was spotted with wounds suggesting she had been shot by a pellet gun.

    On Friday, Spain’s environment ministry said Toñi, the oldest living member of the pod, had been seen swimming in the Strait of Gibraltar with markings on her dorsal fin that were “consistent with shots from a pellet gun”.

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  • Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis

    More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave

    The UK’s leading climate organisations have accused the prime minister, Andy Burnham, of “remaining silent” on the climate crisis as the country struggles to cope with its fifth heatwave of the year.

    As widespread droughts and devastating wildfires grip the country, green groups have written to Burnham urging him to “show leadership” and be honest with workers and the public that the climate crisis is driving the extreme conditions they are facing.

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  • Builders, bakers and cheeseburger-makers: the UK workers struggling in extreme heat

    From chefs to paramedics, workers tell the Guardian how they are coping and unions outline the changes needed in the workplace

    In the sweltering kitchen of the Plimsoll pub in north London, the head chef, Joshua Swinney, has a frozen tea towel wrapped around his neck to combat the heat.

    As temperatures exceeded 35C (95F) in the capital, workers who were not lucky enough to be in air-conditioned offices sweltered in the heat.

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  • The Great Stink of 2026? Hot, dry summer leaves London holding its nose

    Experts say putrid stench shows overhaul of sewers is needed – like the one prompted by the Great Stink of 1858

    London was “reeking with ineffable and intolerable horrors” after weeks of temperatures exceeding 30C and minimal rainfall. This was Disraeli’s description of the Great Stink of 1858, but something similarly disgusting has been happening this summer.

    Once again, an exceptionally hot and dry spell has exposed the putrid stench of untreated human waste.

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  • Bin sins: common recycling mistakes and how to avoid them

    With so many bins, and ever more complex packaging, recycling in Australia can be complicated and confusing. Here’s what not to do

    • Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprint

    • Got a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at [email protected]

    Australians consider themselves good recyclers. But while more than 90% say recycling is important, many admit to doing it wrong.

    About half have engaged in well intentioned “wish-cycling” at some point, according to Cleanaway’s recycling behaviours survey, such as popping soft plastics in the recycling bin and hoping for the best.

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  • Bird flu has been evolving and migrating for 30 years. It is a far more deadly virus that has now arrived in Australia

    Experts say the H5N1 bird flu virus’s risk to humans is low, but fear an impeding decimation of seal populations after tens of thousands of deaths in South America and Antarctica

    In 1996, geese in poultry farms in the Guangdong province of southern China started to get sick with a virus causing “bleeding and neurological dysfunction” and then death.

    A strain of avian influenza had likely arrived as a relatively harmless virus in migrating wild birds but had morphed into something “highly pathogenic”, killing about 40% of infected geese.

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