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Trump says he will repeal Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:04:09 +0000

Move marks president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and support for cleaner-running vehicles

Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing the Biden-era federal fuel economy standards, significantly weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks.

The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop?

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:00:34 +0000

Amid concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, the Trump administration has abolished climate-friendly farming incentives

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For decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90m acres – about the size of Montana – and goes into everything from livestock feed and processed foods to the ethanol blended into most of the nation’s gasoline.

The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop?

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:00:34 +0000

Amid concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, the Trump administration has abolished climate-friendly farming incentives

This article was produced in partnership with Floodlight

‘Holy crap, this is insane’: mineworkers describe being caught in huge outback dust storm

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:13:22 +0000

Massive cloud over Tanami desert in Northern Territory reminiscent of Uluru, onlookers say

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Lachlan Marchant and his colleagues were driving their golf buggies back to their shed when they saw the earth sweeping towards them.

More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:29 +0000

Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds

More than 520 chemicals have been found in English soils, including pharmaceutical products and toxins that were banned decades ago, because of the practice of spreading human waste to fertilise arable land.

‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:28 +0000

Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

Soon after I returned home to Altamira from Cop30, I found myself talking about dinosaurs, meteors and “ambassadors of harm” with Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva.

Tesla privately warned UK that weakening EV rules would hit sales

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:00:56 +0000

Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker also called for support for the secondhand market, documents reveal

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Tesla privately warned the UK government that weakening electric vehicle rules would hit battery car sales and risk the country missing its carbon dioxide targets, according to newly revealed documents.

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years, says report

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:01:52 +0000

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken

The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals.

National Trust launches fundraiser to help buy land around Cerne Giant

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:00:53 +0000

Deal expected to pave way for further scientific study, boost conservation and open up access to Dorset chalk figure

The mystery of when, how and – perhaps most importantly – why a giant naked figure was carved into a dizzyingly steep hillside in the English West Country has been a source of wonder and intrigue for centuries.

Future generations may come closer to solving the puzzle of the Cerne Giant after the National Trust stepped in to buy 340 acres of land around the 55-metre (180ft) figure.

Hidden costs and propped-up profits: unraveling the economics of Europe’s purse-seine tuna fishing industry

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 03 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00165-y

Hidden costs and propped-up profits: unraveling the economics of Europe’s purse-seine tuna fishing industry