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Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to restart to power Microsoft AI operations

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:59:21 +0000

Pennsylvania plant was site of most serious nuclear meltdown and radiation leak in US history in 1979

A nuclear reactor at the notorious Three Mile Island site in Pennsylvania is to be activated for the first time in five years after its owners, Constellation Energy, struck a deal to provide power to Microsoft’s proliferating artificial intelligence operations.

Packaging tax will raise price of many everyday items, say UK firms

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:46:07 +0000

Cost of soft drinks, beer and kettles likely to increase as a result of scheme that shifts recycling fees to producers

Budding market: hopes of a revival in UK cut-flower production

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:00:11 +0000

British growers are taking a increasing share of sales long dominated by imports by focussing on green credentials

From the tip of Cornwall to the far reaches of Scotland, the shoots of resurgence in the British cut-flower market are raising hopes of a fledgling return to home-produced fragrant flowers becoming a bigger part of the £1bn industry in the UK.

How mudlarking on the Thames unlocks London’s secret riches

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:00:12 +0000

As the London Museum announces a mudlarking exhibition, mudlarker Lara Maiklem says combing the foreshore can transport you back in time

Earlier this week, Lara Maiklem climbed down to the foreshore of the River Thames at low tide to spend several hours gently scrabbling at its surface in pursuit of a 20-year obsession.

People rescued from rooftops as flooding hits northern Italy – video

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:10:04 +0000

Firefighters have been rescuing people stranded on their balconies and rooftops after Storm Boris triggered flooding and landslides in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. Two people were reported missing in Traversara, a hamlet in Ravenna province, and about 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. Storm Boris has battered parts of Italy after causing havoc in eastern and central Europe

‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:00:08 +0000

Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest

The occupants of the vinyl-coated military tents at this remote jungle camp in Brazil’s wild west compare the hellscape surrounding them to catastrophes old and new: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the bombardment of Gaza, the obliteration of Hiroshima during the second world war.

One year of Guardian Europe: different stories through a new lens

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:00:07 +0000

On 20 September 2023, the Guardian launched a new digital edition for a continent in the grip of dramatic political and social change. This is what we’ve learned so far – and how you can help us do more

Weather tracker: Shanghai hit by its ‘strongest typhoon in 75 years’

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:05:49 +0000

More than 400,000 people evacuated, hundreds of flights cancelled and many roads shut due to flooding and winds

Typhoon Bebinca struck the east coast of China this week, making landfall near Shanghai, a city of almost 30 million people, on Monday. Bebinca developed into a typhoon to the east of the southern Japan islands late last week, before traveling westwards through the East China Sea and making landfall in Shanghai at approximately 7.30am local time (00.30BST).

Week in wildlife in pictures: Hampshire beaver babies, bubbly lizards and a shopaholic koala

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:00:04 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Fish! Do they have feelings? Now everyone wants to know about the emotional lives of fish! | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:34:19 +0000

Do fish feel despair or longing? Do they yearn for a simpler time?