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Portugal wildfire deaths rise to seven after firefighters trapped in blaze

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:39:14 +0000

More than 50 people injured as 54 fires burn across country amid hot, dry and windy weather

Seven people have been killed and more than 50 injured in wildfires ravaging central and northern Portugal, authorities have said, after three firefighters died on Tuesday when their vehicle was trapped in flames.

Portugal’s civil protection service said 54 wildfires were burning nationwide, mainly in the north, with 5,300 firefighters mobilised. France, Greece, Italy and Spain sent eight water-bombing planes through the EU’s mutual assistance mechanism.

Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:39:09 +0000

Nordic country, paradoxically a major oil producer, has set target for all new cars sold to be zero emission

Electric cars now outnumber petrol cars in Norway for the first time, an industry organisation has said, a world first that puts the country on track towards taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road.

Of the 2.8m private cars registered in the Nordic country, 754,303 are all-electric, against 753,905 that run on petrol, the Norwegian road federation (OFV) said in a statement.

Ed Davey says Liberal Democrats will be ‘responsible opposition’ to Labour – UK politics live

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:42:32 +0000

Lib Dem leader speaks about importance of care and carers as he addresses final day of party conference

Central Europe braces for further flooding as swollen rivers continue to rise

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:40:05 +0000

Deadly Storm Boris has dumped up to five times average September rainfall in four days

Storm Boris batters central Europe – in pictures

As swollen rivers continued to rise, volunteers and emergency workers in towns and cities across a swathe of central Europe were reinforcing defences against floods that have killed at least 21 people in four countries.

Albanese targets Greens on ‘gesture-based’ climate politics in speech defending Labor’s business policies

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:30:25 +0000

PM says Labor’s nature-positive legislation provides ‘vital certainty’ and talks up mutual respect in an address before the Business Council of Australia

Coldplay to donate 10% of band earnings from 2025 UK tour to Music Venue Trust

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:49:55 +0000

Charity says band are a perfect example of an act that rose through the grassroots circuit and their support ‘really will stop venues closing’

Coldplay are to donate 10% of the band’s proceeds from their 2025 UK dates in London and Hull to the Music Venue Trust, the UK charity that supports grassroots music venues.

Ed Miliband: beating nimbys on green rollout a matter of ‘national security’

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:33:14 +0000

Energy secretary vows to take on the ‘blockers’ opposed to wind turbines, solar farms and pylons

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Ed Miliband has vowed to take on the nimbys opposed to the government’s rollout of wind turbines, solar farms and pylons across the UK as a matter of “national security” and “economic justice”.

Biden’s green policies will save 200,000 lives and have boosted clean energy jobs, data shows

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:00:10 +0000

Two separate reports find policies will save Americans from pollution in coming decades and added nearly 150,000 jobs

The environmental policies of Joe Biden’s administration will save approximately 200,000 Americans’ lives from dangerous pollution in the coming decades and have spurred a surge in clean energy jobs, two independent reports outlining the stakes of the upcoming US presidential election have found.

Azerbaijan accused of hypocrisy after calling for Cop29 global truce

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:00:33 +0000

Climate summit host positioning itself as peacemaker but is accused of ethnic cleansing and imprisoning opponents

The host country of this year’s UN climate summit, Azerbaijan, has been accused of hypocrisy in calling for a global truce to coincide with the conference taking place.

Stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline of Norway’s seabirds

admin — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:00:33 +0000

When Rob Barrett set out to survey one of the country’s largest colonies in the 1970s there were too many birds to count. Now, his pictures and archive images show a species decline echoed around the world

In the mid-1970s, seabird researcher Rob Barrett set out in a rubber boat to survey one of Norway’s largest seabird colonies. Equipped with a camera and a pair of binoculars, he planned to photograph the Syltefjord colony, in the far north of the country, then, back on land, develop the photos and fit them together to create a panorama. After that, he would count the birds.