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Yorkshire Water urges customers to limit water usage as climate change is ‘driving extreme weather patterns’
Yorkshire Water has urged customers to cut back on non-essential water use, warning that climate change is contributing to more extreme and less predictable weather patterns. The report says the company is trying to protect supplies during a period of dry conditions and higher demand, while also signalling that these pressures may become more common.…
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Google turns old phones into cloud servers
Google and researchers at the University of California San Diego have unveiled a project called “phone cluster computing”, which repurposes retired smartphones as low-carbon cloud servers rather than discarding them as electronic waste. The scheme matters because the AI boom is driving soaring demand for computing power, chips, electricity and cooling, while billions of phones…
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Massive Whitestone solar farm plan ‘achieves important milestone’
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How beachgoers are turning snaps into science
Beachgoers at Tyrella Beach in County Down are being invited to become citizen scientists, using their smartphones to help researchers track how the Northern Irish coastline is changing. Visitors take a photo through a fixed steel cradle and upload it via a QR code to the CoastSnap website, building a growing photographic record that scientists…
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Volkswagen is employing 100 sheep at a solar farm in Poland
Volkswagen has introduced a flock of 100 sheep to graze at the solar farm that powers its manufacturing plant in Poznań, Poland. Beyond keeping the vegetation trimmed in place of lawnmowers, the sheep form part of a wider research project into agrivoltaics — the practice of combining agriculture and energy generation on the same land…
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Carbon emissions at controversial ‘green’ Drax power station hit record high
Carbon emissions from the Drax power station in North Yorkshire rose to a record high last year, making the woodchip-burning plant the UK’s largest single emitter for the eleventh consecutive year, according to a report by the energy think-tank Ember. The findings matter because Drax, whose energy is officially classed as renewable, continues to receive…
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Far-left candidate’s past anti-meat activism clashes with campaign pivot in cattle country
Fox News reports that Manny Rutinel, a Democratic state legislator running for Congress in Colorado’s 8th District, faces scrutiny over a long history of activism against ranching and animal-related businesses, even though the district he hopes to represent depends heavily on the cattle and dairy sector. The tension matters because he is challenging Republican Rep.…
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Jackdaw owner says gas field will ‘not materially influence’ climate change
The owner of the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, Adura, has published a new report arguing that emissions from the project will “not materially influence” global warming, accounting for less than 0.02% of annual global greenhouse gases over its lifetime. The claim matters because the field’s future depends on this assessment: a judge…
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Unions in Europe press for new worker protections to counter heat stress
Trades unions across Europe are pushing for new, legally binding laws to protect workers from heat stress, which is linked to an estimated 230 workplace deaths each year. The campaign, gathering pace during the sweltering summer of 2026, matters because global heating is intensifying — Europe is warming at twice the global average — leaving…
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Scott Free Productions Teams With Calliope Pictures For Documentary Feature ‘The Vesuvius Challenge’ Narrated By Guy Pearce
EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and Jim O’Shaughnessy’s Infinite Films have developed and produced documentary feature The Vesuvius Challenge in partnership with directors Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme’s Calliope Pictures. “For decades, computer scientist Brent Seales has pursued an obsession long thought impossible: reading the hundreds of scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in…