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7 new dementia risk factors revealed — including one millions struggle with
The World Health Organization has updated its global guidelines on reducing the risk of dementia and cognitive decline, adding seven new risk factors to the twelve identified in its original 2019 report. The revised guidance, described as reflecting the latest scientific evidence, matters because dementia rates are rising worldwide and public health bodies are keen…
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Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author, farmer and environmentalist, has died at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, aged 92. His daughter, Mary Berry, confirmed the death, saying “there’s not enough I could say about him to do him justice.” Berry was widely regarded as one of America’s foremost agrarian writers, celebrated for prose and poetry…
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Heathland plan to support two rare species of ant
Devon Wildlife Trust and invertebrate charity Buglife have launched a three-year conservation project to protect two of the UK’s rarest ant species by restoring their heathland habitats and establishing new colonies at suitable nearby sites. The narrow-headed ant’s only English population lives at the trust’s Chudleigh Knighton Heath reserve, while the nationally scarce erratic ant…
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US Fish and Wildlife Service officer dies during wildfire evacuation efforts in Oklahoma, agency says
A US Fish and Wildlife Service officer, David Taylor, is believed to have died on Saturday while helping evacuate residents from a fast-moving wildfire south of Oklahoma City. Taylor, 38, was going door-to-door with emergency crews to assist people fleeing the blaze when he lost contact with dispatch while helping a family leave their home;…
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Travellers who ripped up wildlife haven are forced to stop building work: Police arrive and diggers move out after hundreds of residents protested overnight over Bank Holiday land grab
A bank holiday “land grab” on greenbelt in Sawbridgeworth, East Hertfordshire, in which bulldozers cleared a wildlife-rich field, has been halted after hundreds of local residents staged an overnight protest. Diggers and vans left the site on Sheering Mill Lane on Monday morning after Hertfordshire Police enforced a High Court injunction, with officers set to…
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Braintree asylum tensions, Middlesbrough gang violence row, Fife data centre fury
Unease grows in Braintree over migrant gatherings and Middlesbrough’s mayor defends policing after gang violence, while Fife villagers fight a giant data centre. Elsewhere: Toby Samuel’s US Open breakthrough, Aaron Donald’s NFL return, and Batman filming hits Glasgow.
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The data centre dwarfing our village: Outrage as development so large it would ‘raise temperatures by nine degrees and kill wildlife with 24/7 noise’ is planned for tiny Scottish community
Residents of Auchtertool, a small village in Fife of around 200 houses, have objected en masse to plans for what would be the world’s second largest data centre, to be built right next to their community. Campaigners say the facility, covering an area larger than 100 football pitches, could raise local temperatures by up to…
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Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk has confirmed that a secretive foundry SpaceX has been building in Bastrop, Texas, is intended to manufacture the turbine blades and vanes used in natural gas power plants, a move aimed at overcoming a key bottleneck slowing the rollout of AI data centres. The disclosure came after The Information published a report, based…
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The datacenter fight could permanently transform US politics. Which party will seize advantage?
A wave of local opposition to big tech’s datacentre construction boom is uniting Americans across the political spectrum, with three-quarters now opposing datacentre development in their area—a swing of more than 30 percentage points in just a year. What began as scattered, dismissible instances of nimbyism has grown into a national movement, with more than…