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Butterfly city blooms in shadow of office blocks
A “mini meadow” left to grow wild in Hull city centre, on Land Registry land near St Stephen’s Shopping Centre, has attracted ten species of butterfly, according to the wildlife group Hull Butterfly City. Volunteer Sean Clough said the presence of breeding small skipper butterflies is particularly notable, calling it “rare for a city”, as…
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Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
George Monbiot argues that successive UK environment secretaries have prioritised industrial poultry lobbyists over environmental protection, with rivers suffering as a result. He singles out outgoing secretary Emma Reynolds, who used her final weeks in post to push for weaker planning rules that would make it easier to build more large-scale chicken factories, despite the…
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Border K9 sniffs out 99 pounds of prohibited meat, plants and monitor lizard in suitcase from Thailand
A US Customs and Border Protection detector dog helped uncover nearly 100 pounds of prohibited meat, plants and wildlife products hidden inside a suitcase arriving from Thailand. The discovery, made by K9 Maisy at a border checkpoint, highlights the ongoing role of agriculture detection dogs in intercepting items that could introduce foreign pests, diseases or…
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Secret Service has investigated 10,000 threats in 2026
The US Secret Service says it has investigated roughly 10,000 threat cases against people it protects so far in 2026, about 40 per cent more than during the same period last year. The rise matters because it is increasing demands on the agency’s agents and investigative resources at a time of heightened concern about political…
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Paramount Seeks Three-Day Evidentiary Hearing As Judge Considers Preliminary Injunction To Halt Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
Paramount has asked a US federal judge to hold a three-day evidentiary hearing in mid-to-late August before deciding whether to grant a preliminary injunction blocking its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The request comes after District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin issued a temporary restraining order on Monday, pausing the deal for two weeks in response to…
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Most sewage spills in England may be illegal, new research suggests
New analysis suggests that the majority of raw sewage discharges into England’s rivers, lakes and seas over the past two years may have been illegal, despite going unpunished. Under UK law, sewage should not be released during “normal” weather conditions, but the Environment Agency has never publicly clarified what that threshold means, leaving campaigners to…
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I regret to report that the AIs are weebs, too
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Lose your hair AND your belly: Using fat jabs make you 68 per cent more likely to go bald, study suggests
A new study suggests that people taking GLP-1 weight-loss injections, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, may face a significantly higher risk of hair loss compared with those not using the drugs. Researchers found users were 68 per cent more likely to experience hair thinning or baldness, adding an unwelcome side effect to a category of…
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Utilities, states sign Trump ratepayer pledge
President Trump expanded his voluntary “Ratepayer Protection Pledge” to include state governments, utilities and data-centre developers, aiming to prevent households from bearing the electricity costs of the AI data-centre boom. The move matters because rapidly growing demand for power is increasing pressure on grids and has become a politically sensitive issue as consumers worry about…