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  • UK has more than halved amount of electricity generated from fossil fuels but gas still had largest share at 28%

    The UK’s electricity was the cleanest it has ever been in 2024, with wind and solar generation hitting all-time highs, according to a report.

    The analysis by Carbon Brief found that in the past decade the UK had more than halved electricity generated from coal and gas and doubled its output from renewables.

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  • Society to retire plants no longer suited to UK’s changing climate after 14% fewer days of ground frost recorded

    Fig and almond trees are thriving in Britain as a result of fewer frosts, the Royal Horticultural Society has said.

    The lack of frost, one of the effects of climate breakdown, means plants used to warmer climes have been doing well in RHS gardens. Almond trees from the Mediterranean were planted at Wisley in Surrey several years ago, and without frost this year have fruited well for the first time.

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  • Bowhead whales may not be the only species that can live to 200 years old. Researchers have found that the industrial hunting of great whales has masked the ability of these underwater giants to also live to great ages

    In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s epic novel of 1851, the author asks if whales would survive the remorseless human hunt. Yes, he says, as he foresees a future flooded world in which the whale would outlive us and “spout his frothed defiance to the skies”.

    Moby Dick was a grizzled old sperm whale that had miraculously escaped the harpoons. But a new scientific paper is set to prove what oceanic peoples – such as the Inuit, Maōriand Haida – have long believed: that whales are capable of living for a very long time. Indeed, many more than we thought possible may have been born before Melville wrote his book.

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  • Isle of Portland, Dorset: This chilly phenomenon, cold to the touch, brings to mind a sci-fi horror film that was shot here

    The frozen waterfall rippled down the cliff face in a silver-purple torrent, like Rapunzel hair. It was a mild, pearl-grey day, the temperature well above freezing, and it wasn’t ice that had arrested the flow but calcification.

    Decades of steady seepage had veiled the quarried limestone with a thin stalactite curtain. Cold and silky to the touch, its chilly oddness evoked the apocalyptic sci-fi horror film made on Portland in the early 1960s. The Damned stars a young Oliver Reed as a leather-clad gang hoodlum who becomes involved in rescuing a group of strange children imprisoned by the government. Contaminated by nuclear radiation, the children are stone cold to the touch.

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  • Products banned on health and environmental grounds, while Milan outlaws outdoor smoking

    Belgium has become the EU first country to ban the sale of disposable vapes in an effort to stop young people from becoming addicted to nicotine and to protect the environment.

    The sale of disposable electronic cigarettes is banned in Belgium on health and environmental grounds from 1 January. A ban on outdoor smoking in Milan came into force on the same day, as EU countries discuss tighter controls on tobacco.

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  • Five entire families can be killed, totalling 30 wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU law

    Sweden’s wolf hunt starts on Thursday, with the country aiming to halve the population of the endangered predator.

    The Swedish government has given the green light for five entire wolf families, a total of 30 wolves, to be killed in a hunt campaigners say is illegal under EU law. Under the Berne convention, protected species cannot be caused to have their populations fall under a sustainable level.

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  • Emergency services turn focus to recovery efforts after major incident declared on New Year’s Day stood down

    “Some people say the way your year starts is how the year is going to be, so I’m expecting some adventures. I’ll be like Indiana Jones,” said Alina Abroutkouki.

    The 40-year-old interior designer spent the first night of the new year sleeping in Didsbury mosque, hours after being evacuated from her nearby home by boat.

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  • Endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes are ‘astonishing’ animals but misinformation is rife

    One of the most spectacular sights at Adelaide’s Womadelaide music festival is not on the official lineup.

    As dusk approaches, thousands of grey-headed flying foxes begin chattering and stretching their wings as they prepare to ascend from their roosts in Botanic Park and set out in search of food.

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  • Across Toronto, a team sets out at dawn to rescue migrating birds that have collided with buildings, and keep a record of the thousands each year that don’t make it

    Every morning at dawn, a dozen volunteers scour the streets of Toronto picking up small birds. Some days they will find hundreds of them, most already dead or dying. A few they are able to save. Live birds are put in brown paper bags and driven to wildlife recovery centres, while dead birds are put in a large freezer. If no one picks them up, their carcasses are swept up by street cleaners.

    “One of my first days was really horrific,” says Sohail Desai, a volunteer with the charity Fatal Light Awareness Program (Flap) Canada, which has about 135 people patrolling the streets across Toronto. Desai was walking close to his house in the North York area in Toronto when a flock of golden-crowned kinglets flew into a 15-storey glass building.

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  • Despite Pacific Ocean moving into a La Niña phase, this year is forecast to be one of three warmest years on record

    What kind of weather lies ahead in 2025? The Met Office’s global forecast suggests it will be one of the three warmest years on record, surpassed only by 2024 and 2023. This is despite the Pacific Ocean moving into a La Niña phase, which normally brings slightly cooler conditions.

    It will be confirmed officially in the coming days, but 2024 is expected to be the warmest year on record and the first when the average global temperature exceeded 1.5C (2.7F) above preindustrial levels. This comes hot on the heels of the previous warmest year on record – 2023 – which recorded an average global temperature of 1.45C above preindustrial levels.

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