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  • Back from the dead: the ‘zombie’ ponds repumping nature into Essex farmland

    A conservation project is helping identify and restore wildlife-rich sites previously degraded and dried up

    When Joe Gray coppiced a patch of woodland on his Essex farm, he noticed that an abandoned pond sprang back into life after it was exposed to sunlight.

    “It was a hole in the woods with some leaves in it – we didn’t think of it as a pond,” he says. Since then, he and his wife, Emma, have restored 11 “zombie” ponds on their 450-hectare (1,100-acre) regenerative farm. They’ve also persuaded a group of neighbouring farmers to bring back to life 80 ponds within a 3-mile (5km) radius near Braintree.

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  • ‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows

    Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise

    Rising sea levels driven by the climate crisis will overwhelm many of the world’s biggest oil ports, analysis indicates.

    Scientists said the threat was ironic as fossil fuel burning causes global heating. They said reducing emissions by moving to renewable energy would halt global heating and deliver more reliable energy.

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  • ‘A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion

    Families Like Ours has become national talking point but some scientists say events depicted could not happen

    Featuring scenes of huge crowds boarding ferries, protest and desperation as six million Danes become climate refugees and life as they know it rapidly collapses, the new TV series by the Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg is a potential “look into the future”, he says.

    Familier som vores (Families Like Ours) – a drama which depicts a flooded Denmark shut down and evacuated – has been viewed nearly 1m times and become a national talking point. At its premiere at the Venice international film festival, it evoked tears, shouts and a standing ovation, with one critic describing it as “grimly prophetic”.

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  • Researchers seek to expand ‘citizen scientist’ testing of UK river quality

    Volunteers’ data should be included in official monitoring reports to tackle pollution crisis, says Earthwatch

    Citizen science testing of river water quality will expand this year in an attempt to make the data part of official monitoring of waterways, the head of an independent environmental research group has said.

    The use of ordinary people across the country to test river water quality for pollutants including phosphates, nitrates and other chemicals has captured the imagination of thousands of volunteers. In 2024 more than 7,000 people took part in river testing “blitzes” run over two weekends by the NGO Earthwatch Europe. The research, using standardised testing equipment provided by the NGO and Imperial College London, gathered data from almost 4,000 freshwater sites across the UK.

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  • ‘A place for kids to play and a place to store water’: the stormwater capture zone that is also a playground

    Flood-prone Hoboken, New Jersey, has opened a play area for its youngest residents that doubles as storage for stormwater runoff

    For a city that is almost small enough to fit inside Manhattan’s Central Park just a few miles away, a lot of history has played out within the narrow borders of Hoboken, New Jersey.

    It was the site of the first organised baseball game in 1846, home of one of the US’s first breweries in the 17th century and the place where Oreo cookies were first sold in 1912. And, as any Hobokenite will tell you, the Mile Square City, as it is called, is also known for something else.

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  • Grieving killer whale who carried calf’s body spotted again with dead baby

    Experts say sighting of orca in Puget Sound with second deceased calf is ‘devastating’ for ailing population

    An apparently grieving killer whale who swam more than 1,000 miles (1,600km) pushing the body of her dead newborn has lost another calf and is again carrying the body, a development researchers say is a “devastating” loss for the ailing population.

    The Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said the orca, known as Tahlequah, or J35, was spotted in the Puget Sound area with her deceased calf.

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  • ‘Everything is destroyed, nothing could be saved:’ anger and despair in communities devastated by North West floods

    After flood defences failed yet again, heartbroken residents of Merseyside and Cheshire now face a painful clean-up and possible financial ruin

    At about 3.15am on New Year’s Day, Caroline McClymont looked out of her bedroom window at the Sankey brook over the road. It looked a bit fuller than usual – to be expected, given the rain. “But there was nothing out of the ordinary,” McClymont said. “There was no indication it was going to flood.”

    Within an hour, the whole street was under water. The home McClymont, a science lecturer, has owned with her husband Alan, a technician, for 31 years was filled with dirty water, higher than the kitchen countertops. It covered the sofas, washing machine, Christmas tree, everything on the ground floor. The neighbour’s car was submerged. “Everything is destroyed. Nothing could be saved,” McClymont said. “It’ll take six, seven months to get right again.

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  • ‘I sort of fell apart’: black summer bushfires’ toll on the vets and carers helping Australian wildlife

    They spent their lives and careers looking after animals and when the 2019-20 fires erupted they responded on the front lines. Veterinarians and carers recall those months – and the impact it has had since

    The day before the fire front hit, the forest went deadly silent. Normally, says wildlife carer Susie Pulis, “if you are driving or walking in the bush it’s nothing but chitter chatter. There’s lots and lots of noise, all the different bird life and insects and everything buzzing around.” But this was different. “The birds had gone.”

    Pulis and her son were scouting around for animals before the fires hit. “We could see the fire in the distance, we could see the flames.

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  • It’s tough at the top – but which business leader has the most at stake in 2025?

    From post and planes to TV, phones and retail chains – and even a central bank – here are the chiefs facing the most testing of times

    A year is a long time in business: enough time for things to turn sour financially, or to engineer a comeback. Here are our picks of the figures across all sectors who face a testing year with something big to prove in 2025

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  • California tribes celebrate historic dam removal: ‘More successful than we ever imagined’

    After four dams were blasted from the Klamath River, the work to restore the ecosystem is under way

    Explosions roared through the canyons lining the Klamath River earlier this year, signaling a new chapter for the region that hugs the Oregon-California border.

    In October, the removal of four hydroelectric dams built on the river was completed – the largest project of its kind in US history.

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