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UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:00:03 +0000

Industry bodies say proposals will force site closures, slow investment and cost drivers up to £300 a year more

The UK charging industry has said it could face a £100m bill as the government considers making public charger operators pay business rates for the first time, at a time when slower-than-expected electric car sales have put pressure on the sector.

‘What are they going to do, chase someone up?’ Victorian rock climbers scorn ban on Mount Arapiles Indigenous sites

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 06:23:20 +0000

State park contains rock art dating back at least 3,000 years and tens of thousands of artefacts

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Rock climbers are openly discussing flouting Victoria’s voluntary bans on routes near Mount Arapiles despite a plea from the state government to respect the area’s Indigenous heritage.

Sussan Ley under pressure as Nationals formally scrap net zero target

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:05:22 +0000

David Littleproud says he informed the Liberal leader days ago of the policy position his party was considering

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Decision to scrap net zero commitment shows Nationals ‘profoundly out of touch’, critics say – as it happened

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Australia must put politics aside and pass nature laws that benefit the economy and the environment. We owe it to our kids | Zoe Daniel

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:00:45 +0000

There’s no such thing as a perfect legislative solution. It’s about finding one that’s workable – for the community, for the economy and for nature

Victoria’s Healesville Sanctuary is helping to protect and restore the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot which is predicted to be extinct within five years.

With only 50 known to be left in the wild, a major breeding program aims to release up to 20 pairs of the migratory birds annually.

Britain’s canals and rivers face lack of funds amid climate pressures, campaigners warn

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:00:29 +0000

Many waterways vulnerable to breaches and closures and face mounting maintenance costs, charity says

Britain’s network of canals and rivers is under strain from funding shortfalls and growing climate pressures, campaigners warn.

Three-quarters of the country’s waterways face financial peril, according to the Inland Waterways Association (IWA), an independent charity advocating for Britain’s canals and rivers, as the country braces for heavier winter rainfall and intensifying summer droughts.

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 07:00:32 +0000

Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

Britain is one of the least “nature connected” nations in the world, according to the first ever global study of how people relate to the natural world.

Britain ranks 55th out of 61 countries in the study of 57,000 people, which looks at how attitudes towards nature are shaped by social, economic, geographical and cultural factors.

Hot summer and damp autumn cause UK boom in destructive honey fungus

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 07:00:28 +0000

Huge increase in tree-killing disease is result of climate crisis, experts say

A golden mushroom that grows in clusters and can attack and kill trees has increased by 200% in the UK in a year because of the hot summer and damp autumn.

Recorded sightings of honey fungus are up by almost 200% compared with the same period last year, according to iNaturalist.

World leaders, remember that future generations will judge you. At Cop30, you can define how | Gordon Brown

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:00:29 +0000

Keir Starmer is taking the lead on tackling the climate crisis. With the US backing away, now is the moment when other nations must step up

Gumnuts, baby! How two abseiling horticulturalists rescued specimens from an endangered tree

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:00:23 +0000

The threatened Jillaga Ash (Eucalyptus stenostoma) was spotted 90m down a cliff in Wadbilliga national park, in southern New South Wales

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Two horticulturalists have undertaken a daring abseiling mission to rescue gumnuts from an endangered tree on a 300m cliff face.