‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal | Conservation

Gifting land for conservation and leaving environmental bequests in personal wills are part of a quiet but rapidly growing revolution in environmentalism in Australia – motivated by individual efforts to address the climate and biodiversity crisis head on. As a result, Australia now boasts one of the largest networks of privately protected and managed areas…

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Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles | Electric, hybrid and low-emission cars

The price of new battery electric cars has fallen below petrol cars in the UK for the first time, according to the car sales website Autotrader, in a significant milestone in Britain’s transition away from fossil fuels. The average price of a new electric car listed on the website was £42,620, compared with £43,405 for…

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Broadcom brings secure AI agent environment to VMware Tanzu

Broadcom has announced VMware Tanzu Platform Agent Foundations: a secure-by-default agentic runtime for autonomous AI applications on VMware Cloud Foundation. The platform offers enterprise developers a ready-to-use PaaS environment for AI agents, featuring zero-trust networking, isolated secrets, and automated infrastructure management. This agentic runtime will be available as part of Tanzu Platform 10.4 and is…

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Dame Helen Ghosh named as preferred Chair for the Office for Environmental Protection 

Dame Helen Ghosh has been named as the preferred candidate to succeed Dame Glenys Stacey as Chair of the Office for Environmental Protection,. Dame Helen has been selected by the Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds and by Andrew Muir, Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) following a rigorous process conducted in accordance with the Governance Code on…

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This 2-billion-year-old giant is 14km long and rises almost 3km into the sky. And it’s home to a hairy carnivore

Few places evoke a sense of wonder quite like South America’s tepuis. These enormous, flat-topped mountains rise hundreds and sometimes even thousands of metres from the steaming forest floor into the sky. Often surrounded by a swamp of cloud, they look as if they are floating.  These vast, solid structures comprise some of the oldest rocks…

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Charities risk losing credibility amid changing political environment, event told

Charities risk losing credibility if they fail to anchor community engagement in lived experience amid a changing political environment, the chief executive of the social justice charity Nacro has warned. Speaking at the Good Agency’s inaugural summit in London yesterday, chief executives said the voluntary sector must improve how it responds to a changing world,…

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