Axarquía environmental group denounces removal of threatened plant species during beach cleaning

Friday, 3 April 2026, 10:19 The removal of vegetation from the Ferrara beach in Torrox on the eastern Costa del Sol has sparked a new environmental controversy. The Axarquía-based environmental group GENA-Ecologists in Action has denounced the destruction of a population of sea daffodils (Pancratium maritimum), a species considered to be under threat of extinction…

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Largest ever Government investment in threatened species recovery

Hundreds of England’s most threatened native wildlife are to be protected from extinction, thanks to the largest ever government funding for threatened species announced today. The government will invest £60 million over the next three years – more than double the previous round of funding – into the Species Recovery Programme, marking the largest ever government investment in directly supporting threatened species. A further £30 million will be dedicated…

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World Cup fans can reduce footprint of this environmental nightmare

There is a familiar reflex whenever football confronts its environmental cost: point upwards. At governing bodies, sponsors, airlines, stadium builders. At anyone, really, who isn’t you. Yet as the 2026 FIFA World Cup barrels towards its 48-team, three-country sprawl, the uncomfortable truth is that the biggest variable in its carbon footprint may not be FIFA’s…

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As satellites fill Earth’s orbit, the space race risks becoming an environmental crisis | Environment

Our relationship with space is changing rapidly. For almost all of human history, the space above us was an unreachable frontier. Yet in a single human lifetime, Earth’s orbit has gone from largely empty to congested with satellites. Meanwhile, although the moon remains mostly inaccessible, over the next few decades it is expected to become…

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ENVIRONMENT AGENCY CALLS FOR IMPROVEMENT ACTION AT 400 SOUTHERN WATER SITES – Isle of Wight News

Poor maintenance and not knowing where their own discharge points should be were some of the issues found during the past year of intensive Environment Agency inspections of Southern Water.  As the Environment Agency hits its annual target to carry out 10,000 inspections of the water industry, officers in the South reveal a range of issues discovered…

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The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy

The environmental impact of AI is becoming harder to ignore, from soaring energy use and water consumption to the rapid expansion of data centres and microchip production. What is being built in the name of innovation is also concentrating power, intensifying surveillance and deepening democratic risk. The environmental impact of AI: energy, water and emissions…

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