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Air pollution raises cancer risk beyond the lungs, report warns Breathing polluted air significantly increases the risk of developing and dying from multiple cancers - including liver and breast cancer - according to a new report calling for stricter air quality s...

People living in areas with elevated air pollution are 11% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than those living in areas with cleaner air, study finds.

The sharpest differences were for liver, colorectal, kidney, lung + bladder cancers.

www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

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Some tips on getting solar panels installed Get the funding in place. If upfront cash is an issue, check out the alternatives I’ve covered previously. Do some research. The SolarUK subreddit is excellent, as well as people like Gary Does Solar on YouTube. Search local solar installers near you. Make sure they are MCS registered (they will say so if they are and will be on the MCS database) Make a note of your energy usage over the year (in kwh). This will help with getting the right battery size. The advice is often to ‘max out’ the number of panels you can fit. Since labour and scaffolding is a big part of the cost, additional panels often add little to the overall cost. Get an in-person quote from a well-reviewed firm. They will tell you how many panels you can fit on your roof (there are also tools online where to help you approximate this) Go to 2-3 other well-reviewed firms to get more quotes Haggle, if you are so inclined Pick one. Book it in. Get on the right tariff in advance – one which offers cheap overnight rates. This will let you charge your battery cheaply for the next day’s usage, whether it’s sunny or not. Several offer nighttime rates of around 7p per kwh. Pick somewhere for the battery and inverter to go, either in a large cupboard or outside (keeping them in lofts is strongly discouraged now) Sort out energy exporting – as soon as you have a G99 export certificate your installer has (hopefully) got hold of, plus the MCS certificate, you can sign up for an export tariff, e.g. EDF, Octopus, Good Energy, Eon. For renters: start exploring plug-in solar. It’s coming soon (and is already possible with sign off from an electrician). Failing that, pester your landlord. It will boost their EPC and make your home a far nicer place to live.

I've written up some tips on installing solar panels in the UK if you're lucky enough to own your own home (and roof).

These are just tips that worked for me - I'm sure others will have more.

If it helps anyone at all I'll be delighted.

Thanks so much- definitely something we’re looking into so it’s handy to have tips and signposting to resources

Not a President……a terrorist!

I’ve been lucky enough to see them on a number of occasions but numbers are declining rapidly.

Israel has killed over 38,000 women and girls in Gaza, according to the U.N. Another reminder the war on Gaza is about collective punishment not self defense.

Ban game bird shooting. The release of millions of non native birds and the effects of predator populations is ignored to support an industry that damages our native wildlife. Banning game shooting would help curlews and many other birds.

And works as a perfect poem

Same here, plastic lawns and plants, wind chimes and at night gardens full of led strip lighting, security lights, dogs and cats. There is no undisturbed space for nature.

Never forget the disaster that was Boris - and never forgive

That’s because in the UK you must be seen to be following protocol at all times. Even if you’re not. We do love rules and long drawn out processes. And committees.

What the heck??!! BBC and newspapers giving Farage constant coverage is working then. My Dad threatened to emigrate when Thatcher got in, I know how he felt now.

Labour being squeezed east but polling slightly higher than before

Yikes!!

I did! 😀

We can expect Netanayhu to punish the soldier because of the bad PR from this. But please remember Netanyahu has not punished settlers for terrorizing Christians and Muslims in the West Bank nor punished members of IDF for the mass slaughter of women and children in Gaza.

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Prof Martin Grossell describes the impact oil slicks can have on sea creatures:

“Many of the compounds found in crude oil will target heart function and respiration". Animals' immunity can be lowered, their nervous systems disrupted so navigating, hunting or escaping predators is more difficult.
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'A turtle makes tracks on a beach after burying its eggs in the sand in June 2021 in the Ras Al Hadd Turtle Reserve in Oman. About 10,000 green turtles make the trip on this beach every year' (Haitham Al Farsi/Solent News/Shutterstock)

The Strait of Hormuz + surrounding seas are critical ecologically as well as politically.

Coral reefs, whale sharks, dolphins, endangered Arabian humpback whales, seagrass meadows supporting dugons, islands harbouring green turtles - just some of the creatures + ecosystems in + near the Strait.

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We are 7 weeks into the most egregious stock market manipulations of our lifetime.

Orchestrated by a crooked president and his underlings.

Billions siphoned via false proclamations of ceasefires and peace talks.

With the criminals in charge, every day is a crime spree.

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

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Farage has accepted £675,000 – a third of his income – from foreign sources since becoming an MP.

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"The natural world is dying, and a significant contributor to that is competition by non-native species, but luckily I have access to what's left of the nature, so I don't care" is a strange opinion to hold, but each to their own I guess

Estimating the number and biomass of pheasants in Britain The RSPB's Pat Thompson claimed on the BBC Radio 4's More or Less that at the beginning of the shooting season, the biomass of pheasants comprises 1.5 to 2 times the total biomass of all of birds in t...

By September each year, pheasants outweigh the entire breeding bird population (estimated in spring) by a factor of 1.6 to 1.7

It's a huge imbalance, and a huge impact

www.whatthesciencesays.org/estimating-t...

Absolutely well overdue. Apart from the absolute cruelty of mass breeding birds to blast at them with a shotgun and the carnage along roadsides, our native wildlife species are routinely decimated by this ridiculous practice

Looking very contemplative

Zelensky says oil sanctions relief provides billions for Russian military The Ukrainian president did not mention the United States, but President Donald Trump's administration on Friday issued a month-long sanctions waiver allowing the sale of Russian oil and petroleum pro...

Russia is the real winner of Trump’s illegal war on Iran.

Snakelocks anemone on the rocks. Has green fronds with pink tips

Scorpion fish in a tub. Has a chunky body and green striped fins.

Purple and green rock with a chiton in the middle and painted top shells, a type of sea snail

A fat round strawberry anemone, red with green spots, with tentacles just visible in the middle.

On Friday I went seagrass planting and on Saturday I went on a rockpool recording session and time spent with sea creatures is surely the best antidote to almost anything.

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲

“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”

www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

You alluded to habitat loss as a big factor in their decline, that’s why I believe that’s where the focus should be. Otherwise they will be nowhere to reintroduce them to.

This will keep happening until we ban intensive poultry units. The cost in terms of pollution, disease and animal suffering is too high.