Water quality testing by campaigners shows levels up to 27 times acceptable limit for bathing as rowers told to take precautions Harmful E coli bacteria have been found at very high levels at Henley, days before elite rowers compete in the international regatta there. Water
Paulana Lamonier started Black People Will Swim in 2019 and has since provided free and low-cost lessons to over 2,500 Black and brown people Valerie Spears hadn’t planned on taking swim lessons when she RSVP’d to her high school reunion in New York City. But when Spears, a
No one was present when sinkhole, 100ft wide and 30ft deep, suddenly collapsed field in Alton, north of St Louis A vast sinkhole has dramatically appeared in middle of an Illinois soccer pitch that was laid above a limestone mine, just days after amateur teams stopped using the
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Microsoft co-founder says efficiencies for technology and electricity grids will outweigh energy use by datacentres Bill Gates has claimed that artificial intelligence will be more of a help than a hindrance in achieving climate goals, despite growing concern that an increase
Court grants temporary halt to program designed to stop ‘upwind’ states from causing pollution that flows to ‘downwind’ neighbors Conservative bloc Alito – Majority Barrett – Minority Gorsuch – Majority Kavanaugh – Majority Roberts – Majority Thomas – Majority Jackson –
After being introduced to the state in the 1970s, there are now more attacks by moose than by puma and bears combined. Has the species become too successful? One morning in the winter of 1978, a handful of state wildlife staff huddled together in the Uinta Mountains in
Almost 15 years after federal law put free water on school menus, states still struggle with how to guarantee access Christina Hecht remembers how water made its way into school lunch law because the process was unusually easy. Back in the mid-2000s, a researcher toured school
More than a third of Americans endure summers at least 1.5C hotter than the 1895 average, analysis shows An onslaught of record-breaking heat across much of the US has provided yet another indicator of a longer-term issue – summers are progressively getting hotter for Americans
Walking a 100-mile stretch of coastline reveals how a pioneering project is transforming the seascape, rivers and land Read more in this series On a blustery morning in May on Shoreham-by-Sea’s west beach, Eric Smith and George Short are pointing out treasures the waves have
About 230 cases filed against corporations and trade associations around world since 2015 The number of climate lawsuits filed against companies around the world is rising swiftly, a report has found, and a majority of cases that have concluded have been successful. About 230
State not acting fast enough to build desalination stations to deal with dwindling rainfall and resulting drought, say critics On 8 June, anger over months of water rationing spilled over in the drought-stricken central Algerian town of Tiaret, where balaclava-wearing