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Sunday, November 24, 2024
Scientists have outlined a controversial plan to refreeze the North and South Poles, and dial down the global thermostat. They say high-flying jets could spray microscopic aerosol particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and cool the melting icecaps.Around 175,000 flights a year would be needed, releasing millions of tonnes...
The government’s attempt to hide a toxic waste disaster heralds a new bonanza for organised crime. With every passing week, it looks more like a cover-up. The repeated mass strandings of crabs and lobsters on the coast of north-east England, and the ever less plausible explanations provided by the government,...
Following the desperate attempts to get Westminster and the corporations to listen to the evidence of climate change, while many are fiddling while Rome burns, Extinction Rebellion have upped the anti in what will now be a long and increasingly more public campaign to attempt to change the direction...
A Tory MP who voted against an amendment in the Commons to dramatically reduce sewage dumping by privatised water companies stands out like a fresh turd on her constituency beach. Before her election as an MP, Sally-Ann Hart was a magistrate in Hastings and was elected as a councillor to Rother District Council. Following comments...
Working with WJ Textureblast, the council has refreshed 67,000sqm of road surface this year – raising skid resistance to improve the safety of highway. Where appropriate, the sustainable solution eliminates the need to resurface a road and instead uses one of two techniques to blast the road surface to regain...
Just Stop Oil will soon be taking action to demand an end to new fossil fuel licences in the UK, which will disrupt some of your union members working in the fossil fuel industry. While the big energy corporations report astronomical profits and Governments side with them, trade union...
Following Surfers Against Sewage's shocking revelations: Shockingly unsurprising. It's a horrifying sight on our Safer Seas and Rivers Service app today. What's happening? A rainy day and sewage SPEWS into our waterways. @SouthWestWater @WessexWater @DwrCymru @SouthernWater is that you? Pollution Risk Warnings (from the Environment Agency) and Sewage Pollution Alerts...
Even though many people think about rising temperatures and extreme heat when we talk about climate change, the reality is that climate change involves much more than that. Researchers have argued that temperature on its own is not the most effective way to measure climate change. They suggest that the...
To help celebrate National Allotments Week(August 8th to 14th), plot holders at Weymouth Town Council’s latest allotment site have been showcasing some of the produce they have grown.  Southdown Farm allotments in Preston opened to local residents in March this year and tenants are already being rewarded with a bumper crop. From...
A photo call to mark the completion of the annual charity carpet bedding display at Greenhill Gardens took place in the gardens earlier today. Cllr Ann Weaving, Mayor of Weymouth was present along with Cllr Ken Whatley (councillor for Melcombe Regis), Greenhill gardeners, Weymouth Town Council’s Parks & Open...