BIZARRE: 4 - You Need To See This

‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys

Two troops of chacma baboons are breaking into homes and shops but animal rights activists insist coexistence is the answer

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27

What is El Niño, what causes it and can we reduce the risks?

This year’s ‘godzilla’ climate phenomenon has already broken temperature records. We ask a climate scientist what is happening

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26

Three-quarters of UK’s popular plug-in hybrid cars unable to use rapid chargers

Only 26% of PHEVs sold across top 20 models can use chargers with power of 50kW or more, analysis finds

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26

I saw pedestrians swear at plovers when they swooped. But I admired the birds

Many people despise these birds for violently defending their babies in nests they create in ridiculously vulnerable areas. My community, however, became devoted to them

The Guardian - AU · Sep 25

Corpus Christi Could Owe Texas $235M for Failed Desalination Plant

City leaders hope to revive the twice-rejected project to avoid returning money loaned by the state.

Texas Observer · Sep 25

Joe Harkness obituary

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25

Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US

Syngenta denies keeping relevant data from the EPA as paraquat stays in the US market despite global bans

The Guardian - US · Sep 25

‘Your body fights to stay cool’: workers toil in record heat as federal rule frozen

Trump officials and Republicans are rolling back protections against heat-related illnesses and deaths

The Guardian - US · Sep 25

‘We don’t have time for more promises’: the Croatian town that took on an illegal waste dump

After years of illegal mass flytipping in Gospić, fed-up residents decided to take matters into their own hands

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25

Would you bet on the future of our planet?

Prediction markets are focusing on extreme weather and the climate crisis. But as scientists warn of an increasingly unpredictable planet it’s led to questions about what exactly people are betting on

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25