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What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing

I joined eight other experts to deliver a national emergency briefing in late November on the climate and nature to around 1,200 of the UK’s leaders — across politics, business, faith and culture — in Central Hall Westminster.

The Conversation

Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security

Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster

The Guardian - UK

Action on climate change faces new threat: The doomers who think it's too late to act

"Doom-mongering convinces many would-be climate advocates that climate action is a hopeless cause. But the blistering attacks against mainstream climate science and scientists advance an agenda of division, dividing the rank-and-file climate activists and leading voices from the scientific community."

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NSW gamblers losing $24m to poker machines every day, analysis shows

Wesley Mission says the ‘devastating impact deepens every day’ with western Sydneysiders accounting for $2m an hour lost to pokies

The Guardian - AU

NSW government drops plan to remove 9,500 poker machines, saying ‘it would make no difference’

Gaming minister tells budget estimates position changed after advice from independent panel – which included several groups that operate or profit from machines

The Guardian - AU

Thunderous 144mph aces: Mpetshi Perricard leads ‘serve-bot’ revival

French 21-year-old is one of many big servers making their mark and testing the speed clock early in 2025

The Guardian - UK

Pokies panel pushes to keep cash for gamblers

Half of Australia's poker machines would require a named account under recommended reforms, but industry has attacked the "embarrassing" evidence base.

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Woman who says she was twice forced outside naked during search of her home sues Florida sheriff

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is already under scrutiny in an unrelated controversy, the fatal shooting of an airman

The Independent UK

Can I Tell You A Secret: the true story behind the shocking case of Britain's most prolific cyberstalker

Netflix’s docuseries will unpack the horrendous crimes of Matthew Hardy, who spent years terrorising hundreds of women without being successfully apprehended

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez talking at the Golden Globes is now a perfect meme

It's the perfect meme format.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Last Year was the Hottest on Record and Almost Touched a Key Threshold Sought to be Avoided

Copernicus, the European climate agency, said 2023 was 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels

Latin Times

'Weak Tea': Climate Scientists Push Back Against COP28 Cheer

A UN climate deal that approved a call to transition away from fossil fuels has been hailed as a major milestone and a cause for at least cautious optimism.

International Business Times

Warning: the UK government’s hydrogen plan isn’t green at all, it’s another oil industry swindle

A taxpayer-funded drive for ‘blue’ hydrogen is good news for fossil-fuel lobbyists, but bad news for the climate crisis, say climate academics Kevin Anderson and Simon Oldridge

The Guardian - UK

Safe bet: the media relationships that give horse racing a good run in NSW

Sydney’s main news providers have many interests in common with the pugnacious leadership of Racing NSW. Have they become too close?

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Everything was reduced to wind, water and me: an exhilarating adventure in Northumberland

Our writer heads to north-east England to go coasteering, rockpooling and wing surfing – with dolphins and puffins offering moral support

Edinburgh Live

Cost of new Midlothian high school with its own swimming pool doubles

Council officers suggested dropping a planned swimming pool and sports pavilion at the new school as costs rose to £122million but were over ruled by councillors who insisted they stayed in the proposals

Manchester Evening News

'Queen of Wigan' makes way for new mayor

Coun Kevin Anderson was officially sworn in as the new mayor

ABC News

Nyngan emergency bore projects in limbo as government fails to commit further funding

A mayor in western New South Wales says his town is "in limbo" after the budget for a water security project blew out by $4.7 million.

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The Conversation

IPCC's conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) synthesis report recently landed with an authoritative thump, giving voice to hundreds of scientists endeavouring to understand the unfolding calamity of global heating. What’s changed since the last one in 2014? Well, we’ve dumped an additional third of a trillion tonnes of CO₂…

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NSW Greens lash out at Nationals over 'grossly mismanaged' water portfolios in new campaign

A plan to drastically change current water management practices in the Darling River has been launched by the NSW Greens, with the aim to oust the National party from water management portfolios.

ABC News

NSW government accused of 'cynical' water licence scheme for mines under drinking catchment

Environmental groups say the deal to provide retrospective water licences to coal mines under the Sydney and Illawarra drinking catchment is cynical and full of flaws.

The New Daily

Coal mines get access to Sydney drinking water stocks

Mining companies have been granted access to Sydney drinking water catchment in a last-minute move from the NSW government, alarming environmental activists.

The Guardian - AU

NSW to grant coalmines licences for water from Sydney and Illawarra drinking catchments

Perrottet government quietly gazetted rules day before caretaker period commenced for election campaign

Newcastle Herald

Coalition gives Scone Race Club $20m for track, stables

The thoroughbred breeding centre will have the most training stables outside Sydney.

The Guardian - AU

Drought and flooding rains: the Murray-Darling Basin water rights balancing act

Floods brought the Macquarie Marshes back to life, but landholders need guaranteed environmental flows to help maintain a healthy marsh ecosystem that also supports businesses

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