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Microsoft is announcing that it’s investing £22 billion (around $30 billion) in the UK to help support AI infrastructure and ongoing operations from 2025 through 2028. The investment includes $15 billion in capital expenditures to build a supercomputer to support AI demand and adoption
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https://www.theverge.com/news/778881/microsoft-uk-investment-ai-supercomputer
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After sharp increases in the headline rate in recent months, the ONS said various price movements offset each other in August. The cost of air fares was the main downward driver, while prices rose for petrol and diesel. The cost of hotel accommodation also fell by less than this time last year.
Food price inflation climbed for a fifth consecutive month, up from 4.9% in July to 5.1% in August, with small increases in a range of vegetables, cheese and fish items. The price of chocolate rose by 15.4%, while the cost of beef, butter and coffee also increased sharply.
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Chris Hayes, the Common Wealth chief economist, said the UK’s energy system was unfit for the challenges the country faced amid an escalating climate emergency and cost of living crisis.
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The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh says that from wild landscapes to towns and cities, nature has to lead the way. Here, it lays out its plans.
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Think Bill Gates is fixing the climate crisis? Not if you follow the money. While he funds green innovation and talks about cutting emissions, Gates also invests in dirty industries such as coal, oil and private jets. In this episode, Neelam Tailor exposes how one of the world’s most powerful climate voices is betting on both sides of the crisis – and making a lot of money in the process
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One in four North Sea oil and gas workers are looking to quit the industry while losing faith over a promised transition to green jobs.
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Gatwick given green light for £2.2bn second runway plan
Heidi Alexander approves expansion to allow 100,000 more flights a year
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Gas derived from farm waste will never be an alternative to the widespread adoption of heat pumps, research shows, despite the claims of fossil fuel lobbyists.
Biomethane, which comes mainly from “digesting” manure, sewage and other organic waste, has been touted as a low-carbon substitute for fossil fuel gas, for use in home heating. Proponents say it would be less disruptive than ripping out the UK’s current gas infrastructure and installing heat pumps.
But research seen by the Guardian shows that while there may be a role for biomethane in some industries and on farms, it will not make a viable alternative for the vast majority of homes.
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The loss of these large cold-tolerant mammoths over the past 10,000 years has stripped this ecosystem of the grasslands that once efficiently absorbed carbon. Instead, there are mossy forests and wetlands, which aren’t as helpful with combating rising temperatures. However, if the mammoth steppe ecosystem could be revived, it could help in reversing the rapid warming of the climate and more pressingly, protect the arctic’s permafrost - one of the world’s largest carbon reservoirs.
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George Church on reimagining woolly mammoths and virus-proofing humans
Geneticist George Church talks to Jim Al-Khalili about narcoleptic inspiration, the eco-benefits of woolly mammoths - and how mapping the world's DNA could democratise healthcare.
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OBERGOMS, Switzerland, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Switzerland's 5.4 km-long Gries Glacier, a focal point for research, is retreating at an alarming pace as climate change accelerates an unprecedented ice melt across the country, the Swiss glacier monitoring service said.
"This is a dying glacier," said Matthias Huss, Director of Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (GLAMOS), noting the depth of the ice reduced by six metres in the 12 months to September 2025 alone.
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'Economic disaster' - Lib Dems and Greens join Labour's Ed Miliband in condemning Tory plan to scrap Climate Change Act
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We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power
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All of Kimmings’s latest work aims to cultivate hope rather than despair: “It’s a tough sell. Nobody wants to know about climate change for lots of reasons and some of that is because it’s just not fun. It’s bleak. And what I’ve realised from hanging around with all these farmers and permaculturalists is that there’s so much good stuff happening. There’s so much good going on out there. All of this is not a sealed deal.”
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Historic Environment Scotland has launched a strategy into the future management of its 300 properties it manages on behalf of Scottish ministers as the organisation faces growing pressures over rising visitor numbers, accelerated deterioration of monuments caused by climate change, increased costs and a lack of traditional skills to maintain its assets.
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The creators of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry. The Nobel committee noted that their work in this area had provided chemists with new opportunities for solving some of the challenges we face, with researchers now using them to harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water and capture carbon dioxide.
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Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives Firms led by deputy
Reform UK leader since 2011 have shown commitment to saving energy and cutting CO2 emissions
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Climate Migration: Confronting the Reality of Global Warming
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Ministers have stripped the government’s road-building agency of responsibility for a £10bn tunnel under the River Thames amid a drive by Keir Starmer’s cabinet to take tight control over important infrastructure projects for fear of cost overruns and delays.
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A consensus seems to have recently settled in UK politics: that young British lives are not as they should be, and something must be done. Our teens and twentysomethings, we are told, are lonely, phone-addicted, “overdiagnosed”, and too often jobless, which entails a great blizzard of proposals – from welfare reform to the scaling-back of university education – that seem to have more to do with older voters’ prejudices than the real-life problems of other generations. At the next election, the extension of the franchise to 16- and 17-year-olds may do something to correct that, but I wouldn’t count on it. There is, after all, something deep within the British psyche that favours age over youth, and consequently misrepresents and ignores the latter in a way that sometimes looks almost pathological.
If you want a vivid example, consider a drastic loss from millions of young lives that is still bafflingly overlooked. During the first 10 years of the spending cuts that began in 2010, councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%. By 2023, about 1,200 publicly run youth centres had closed, and more than 4,500 youth workers had lost their jobs. Villages, towns and cities still bear the scars: empty buildings that look just as forlorn as any shuttered library or Sure Start centre. But while other aspects of the austerity disaster have at least been acknowledged, this one still seems to be a strange kind of guilty secret, with seemingly no chance of all that lost provision ever being restored.
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Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist
Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
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Stern led a landmark 2006 review that concluded climate action would cost less than the damage caused by inaction and that climate change was the greatest market failure the world had ever seen. His new book, The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action, is published on 5 November.
His conclusions from 2006 remain valid today but have intensified, he said, as the effects of global heating are arriving faster and with more severity than anticipated.
“Every time you look at the science, it gets worse,” he said. For example, he said, the tipping points that were thought to be associated with 4C of global heating now look as if they could occur with about a 2C rise.
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What can the UK learn from China on renewable energy?
BBC Inside Science China added more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined in the first half of this year. What can UK scientists learn?
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A new “green” data centre being proposed in Edinburgh could use more power than half a million homes and cause more carbon emissions than the city’s airport.
Campaigners are sounding the alarm over the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and fear councils and the Government are allowing vast data centres to be built without proper environmental scrutiny due to “greenwashing” by developers and tech firms.
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