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The front page of the Times on July 25 carried a photograph of three people sitting under a striped parasol on the sand near Lacanau
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As the UK has baked through extreme heatwaves this summer, the same question has echoed across television studios and radio interviews: “Was this heatwave caused
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Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is investigating the deaths of 15 elephants in the Amboseli savannah ecosystem, near the border with Tanzania. KWS told Mongabay that
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Walmart fell short on many of its environmental pledges for 2025, an outcome it foreshadowed in December 2024. But the world’s largest retailer made demonstrable
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