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Norway’s Environment Directorate said existing fjord disposal permits cover four million tonnes per year of finely ground rock and process chemicals, which the CEO of a company set to acquire the mine described as “inert.”

Big Brother Watch called the “vast quantity” of surveillance devices “deeply alarming.”

Washington D.C. wasn’t the only place with a hyperactive court this week.

Hikvision CCTV cameras are located through Cambridge city centre. The company has long been criticised by MPs and campaigners on security and human rights grounds, and senior government ministers want the cameras banned from the UK.

3D models of the 250 million tonne underwater waste deposit approved by Nordic Mining’s environmental permits show that, transposed over London, the discarded tailings would cover an area from Farringdon to Waterloo.

The EFTA surveillance authority is expected to report on the legality of submarine tailings disposal under EEA law.

For serious news coverage of bins, the Independent is hard to beat.

Larry Summers said he didn’t write the memo and should have reviewed it more closely. Critics argued the memo said the quiet part out loud.

On 17 October 1956, Queen Elizabeth II opened Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, at Sellafield, on the western coast of Cumbria. The two Windscale Piles preceded it in 1950 and ‘51. Both produced plutonium-239 for early British nuclear weapons.

Nordic Mining admitted that it had no backup silt curtain and had so far failed to fix the leak in a leaked email on Friday evening. The incident puts further pressure on the company after a major investor sold its stake over environmental concerns.

As much as we tried to capture the shock of last year’s events in Halfway to Atlantis: Remembering the 2021 London floods, there wasn’t space to explore the surroundings of each flood location. This photo series gives them a little more context from other angles, and from nearby streets. As we wrote in the anniversary … Read more

One year on from some of London’s most severe surface flooding, comparative photography can help us trace the cycle of shock, cleanup, and forgetting that surrounds environmental disasters.

When you describe the sound of protest as “noise” you deny its democratic function—and admit how much it bothers you.

The safety violation marks the start of a multi-decade mining project that plans to deposit toxic waste in a protected salmon fjord.

An attitude of ‘duty’ to undertake classical music education from ‘expertise’ arguably demonstrates paternalism under the guise of community care.

Median house prices in England and Wales are now almost nine times the average salary, bringing the house price to wage ratio to an historic extreme.

“It doesn’t feel great to live on a cloud while the rest of the world goes under”: the feelings under the surface of climate safety

Those paying the largest energy bills have the most to gain from a fast renewable energy rollout.