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Two kona low storms dumped up to 50in of rain on Oahu, flooding fields and submerging equipment

Eddie Oroyan’s farm was thriving when the storms hit. He and his wife had started LewaTerra Farm last year on a gorgeous stretch of land on the north shore of Oahu. They were delivering vegetables to customers in the community, selling at farmer’s markets and to local restaurants.

Then, on the week of 10 March, a first kona low storm hit the island, bringing copious amounts of water, flooding their land and wiping out crops. Nearly all their papayas were gone. And the tomatoes didn’t survive. But the couple quickly began cleaning, replanting and tying down crops, confident that they would get back on their feet shortly.

Weak and sick mammal has become stuck in shallow bays and experts say prognosis ‘doesn’t look good’

The fate of a humpback whale stuck in shallow bays off Germany’s Baltic coast hangs in the balance after it became stranded for a third time.

The roughly 10-metre-long (33ft) mammal appeared weakened and sick on Sunday and was struggling to find a route back to the Atlantic when it ran into fresh difficulty.

Andalusia houses ‘Europe’s vegetable garden’ – a laboratory of development and innovation producing vegetables for all of Europe

Europe’s vegetable garden is in Andalusia, southern Spain. It is so vast that it can even be seen from space: if you open Google Maps and look west of Almería, you will see a white patch that looks like a glacier, but as you zoom in, you realise it is the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world. More than 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) of land are covered in plastic, a geometric labyrinth five times the size of Manhattan, where 3.5m tons of vegetables are produced every year – from tomatoes to cucumbers, peppers to courgettes, aubergines to melons – enough to feed half a billion people and generate a turnover of more than 3bn euros.

Workers prepare peppers inside the Hortamar cooperative, a fruit and vegetable producers’ organisation in Roquetas de Mar, founded in 1977, that now has more than 240 members and sells throughout Europe, the US and Canada.

On March 28, 2026, as many as 8 million Americans turned out to protest the subversion of democracy by the current administration.

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Many say they have not received support to rebuild their homes months after the storm caused unprecedented destruction

“Before Hurricane Melissa I could have navigated life, figured things out. But since its passage, everything has just been turned upside down,” said Kerry-Ann Vickers.

Vickers was three months pregnant when Hurricane Melissa demolished parts of her home in the coastal town of Black River, in St Elizabeth, west Jamaica, last October. Nearly six months on, Vickers, 25, is still struggling to get support to rebuild her house and is distraught that her baby will arrive in a home without a secure roof.

With gas prices surging, some people may be looking into purchasing an electric vehicle — since charging at home can cost much less than paying for gasoline or diesel at gas stations. Plus, home charging is simply more convenient and it saves time. There is a myth that electric vehicles ... [continued]

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I’ve been watching a lot of James Bond lately. All of the James Bond movies are on Netflix, but they’re leaving soon, so I’ve been watching ones that I had never seen (many of the recent ones) and rewatching some of the ones that fit in with those. Admittedly, the ... [continued]

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We’re supposed to be a nation of laws, built on a Constitution that gives Congress the power of the purse. But when an agency decides to intentionally wipe its feet on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law just to keep schools hooked on diesel and propane, they’re showing utter contempt for the ... [continued]

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Exclusive: critics warn Reform UK use of trade policy would increase food costs amid cost-of-living crisis

Nigel Farage’s farming adviser has called for a doubling of wheat prices by using trade policy, which critics have said would hike food costs during a cost-of-living crisis.

Arable farmer and campaigner Clive Bailye has been appointed as a farming and land use adviser for Reform UK. Bailye owns the website The Farming Forum, a social network for farmers, and helped organise the large-scale protests against the Labour government’s introduction of inheritance tax for farmed land.

A project on Dartmoor to reprofile the landscape aims to return the springy bog – and carbon store – to its natural condition

At one of the most remote spots in southern England, Al West skilfully tilts and rotates the bucket of a small digger, like a giant mechanical hand. He lifts turf, and pats it down gently on to the rich, dark brown peat beneath. Above him, the granite stack of Fur Tor looms above the vast, boggy, wild expanse of northern Dartmoor.

It is repetitive, delicate work, which West carries out with dexterity and care. Within a boundary of white flags, he takes from a borrow pit and fashions a peat embankment across each ditch and depression covering the land, to restore it to its natural smoothness and to stop the rainwater running off down the valley.

No Kings III protests on Saturday, March 28, 2026, took place across the US and the globe. Our local No Kings III protest took place in front of the federal courthouse where Trump appointee Aileen Cannon has refuted, over and over again, any condemnation of the president’s behavior, dishonesty, culpability, ... [continued]

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Female named Rounder surrounded by family members when about to give birth to her second calf

Scientists have managed to film a sperm whale giving birth while other female whales worked together to support the mother and her newborn.

A team from Project Ceti, an international effort seeking to understand how whales communicate, was in a boat near a pod of 11 whales off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica on 8 July 2023.

Dartmoor, Devon: This one is an early-arriver after spending winter in sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s keen to show off its ‘white arse’

The first signs of spring shine through the shadow of Haytor Rocks, a granite guard of Dartmoor’s natural secrets. The sun’s heat warms the granite, the first bumblebees thrum over the gorse. After months of mizzly rain, it was freeing to be out on the moor again. The trees were awakening, early emergers blackthorn and willow, stalwarts of Emsworthy Mire – an old friend.

With binoculars pressed tight to my eyes, I scan the valley, searching for any sign of returning migrants. Mid-March is too early for some, but the more proactive species love to start the season early. A raven cronks overhead, a sound as welcoming as it is unnerving.

Fossil-fuel burning at Ohio facility could burn longer, leaving Middletown residents to face environmental risks

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It was just a few months after moving from Louisville to Middletown, Ohio, four years ago that Vivian Adams’s six-year-old daughter’s asthma problem worsened.

“My daughter was born prematurely so she already had lung issues,” she says, “[but] it’s gotten worse. She stays sick and coughing and can’t breathe. She’s had to go on everyday medication for her asthma, plus she has a rescue inhaler.”

There was a time when a progressive or center-left foundation could back the Breakthrough Institute and tell a coherent story about why. Breakthrough presented itself as a pro-technology, pro-modernization, pro-development corrective to parts of environmentalism that had become too focused on scarcity, guilt, and procedural obstruction. It was abrasive, but ... [continued]

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After more than 7 years and 15,000 units deployed, Tesla is transitioning from V3 Superchargers to V4 Superchargers. There are a few notable improvements to these Superchargers. First of all, these Supercharger stalls can provide up to 500 kW of power to individual cars. In the case of the Tesla ... [continued]

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National Trust says one year after reintroduction they are enriching habitats and may be having kits this summer

They were released this time last year with fanfare, much hope and also, perhaps, a little trepidation.

Twelve months on, there have been ups and downs for the first beavers to be (officially) reintroduced into the wild in England since the semiaquatic mammals were hunted to extinction 400 years ago.

The balcony solar movement has reached the US, as Trump's war in Iraq sends ratepayers scrambling to after clean, local, affordable power.

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The Explosive Tipping Point Late on the night of Tuesday, February 24, 2026, California’s hydrogen mobility market ground to a sudden halt when an explosion tore through an industrial truck storage yard located at 3994 Miguel Bustamante Parkway in Colton, California. According to fire department reports, the blast occurred while ... [continued]

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So far this year, Leapmotor is the 14th best selling EV producer in 13 European countries, according to data collated by EU-EVs.com. With 11,697 sales, the Chinese EV brand accounted for 3% of this market. Now, the company is planning to bring three more EV models to Europe, doubling the ... [continued]

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