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UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds

<p>Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says</p><p>Datacentres in the UK will create just a quarter of the jobs predicted by the tech sector, while consuming vast amounts of energy, according to new research.</p><p>Environmental thinktank Verdant predicts that all the datacentres currently planned are likely to directly employ 10,400 workers – compared with the more than 40,000 cited in projections by the industry lobby group TechUK.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/09/uk-datacentres-will-create-just-25-of-jobs-predicted-by-tech-sector-analysis-finds">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/9
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Save our seabirds from the huge windfarm due to be built near Bass Rock | Letter

<p>The offshore windfarm at Berwick Bank is predicted to kill more than 4,000 birds in its first year alone – among them gannets, puffins and kittiwakes, writes <strong>Ashley Davies</strong></p><p>Lev Parikian paints a vivid picture of the gannets of the Bass Rock and the impact that avian flu has had on their numbers (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/31/country-diary-for-the-gannets-of-bass-rock-its-a-slow-road-to-recovery">Country diary, 31 August</a>). There’s another threat, though, and it’s one that puts some supporters of renewable energy like me in a novel situation: protesting against the construction of a windfarm.</p><p>Berwick Bank will be one of the biggest offshore windfarms in the world – a few kilometres from the Bass. This is perilously close, and the <a href="https://www.seabird.org/conservation/berwick-bank-offshore-windfarm">RSPB</a> has calculated that it will kill more than 4,000 seabirds in its first year alone, among them gannets, puffins and endangered kittiwakes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/08/save-our-seabirds-from-the-huge-windfarm-due-to-be-built-near-bass-rock">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/8
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Global move away from oil could lead to conflict and migration, experts say

<p>Researchers urge governments to help worst afflicted countries, such as Nigeria and Algeria, which rely on oil revenues for public services</p><p>Conflict, migration and economic upheaval will accompany the global move away from oil, unless governments act urgently to help the worst afflicted countries to cope, research has found.</p><p>Nigeria, Iran, Angola and Algeria are among the countries that will be severely affected, as they rely strongly on oil revenues for their government and provision of public services, but have little diversification and too little capital to cushion the blow.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/08/global-move-away-from-oil-could-lead-to-conflict-and-migration-experts-say">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/8
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Syrian reactor could have been used for nuclear weapons if completed, UN says

<p>Chief of nuclear watchdog says secret Assad-era facility would have been able to produce fissile material </p><p>A nearly complete nuclear reactor built secretly during the rule of the toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would have been able to produce fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has revealed.</p><p>Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last month visited two sites, one in Deir ez-Zor and a second in an undisclosed location identified to them by Syrian authorities.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/syrian-reactor-could-nuclear-weapons-if-completed-un">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/7
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Jackdaw gasfield set to be approved by ministers this month, sources say

<p>Energy secretary could recommend new North Sea drilling next week, as ministers also consider approval for Rosebank oilfield</p><p>Ministers are poised to approve a controversial new gasfield in the North Sea this month, according to government sources, and are considering approving a major oilfield later this year.</p><p>Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, will give her recommendation to approve the Jackdaw field off the coast of Aberdeen as soon as next week, according to people close to the decision, and the formal approval could follow a week after.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/jackdaw-gasfield-set-to-be-approved-by-ministers-this-month-sources-say">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/4
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Australia’s new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups

<p>Queensland open-cut Saraji mine will be able to keep digging until 2055 as Anthony Albanese denies tensions with Pacific leaders over fossil fuels</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/03/anthony-albanese-one-nation-jim-chalmers-labor-liberal-angus-taylor-tobacco-plan-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Australia’s new national agency for environmental protection has approved its first coal project, allowing a Queensland open-cut mine to keep digging until 2055 while clearing threatened woodland and koala habitat.</p><p>The confirmation of the extension of the Saraji mine, which digs and exports coal for steel making, comes after the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, denied this week there was tension over Australia’s fossil fuel exports during talks with Pacific leaders.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/saraji-qld-bhp-bma-coal-project-approved-2055-angering-climate-groups">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/3
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Blackout risk rises as heatwave stresses largest US electric grids

<p>US energy department warns of potential for outages in PJM Interconnection, serving 67 million from DC to Chicago</p><p>The risk ⁠of power outages ⁠is expected to ​escalate across a broad swath of the United States on Wednesday as intense heat will test the capacity of electricity supplies ⁠serving millions of homes and businesses from the midwest through the mid-Atlantic.</p><p>The US Department of Energy warned of the potential for heightened blackout risks in ⁠the PJM Interconnection, the largest US electric grid, which serves 67 million people in ​a territory stretching from Washington DC to ‌Chicago.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/heatwave-power-outage-risk">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/2
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Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest

<p>Bangladeshi complainants allege Rampal power station’s pollution and climate risks threaten the Sunderbans, a world heritage site</p><p>Barclays Bank is facing a formal complaint over its financial links to a coal-fired power station near the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and home to millions of people in Bangladesh and India.</p><p>Three complainants from the region have submitted a case to the UK government’s Office for Responsible Business Conduct, alleging that the British bank breached international guidelines by underwriting companies involved in the emission-heavy Maitree super thermal power project, also known as the Rampal power plant.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/02/bangladesh-india-barclays-bank-legal-complaint-backing-polluting-rampal-power-plant-sundarbans">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/2
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Britain is OK with public ownership, but only by foreign powers. Why?

<p>Arthur Downing, author of Power and the People: A History of British Energy, says all-encompassing rapid transition will need a mutualised system</p><p>Have you ever wondered why it is that most houses in the UK are reliant on gas boilers? Not what’s stopping more people from replacing them with heat pumps, but instead why and how the gas boiler became so ubiquitous in the first place?</p><p>Arthur Downing, the author of the <a href="https://guardianbookshop.com/power-and-the-people-9781836741008/">new book</a> Power and the People: A History of British Energy, can tell you exactly why. “We only have boilers in our houses because of a state-owned enterprise that went into everybody’s home and installed natural gas-suitable appliances at no direct cost,” he says. The nationalised gas industry of the 1940s to the 1980s, which oversaw this huge project, was for three decades one of the “most dynamic, innovative, efficient industries in Britain”, Downing says. Yet few of us would use these terms to describe it as such now.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/02/britain-public-ownership-energy-transition-foreign-powers-arthur-downing">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/2
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Solar cuts ‘at least £400 from bills in even the cloudiest British areas’

<p>Savings grow as energy prices in Great Britain rise and cost of panel installation falls, analysis finds</p><p>Households in Great Britain’s cloudiest regions could still save more than £400 a year on their energy bills by installing rooftop solar panels, research has found.</p><p>Rising wholesale energy prices mean the potential savings from a home solar panel system have climbed in recent years, as the cost of installation has continued to fall, leading to increased demand.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/01/households-uk-cloudy-regions-save-400-a-year-rooftop-solar-panels">Continue reading...</a>

2026/9/1
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