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Following SourceMaterial and the BBC's investigation into the illegal burning of UK tyres in factories in India, the government has proposed new rules. The Environment Agency is now promising 'enhanced checks' on waste tyre shipments before export:.
gov.uk
Findings of the internal review into the Environment Agency's regulation of waste pneumatic tyres and their export, focussing on the export of this waste to India.
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This is the first time crewing agencies have been subject to sanctions, just a few months after we reported that Ukrainian and European companies were supplying sailors to help keep Putin's shadow fleet afloat.
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As Ukraine’s troops battle Russia’s invading army, EU and Ukrainian companies are supplying sailors to help keep Putin’s shadow fleet afloat
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Keir Starmer said he's "tightening the screws" on Putin as he announced a raft of new sanctions, including two companies involved in Russia's illegal oil exports.
independent.co.uk
Keir Starmer said his sanctions would choke off Putin’s ability to continue his war
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RT @aclandoli: Mustapha was trafficked to Myanmar + forced to scam people online for 18 hours a day. He escaped. 375,000 people are still t….
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@Reporterre You can read the latest update on the project from @Reporterre here
reporterre.net
Après l'avoir lancé en grande pompe, TotalEnergies abandonne en silence un projet de plantation de forêt pour compenser ses émissions en République du Congo. 12 % des arbres promis y ont été plantés,...
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The French oil giant Total has quietly abandoned its offsetting project in the Republic of Congo, @Reporterre reports. Back in December 2022, farmers told us the tree-planting project had barred them from their fields and threatened their livelihoods.
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Farmers say oil giant’s tree-planting scheme has barred them from their fields and threatens livelihoods.
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Earlier this year a court-appointed expert said Fresnillo owed $630m, reflecting the gold it mined on the community's land. Fresnillo's shareholders had been told nothing of the expert report, until SourceMaterial and The Times began asking questions.
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The goldmining giant lost access to a Mexican mine in 2013—now a court-appointed review says it must return $630m of gold it mined there.
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Fresnillo is a goldminer worth £8bn, listed on the London Stock Exchange. For years it has been locked in a land dispute with an agrarian community on whose land it encroached in the desert of Mexico's Sonora state.
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Last month, we revealed that the driest state in the US is not the only one of the world's most arid areas that is seeing rapid data centre expansion:.
source-material.org
Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centres use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and they are building more.
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The data centre boom in the desert: in Nevada, tech companies are transforming the landscape by building huge data centres and using vast amounts of water in the process. Read @techreview's long-read here:
technologyreview.com
The AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state.
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Full Hansard transcript here: .
hansard.parliament.uk
Hansard record of the item : ' Recycling of Tyres' on Tuesday 29 April 2025.
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This week MPs debated UK waste tyres illegally burned in India following our investigation with @BBCfileon4. "Investigators used GPS tracking devices in several consignments of waste tyres" to expose the trade, says MP @tessamunt, who secured the debate.
source-material.org
Millions of used UK tyres are being shipped to India to make dirty fuel harming people and the environment
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RT @gijn: 📚 GIJN's Stories of the Week. • @ConnectasOrg investigates an increase in missing minors in Ecuador. • @CurrentTimeTv examines ho….
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NEW: SourceMaterial's investigation identified 38 active data centres operated by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in parts of the world already facing water scarcity, as well as 24 more under development. Read the full story here:
source-material.org
Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centres use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and they are building more.
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“They're using too much water. They're using too much energy,” said Aurora Gómez of the campaign group @TuNubeSecaMiRio—Spanish for ‘Your cloud is drying my river’—commenting on our investigation into data centres in Aragon.
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You can also read it on The Guardian's website:
theguardian.com
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
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