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BBC News
24-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
More Jersey home and business sites needed, says minister
More sites for homes and businesses in Jersey are needed, the environment minister has a scrutiny panel meeting, Deputy Steve Luce said he needed to find space in the next guidelines for the development of the the minister told the panel the growth in population had slowed, so demand for homes in the future could added there was a need for more industrial spaces - which often conflicted with housing due to lighting issues. He said: "Light industrial users have challenges from neighbours. All the fields in Jersey are close enough to some neighbours to give you neighbourly issues."It's not dissimilar with light industry in Jersey where a lot of our light industrial sites are quite close to residential areas - that gives us challenges."
LBCI
23-07-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
Vanuatu minister: ICJ decision 'landmark milestone for climate'
Vanuatu's environment minister hailed Wednesday's ICJ decision as a "landmark milestone" after the world's highest court declared that states have a legal obligation to tackle climate change and opened the door for reparations. "It's a landmark milestone for climate action," said Ralph Regenvanu on the steps outside the court in The Hague. "It's a very important course correction in this critically important time". AFP
The Independent
29-05-2025
- Climate
- The Independent
Army searches for man after huge chunk of glacier crushes picturesque Swiss Alpine village
A search and rescue operation is underway in the Swiss Alps for a 64-year-old man who went missing after a massive glacial collapse cascaded down a mountainside, engulfing a significant portion of the village of Blatten. The village had been evacuated a week prior, after signs that the Birch glacier was becoming unstable. However, the missing man was thought to have been in the vicinity on Wednesday when the mountainside collapsed. The resulting debris has scarred the landscape, leaving a trail of rock and earth where trees once stood. Concerns are growing that the debris is now blocking a nearby river, potentially creating a new lake and heightening the risk of flooding. Authorities have deployed the army and airlifted rescue specialists to the area to aid in the search. Swiss officials were struggling to come to terms with the scale of the landslide, which officials said blanketed around 90 per cent of the village. "This is the worst we could imagine. This event leaves us shocked," Albert Roesti, the Swiss environment minister, said late on Wednesday at a press conference in the Valais canton, where the village is. The incident has revived concern about the impact of rising temperatures on Alpine permafrost, even if environmental experts have so far been cautious about attributing the glacier's collapse to the effects of climate change. The degeneration of part of the Birch glacier in the Loetschental valley occurred after sections of the mountain behind it began breaking off in the past few days, and ultimately brought down much of the ice mass with it. Christian Huggel, a professor of environment and climate at the University of Zurich, said that various factors were at play in Blatten where it was known that permafrost had been affected by warmer temperatures in the Alps. He added that the debris was damming up the Lonza river next to the village, saying this could pose a major challenge with up 1 million cubic meters of water accumulating there daily.
CBC
08-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
Nova Scotia streamlines reviews of industrial projects
For the first time since 2008, the province has made major changes to the way it evaluates new industrial projects. The environment minister says he wants to approve more projects faster and he promises that can be done while still protecting the environment. Taryn Grant reports.
