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The natural environment is actually in a much healthier state now compared to how it has been portrayed by climate change activists, according to California-based environmentalist Michael Shellenberger. Shellenberger, founder and president of Environmental Progress and author of “The Death of Environmentalism,” pointed out several positive instances of environmental management and flourishing natural conditions at CPAC Australia—the Conservative Political Action Conference—in Sydney on Oct. 1. He said there was more coral in the Great Barrier Reef than there had ever been in 36 years. At the same time, the area of land burned by forest fires had declined by 25 percent globally since 2003—an area…

Jürgen Klopp praised Darwin Núñez and Liverpool’s new-look attack as his team comfortably eclipsed Rangers to strengthen their Champions League qualification hopes at Anfield. Liverpool’s victory arrived courtesy of a Trent Alexander-Arnold free‑kick plus a Mohamed Salah penalty but it was the understanding between a reshaped forward line that enabled Klopp’s team to dominate Rangers, who remain without a point and a goal on their return to the Champions League stage. Núñez, making his first European start for Liverpool and only his third in total, was denied several times by the veteran Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor but impressed throughout. Klopp insisted it is only…

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk confirmed his intention to purchase Twitter, according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Monday. “[W]e write to notify you that the Musk Parties intend to proceed to closing of the transaction contemplated by the April 25, 2022 Merger Agreement,” Musk’s lawyers stated in a letter filed with the SEC. “The Musk Parties provide this notice without admission of liability and without waiver of or prejudice to any of their rights, including their right to assert the defenses and counterclaims pending in the Action, including in the event the Action is not stayed, Twitter fails or refuses…

Anthony Fauci, the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), defended his agency’s decision of awarding millions of dollars to an organization that has funded risky virus research in Wuhan. The New York-based nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, received roughly $3 million in grants from the NIAID in late September, the largest annual amount the agency has awarded the group, despite scrutiny over EcoHealth’s partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the facility that many believe may have started the pandemic. “If something is peer-reviewed, gets a high recommendation for funding, you can’t arbitrarily decide, ‘I just don’t want to fund it’ because…

Supermarkets have been accused of taking 10p extra in margins on fuel – despite the cost of filling up a car with petrol dropping below £90 for the first time since May. Petrol and diesel prices reached record highs this year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed up the cost of oil. However, in recent weeks prices have calmed as the oil price has fallen on concerns over a global recession. The RAC said the average price of petrol fell by nearly 7p a litre to 162.89p in September – the sixth-biggest monthly drop since 2000. The fall means the cost…

Antonio Conte wants Tottenham to get their north London derby disappointment out of their system before they face Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Tuesday evening. Spurs slipped to their first Premier League defeat of the season on Saturday as goals from Thomas Partey, Gabriel Jesus and Granit Xhaka secured victory for their arch‑rivals Arsenal. “We have a chance to play another game. I think this is important,” Conte said. “After a loss you want to play another game quickly, and we have this possibility tomorrow. We know very well the game will be very tough because we are playing against Eintracht…

Kwasi Kwarteng’s decision to bring forward his debt-cutting plan could help to calm markets and mean smaller future interest rate rises than would otherwise have been the case, according to the Conservative chair of parliament’s influential Treasury watchdog. Mel Stride, a Tory MP and the chair of the Treasury committee, said moving the government’s fiscal statement to October from 23 November could restore some confidence, depending on the content of the plan and the detail of the new forecasts from the Office of Budget Responsibility. The pound rose to a two-week high above $1.14 on Tuesday as Kwarteng prepared to announce an…

John Lewis has pledged to have “buy back or take back” schemes operating in every product category by 2025 and to develop more rental and resale options as it steps up efforts to be a more sustainable business. The group, which runs Waitrose supermarkets as well as a string of department stores, will also invest £2m over the next five years to restore and protect nature in Norfolk, a key source of meat, cereal and vegetable products, and in India’s Noyyal and Bhavani river basins, where it sources cotton, under a partnership with the wildlife charity WWF. The company will encourage regeneration…

In September, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a new Moderna-sponsored study on the efficacy of the initial bivalent vaccine targeting BA.1 in comparison to the original monovalent booster. The primary focus of the study—antibody titers—shows seemingly positive results. In all groups (Omicron being of greatest interest), the bivalent shot created higher antibody levels than the monovalent booster shot. Based on this finding, the authors conclude, “The bivalent omicron-containing vaccine mRNA-1273.214 elicited neutralizing antibody responses against omicron that were superior to those with mRNA-1273.” Not so fast. There are a number of serious concerns from the study. First, there was…

The Pound has today jumped to a two-week high, as Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng prepares to bring forward the publication of his debt-reduction plans. It now stands at 1.141 against the US dollar – having rallied 0.8 per cent this morning. The Pound had fallen to $1.0327 – a historic low – following the Chancellor’s tax-cutting mini budget last week. But it has since rallied and is now as high as it was on September 21. The Pound remains down on earlier in the year, having been around $1.326 in April. The Pound is also up slightly on the Euro this…