Month: January 2026

Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-basedEurope’s supermarket shelves are packed with brands billing their plastic packaging as sustainable, but often only a fraction of the materials are truly recovered from waste, with the rest made from petroleum.Brands using plastic packaging – from Kraft’s Heinz Beanz to Mondelez’s Philadelphia – use materials made by the plastic manufacturing arm of the oil company Saudi […]

Move affecting those who have been in Spain five months or more runs counter to anti-migration policies across Europe Spain’s socialist-led coalition government has approved a decree it said would regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, rejecting the anti-migration policies and rhetoric prevalent across much of Europe.The decree, expected to come into effect in April, will apply to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and people in Spain with […]

The heatwave in Melbourne and Adelaide this week is likely to become the norm. We should prepare nowWant to get this in your inbox when it publishes? Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter hereOn Tuesday, Australia’s second largest city baked through one of its hottest days since modern instrumental records began in 1910. Several Melbourne suburbs topped 45C.The country’s fifth largest city, Adelaide, reached that temperature on Monday. […]

Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen breaks down the US's new defence strategy. Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Israel razes 200 graves for body of final captive while thousands of Palestinians killed are lost and unidentified. Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Maryam Mohamad is a Somali American who lives in Minnesota. Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Spain, Portugal, Morocco are tournament cohosts, but FIFA, which has the final say, has not said who will get last game.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article