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Herefordshire firm launches biodegradable crisp packet
via bbc.co.ukThe manufacturer says the bags once disposed have a six-month lifespan. -
‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England
via theguardian.comLower Pertwood in Wiltshire aims to restore declining plants, insects and endangered species The rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain are a bleak scene of vast arable fields and tightly grazed pasture dotted with scores of sheep.In recent decades, Lower Pertwood farm has embraced organic growing, producing oats, barley and other crops, while boosting numbers of rare corn buntings and other wildlife with wildflower banks and newly planted trees. Continue reading... -
‘They kept us alive for thousands of years’: could saving Palestinian seeds also save the world?
via theguardian.comVivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, believes biodiversity will save the planet in the climate crisisThe first year that the Hudson Valley Seed Company tried growing yakteen at their farm in upstate New York, the heirloom variety of Palestinian gourd quickly spread until its vines were sending their tendrils across a full acre of land. Born of a partnership with the artist, researcher and conservationist Vivien Sansour, that pilot plot was just one of many pieces of ev -
Digested week: Germany has the right idea on dachshunds. Dogs should be cuddly | Lucy Mangan
via theguardian.comGermans want to ban ‘torture breeding’ for extreme characteristics. Plus: don’t even think about swimming in British waters this EasterI’ll say this for the Germans: when they’re right, they’re so right. Word reaches us that dachshunds are to be banned in Germany. Continue reading... -
Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
via theguardian.comDescendants of enslaved miners who dug up gold, silver and emeralds worth billions call on Colombia to halt plan to lift cargoIndigenous communities in Bolivia have objected to Colombia’s plans to recover the remains of an 18th-century galleon believed to be carrying gold, silver and emeralds worth billions, calling on Spain and Unesco to step in and halt the project.Colombia hopes to begin recovering artefacts from the wreck of the San José in the coming months but the Caranga, Chi -
‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?
via theguardian.comExclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivableIn a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have no running water, no fuel and are surrounded by running sewage and waste piling up.Like the -
Week in wildlife – in pictures: pedalo hijinks and a raccoon doing a handstand
via theguardian.comThe best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading... -
‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists
via theguardian.comWhen the research team at Vernadsky base are not defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisisWhen Ukraine’s Antarctic research and supply vessel Noosfera left Odesa on its maiden voyage on 28 January 2022, it passed Russian warships in the Black Sea. A month later, Vladimir Putin launched Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Noosfera has not been back since.“A few weeks later, and Noosfera would have been an important symbolic target for R -
Copernicus online portal offers terrifying view of climate emergency
via theguardian.comLooking at the mass of information, there is only one conclusion: we are running out of timeThere is so much information on the newly launched Copernicus Climate Change Service atlas that my laptop started to overheat trying to process it all. As well as all the past data, it predicts where the climate is going and how soon we will breach the 1.5C “limit”, and then 2C. You can call up the region where you live, so it is specific to what is happening to you and your family – and -
Country diary: I’ve become a taxi service for the ladybirds | Charlie Elder
via theguardian.comWest Dartmoor, Devon: They must have got into my house last autumn, and now they’re emerging in a wonderful variety of markings and spot numbersLadybird, ladybird, fly away home… Only, it seems they have all flown into mine. Every morning I come across several on the inside of the windows, like droplets of nail varnish motoring around on tiny legs.These spotty beetles could drive me dotty. Some days I release half a dozen outside, making numerous trips to the bac -
It takes a village: the Indian farmers who built a wall against drought
via theguardian.comIn rural Rajasthan, villagers have taken action against climate damage by constructing water-saving walls, trenches and dams to revive their farmlandThe villagers of Surajpura have built a wall: a 15ft (4.5 metre) mud bulwark that snakes through barren land for nearly a mile, with an equally long trench dug beneath it. It might not look like it, but for the 650 residents who toiled on it for six months in 2022, it is an architectural marvel.The wall passed its strength test last year when it sto -
Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a ‘chocolate meltdown’
via theguardian.comPoor harvests in extreme weather conditions have led to a tripling of cocoa prices – but farmers have seen no benefitAround the world this holiday weekend, people will consume hundreds of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies, as part of an annual chocolate intake that can exceed 8kg (18lb) for every person in the UK, or 5kg in the US and Europe. But a global shortage of cacao – the seed from which chocolate is made – has brought warnings of a “chocolate meltdown” tha -
‘A lot of question marks’: $70m renewable-energy microgrid project divides Daintree
via theguardian.comThe financial viability of the government-subsided scheme in the world heritage-listed area is just one of its many unknownsThere are some mixed feelings in the Daintree community in far north Queensland about building a renewable-energy microgrid.The 8MW solar farm with a 20MW battery and a 1MW clean hydrogen plant was pushed through parliament weeks before the 2022 election by the Morrison government with the promise of it providing renewable power by 2024. Continue reading... -
Mammals battle for life in new Attenborough series
via bbc.co.ukThe six-part series 'Mammals' will air this Sunday at 19:00 GMT. -
Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?
via theguardian.comA process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bulletIn 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century.According to that research, the calcium in green beans dropped from 65 to 37mg. Vitamin A levels plummeted by almost half in asparagus. Broccoli stalks had less i -
‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health diet
via theguardian.comA group of hospitals serve up a menu rich in plants – and say they have had few complaintsPatrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a “planetary health” diet – one that is rich in plants and light -
‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against time to save an orphaned orca?
via theguardian.comExperts are trying everything from drums to whale calls to lure kʷiisaḥiʔis – or Brave Little Hunter – out of the Canadian lagoon she has been trapped in since the stranding death of her motherAs a two-year-old orca calf circled a lagoon off the west coast of Canada on Monday, she heard a comforting sound resonating through the unfamiliar place in which she found herself: the clicks and chirps of her great-aunt.But the calf, named kʷiisaḥiʔis (pronounc -
The planetary health diet: ‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken from them’
via theguardian.comA group of hospitals in Germany serve up a menu rich in plants and light in animals – and say they have had few complaintsPatrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But 25 years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.From an industrial park on the outskirts of Berlin, Burrichter and his team cook for a dozen hospitals that offer patients a “planetary health” diet – one -
Thames Water investors pull plug on £500m of funding amid standoff with regulator
via theguardian.comDecision increases concerns about financial future of UK’s biggest water firm and increases prospect of nationalisationBusiness live – latest updatesInvestors in Thames Water have pulled the plug on £500m of emergency funding amid a standoff with the industry regulator over attempts to raise bills, increasing the prospect that the heavily indebted company may be nationalised.The beleaguered utilities company said on Thursday that its shareholders had refused to provide the firs -
Fresh crisis for Thames Water as investors pull plug on £500m of funding
via theguardian.comDecision raises concerns about financial future of UK’s biggest water companyInvestors at Thames Water have pulled the plug on £500m of emergency funding, raising concerns about the financial future of the country’s largest water company.The beleaguered utilities firm announced this morning that its shareholders had refused to provide the first tranche of £750m funding set to secure its short-term cashflow, after the company had failed to meet certain conditions. Continue -
‘We’d like to shoot them all’: growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe
via theguardian.comExperts say the hybrids risk ‘polluting’ the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litterPhotographs by Alberto OliveroFrom the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italy’s Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this -
Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals
via theguardian.comWorld’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report findsThe world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid c -
Surge of new oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals
via theguardian.comWorld’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report findsThe world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid c -
Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levels
via theguardian.comSubsidence linked to extraction of groundwater and natural gas, and weight of buildings pressing into soft groundA number of cities on the US east coast are sinking, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels.Between 2007 and 2020 the ground under New York, Baltimore and Norfolk in Virginia sank between 1mm and 2mm a year, other places sank at double or triple that rate, and Charleston, South Carolina, sank fastest, at 4mm a year, in a city less than 3 metres above sea level. Continu -
Country diary: A Japanese painting outside a Shrewsbury nightclub | Paul Evans
via theguardian.comWelsh Marches, Shropshire: After all the rain, cold winds and more rain, suddenly an explosion of flowers from this Mount Fuji cherry treeThe way to the spring equinox was precarious. We began to wonder if spring would come and go, and it would still be winter. Daffodils looked pissed off. Bleachy damson and blackthorn blossom stained early. Rain, cold winds, rain, floods, more rain. Then suddenly this – boom – an explosion of flowers into a moment of balance.Emerging from the dark h -
From a graceful turn to a dangerous toy: the World Nature Photography awards 2024 – in pictures
via theguardian.comThe World Nature Photography award winners have been announced from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe – including a baby elephant in Kenya and an owl-like plant in Thailand. The top award and cash prize of $1,000 went to Tracey Lund from the UK for her image of two gannets under the water off the coast of the Shetland Islands. Lund and her fellow winners were drawn from thousands of images Continue reading... -
E-waste drawers of doom growing, say campaigners
via bbc.co.ukOur household hoards of unused electricals and broken tech are growing, recycling campaigners warn. -
The Albanese government is drifting from its environmental commitments – it’s time for transparency and good faith | Jack Pascoe
via theguardian.comEnvironment minister Tanya Plibersek’s reforms are running so late there’s speculation the government will weaken them at the expense of the environmentFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAfter less than two years in power, the Albanese government is showing signs of getting comfortable. Consultation, transparency and coherent policy appear to be out. Cosiness with powerful stakeholders and pol -
England sewage spills more than double in 2023
via bbc.co.ukEnvironment Agency data shows sewage spilled into England's waterways for over 3.6 million hours last year. -
A Kentucky mining disaster killed dozens and destroyed homes. Will a lawsuit bring change?
via theguardian.comChase Hays and more than 50 neighbors are suing Blackhawk Mining after a silt retention pond burst and killed 43 peopleChase Hays knew it was time to evacuate when he saw his neighbor’s home float through his front yard. It was just after midnight on 28 July 2022, and Lost Creek, Kentucky, was experiencing a catastrophic rainstorm.As Hays would later learn, the rains caused a silt retention pond to burst at a nearby mine, sending a torrent of rainwater and sediment down the mountain. Conti
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