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• ‘They say I should clean floors’: Barcelona’s working-class, leftwing mayor Ada Colau fights for third term

  27-05-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The city’s first female mayor is reviled by the elites and pro-car lobby, but embraced by others for her social policiesAs Ada Colau tries to win a third and final term as mayor of Barcelona on Sunday, there is one thing her opponents have in common: that she is personally to blame for all the city’s ills, from bag snatching to traffic jams.The attacks on her are so insistent and so personalised that her campaign has even produced a T-shirt with the ironic slogan: La culpa de todo la
  
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• ‘Dr Deep Sea’: the US professor living underwater for 100 days

  27-05-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Dr Joseph Dituri plans to spend 100 days in his subaquatic compound, as he attempts to document the long-term effects of increased pressure on the bodyMore than 20ft below the surface of a Florida lagoon, one man is on a mission.Having already broken the record for the longest time living underwater, Dr Joseph Dituri is planning to spend 100 days in his subaquatic compound, to research the effects of hyperbaric pressure on the body. Continue reading...
  
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• No cellphone? No problem! The vintage radio enthusiasts prepping for disaster

  27-05-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ham radio users, from teenagers to eightysomethings, are ready to communicate in the next crisis – be it a wildfire, pandemic or ‘the big one’There’s an ancient fable that Glenn Morrison, a pony-tailed, 75-year-old who lives in the California desert, likes to tell to prove a point. As the lesson goes, one industrious ant readies for winter by stocking up on food and supplies, while an aimless grasshopper wastes time and doesn’t plan ahead. When the cold weather fina
  
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• York groundsel blooms again in Britain’s first-ever de-extinction event

  27-05-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Yellow flower that only grows in York went extinct in 1991 brought back to life by Natural England expertsYork groundsel was a cheerful yellow flower that slipped into global extinction in 1991, thanks to overzealous application of weedkiller in the city of its name.But now the urban plant has been bought back to life in the first ever de-extinction in Britain, and is flowering again in York. Continue reading...
  
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• Number of ‘coronation meadows’ marking queen’s reign tops 100

  27-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scheme that began to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee in 2012 has thrived, project audit findsWildflower meadows planted a decade ago to celebrate 60 years of the late queen’s reign have thrived, with 101 new fields of flowers created since the scheme was launched.King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, worked with Plantlife and the Wildlife Trusts to launch ”coronation meadows”, identifying 60 species-rich meadows from which to take donor seeds – one
  
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• 30 water treatment works released 11bn litres of raw sewage in a year, study suggests

  27-05-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Researchers analysed works run by nine water and sewerage companies in England and WalesEleven billion litres of raw sewage were discharged from a sample of 30 water company treatment works in one year, new research suggests.The study aimed to reveal the volume of discharged effluent released from storm overflows by water firms. Companies are not forced to reveal the volume of raw sewage released during discharges. They are only required by regulators to provide data on the number of
  
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• Country diary: The osprey is low in her nest – she’s incubating eggs | Merryn Glover

  27-05-2023 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Badenoch, Cairngorms: Only her head is visible, turning sharply to and fro, golden eyes surveying the landEvery year we wait and wonder. Will they come back? Will they reunite and mate? Will the chicks survive? This agonising starts in late March as we scan the skies above the loch for the return of the ospreys from Africa. One normally arrives in late March or early April, usually the male, with a mate soon after. For 14 years, the female was the beloved “Green DY”, known by her pla
  
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• Toondah Harbour: should a wetland home to endangered birds become $1.3bn worth of shops, high-rises and a marina?

  27-05-2023 00:13 via theguardian.com
  
  A Queensland controversy has been building for eight years and is now in the hands of Tanya PlibersekGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe incoming tide is covering the mudflats and sandbanks at Toondah Harbour and creeping up the mangrove branches.Ospreys and sea eagles are fishing and a cloudless sky is framing Cassim Island – a bank of mangrove-covered sand – in a tranquil scene a watercolour painter would die for. Continue reading...
  
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• From thieving parrots to boozy pigeons: why New Zealand is obsessed with its native birds

  26-05-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The result of an extraordinary ecological history, many of New Zealand’s birds are highly unusual but all are belovedWhen unsuspecting Miami zoo ambassador Ron Magill woke on Tuesday, he could not have anticipated the storm of fury he was about to encounter.Opening his inbox, the wave broke: hundreds of furious tweets, emails, videos, trending hashtags, TikToks. A 13,000-signature petition, news stories leading every local media outlet, a formal government statement. As the day wore on, th
  
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• Antarctic animals are facing troubled waters | Fiona Katauskas

  26-05-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It gives a whole new meaning to ‘going with the flow’ Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on water politics in Europe: a new fault line | Editorial

  26-05-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  As drought beacomes the norm, creative solutions must be found to deal with a new, parched realityIn April, Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, suggested that severe drought would become “one of the central political and territorial debates of our country in the coming years”. That stark warning surely applies to southern Europe as a whole, as the prospect of another summer crisis looms, following a disastrously dry winter.An absence of melting snow from the Alps has
  
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• How to improve US cities and tackle the climate crisis? Get rid of parking spaces

  26-05-2023 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  New book details how New York could rid the city of rats and create more parks if it repurposed its 3m parking spotsWhat could New York achieve if it repurposed some of its 3m curbside parking spots?It could get rid of rats by moving trash off the sidewalks and into containers. It could create safe, cool play spaces for the more than 1m New Yorkers without easy park access. It could build bioswales to collect rainwater and prevent flooding during heavy storms.This article originally appeared in
  
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• Should a wetland home to endangered birds become $1.3bn worth of shops, high-rises and a marina?

  26-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A Queensland controversy has been building for eight years and is now in the hands of Tanya PlibersekGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe incoming tide is covering the mudflats and sandbanks at Toondah Harbour and creeping up the mangrove branches.Ospreys and sea eagles are fishing and a cloudless sky is framing Cassim Island – a bank of mangrove-covered sand – in a tranquil scene a watercolour painter would die for. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘All I see are ghosts’: fear and fury as the last spotted owl in Canada fights for survival

  26-05-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Only one female remains in the Canadian wilderness, a symbol of the country’s inability to save a species on the verge of destruction as politicians dither and the logging continuesOn a rainy spring morning, huddled under the shelter of an ancient cedar, Jared Hobbs hoots, whoops and squawks. In years past, he could lure curious owls by drawing on his extensive repertoire. Among them are the whoo whoo whoo whooo territorial calls, alarm barks and a simple “helicopter” breeding
  
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• Say it with flowers – just make sure you know where they came from | Alice Vincent on flowers

  26-05-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bouquets from Kenya and the Netherlands bought in the UK carry a high environmental cost compared with outdoor-grown British equivalentsThere are certain bunches of flowers that linger like talismans in my mind. An armful of otherworldly amaranthus brought to a house party. The five fists of daffodils and bright-red, long-stemmed anemones wrapped in brown paper that came to my last book launch. Small handfuls of sweet peas left on the doorstep during my GCSEs by a kind neighbour in the village w
  
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• British parents need to adapt to climate chaos – but not by abandoning the great outdoors | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  26-05-2023 09:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Try telling a cooped-up child they can’t go out due to global heating. Luckily, we can learn from our European neighboursLike all children, I hated rainy days. What I didn’t realise until I had my own baby was how my parents probably hated them, too. Cooped up, whingeing babies can make cooped up, whingeing babies of their adult caregivers, too. “Get outside every day,” people tell you, but you find yourself and the child all wrapped up and ready to go and standing in a d
  
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• Weather tracker: Typhoon Mawar narrowly avoids landfall as it hits Guam

  26-05-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Wind and rain bring island to a standstill but eye replacement cycle fortuitously weakens it temporarilyEarlier this week, Typhoon Mawar whipped up a storm in western Micronesia as the category 4 storm came close to landfall on the island of Guam. Starting out as a tropical depression over the weekend, Mawar rapidly deepened and intensified over the following couple of days, almost reaching category 5 by Tuesday evening. Wind gusts peaked at 155mph (250km/h), briefly making Mawar a super typhoon
  
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• Weather tracker: Guam narrowly misses worst of Typhoon Mawar

  26-05-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Wind and rain bring island to a standstill but eye replacement cycle weakens super typhoon temporarilyEarlier this week, Typhoon Mawar whipped up tension in western Micronesia as the category 4 storm came close to landfall on the island of Guam. Starting out as a tropical depression over the weekend, Mawar rapidly deepened and intensified over the following couple of days, almost reaching category 5 by Tuesday evening. Wind gusts peaked at 155mph (250km/h), briefly making Mawar a super typhoon a
  
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• Weather tracker: Guam narrowly avoids worst of Typhoon Mawar

  26-05-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Wind and rain bring island to a standstill but eye replacement cycle weakens super typhoon temporarilyEarlier this week, Typhoon Mawar whipped up tension in western Micronesia as the category 4 storm came close to landfall on the island of Guam. Starting out as a tropical depression over the weekend, Mawar rapidly deepened and intensified over the following couple of days, almost reaching category 5 by Tuesday evening. Wind gusts peaked at 155mph (250km/h), briefly making Mawar a super typhoon a
  
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• ‘Farming good, factory bad’, we think. When it comes to the global food crisis, it isn't so simple | George Monbiot

  26-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The solution is not more fields but better, more compact, cruelty-free and pollution-free factoriesNo issue is more important, and none so shrouded in myth and wishful thinking. The way we feed ourselves is the key determinant of whether we survive this century, as no other sector is as damaging . Yet we can scarcely begin to discuss it objectively, thanks to the power of comforting illusions.Food has the extraordinary property of turning even the most progressive people into reactionaries. Peop
  
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• Dorset ‘super reserve’ recreates ancient savannah habitat to boost biodiversity

  26-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Devon cattle stand in for extinct aurochs in project aimed at protecting precious species such as sand lizardsThe mighty aurochs have gone, as have the tarpan horses and the wild boars, but modern-day substitutes have been drafted in to recreate a large open “savannah” on heathland in Dorset.Instead of aurochs, considered the wild ancestor of domestic cattle, 200 red Devon cattle are to be found roaming the Purbeck Heaths, while Exmoor ponies are stand-ins for the tarpan horses and c
  
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• Seaweed could avert food crisis caused by extreme weather

  26-05-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scientists believe Ulva can become a staple crop via undersea farming – once people acquire a taste for itExtreme weather events have been reducing crop yields across the world and many European countries that import a lot of their food could soon face a crisis. Politicians barely seem bothered about this but thankfully scientists think they have found a solution – undersea farming. This is not for fish but seaweed, which they call seawheat.People have been eating seaweed for thousan
  
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• Country diary: A cloud of male flies drifts by, while the females bask below | Claire Stares

  26-05-2023 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Langstone, Hampshire: I’d seen St Mark’s flies on the wing last spring; this year I was surprised to find them breeding in my gardenI was digging in a planter this week, attempting to winkle out the roots of a particularly stubborn clump of self-sown grass, when a large, black fly crawled sleepily out of the compost. Dipterous (fly) fauna can be difficult to identify, but this individual was one of our most recognisable species of true flies, the St Mark’s fly (Bibio marci), so
  
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• US supreme court shrinks clean water protections in ruling siding with Idaho couple

  25-05-2023 22:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Ruling by conservative-dominated court shrinks scope of landmark law to protect America’s waterways The scope of a landmark law to protect America’s waterways has been shrunk by the US supreme court, which has sided with an Idaho couple who have waged a long-running legal battle to build a house on wetlands near one of the state’s largest lakes.In a ruling passed down on Thursday, the conservative-dominated court decided that the federal government was wrong to use the Clean Wa
  
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• Meet the ‘gummy squirrel’ and thousands of other newly discovered deep-sea species – in pictures

  25-05-2023 17:55 via theguardian.com
  
  A trove of biodiversity has been catalogued by scientists in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast area of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico, which has been targeted by deep-sea mining companies keen to exploit its mineral wealth Continue reading...
  
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• More than 5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot

  25-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A wealth of biodiversity has been found in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, an area earmarked for exploitation by mineral firms Scientists have discovered more than 5,000 new species living on the seabed in an untouched area of the Pacific Ocean that has been identified as a future hotspot for deep-sea mining, according to a review of the environmental surveys done in the area.It is the first time the previously unknown biodiversity of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a mineral-rich area of the oc
  
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• Tories accuse Sunak of breaking pledge after animal welfare U-turn

  25-05-2023 16:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal welfare groups and Conservative campaigners criticise decision to scrap kept animals billUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has been accused of breaking his word after dropping the government’s animal welfare legislation.The prime minister promised Conservative colleagues during the leadership election that he would bring the kept animals bill, a key plank of the 2019 manifesto, into law. The legislation was to ban live exports of farm animals as well as clamping dow
  
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• Toxins hidden in plastics are the industry’s dirty secret – recycling is not the answer | Charlotte Lloyd

  25-05-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We need to know more about what goes into plastics in the first place and better regulation of how recycled products are usedDr Charlotte Lloyd is a researcher in environmental chemistry at the University of BristolSometimes it feels like we are simply drowning in plastic. Over the past five decades plastic products have found their way into almost every aspect of our daily lives. Global plastic production has reached a total of 8bn tonne – that’s 1 tonne for every person currently o
  
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• Orcas are ramming yachts off the Spanish coast – is the whale world rising up? | Philip Hoare

  25-05-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  One explanation is that their behaviour is a reaction to past trauma inflicted on one member of the pod by humansRecent accounts of “attacks” on vessels by orcas off the Iberian peninsula are challenging the way we expect the natural world to behave. Increasing in number since 2020, from northern Portugal to the strait of Gibraltar, these incidents suggest the need for a cetacean scene investigation team. On 4 May, in one of the most extreme events, orcas sank a yacht.“There we
  
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• MEPs accused of ‘culture war against nature’ by opposing restoration law

  25-05-2023 11:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Fears biodiversity proposals could be abandoned amid opposition from lobby groups and some countriesMEPs have been accused of whipping up “a culture war against nature” after the fisheries and agriculture committees voted against the EU’s biodiversity restoration law.Last June, the European Commission revealed proposals for legally binding targets to restore wildlife on land, rivers and the sea for member states. The nature restoration law was announced alongside separate legis
  
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• The latest environment news has left koalas in shock! | Fiona Katauskas

  25-05-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  They can hardly believe their eyes Continue reading...
  
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• Invasion of Ukraine ‘has fuelled funding boom for clean energy’

  25-05-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  International Energy Agency says investment will hit $1.7tn this year, well ahead of fossil fuelsRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has helped ignite a boom in clean energy investment which will significantly outpace spending on fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency.A report from the IEA has found that clean energy investment is on track to reach $1.7tn (£1.4tn) this year as investors turn to renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage and other low-ca
  
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• Digging continues at controversial south Wales mine months after licence expires

  25-05-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite record high prices for coal, operators claim they cannot afford to restore the site, a pretext for the licensing of the mineMiners have continued to dig hundreds of tons a day from a controversial opencast coalmine in south Wales, months after its licence expired.Despite its licence to operate having ended nine months ago, hydraulic dump trucks have continued to haul consignments of coal from the Ffos-y-Fran mine, just above the town of Merthyr Tydfil. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: The bog is only quiet at human height | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

  25-05-2023 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Flow country, Caithness and Sutherland: Take yourself down to the red bog moss, and the heather and boy myrtle it winds through, and you’ll find a burst of microscopic livingThe white flowers of the bogbean shake, sprinkling starlight over the bog. They stand unsteadily in the pools, moving with the slightest wind. As the first colour of the morning fills in, it seems to come as much from above as below, where red mosses glint from the dark peat. Sphagnum capillifolium, acute-leaved, or re
  
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• Watch tiny newborn meerkats explore zoo enclosure

  25-05-2023 02:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is celebrating the birth of meerkat pups for the first time in 16 years.
  
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• Australia’s ‘first carbon-neutral telco’: do Telstra’s environmental claims about Belong stack up? | Temperature Check

  25-05-2023 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Carbon neutrality of low-cost telco Belong relies almost solely on buying overseas offsets, and how an Institute of Public Affairs fellow misread the Great Barrier Reef Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTelstra’s low-cost mobile and internet company Belong is in the middle of a nationwide advertising campaign that’s memorable for its imagery of a sliced-off bloodless thumb crawling up a snow-driven mountain.“The average Australian is estim
  
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• Italy floods aftermath – in pictures

  25-05-2023 01:16 via theguardian.com
  
  The clean-up begins after catastrophic flooding that has left tens of thousands of people homeless in north-east Italy. Rising waters swallowed houses and landslides isolated hamlets‘Roads have disappeared’: Italy begins cleanup after catastrophic floods Continue reading...
  
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• Fast-growing chickens: Judge dismisses 'Frankenchickens' farming welfare case

  24-05-2023 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A high court judge dismisses a legal challenge over the welfare of fast-growing chickens on farms.
  
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• Brain implants help paralysed man to walk again

  24-05-2023 17:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it, thanks to electronic brain implants
  
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• Anxiety stirs in NSW community as Cadia mine investigated over heavy metals in blood tests

  24-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  EPA holds ‘drop-in’ session to answer questions about health and drinking water but concerns remain Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletterDozens of concerned residents gathered in the central west New South Wales village of Millthorpe this week, armed with questions.Most of them live within a 15km radius of the Cadia goldmine, one of the largest goldmines in the world, which is now under investigation by the NSW Environment Protection Authority after community members, includ
  
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• Virgin Orbit: Branson’s rocket dream ends after mission failure

  24-05-2023 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The British billionaire's bankrupt satellite launch firm had been looking to boost its finances.
  
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• Plastic waste puts millions of world’s poorest at higher risk from floods

  24-05-2023 12:59 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 200 million face more intense and frequent floods due to plastic pollution blocking drainage systems, report findsA devastating 2005 flood that killed 1,000 people in the Indian city of Mumbai was blamed on a tragically simple problem: plastic bags had blocked storm drains, stopping monsoon flood water from draining out of the city.Now a new report, attempting to quantify this problem, estimates that 218 million of the world’s poorest people are at risk from more severe and frequ
  
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• ‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says

  24-05-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: investigation finds energy giant’s efforts to offset its huge emissions rely on schemes with little impactA new investigation into Chevron’s climate pledge has found the fossil fuel company relies on “junk” carbon offsets and “unviable” technologies, which do little to offset its vast greenhouse gas emissions and in some cases may actually be causing communities harm.Chevron, which reported $35.5bn in profits last year, is the US’s second-larg
  
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• Europe’s grassland butterfly population down more than a third in 10 years

  24-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Decline worse in Britain than other countries, as conservationists blame agriculture and global heatingButterfly populations that live on grasslands across Europe have declined by more than a third in the past decade, according to a study.Seventeen species that were once commonly found in pastures and meadows across 22 countries, including the small copper, common blue and meadow brown, declined by 36% on average between 2011 and 2020. Continue reading...
  
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• New framework will allow firms to assess their impact on nature

  24-05-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Science-Based Targets Network says new schema will ‘get nature into the boardroom’ in the same way as climate footprintsBusinesses can now assess their impacts on nature loss using science-based targets as part of a move to “get nature into the boardroom”.Research shows that the biodiversity crisis is as serious as the climate crisis, yet there is less information about how companies drive nature loss, because this data is not being disclosed. The Science-Based Targets Ne
  
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• Chemical cocktails harmful to wildlife found in 81% of English rivers and lakes

  24-05-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigners call for rigorous testing of waterways to protect species after analysis reveals scale of problemChemical cocktails that are harmful to wildlife have been found in 81% of river and lake sites tested in England, a study has found.Wildlife organisations are calling on the government for more rigorous testing of waterways for chemical cocktails, and new legal protections against dangerous mixtures, including requiring assessments of potential hazardous chemical mixture impacts before an
  
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• Country diary: Signs of bygone farm workers, turned up by the plough | Derek Niemann

  24-05-2023 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Sandy, Bedfordshire: I’ve cleared out the insides of the pipe, and now have a compulsion to suck on it, becoming the first person to draw on it in over a centuryAt the age of seven I roamed the gutters of Hamilton, near Glasgow, looking for spent matches, returning home with filthy fingers and bags full of blackened sticks. I couldn’t fathom then why my mum should be cross with me. Decades later, I’m still looking for smokers’ discards, only these days out alongside the o
  
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• Recycled plastic can be more toxic and is no fix for pollution, Greenpeace warns

  24-05-2023 06:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaign group says plastics are incompatible with circular economy as countries prepare for treaty talksRecycling plastic can make it more toxic and should not be considered a solution to the pollution crisis, Greenpeace has warned before the latest round of negotiations for an international plastics treaty.“Plastics are inherently incompatible with a circular economy,” the global environmental network said in a report that brings together research showing recycled plastics are more
  
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• ‘Don’t F&*! The Planet’: Atlassian issues net zero guide for companies cutting climate impact

  24-05-2023 05:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Tech firm founded by Australians Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar says net zero must be achieved by cutting emissions by 90% and only offsetting the remainderFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAs corporate reports go, the title of Aussie tech firm Atlassian’s guide for other companies to cut their greenhouse gas emissions is as direct and flavoursome as they come: “Don’t F&
  
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• Ending native forest logging in Victoria is long overdue. Australia must protect its precious trees | David Lindenmayer and Chris Taylor

  24-05-2023 02:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The state’s native forest industry will stop by the end of the year – six years ahead of scheduleFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBy the end of the year, Victoria’s trouble-plagued native forest industry will end – six years ahead of schedule. The state’s iconic mountain ash forests and endangered wildlife will at last be safe from chainsaws. And there will be no shorta
  
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