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• Former Niger Delta militants urge Avengers to join in government talks

  12-06-2016 22:48
  By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A group of Nigerian former militants have urged the Niger Delta Avengers, who have claimed responsibility for a recent string of attacks on oil and gas facilities, to join in discussions with the government, a statement said on Sunday. Last week, the Avengers said they would not cooperate with a government initiative to start talks with them and other militants over their demands for a greater share of oil wealth and pollution in the impoverished sout
  
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• Coalition will protect Great Barrier Reef with $1bn fund, says PM

  12-06-2016 22:03
  
  Amid a series of reports detailing the poor state of the reef, Malcolm Turnbull is promising improved water quality and clean energy for the regionMalcolm Turnbull has promised that a re-elected Coalition government will protect the Great Barrier Reef by tackling its two biggest challenges – climate change and water quality.The prime minister will pledge to set up a new $1bn reef fund with $1bn – taken from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation’s $10bn special account – to
  
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• If we’re to win the climate struggle, we must remain in Europe | Caroline Lucas and John Ashton

  12-06-2016 17:02
  
  Concerted EU diplomacy helped secure a landmark agreement at the Paris climate change summit. We should not leave the field just as the battle is turningOur security and prosperity depend on a successful response to climate change, the most urgent challenge of our time. So does any prospect of a transition to a way of living together that is just and sustainable. And if we fail on climate, we lose the very capacity to shape our destiny that makes sovereignty worth having. Related: David Cameron
  
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• How environmentally friendly is your cruise holiday?

  12-06-2016 17:00
  
  Cruises are a popular attraction for Americans on vacation, but a report card rating cruise lines’ efforts to reduce pollution may come as a rude shock
  An estimated 24 million passengers are expected to cruise the world’s oceans in more than 220 cruise ships this year, up from 19.1 million in 2010. But these giant floating playgrounds leave an enormous environmental impact. Many large ocean liners run on giant diesel engines, which can stand at more than three stories tall and span t
  
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• Deep in the American West: meet Harry Koyama, a beet farmer with an artist's soul

  12-06-2016 16:00
  
  One of the few Asian Americans in the Yellowstone Valley, artist Harry Koyama paints flamboyant canvases of wildlife, wild places, and people that make up Montana. Writer Carrie La Seur is awestruck Gallery: Harry Koyama’s magnetic paintingsBy Carrie La Seur for Public Streets by Public Books, part of the Guardian Books Network
  Montana Avenue in Billings is a startlingly urban raft on the vast, grassy sea of rural southern Montana. It has microbreweries, artists, a cowboy hat–fixing
  
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• Sea of glass: the underwater world of Leopold Blaschka

  12-06-2016 10:00
  
  The 19th century glassblower’s intricate sculptures of marine life are a window on the ocean 150 years ago, says ecology professor Drew HarvellIn the 1860s, when the Bohemian glassblower Leopold Blaschka began sculpting models of underwater creatures, the Industrial Revolution, population growth and climate change had yet to take their toll on marine biodiversity. Over three decades, using techniques that still baffle experts, Leopold and his son, Rudolf, handmade about 10,000 marine sculp
  
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• The eco guide to population growth

  12-06-2016 07:00
  
  Every hour 10,000 people are born. Fortunately a new crop of eco innovations will help tackle the pressures on our planetThe regularity with which I’m contacted by population worriers – people who think it’s pointless discussing green energy, climate change and ethical pensions when the elephant in the room is actually the new human in the room – is impressive. They say that the planet needs fewer people. End of.The numbers are indeed eye catching. Today there are 7 billi
  
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• The eco guide to cargo ships

  12-06-2016 07:00
  
  The shipping industry burns fossil fuels on a grand scale, and scarcely even tries to reduce its emissionsA seafaring adage goes: “If the winds are shifting, adjust your sails.” But even with the disturbing winds of climate change, the shipping industry, with its combustion of fossil fuels (accounting for 2.4% of global emissions), remains outside binding emissions-reduction agreements.There have been some eco efforts, but the Carbon War Room points out that ship owners feel little n
  
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• It's First Dog on the Moon's Hug a Climate Scientist Day (Week) – share your photos

  12-06-2016 02:56
  
  12 June is Hug a Climate Scientist Day. We’ll be celebrating by hugging lots of scientists (or a nearby friends or pets) and sharing the photos hereAre you prepared and ready for Hug a Climate Scientist Day (Week)?12 June is International Hug a Climate Scientist Day (this year incorporating Climate Scientist Awareness Week)!! Share your photos of hugging a scientist (or a nearby friend or pet). If you are hosting a morning tea, share photos and tell us how it went. We’ll feature a se
  
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• Bubbles, the oldest pilot whale in captivity, dies at SeaWorld

  12-06-2016 02:36
  
  Bubbles was in her early 50s and had lived at the park in San Diego for nearly 30 yearsBubbles, a female pilot whale at SeaWorld in San Diego that was believed to have been the oldest animal of her species in a zoological park, has died. In an online statement, SeaWorld Entertainment Inc said Bubbles was in her early to mid 50s and had been at the park for nearly 30 years. Continue reading...
  
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