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• Sentinel satellites to monitor every volcano

  19-04-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  European satellites will routinely map every land volcano on Earth, looking for early eruption signs.
  
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• Restless mountains

  19-04-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  European satellites will routinely map every land volcano on Earth, looking for early eruption signs.
  
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• Renewables roadshow: how the people of Newtown got behind solar-powered beer

  19-04-2017 23:13 via theguardian.com
  
  A hipster brewery in a Sydney suburb has created beer with an environmental messageHow Broken Hill went from mining to drag queens and solar farmsNewtown – Sydney’s grungy inner-city suburb where a seemingly endless string of Thai restaurants is interrupted by body-piercing shops, clothes stores and a growing number of small bars.It’s a suburb known for its beer-fuelled nightlife and alternative cultural tastes. It’s also one of the most progressive areas in Australia: at
  
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• Renewables roadshow – Newtown: 'What could be better than solar-powered beer?' – video

  19-04-2017 23:08 via theguardian.com
  
  While the politicians dither around energy policy, Newtown is teaming up with a pair of hipster brewers to support a solar-powered brewery and beer with a conscience Mining the ground to mining the sun in Broken HillContinue reading...
  
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• Green Investment Bank to be sold off in £2.3bn deal – reports

  19-04-2017 22:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Bank expected to retain offices in London and Edinburgh, as bid from Australian bank Macquarie accepted despite stiff political oppositionThe government has agreed a £2.3bn sale of the Green Investment Bank to the Australian bank Macquarie, according to sources close to the process.The privatisation of the bank was expected in January but signoff was delayed in the face of stiff political opposition and wrangling over the final price. Continue reading...
  
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• Chris Packham charged in Malta after bird hunt confrontation

  19-04-2017 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  BBC Springwatch presenter, making a film about Malta’s spring hunt of migrating birds, accused of ‘pushing against’ manChris Packham, the naturalist and broadcaster, has been charged with assault and trespass in Malta after confronting hunters he believes had illegally trapped wild birds.The BBC Springwatch presenter and naturalist will appear before magistrates on Thursday morning on the island of Gozo after being charged with “attempting to use force” and “p
  
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• Energy UK joins calls to back 'pot one' technologies

  19-04-2017 18:52
  
  Energy UK has called on ministers to support established renewable technologies, like onshore wind and solar, in order to provide a better deal for customers.
  
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• Cold snap: massive iceberg just off coast draws Canadians eager for close-up

  19-04-2017 18:29 via theguardian.com
  
  150ft iceberg, which dwarfs nearby town of Ferryland, becomes tourist attraction as number of icebergs moving into North Atlantic shipping lanes spikesA towering iceberg is causing traffic jams in a remote town on Canada’s east coast, as tourists jostle for a glimpse of the mass of ice sitting in shallow water just off Newfoundland.The iceberg, which has dwarfed the nearby small town of Ferryland, is estimated to measure some 46 metres (150ft) at its highest point. “It’s the bi
  
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• 'Gibraltar-sized' space rock passes Earth

  19-04-2017 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A large asteroid the size of the Rock of Gibraltar has passed safely by Earth.
  
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• Pollution is killing our children. Here’s how we can save them | Geraint Davies

  19-04-2017 16:29 via theguardian.com
  
  The impact of diesel particulates and nitrogen oxides on our health has reached catastrophic levels. My bill will make the right to clean air a realityEvery weekday, millions of primary school children across the UK put their lives at risk. Break time brings relief for busy teachers and is often met with screams of delight as children run out onto the playground. But in many of our major cities, tens of thousands of children in hundreds of schools, nurseries and colleges are at risk as they inha
  
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• What will the 2017 General Election mean for green business?

  19-04-2017 14:39
  
  With the nation set to undergo yet another major political decision after the shock announcement to call a snap election, edie investgates how the outcome of the poll on 8 June could impact sustainability and environmental professionals.
  
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• Physicists observe 'negative mass'

  19-04-2017 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates towards you when pushed.
  
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• UK Clean Growth Plan in 'holding pattern' after snap election announcement

  19-04-2017 14:03
  
  Climate Minister Nick Hurd has said the release of the UK's long-awaited Clean Growth Plan is now in a 'holding pattern' of new policy frameworks following Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to seek a snap general election.
  
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• Meet the man willing to spend millions to convince Elon Musk to dump Trump

  19-04-2017 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Doug Derwin is investing up to $2m to persuade Tesla’s CEO to speak out against US climate change policies and resign from groups advising TrumpLuxury car owners may seem like an unlikely target for organizing a political resistance movement, but to Doug Derwin, it’s all about the make: Tesla. Derwin is investing up to $2m in an effort to persuade Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump’s climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advi
  
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• Myanmar camera trap survey reveals endangered tigers, elephants and leopards – in pictures

  19-04-2017 10:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The first ever camera trap survey in the previously inaccessible Karen State hill forests has recorded a wealth of globally threatened mammals living in south-east Asia’s last great wilderness Continue reading...
  
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• Scotland hosts groundbreaking wind energy project to build new homes

  19-04-2017 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Housing association invests in electricity-generating turbines that will fund affordable homes in rural ScotlandAmid the rolling hills and woodland pastures of south-east Scotland, a wind of change is blowing through communities where low wages and casual work sit uneasily alongside the popular image of timeless market towns and pretty coastal villages.High above rich arable land by the North Sea, three tall wind turbines, blades spinning wildly, have started generating electricity for the natio
  
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• Great Dunmow postbox out of action while birds nest inside

  19-04-2017 07:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A postbox gets the stamp of approval from a pair of nesting birds.
  
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• Dartmoor's spring makeover

  19-04-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Walkhampton, Dartmoor A shepherd on his quad bike remarks on the contrast with last week’s rain, wind and mudFrom the western edge of Dartmoor, heat haze obscures views towards familiar territory in the Tamar Valley. Up here, by Lowery Cross, in sight of glittering ripples on Burrator Reservoir, ponies graze among dazzling yellow gorse; drab turfy banks are starred with a few violets, and the sound of chiffchaff echoes from coniferous plantations. Nearby, a bridge, rebuilt in 2015, is part
  
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• Call to classify shark culling and drum lines as threats to endangered species

  19-04-2017 06:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Humane Society applies for lethal shark control programs to be listed as ‘threatening’ under conservation actEnvironmentalists are attempting to list shark culling and the use of drum lines as threats to endangered species under federal law.Humane Society International has applied for lethal shark control programs in in New South Wales and Queensland to be listed as “key threatening processes” under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Con
  
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• Giraffes must be listed as endangered, conservationists formally tell US

  19-04-2017 06:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Five environmental groups point to ‘trophy’ hunting – largely by Americans who travel to Africa – among key threats to animalsConservationists have lodged a formal request for the US government to list giraffes as endangered in a bid to prevent what they call the “silent extinction” of the world’s tallest land animal.A legal petition filed by five environmental groups has demanded that the US Fish and Wildlife Service provide endangered species protectio
  
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• The ways of the wolf – archive, 1913

  19-04-2017 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  19 April 1913: Author and wildlife illustrator Ernest Thompson Seton gives a lecture in London about his first job as a ‘wolver’
  Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton opened his last lecture at the Aeolian Hall, London, on Thursday with the hollow call of a wolf’s rallying cry, the reality of which sent a perceptible shudder over his audience. One realised as he told in illustration of his subject, “Animal Heroes,” the story of the French wolf which was killed in the mountains
  
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