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• Late-night hosts on Trump’s climate decision: ‘Even North Korea agreed to this’ – video

  02-06-2017 19:23
  
  Talkshow hosts address Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement. On Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Trevor Noah describes Trump’s choice to make the announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House ‘a pretty gangster move’, while Jimmy Kimmel points out that the only other countries to shun the deal are Nicaragua and Syria, ‘and they’re doing great’Late-night hosts on climate deal: ‘Even Israel and Palest
  
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• Scientists dispute the 'tiny, tiny' impact of Paris deal

  02-06-2017 17:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President accused of "cherry picking" science to bolster argument for withdrawal from Paris accord.
  
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• Paris climate deal: Buildings 'go green' in protest

  02-06-2017 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Buildings around the world are lit green after the US withdraws from the Paris climate agreement.
  
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• Aerial footage of the split in the Larsen C ice shelf

  02-06-2017 17:03
  
  Footage taken at the beginning of the year shows the split in an Antarctic ice shelf. A giant section is hanging by a thread and is due to break off at any momentGiant Antarctic iceberg ‘hanging by a thread’, say scientistsContinue reading...
  
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• General election: Theresa May 'weak and feeble and spineless' over climate change, says Ed Miliband – live

  02-06-2017 16:32
  
  All the day’s campaign news, as Brexit secretary appears to contradict Theresa May’s ambition to cut net migration to under 100,000 by 2022The Snap: sign up for our daily election email – and read today’s
  Lunchtime summaryMay ‘weak and feeble and spineless’ over climate change, says Miliband 3.32pm BSTSir Vince Cable, the former Lib Dem business secretary who is trying to win back his Twickenham seat (which he lost to the Tories in 2015), gave a speech on the
  
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• Paris climate deal: Dismay as Trump signals exit from accord

  02-06-2017 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  European leaders, businesses and the UN condemn President Trump's decision.
  
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• Need climate hope? Imagine the promise of green left-wing victories in Canada | Martin Lukacs

  02-06-2017 15:49
  
  A NDP-Green coalition in BC, a $15 minimum wage in Ontario, and a surging Quebec Solidaire point toward a winning agenda in the age of climate crisisFor progressive-minded people in Canada, the last few days have presented a rare, strange scenario: almost too much to celebrate.
  Months might pass without victories, but this week has given us three. In British Columbia, a coalition struck by the Greens and New Democratic Party is set to replace a Liberal government that has mismanaged the province
  
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• Coral reefs, lead levels and US quits Paris accord – green news roundup

  02-06-2017 15:25
  
  The week’s top environment news stories and green events. If you are not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox Continue reading...
  
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• In China, the water you drink is as dangerous as the air you breathe | Deng Tingting

  02-06-2017 14:47
  
  Nearly half the country has missed its five-year water quality targets, Greenpeace research shows – so what can be done about water pollution?
  Shanghai, with its chic cafes, glitzy shopping malls and organic health food shops, is emblematic of improving quality of life for China’s urban middle class. Yet while the city’s veil of smog has lifted slightly in recent years, its water pollution crisis continues unabated – 85% of the water in the city’s major rivers was u
  
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• In China, the water you drink is as dangerous as the air you breathe

  02-06-2017 14:47
  
  Nearly half the country has missed its five-year water quality targets, Greenpeace research shows – so what can be done about water pollution?
  Shanghai, with its chic cafes, glitzy shopping malls and organic health food shops, is emblematic of improving quality of life for China’s urban middle class. Yet while the city’s veil of smog has lifted slightly in recent years, its water pollution crisis continues unabated – 85% of the water in the city’s major rivers was u
  
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• EU to bypass Trump administration after Paris climate agreement pullout

  02-06-2017 14:08
  
  Brussels rejects Trump’s offer to renegotiate landmark deal, as global politicians, business leaders and US state governors criticise presidentThe European Union has rejected Donald Trump’s offer to renegotiate the Paris climate agreement and pledged instead to bypass Washington to work with US business leaders and state governors to implement the historic accord’s commitments.Less than 24 hours after the US president announced his decision to withdraw from the 2015 agreement a
  
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• Faces recreated from monkey brain signals

  02-06-2017 13:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have accurately reconstructed images of human faces by monitoring the responses of monkey brain cells.
  
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• Giant Antarctic iceberg 'hanging by a thread', say scientists

  02-06-2017 13:12
  
  Split in the Larsen C ice shelf will release an iceberg a quarter of the size of Wales, changing the landscape of the Antarctic peninsulaA giant section of an Antarctic ice shelf is hanging by a thread and could break off at any moment, researchers have revealed.The split in the Larsen C ice shelf of the Antarctic peninsula will release a huge iceberg 5,000 sq km in size – an area about a quarter of the size of Wales.Continue reading...
  
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• Corbyn accuses May of subservience to Trump over Paris climate deal

  02-06-2017 12:43
  
  Labour leader says PM should have condemned decision to pull US out of climate agreement in stronger termsJeremy Corbyn has accused Theresa May of a “dereliction of duty to our country and our planet” for failing to give a stronger condemnation of Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate change agreement.The Labour leader said the prime minister was showing herself to be subservient to the US president and claimed he would take a very different approach t
  
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• World reacts to Trump's decision to reject Paris climate accord – in pictures

  02-06-2017 12:28
  
  Politicians, governments and newspapers across the world react with dismay and frustration over US president’s decision to pull the world’s second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases out of the agreement Continue reading...
  
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• Reflections on the politics of climate change | John Abraham

  02-06-2017 12:00
  
  Ideology and tribalism blind many people to the consequences of their climate denial and obstructionism
  The science of climate change is clear. Scientists know that the Earth is warming and that humans are the reason. We also know that the Earth will continue to warm in the future; however, we can do something about it. We can dramatically change the trajectory.If the science is so clear, why are there still so many people that don’t accept it? Why are there so many people who try to deny
  
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• Abandoning Paris climate deal marks Trump's return to angry populism

  02-06-2017 12:00
  
  In Trump’s darkest speech since the ‘American carnage’ inaugural address, the world was presented as something to fear rather than aspire to leadDonald Trump’s rejection of the Paris climate change treaty is the most emphatic answer to date the question the rest of the world has been asking since January: What does “America First” mean?“I am elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” the president declared in the Rose Garden, afte
  
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• Trump wants to shut out the world. Ditching the Paris deal proves it | Simon Jenkins

  02-06-2017 10:58
  
  The president’s decision to withdraw from the climate agreement reflects his contempt for internationalism – and the rise of a newly isolationist USSo we do have a new US – for the present. In the jargon of Trumpology, the president has tossed a sop to his climate-change denying chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and disappointed his green daughter, Ivanka. Or at least he is withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord in three years (Bannon) but “renegotiating” it
  
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• Paris agreement: Europe vows to keep fighting global warming after US withdrawal

  02-06-2017 10:27
  
  Emmanuel Macron says world’s duty is to ‘make our planet great again’ as leaders react to Trump pulling out of Paris accordEuropean leaders have pledged to keep fighting against global warming as widespread condemnation met Donald Trump’s announcement he was pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord.The leaders of France, Germany and Italy said in a joint statement that they regretted the US decision to withdraw from the accord, but affirmed “our strongest comm
  
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• City halls and landmarks turn green in support of Paris climate deal

  02-06-2017 09:54
  
  Local government buildings in New York, Boston, Washington DC, Montreal and Paris lit up after US withdrawal from accordLandmarks in cities across the world have been lit up green in support of the Paris climate accord after Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday that the US would withdraw from the agreement. In New York, the spire of the One World Trade Centre was illuminated. The New York state governor, Andrew Cuomo, tweeted: Continue reading...
  
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• China's ivory ban sparks dramatic drop in prices across Asia

  02-06-2017 08:59
  
  Prices of raw ivory in Vietnam have fallen, which traders are linking to China’s announcement of its domestic ivory ban, according to new researchThe price of raw ivory in Asia has fallen dramatically since the Chinese government announced plans to ban its domestic legal ivory trade, according to new research seen by the Guardian. Poaching, however, is not dropping in parallel.
  Undercover investigators from the Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) have been visiting traders in Hanoi over the
  
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• Paris climate agreement: World reacts as Trump pulls out of global accord – as it happened

  02-06-2017 08:47
  
  US president ditches current agreement: ‘We’re getting out, but we’ll start to negotiate and we’ll see if we can make a deal that’s fair’Paris climate deal: Europe vows to keep fighting global warming after US withdrawal
  Full story: Donald Trump confirms US will quit Paris climate dealAnalysis: US pullout is more damaging to the US than the climate 7.47am BSTTrump framed his decision to pull the US from the landmark Paris climate agreement as “a reassert
  
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• ‘Kill them, kill them, kill them’: the volunteer army plotting to wipe out Britain’s grey squirrels

  02-06-2017 07:00
  
  The red squirrel is under threat of extinction across Britain. Their supporters believe the only way to save them is to exterminate their enemy: the greys. But are they just prejudiced against non-native species? By Patrick BarkhamOne snowy dawn in March, I went hunting for squirrels in the Lake District. In the silent and empty woods beneath the Aira Force waterfall, the only thing moving was a solitary red squirrel, balanced on a nut-filled feeder hanging from a tree. If you grew up, as I did,
  
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• Highland ponies in their element

  02-06-2017 06:30
  
  Inverlael, Highlands The bog is dirt-black and soupy, threatening to mire us at every step. All we can do is give the horses free rein to seek a safe routeAt the weir at Glenbeg, we abandon the path and head west, using the river as a guide. The bog is dirt-black and soupy, threatening to mire us at every step; all we can do is give the horses free rein to seek a safe route through the morass. They lower their heads, ears pricked as they inspect the ground, and veer off along sheep-trodden detou
  
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• World leaders react after Trump rejects Paris climate deal

  02-06-2017 05:33
  
  Joint statement by France, Germany and Italy says deal cannot be renegotiated, while other countries reaffirm commitment to carbon reductionEuropean leaders dismissed Donald Trump’s claim that the Paris climate accord can be renegotiated after the US president announced he will pull out of the deal struck in 2015 to seek better terms. Shortly after Trump’s announcement the leaders of France, Germany and Italy released a joint statement rejecting Trump’s assertion that the clima
  
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• 'Make our planet great again': Macron rebukes Trump over Paris withdrawal – video

  02-06-2017 04:19
  
  In a televised address, French president Emmanuel Macron rules out any renegotiation after Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris agreement on Thursday, calling the move a mistake. Macron, speaking in French and English, urged scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and anyone disappointed by the decision to see France as a ‘second homeland’, adding: ‘I call on them come and work here with us.’ The French president said: ‘The Paris agreement remain irreversible and will
  
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• President's Paris climate speech annotated: Trump's claims analysed

  02-06-2017 03:42
  
  Donald Trump made a range of claims in his speech. Here, environment reporter Oliver Milman sifts through his statements Paris climate agreement: world reacts as Trump pulls out of global accord – liveThe full text of Trump’s speech: Draconian accord dumpedFull report: Donald Trump confirms US will quit Paris climate agreementSo we’re getting out. But we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair. And if we can, that’s great. And if w
  
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• Fact check: Trump's Paris climate speech claims analyzed

  02-06-2017 03:42
  
  Donald Trump made a range of claims in his speech. Here, environment reporter Oliver Milman sifts through his statementsThe full text of Trump’s speech: Draconian accord dumpedFull report: Donald Trump confirms US will quit Paris climate agreementSo we’re getting out. But we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair. And if we can, that’s great. And if we can’t, that’s fine.So that’s that. After months of fevered speculat
  
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• ViaSat-2: Satellite goliath goes into orbit

  02-06-2017 03:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  ViaSat-2 enters the record books as the most powerful commercial broadband spacecraft ever launched.
  
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• Sky-high wi-fi

  02-06-2017 03:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  ViaSat-2 enters the record books as the most powerful commercial broadband spacecraft ever launched.
  
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• 'World won't laugh any more'

  02-06-2017 02:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Trump says pulling out of Paris climate deal will stop world laughing at the US.
  
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• Trump’s Paris exit: climate science denial industry has just had its greatest victory

  02-06-2017 01:56
  
  Trump’s confirmed withdrawal from the United Nation’s Paris climate deal shows it’s time to get to grips with the climate science denial industryMoments before the US president, Donald Trump, strode into the Rose Garden, TV cameras pictured his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, shaking hands and looking generally pleased with himself.
  Bannon once called global warming a “manufactured crisis”. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia recommits to Paris agreement after Trump's withdrawal

  02-06-2017 00:46
  
  Energy minister Josh Frydenberg says he’s disappointed with US decision but believes 26-28% emissions reductions by 2030 on 2050 levels are reasonableThe Coalition government has recommitted to Australia’s emissions targets in the Paris agreement after Donald Trump’s withdrawal but Malcolm Turnbull faces internal division as conservative MPs celebrated the American decision.The energy and environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, said he was disappointed with Trump’s decisio
  
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• Paris climate deal: Macron pledges to 'make planet great again'

  02-06-2017 00:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from climate agreement is criticised by the French president.
  
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