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• Renewable power boost, climate denial and spiders – green news roundup

  09-06-2017 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  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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• Fiendishly complex

  09-06-2017 13:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  World Land Speed record holder Andy Green examines how the extremes of speed and acceleration will affect the airflow around the Bloodhound supersonic car.
  
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• What happens in the team car during a cycling race?

  09-06-2017 12:31 via theguardian.com
  
  A directeur sportif must juggle route navigation, team communication, tactics and technical backup – all while driving at high speed. Amy Sedghi hitches a ride on the women’s Tour de Yorkshire to see how it’s done“I need a bike change”. The urgent call comes after about 45km.Another rider has hit Audrey Cordon-Ragot’s rear wheel in women’s Tour de Yorkshire and the radio crackles with her call for a replacement to be brought forwards. The Wiggle High5 te
  
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• The Finkel review: Politics over science – video

  09-06-2017 10:25 via theguardian.com
  
  The highly anticipated Finkel review on the future of the national electricity market was released on Friday. Its weak emissions target breaks Australia’s Paris commitments, but the review may well end the deadlock on carbon emissions that has plagued politics for over a decade Continue reading...
  
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• Dogs and wolves share sense of fair play

  09-06-2017 10:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Animals take umbrage when they feel that others are getting greater rewards than they are.
  
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• Nine of world's biggest fishing firms sign up to protect oceans

  09-06-2017 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Voluntary initiative marks first time companies from Asia, Europe and US have joined together to stop overfishing, illegal catch and use of slave labourNine of the world’s biggest fishing companies have signed up to protect the world’s oceans, pledging to help stamp out illegal activities, including the use of slave labour, and prevent overfishing.The initiative will be announced on Friday, as part of the UN Ocean Conference this week in New York, the first conference of its kind at
  
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• Beached whale: Australian volunteers help keep animal breathing – video

  09-06-2017 09:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Helpers endure the rain and swell to look after a whale that became stuck on a beach in New South Wales, Australia. The group used guide ropes to keep the animal upright as the tide fell, enabling it to breathe. The animal, which is nine metres long and weighs about 18 tonnes, will remain beached at least until the high tide arrives in the evening, experts said. Continue reading...
  
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• Fight to save huge humpback whale stranded on NSW beach

  09-06-2017 08:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Rescuers will try to refloat the 9m-long juvenile, which weighs up to 18 tonnes, at Sawtell on Saturday morningRescuers are working to save a young humpback whale that washed onto a beach on the New South Wales mid-north coast on Friday. The animal, which is nine metres long and weighs around 18 tonnes, would remain beached at least until the high tide arrives in the evening, experts said.Beachgoers spotted the whale in the surf at Sawtell Beach south of Coffs Harbour early on Friday and it wash
  
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• Let's expose everyday climate denial. Here's how

  09-06-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump’s climate stance is blatant and extreme but just as damaging is the daily denial that goes unchallenged, from airport expansion to pub patio heaters. A first step to change is to call it out #DailyClimateDenialYou know things are bad when it takes Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement for climate change to be discussed during the UK election. His climate denial is of the extreme and obvious variety: pages were removed from the Environmental Protection Agency website
  
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• Alan Finkel’s emissions target breaks Australia’s Paris commitments

  09-06-2017 07:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Chief scientist’s report flies in the face of previous recommendations on reducing electricity emissionsLess than two weeks ago, Alan Finkel told the Senate his landmark report would help Australia meet the commitments it made in Paris to reduce its economy-wide emissions by 28% below 2005 levels by 2030.But his recommendations on the future of the National Electricity Market, released today, appear to fly in the face of those very commitments. Continue reading...
  
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• Sticky solution: aphids' honeydew suits the bees

  09-06-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Langstone, Hampshire Bees scouting the hawthorn unrolled their tongues to mop up the sticky fluid excreted by the greenflySince mid May the hawthorn next to my kitchen window has been covered with greenfly. The leaves and stems are plastered with clusters of the sap-sucking insects and a dandruff of white cast skins, which the sub-adults moult as they mature. Reproducing asexually by parthenogenesis, these aphids give birth to live offspring born with the embryos of the next generation inside th
  
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• Finkel review anticipates lower power prices, but weak electricity emissions target

  09-06-2017 06:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Report by the chief scientist, Alan Finkel, models a clean energy target that would reduce electricity emissions by 28% on 2005 levels Australia’s chief scientist says a new clean energy target will deliver lower power prices to consumers than the status quo, but his report also models a scheme with a low target for emissions reduction from the electricity sector.
  In his much anticipated review of the national electricity market, Alan Finkel has examined a scheme with an emissions reductio
  
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• Leading Indigenous lawyer hits back at Marcia Langton over Adani

  09-06-2017 03:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Tony McAvoy says traditional owners are ‘proud and independent’ and are not being used by anti-mining activists to block the $16bn mineOne of Australia’s leading native title lawyers has spoken publicly for the first time as a traditional owner fighting to stop the Adani mine, a campaign he said was driven by “proud and independent people” who were among the best-informed Indigenous litigants in the country.Tony McAvoy SC, who became Australia’s first Indigeno
  
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