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• Green streets are the way to go

  15-06-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Green roofs and walls insulate buildings and soak up rain. And like trees and hedges, they absorb pollutants. What’s not to like?As the connected problems of climate change and air pollution from traffic make living in cities more hazardous, the health benefits of greening our streets become ever more apparent.
  On crowded city roads green barriers, in the form of dense hedges between traffic and people on the pavements, dramatically reduce the danger from fumes, but are difficult to squeez
  
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• Quantum leap

  15-06-2017 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chinese scientists say their experimental Micius spacecraft paves the way for a new kind of internet.
  
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• China's quantum satellite in big leap

  15-06-2017 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chinese scientists say their experimental Micius spacecraft paves the way for a new kind of internet.
  
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• How should world leaders punish Trump for pulling out of Paris accord? | Wael Hmaidan

  15-06-2017 11:49 via theguardian.com
  
  The international community must show Trump, and any other leaders that may follow suit, that other core diplomatic goals – such as Nato funding – will depend on honouring their climate commitments World leaders’ response to Donald Trump’s announcement that he would withdraw the US from the Paris agreement was strong and unified. But did it sting the president and his administration? To deter other potential backsliders and maintain the integrity of the Paris agreement, t
  
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• Air pollution plan 'unfair' on local authorities

  15-06-2017 11:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Solving air pollution is a national not a local issue, says the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
  
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• Pipeline to the classroom: how big oil promotes fossil fuels to America's children

  15-06-2017 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Documents show how tightly woven group of pro-industry organizations target impressionable schoolchildren and teachers desperate for resourcesThis story was a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and StateImpact Oklahoma, a reporting project of NPR member stations in Oklahoma. Continue reading...
  
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• Anti-emissions squads: the volunteers cleaning up London's streets

  15-06-2017 08:41 via theguardian.com
  
  London breached its annual air pollution limits just five days into 2017, but volunteer clean air wardens like me are challenging drivers who leave engines idlingWednesday morning, my clean air partner and I approach a coach unloading children outside the Barbican Centre in London. The driver is helping to marshal the kids across the pavement and has left his engine on while parked. We introduce ourselves as volunteer air quality wardens and ask him to turn it off. He immediately agrees, cuts th
  
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• Ratty returns: hundreds of water voles released in UK's biggest reintroduction

  15-06-2017 07:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Almost 700 of the endangered rodents, immortalised in Wind in the Willows, will be released in Northumberland – and it’s all thanks really to the otterThe biggest reintroduction of water voles in the UK began this week, with 325 voles released into Kielder Forest in Northumberland, and 350 more to follow later in the summer.Water voles hold a special place in Britain’s natural history, providing the model for Ratty, the much-loved character in The Wind in the Willows. But the s
  
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• 'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene

  15-06-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Timothy Morton wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs, from the fantasy that we can control the planet to the notion that we are ‘above’ other beings. His ideas might sound weird, but they’re catching on. By Alex BlasdelA few years ago, Björk began corresponding with a philosopher whose books she admired. “hi timothy,” her first message to him began. “i wanted to write this letter for a long time.” She was trying to give a name to her ow
  
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• Lily beetle wears a frock of frass to deter foes

  15-06-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Crook, Country Durham Tiny larvae hatched then covered their bloated bodies in their own sticky excrement so they resembled bird droppings At first I thought the flash of red under the leaf was a ladybird. Then I realised that this was a scarlet lily beetle, which has the delightfully alliterative scientific name of Lilioceris lilii.These gaudy insects have a formidable appetite for lily foliage and have spread from their native Eurasia throughout most of the temperate northern hemisphere. They
  
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• Marine expert warns of climate emergency as fish abandon tropical waters

  15-06-2017 05:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Daniel Pauly is calling for a new plan to manage fishing levels as the industry’s expansion combines with global warmingAs climate change pushes marine species towards cooler waters, and the fishing industry expands around the globe, the tropics are emptying out, a leading fisheries expert has warned.The federal government is expected to release its new management plan for marine reserves in coming weeks, after a 2016 review recommended winding back protections. However Dr Daniel Pauly has
  
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• Adani mine loses majority support of traditional owner representatives

  15-06-2017 02:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Wangan and Jagalingou representative who had backed an Indigenous land use agreement now says he opposes the mineAdani has lost majority support from traditional owner representatives for a land access deal for its Queensland mine, casting doubt on moves to implement the agreement. Craig Dallen, a Wangan and Jagalingou representative who last year backed an Indigenous land use agreement (Ilua) with the miner, now says he opposes a deal that will not make up for “the destruction the project
  
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