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• Study tells of pumpkin-colored zombies

  10-10-2017 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reducing nutrient pollution may help prevent human disease
  
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• Improving Lake Erie's Water Quality

  10-10-2017 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kent State Professor Collaborates With NASA Glenn and University Researchers to Study, Improve Lake Erie’s Water Quality
  
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• What soot-covered, hundred-year-old birds can tell us about saving the environment

  10-10-2017 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Horned Larks are cute songbirds with white bellies and yellow chins—at least, now they are.
  
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• How to Help Californians Affected by the North Bay Wildfires

  10-10-2017 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fast-moving wildfires are devastating parts of Northern California, including Sonoma and Napa Counties, just north of the Bay Area. Victims — and their animals — displaced by evacuation orders and property loss need your help.
  
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• NASA Eyes the Development of Tropical Storm Ophelia

  10-10-2017 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tropical Storm Ophelia developed on Oct. 9 around 5 a.m. EDT as the seventeenth, tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season. It formed in the Central Atlantic Ocean about 875 miles (1,405 km) west-southwest of the Azores islands. NASA's Terra satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the storm as it strengthened into a tropical storm. 
  
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• When Shipping Petroleum, Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Costs More Than Accidents

  10-10-2017 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  While the policy debate surrounding crude oil transportation costs has emphasized accidents and spills, a new study by Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh researchers indicates the debate is overlooking a far more serious external cost—air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. 
  
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• Formation of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball

  10-10-2017 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago the formation of that same coal brought our planet close to global glaciation. For the first time, scientists show the massive effect in a study published in the renowned Proceedings of the US Academy of Sciences. When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants’ debris over time
  
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• NASA Finds Tropical Depression 23W's Strongest Storms in Two Countries

  10-10-2017 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tropical Depression 23W formed on Monday, Oct. 9 and by Tuesday, Oct. 10 it made landfall in northern Vietnam. NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed the depression in infrared light and determined the strongest storms were located in two countries.  
  
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• IMF tells rich nations that greater urgency needed on climate change

  10-10-2017 21:32 via theguardian.com
  Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook also cautions global economic recovery may stall because of poor wages growthThe International Monetary Fund has warned the world’s richest nations to have a greater sense of urgency about climate change, a day after the former Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, delivered a bizarre speech to a London-based thinktank claiming climate change was “probably doing good”.The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO), released over
  
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• Huge Energy Potential in Open Ocean Wind Farms in The North Atlantic

  10-10-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is considerable opportunity for generating wind power in the open ocean, particularly the North Atlantic, according to new research from Carnegie’s Anna Possner and Ken Caldeira. Their work is published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  
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• Little growth observed in India's methane emissions

  10-10-2017 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Methane is the second most powerful greenhouse gas and concentrations are rising in the atmosphere. Because of its potency and quick decay in the atmosphere, countries have recognised that reduction of methane emissions are a means toward mitigating global warming.
  
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• The need to tackle London’s toxic air | Letters

  10-10-2017 19:45 via theguardian.com
  Jeremy Simons of the City of London Corporation wants to see existing diesel private hire vehicles removed from fleets as soon as possible, and Tompion Platt of Living Streets wants more children to be able to walk to school
  It is of real concern to read that nearly 95% of London’s population live in areas exceeding WHO limits for particulate matter (Report, 5 October). Inner London’s location, its dense road network and high buildings mean that it suffers from poorer air quality tha
  
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• Why British scientists are watching Iceland's volcanoes

  10-10-2017 19:43 via bbc.co.uk
  A team of British scientists flies around Iceland's volcanoes to find out how to avoid future air traffic disruption.
  
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• Fightback begins over Trump's 'illegal and irresponsible' clean power repeal

  10-10-2017 19:20 via theguardian.com
  NY attorney general to sue administration for scrapping Clean Power PlanMajor companies including Apple and Google support Obama-era initiativeThe US is set for a fresh battle over climate change after the Trump administration moved to tear up the country’s primary policy to lower emissions and stave off dangerous global warming.Related: 'The war on coal is over': EPA boss to roll back Obama's clean power rulesContinue reading...
  
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• Birds Reveal Importance of Good Neighbours for Health and Aging

  10-10-2017 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Birds who live next door to family members or to other birds they know well are physically healthier and age more slowly, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
  
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• Stanford Research Finds That Diversity of Large Animals Plays an Important Role in Carbon Cycle

  10-10-2017 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trees in tropical forests are well known for removing carbon dioxide from the air and storing the potent greenhouse gas as carbon in their leafy branches and extensive roots. But a new analysis led by Stanford University researchers finds that large forest animals are also an important part of the carbon cycle.
  
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• Tony Abbott dares us to reject evidence on climate, but reveals a coward | Graham Readfearn

  10-10-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The former Australian prime minister’s misleading speech to a London thinktank was full of climate denial mythologyTony Abbott titled his London speech on climate change “Daring to Doubt” – a challenge, if you will, to reject mountains of evidence and instead lick your fingers and shove them into the plug socket of denial.Go on, I dare you. Continue reading...
  
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• Woman, 79, supplying tea to anti-fracking protesters forcibly removed by police

  10-10-2017 18:16 via theguardian.com
  Jackie Brookes, who had been providing refreshments at Kirby Misperton camp for past month, accuses officers of bullyingA 79-year-old woman who set up a tea and cake stall at the site of an anti-fracking protest in North Yorkshire has been forcibly removed by police. Related: Slinging mud: inside (and outside) the UK's biggest fracking siteContinue reading...
  
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• Tony de Brum obituary

  10-10-2017 17:17 via theguardian.com
  Climate change campaigner and Marshall Islands politician who was instrumental in securing the Paris agreementTo live on one of the Pacific atolls is to come face to face with climate change on a daily basis. Few people in the world had such personal experience as Tony de Brum of the realities of sea level rises and storm surges, of warmer seas, receding beaches and abandoned land. Fewer still have been able to turn that experience into international action to save the islands, and the rest of t
  
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• Clothed in green

  10-10-2017 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  We continue to buy new clothes at an incredible rate. How can manufacturers reduce fashion's environmental footprint?
  
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• Can we make fashion greener?

  10-10-2017 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  We continue to buy new clothes at an incredible rate. How can manufacturers reduce fashion's environmental footprint?
  
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• Coffee shops not doing enough to combat huge increase in wasted cups

  10-10-2017 16:59 via theguardian.com
  Just 1% of the 2.5bn disposable cups thrown away each year in the UK are recycled, committee of MPs is told
  Coffee shops are not doing enough to deal with the billions of disposable cups that are thrown away in the UK each year, an influential committee of MPs has been told. Continue reading...
  
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• IKEA moves step closer to 'energy independence' as sales rise

  10-10-2017 15:03
  Swedish retail giant IKEA has revealed that it now owns more wind turbines than stores, as it closes in on a target to become "energy independent" by 2030.
  
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• Ineos compelled to disclose document it used to justify fracking protest injunction

  10-10-2017 14:57 via theguardian.com
  Petrochemical company backs down after earlier refusal to the Guardian’s request to hand over the legal documentA multinational firm has backed down and disclosed a legal document that it used to justify a controversial sweeping injunction against anti-fracking protesters.Ineos, which aspires to become one of the UK’s major frackers, had refused to disclose the document after it had been requested by the Guardian under open justice guidelines. However the petrochemical giant has reve
  
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• Business coalition calls for resource efficiency drive to boost weak UK productivity

  10-10-2017 13:26
  Top UK business organisations and green groups have called on the UK Government to close the UK's regional productivity gap and rebalance the economy by backing resource efficient manufacturing.
  
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• Ineos discloses document used to gain injunction on fracking protests

  10-10-2017 13:18 via theguardian.com
  Petrochemical company backs down after earlier refusal to the Guardian’s request to hand over the legal documentA multinational firm has backed down and disclosed a legal document that it used to justify a controversial sweeping injunction against anti-fracking protesters.Ineos, which aspires to become one of the UK’s major frackers, had refused to disclose the document after it had been requested by the Guardian under open justice guidelines. However the petrochemical giant has reve
  
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• Starbucks and McDonald's among members of new paper cup recycling deal

  10-10-2017 13:17
  Major businesses such as Costa Coffee, McDonald's UK and Starbucks have agreed a joint deal to accelerate the nationwide recycling of PE lined paper cups.
  
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• Report: European retailers behind schedule on HFC phase-out

  10-10-2017 12:47
  One year on from the Kigali deal to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and reduce global warming, a new report has highlighted that European retailers are behind schedule to implement natural refrigerants into operations.
  
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• Siberian blue robin excites bird watchers in Orkney

  10-10-2017 12:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The sighting in North Ronaldsay is believed to be the first time an adult male Siberian blue robin has been seen in the UK.
  
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• Fukushima residents win 500m yen payout over nuclear disaster

  10-10-2017 12:14 via theguardian.com
  Court rules that Japanese government could have done more to prevent meltdown at plant caused by tsunamiA court in Japan has ordered the government and the operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to pay 500m yen (£3.37m) in damages to residents affected by the March 2011 triple meltdown.
  The ruling by the Fukushima district court follows an earlier decision that also found the government accountable for the disaster, in which large quantities of radiation was released
  
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• Tony Abbott's climate change speech 'loopy', says Labor

  10-10-2017 10:52 via theguardian.com
  Tanya Plibersek says Abbott’s speech to climate sceptics in London was ‘actually just weird stuff’Tony Abbott has “left the realm of the merely destructive and entered the realm of the loopy”, Labor says, after his provocative speech arguing climate change was “probably doing good”.
  The deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek said on Tuesday Abbott’s speech to a group of climate sceptics in London was “actually just weird stuff from the former pr
  
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• Plastic packaging: Are producers ready for their 'diesel moment'?

  10-10-2017 09:15
  As CDP's new report warns that "rapid process innovations" are needed to help the chemical sector align to the goals of the Paris Agreement, the organisation's head of investor research Carole Ferguson tells edie that plastic packaging is on the cusp of regulatory and consumer backlash.
  
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• Mine to maker: the journey of the world's first Fairtrade African gold – in pictures

  10-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Photographer Ian Berry takes us from Uganda’s makeshift goldmines to a London jeweller’s, documenting how a Fairtrade programme is helping to end the exploitation, mercury poisoning and treacherous conditions faced by Africa’s small-scale miners Continue reading...
  
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• Into the ice: humans get closer to nature – in pictures

  10-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From log trails to lava houses, from mud baths to melting glaciers, US photographer Lucas Foglia explores our relationship with the natural world. In his new book Human Nature, he has captured off-grid families, climate scientists at work, and a hotel over-run with greenery Continue reading...
  
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• NSW to weaken water quality test for extensions to mines

  10-10-2017 07:12 via theguardian.com
  Rather than require no negative impact on water, requirement would be for no more impact than from original developmentThe New South Wales government is rushing through changes to laws that protect Sydney’s drinking water, weakening them to allow extensions to mines, or any other development, that pollute the water catchment.
  The existing law, before the new amendments, requires that both new developments and extensions to existing developments, either have a neutral or beneficial effect o
  
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• Sadiq Khan must do more to tackle London's air pollution, say health experts

  10-10-2017 07:01 via theguardian.com
  Mayor must do more to reduce car use and promote public transport, walking and cycling, says reportLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has been urged to do more to tackle the capital’s air pollution crisis by leading health experts and academics.In a new report published on Tuesday, the group, including the chair of the NHS Sir Malcolm Grant, said the mayor must go further to reduce car use across the capital and harness new technology to create a system based around “public transport, walking a
  
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• Lusius malfoyi wasp: New Zealand insect named after Harry Potter villain

  10-10-2017 06:55 via theguardian.com
  Entomologist names parasitoid wasp after ‘redeemed’ character Lucius Malfoy in hope of showing not all wasps are badA Harry Potter fan turned entomologist has named a wasp after a redeemed villain in the series in the hope of drawing attention to the much maligned insect.Tom Saunders named and described a New Zealand parasitoid wasp as part of his masters study at Auckland University. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: dark trees guard even darker mysteries

  10-10-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex Jackdaws, ravens and hobbies dance in the sky, oblivious to tales of fairies and ghosts and ritual sacrificeThe morning sun shines through the canopy of the wood at the bottom of the hill, making the fallen leaves on the ground glow rust-red. The steep chalk and grey mud track is greasy from last night’s rain. Either side, flocks of tits – blue, great, coal and long-tailed – flit about, and wrens heckle my laboured climb with loud alarm calls.At t
  
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• Tony Abbott's climate frolic is strange and sad – and all about politics | Katharine Murphy

  10-10-2017 04:49 via theguardian.com
  The pitch behind the London speech was that a climate ruckus aids the Coalition. He should have been laughed out of the roomIt would be tempting to laugh at Tony Abbott’s feelings about how carbon dioxide is secretly good for humanity, and his insights into the goat sacrificing habits of primitives subduing volcano gods – except it isn’t that funny.
  The London outing is more strange and sad, and the strangeness and the sadness manifests itself on multiple fronts. Continue readi
  
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• 'Sooty birds' reveal hidden US air pollution

  10-10-2017 01:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Black carbon trapped in the feathers of songbirds gives new insight into historic US air quality.
  
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• New evidence on how birds took to the air

  10-10-2017 01:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Key modifications for flight happened as early as 120 million years ago, a fossil discovery suggests.
  
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• Scientists hope damage to Larsen C ice shelf will reveal ecosystems

  10-10-2017 00:41 via theguardian.com
  British Antarctic Survey researchers will study area opened up by loss of iceberg A68, which has been hidden for up to 120,000 yearsA team of scientists is planning an expedition to examine the marine ecosystem revealed when an enormous iceberg broke off the Larsen C ice shelf earlier this year.In July, the iceberg known as A68 broke off the shelf, leaving the area at its lowest recorded extent. Researchers are now hoping the event may lead to novel revelations from their investigations of the a
  
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