Environment news

• Rocket blasts off for ISS one day late

  12-11-2017 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  A small plane entering the airspace had delayed Saturday's launch from Virginia in the US.
  
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• Queensland land clearing could become 'tsunami', say conservation groups

  12-11-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Notification of planned clearing is up 30% in the past year compared with the previous three-year averageA dramatic land-clearing surge in Queensland could turn into a “tsunami” in the coming year, say conservationists, the rate of notifications of planned clearing rising 30% in the past year compared with the previous three-year average. Continue reading...
  
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• Reports show businesses and regional governments making strong climate progress

  12-11-2017 16:56
  As climate talks at Bonn enter the second week, two separate reports have detailed the progress of non-state actors including businesses, states and regions to reduce CO2 emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.
  
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• Gove plans post-Brexit green watchdog

  12-11-2017 13:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Minister Michael Gove insists environmental standards won't be sacrificed.
  
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• Michael Gove: from 'shy green' to 'full-throated environmentalist'?

  12-11-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Many feared what the MP would do when he became environment secretary this year – but he has pleasantly surprised his critics Michael Gove has transformed from a “shy green” into a “full-throated environmentalist”, according to close allies who have said the Conservative MP has been heavily affected by his latest ministerial brief.Howls of protest made by green groups, commentators and political opponents when Theresa May decided, in June this year, to elevate the h
  
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• Congo basin’s peaty swamps are new front in climate change battle

  12-11-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  Ancient peatlands that store huge amounts of carbon are under threat from loggingStumbling on submerged roots, attacked by bees and wading waist-deep through leech-infested water, the three researchers and their Pygmy guides progress at just 100 metres an hour through the largest and least-explored tropical bog in the world.The group halt and unpack what looks like a spear, which is plunged over and over again into the waterlogged forest floor. Each time it brings up a metre-long core of rich, b
  
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• Loving Blue Planet? Go one better and take a real submarine trip to the deep

  12-11-2017 01:04 via theguardian.com
  The new must-have accessory for cruise liners and luxury yachts is a bubble-shaped submersibleThe unknowable expanse of the oceans has become a little more familiar after Blue Planet II. Now it is set to become more familiar still to tourists with enough cash to spare.The BBC series is the most-watched show of 2017, with 14.1 million viewers tuning in for unseen wonders like cannibalistic Humboldt squid, methane belching from the ocean floor and an underwater lake of brine. Scenes like these are
  
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