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• Trump budget cuts US cash for International Space Station

  12-02-2018 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Mr Trump's proposed budget includes funds to transition the space station from public to private.
  
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• Weatherwatch: Extreme flooding on rise in Europe over past 20 years

  12-02-2018 22:30 via theguardian.com
  Scientists track global statistics and conclude past events are not reliable predictors for future riskFor the inhabitants of the Cumbrian village of Glenridding, the winter of 2015/16 was a miserable one. Storm Desmond brought the first deluge in December, turning the river into a raging torrent, sweeping through many properties, and cutting the village off from the outside world for a full two days. Storm Eva barrelled in a few weeks later, and Glenridding ended up awash three times in the spa
  
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• Antarctic iceberg expedition set to reveal hidden realm

  12-02-2018 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Footage shows the iceberg scientists hope will reveal an Antarctic realm hidden for thousands of years.
  
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• Network Rail to install water fountains in majority of its train stations this year

  12-02-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Company pledges to introduce free drinking water facilities in many of nation’s busiest stationsNetwork Rail has pledged to install water fountains in the majority of its 17 managed UK stations by the end of the year. Related: Bottled water is a nonsense. Just ban it and fill our towns with drinking fountains | Sonia SodhaContinue reading...
  
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• Network Rail to install drinking fountains in majority of its train stations this year

  12-02-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Company pledges to introduce free drinking water facilities in many of nation’s busiest stationsNetwork Rail has pledged to install water fountains in the majority of its 17 managed UK stations by the end of the year. Related: Bottled water is a nonsense. Just ban it and fill our towns with drinking fountains | Sonia SodhaContinue reading...
  
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• New crayfish that doesn't need males to mate becomes all-powerful

  12-02-2018 18:13 via bbc.co.uk
  The self-cloning species, which can be bought in North America, is banned in Europe and two US states.
  
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• Wombats, sharks, possums, frogs: Australia's animals at risk of extinction – interactive

  12-02-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds of Australian animals are endangered, and while they could be saved, government intervention is urgently needed• ‘A national disgrace’: Australia’s extinction crisis is unfolding in plain sight Continue reading...
  
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• Wombats, sharks, possums, frogs: Australia's animals at risk of extinction

  12-02-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds of Australian animals are endangered, and while they could be saved, government intervention is urgently needed• ‘A national disgrace’: Australia’s extinction crisis is unfolding in plain sight Continue reading...
  
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• HS2 awarded UK's first BREEAM infrastructure certificate

  12-02-2018 18:00
  HS2 has become the UK's first infrastructure project to be awarded a BREEAM Infrastructure Scheme Certificate for its sustainability on Phase 1 of the project.
  
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• 'A national disgrace': Australia's extinction crisis is unfolding in plain sight

  12-02-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  More than 1,800 plant and animal species and ecological communities are at risk of extinction right now• Interactive: Wombats, sharks, possums, frogs: Australia’s animals at risk of extinctionGlobal warming wiped out the Bramble Cay melomys – the first mammalian extinction in the world to be caused by climate change – but a straightforward plan that could have rescued the little rodent was thwarted by red tape and political indifference.“It could have been saved. Tha
  
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• The Quorn revolution: the rise of ultra-processed fake meat

  12-02-2018 15:39 via theguardian.com
  It was reported last week that Quorn is on course to become a billion-dollar business. It is part of a booming industry of meat alternatives – but many of these products are a far cry from the idea of a natural, plant-based dietWhat exactly is Quorn? I have been asked that question regularly for more than 30 years. This may be a reflection of the general population’s scientific illiteracy, but most people remain hazy about the composition of Quorn – even those who eat it regula
  
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• UK team set for giant Antarctic iceberg expedition

  12-02-2018 14:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists investigate undersea life exposed by the iceberg that broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula.
  
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• Carlsberg cuts carbon emissions 16% in two years

  12-02-2018 13:57
  Carlsberg has reduced its carbon emissions by 16% in two years, driven by the elimination of coal as a fuel source at nine breweries in China, as outlined in the company's latest sustainability report.
  
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• Mothercare and Hubbub expand baby clothing redistribution scheme nationwide

  12-02-2018 12:46
  A pilot between environmental charity Hubbub and Mothercare to redistribute baby clothing is being expanded nationwide, after more than 20,000 items of clothing were allocated to around 2,000 families last year.
  
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• The EPA debunked Administrator Pruitt’s latest climate misinformation | Dana Nuccitelli

  12-02-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Until Pruitt deleted the EPA climate webpages.
  Last week, a Las Vegas news station interviewed Trump’s EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. The interviewer brought up the topic of climate change, and virtually everything Pruitt said in response was wrong, and was often refuted on his own agency’s website, until he started deleting it. Continue reading...
  
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• Drop the C: Heineken outlines science-based targets ambition

  12-02-2018 11:04
  Brewer Heineken has today (12 February) unveiled a new sustainability strategy that commits to ramping up renewable energy production, piloting an internal carbon price and setting science-based targets across distribution, cooling and packaging.
  
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• Network Rail to roll out free water fountains at national stations

  12-02-2018 10:55
  Network Rail has stepped up its efforts to reduce plastic waste with proposals to introduce free water fountains at its managed stations.
  
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• Microplastics pollute most remote and uncharted areas of the ocean

  12-02-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  First data ever gathered from extremely remote area of the South Indian Ocean has a surprisingly high volume of plastic particles, say scientistsMicroplastics have been found in some of the most remote and uncharted regions of the oceans raising more concerns over the global scale of plastic pollution.Samples taken from the middle of the South Indian Ocean – at latitude 45.5 degrees south – show microplastic particles detected at relatively high volumes. Sören Gutekunst, from th
  
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• Country diary 1918: worms crushed and mutilated beneath feet of passers-by

  12-02-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  15 February 1918 The ground was seamed and lined by their tracks until it resembled the photographs taken from aircraft of trenches at the frontYesterday morning, and to a lesser extent this morning, worms were unusually active; the influence of spring had penetrated underground and sent them to the surface to feel rather than see the improved conditions. They crawled in thousands over the footpaths; they were crushed and mutilated in hundreds beneath the feet of passers-by; the ground was seame
  
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• Country diary: England's only narrow-headed ants are toughing out winter

  12-02-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  South Devon: Outside this field the nearest colony of these heathland ants is in the Scottish Highlands
  A soggy mound amid the grass stopped me in my tracks. I had spent the best part of an hour searching the heathland reserve, eyes to the ground, before I chanced across it close to a clump of gorse. It was nothing much to look at, admittedly. After a winter of heavy downpours the dome-shaped structure covered with tiny snippets of vegetation had slumped so that it resembled a spadeful of old la
  
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