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• NSW laws that make land clearing easier reinstated by Berejiklian government

  10-03-2018 23:31 via theguardian.com
  Land and environment court had ruled code was invalid since proper procedure had not been followedThe New South Wales government has reinstated laws that make land clearing easier after a court ruled they were invalid last week.On Friday, the NSW land and environment court ruled the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code was invalid, since it was not approved by the NSW environment minister before it was implemented by the primary industries minister. Continue reading...
  
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• Fukushima 360: walk through a ghost town in the nuclear disaster zone – video

  10-03-2018 22:44 via theguardian.com
  What happens to a town that has been abandoned for seven years after a nuclear meltdown? Greenpeace took former residents and a 360-degree camera into the radiation zone north of Fukushima to mark the anniversary of the disaster.The Fukushima Daiichi plant was damaged by a tsunami triggered by a magnitude-9 earthquake on the afternoon of 11 March 2011.The tsunami killed almost 19,000 people along the north-east coast of Japan and forced more than 150,000 others living near the plant to flee radi
  
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• Big firms push to overturn uranium mining ban near Grand Canyon

  10-03-2018 18:10 via theguardian.com
  Companies say mining poses scant threat but conservation groups say ban should remain until environmental risks have been fully exploredThe US mining industry has asked the supreme court to overturn an Obama-era rule prohibiting the mining of uranium on public lands adjacent to the Grand Canyon.Related: Trump official under fire after granting broad access to mining and oil firmsContinue reading...
  
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• Week-old baby western lowland gorilla in Congo

  10-03-2018 12:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Rare footage of a baby western lowland gorilla was taken in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Congo.
  
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• False emissions ratings cost UK more than £2bn a year – report

  10-03-2018 09:01 via theguardian.com
  Some new diesel models emit 12 times legal limit, while others ‘are the cleanest cars on the road’False emissions ratings for cars based on lab tests have cost the UK more than £2bn a year in lost tax revenue, according to the Green party.With CO2 emissions exceeding official measures by an average of 42%, millions of vehicles have been placed in tax bands that do not reflect their true levels of pollution, according to new research published on Saturday.Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: Bill Condry had hoped to see the saxifrage in flower

  10-03-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Cadair Idris, Gwynedd My last visit was with the friend and mentor from whom I inherited this diaryOn foot from Dolgellau, up Cader Road, a wind biting my cheek cold as government social policies. “Gwynt y dwyrain, gwynt o draed y meirwon” (East wind, wind from the feet of the dead)! I flinched before it, turned aside for the Foxes’ Path that climbs a great slope of red scree to the east of the summit.It was 1992 when I last came this way. That scree slope is the simple explana
  
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