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• Death by a thousand cuts: the familiar patterns behind Australia's land-clearing crisis

  14-03-2018 21:09 via theguardian.com
  The land-clearing crisis has been hastened by individual decisions, but it’s supported by a network of power brokers, lawmakers and enforcement agenciesThe broadscale denuding of the unique Australian landscape is the result of thousands of landholders making a tapestry of individual decisions.Over the past few years, millions of hectares of land has been cleared of native vegetation, exacerbating climate change, the decline of threatened species and the health of the Great Barrier Reef. C
  
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• Stephen Hawking's three great contributions to science

  14-03-2018 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The physicist will be remembered mainly for three things, says fellow scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
  
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• Rising carbon dioxide levels impair coral growth

  14-03-2018 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  A new study shows that the atmospheric carbon levels projected by 2060 will affect coral reefs.
  
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• Stephen Hawking: Tributes pour in for 'inspirational' physicist

  14-03-2018 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists, politicians and celebrities say the physicist's death leaves an "intellectual vacuum".
  
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• Stephen Hawking on God, artificial intelligence and mankind's future

  14-03-2018 18:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Listen to five thought-provoking perspectives from world renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who has died at the age of 76.
  
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• The book that made him a star

  14-03-2018 14:27 via bbc.co.uk
  A short history of A Brief History of Time - Hawking's blockbuster.
  
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• Science aside, Stephen Hawking appeared in a number of hit television shows.

  14-03-2018 14:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Stephen Hawking appeared as a popular cameo in several hit television shows and sketches.
  
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• Stephen Hawking dies: Scientist's most memorable quotes

  14-03-2018 14:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Remembering some of the key theories and quotes of the world renowned physicist, who has died.
  
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• Swindon given go-ahead for 50MW battery project

  14-03-2018 13:49
  Swindon is set to host one of the UK's largest battery storage facilities after the town's council received planning consent for the project.
  
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• Stephen Hawking: Five things you may not know

  14-03-2018 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  From being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease at 21 to experiencing zero-gravity.
  
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• LED lighting: edie relaunches free business guide

  14-03-2018 12:36
  Organisations with an interest in using LED lighting to slash energy use now have access to an updated 'edie Explains' guide which breaks down all of the key information required to deploy the technology.
  
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• LED lighting: edie launches free business guide

  14-03-2018 12:36
  Organisations with an interest in using LED lighting to slash energy use now have access to an 'edie Explains' guide which breaks down all of the key information required to deploy the technology.
  
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• Stephen Hawking: A life in pictures

  14-03-2018 12:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The physicist, who battled motor neurone disease for most of his life, has died at the age of 76.
  
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• Stephen Hawking: Scientist in the public eye

  14-03-2018 11:27 via bbc.co.uk
  From meeting presidents to popes, we look back at some of Professor Hawking's most notable public appearances.
  
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• Financial incentives for recyclability the way forward, says Co-op

  14-03-2018 11:26
  A fiscal system that rewards recyclability and labelling, coupled with reducing the range of polymers available for use, would enable retailers and waste management firms to better tackle the rise of plastics pollution, according to the Co-op's environment manager Iain Ferguson.
  
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• Biofuels can help solve climate change, especially with a carbon tax | John Abraham

  14-03-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  We’re not yet optimizing biofuel production for both economic and environmental factors
  Facing the reality of human-caused warming, we now look for ways to reduce the problem so that future generations will not inherit a disaster. So, what can we do now to help the future? The easiest answer is to use energy more wisely and quit wasting our precious resources. Second, we can increase our use of clean energy, particularly wind and solar power. These are great starts but we will still need s
  
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• The science that made him famous

  14-03-2018 10:51 via bbc.co.uk
  From black holes boiling themselves out of existence to equations describing the entire history of the Universe.
  
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• Obituary: Stephen Hawking

  14-03-2018 10:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Despite a crippling illness, Stephen Hawking became one of the most respected scientists of his age.
  
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• Energy storage investment fund to raise £100m on London Stock Exchange

  14-03-2018 09:12
  The world's first listed investment fund targeting energy storage developers and projects is attempting to raise £100m after floating on the London Stock Exchange.
  
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• Australia's kerbside recycling system in crisis following China ban

  14-03-2018 08:24 via theguardian.com
  Recycling industry in Victoria and NSW on verge of collapse, Senate inquiry toldAustralia’s kerbside recycling systems are at risk of collapse, a Senate inquiry has heard. China’s ban on importation of recyclable rubbish has left councils and state governments in Victoria and New South Wales scrambling to find space to stockpile growing mounds of waste.An estimated half of Australia’s recyclable waste was going to China before the ban, the hearing was told, although the precise
  
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• Science mourns Stephen Hawking

  14-03-2018 08:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Tributes highlight his breakthrough research as well as his personality and inspiration to millions.
  
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• Toast bread straight from the freezer to avoid waste, campaign urges

  14-03-2018 07:01 via theguardian.com
  UK households throw away more than 25m slices of bread each day, says anti-food waste campaignAround 25m slices of bread are thrown away every day in the UK – more than a million an hour – because people do not get around to using it in time and worry it is stale.Now a new campaign from the anti-waste charity Love Food Hate Waste is urging consumers to freeze bread and toast it straight from the freezer, and to consider eating toast as a snack at any time of day. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: wild garlic makes the greenwood greener

  14-03-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: this is mythologised woodland, a secular sacred place, a hunting ground and a sanctuarySunlight pools on thousands of wild garlic leaves on the bank of an abandoned railway cutting. Trees stand in companionable silence, the breath between them is slight. Days ago, slender ash trunks rattled like yacht masts in a marina, hawthorns hissed in the east wind, great oaks and steeple limes soughed in deep snowy murmurs. Much of the storm wreckage has been cleared from the path
  
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• Professor Hawking 'transformed our view of the universe'

  14-03-2018 05:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Visionary physicist Stephen Hawking has died, aged 76.
  
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• Mummy's boys: young ibises all wrapped up as presents for the gods

  14-03-2018 02:30 via theguardian.com
  They might be disparaged as bin chickens now but in ancient Egypt they were revered In Australia they’re reviled as bin chickens. But in ancient Egypt, ibises were revered and offered as gifts to the gods.Two mummified ibises have given researchers at the University of Sydney a riveting insight into their ancient appeal.Continue reading...
  
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• Cape York property with tree-clearing plans given part of $4m reef funding

  14-03-2018 01:23 via theguardian.com
  Conservationists say proposal would make sediment problems on the reef – which funding is designed to prevent – much worse
  A property in Queensland with one of the biggest tree-clearing proposals in Australia, and which is specifically identified by experts as a risk to Great Barrier Reef water quality, is one of the beneficiaries of a $4m federal government reef water quality program.Australian Conservation Foundation campaigner Andrew Picone said that it showed the federal governme
  
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• War on plastic may do more harm than good, warns think tank

  14-03-2018 01:16 via bbc.co.uk
  A think tank warns of the risk of unintended consequences from the current concern over plastics.
  
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• World’s great forests could lose half of all wildlife as planet warms – report

  14-03-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  From the Amazon to Africa, WWF report predicts catastrophic losses of as much as 60% of plants and 50% of animals by the end of the centuryThe world’s greatest forests could lose more than half of their plant species by the end of the century unless nations ramp up efforts to tackle climate change, according to a new report on the impacts of global warming on biodiversity hotspots.Mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds are also likely to disappear on a catastrophic scale in the Amazon and
  
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• Green Investment Bank: why did ministers dodge the real problem? | Nils Pratley

  14-03-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Government should have got binding commitments a private owner would continue to investThe government’s £1.6bn sale last year of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) to the Australian financial outfit Macquariewas a shambles, it was argued here at the time, and now the public accounts committee agrees. The rough summary of its report runs as follows: in their eagerness to trim a few quid from the national debt ministers accepted a few airy pledges from Macquarie about future investment an
  
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• Green Investment Bank sell-off process 'deeply regrettable', say MPs

  14-03-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Committee says government should have got stronger commitments on bank’s futureMPs have accused the government of a “deeply regrettable” failure to put in place strong guarantees that the UK’s green investment bank will continue to support renewable energy after its privatisation.The public accounts committee said it was unclear whether the bank would continue to support the government’s energy policy or climate change goals, because the bank’s new owner is no
  
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