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• Charities' income gets stripped down as clothing recycling bins vanish

  18-03-2018 20:36 via theguardian.com
  Clothing banks are disappearing from car parks at night, costing charities in lost revenue and binsClothing recycling bins are disappearing from supermarket and council car parks across the UK, costing the charities that should benefit from them hundreds of thousands of pounds, it is claimed.According to the Textile Recycling Association, the UK’s trade association, 750 clothing banks have recently gone missing from all parts of the UK except Scotland. Some have been found, repainted with
  
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• UK drops bid for instant return of fisheries control – sources

  18-03-2018 19:54 via theguardian.com
  Latest Brexit concession is blow to ambitions of environment secretary Michael GovePlans to take back control of UK fisheries the moment Britain leaves the EU appear to have been abandoned in the face of united EU opposition, dealing a significant blow to the ambitions of the environment secretary, Michael Gove.Gove put repatriating control of fisheries at the heart of his post-Brexit strategy. But as the negotiations to secure the terms of a transition deal go to the wire in Brussels, the UK ha
  
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• UK abandons bid for immediate return of fisheries control after Brexit – sources

  18-03-2018 19:54 via theguardian.com
  The concession is a blow to the plans of environment secretary Michael GovePlans to take back control of UK fisheries the moment Britain leaves the EU appear to have been abandoned in the face of united EU opposition, dealing a significant blow to the ambitions of the environment secretary, Michael Gove.Gove put repatriating control of fisheries at the heart of his post-Brexit strategy. But as the negotiations to secure the terms of a transition deal go to the wire in Brussels, the UK has backed
  
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• Big farming across Australia – in pictures

  18-03-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Alice Mabin is the photographer and author of the upcoming book The Grower. It tells the story of agriculture in Australia, a difficult industry with isolated landscapes as a backdrop. She spent more than a year visiting 400 properties, shooting enterprises including sheep, beef, dairy and truffles to show what conditions were like for families who live in rural environments and the challenges they face Continue reading...
  
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• Ban new petrol and diesel cars in 2030, not 2040, says thinktank

  18-03-2018 13:20 via theguardian.com
  Green Alliance says ending UK sales earlier would close climate target gap and halve oil importsMinisters have been urged to bring forward their 2040 ban on new diesel and petrol car sales by a decade, a move which an environmental thinktank said would almost halve oil imports and largely close the gap in the UK’s climate targets.The Green Alliance said a more ambitious deadline of 2030 is also needed to avoid the UK squandering its leadership on electric cars. Continue reading...
  
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• Jay Weatherill quits as leader after losing South Australian election

  18-03-2018 02:29 via theguardian.com
  Outgoing premier says he will stay on the backbench and is not interested in going to CanberraThe ousted South Australian premier, Jay Weatherill, has said he’ll stand down as Labor leader and ruled out a switch to federal politics after losing Saturday’s state election.“The Labor party has plenty of fantastic choices as leader; I won’t be one of them,” he told reporters on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Breaking mould in male-dominated industry

  18-03-2018 01:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Three pioneers who are shattering stereotypes surrounding the world of science and engineering.
  
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• Billion-dollar polar engineering ‘needed to slow melting glaciers’

  18-03-2018 01:05 via theguardian.com
  Underwater sea walls and artificial islands among projects urgently required to avoid devastation of global flooding, say scientistsScientists have outlined plans to build a series of mammoth engineering projects in Greenland and Antarctica to help slow down the disintegration of the planet’s main glaciers. The controversial proposals include underwater walls, artificial islands and huge pumping stations that would channel cold water into the bases of glaciers to stop them from melting and
  
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