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• Exclusive: sawmillers call for access to Victorian parks and water catchments

  25-03-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Sawmillers say industry in ‘wind-down mode’ as state government discusses logging agreements extensionVictoria’s national parks and water catchments should be opened up for sustainable logging, according to a group of six Victorian sawmillers. The sawmillers – who call themselves the G6 – say the Victorian timber industry is in crisis. They want access to either more timber or exit packages. Continue reading...
  
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• How can we save the country’s birds? | Letters

  25-03-2018 18:45 via theguardian.com
  We may be only a few years from hearing the purring of the last turtle dove in the UK, writes Jonathan WallaceThank you Jonathan Franzen (Why do birds matter? Where shall I begin? 24 March) for your wonderful paean to birds. They enrich our lives yet we continue to push birds towards oblivion. We may be only a few years from hearing the purring of the last turtle dove in this country, for example. There are many ways in which we harm bird populations, some easier to address than others. The outr
  
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• Nuclear watchdog raises Hinkley Point C concerns

  25-03-2018 17:20 via theguardian.com
  Management failings could affect safety at EDF power station if unaddressed, says inspectorThe UK nuclear regulator has raised concerns with EDF Energy over management failings that it warns could affect safety at the Hinkley Point C power station if left unaddressed, official documents reveal.
  Britain’s chief nuclear inspector identified several shortcomings in the way the French firm is managing the supply chain for the £20bn plant it is building in Somerset. Continue reading...
  
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• NEW SERIES - Achieving Mission Possible: The sustainability success stories of the week

  25-03-2018 11:01
  With edie's Mission Possible campaign now in full swing, we're bringing you a brand new content series which rounds up some of the world's most inspirational sustainability projects and initiatives that are transforming business, for good.
  
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• Good news about renewables: but the heat is still on to cut fossil fuel use

  25-03-2018 08:59 via theguardian.com
  New data shows global emissions are at a historic high. Political leaders must now consider imposing serious penaltiesFor optimists, it was tempting to view three years of flatlining global carbon emissions, from 2014-16, as the new normal. We now know celebrations should be put on hold. Figures for 2017 published last week show global emissions from energy have jumped back up again, to a historic high.The data from the International Energy Agency shows we still have much to do when it comes to
  
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• I was expected to marry so I went to Antarctica instead

  25-03-2018 01:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Meena was raised a ‘good Indian girl' who was expected to get married, but she's off to Antarctica.
  
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• How IVF and stem cell science could save the northern white rhino from extinction

  25-03-2018 01:05 via theguardian.com
  Scientists believe they can bring the species back from the brink after the death of the last male last weekThe story of humanity’s interaction with the northern white rhino is one of the conservation movement’s grimmest tales of recent years. “In the 60s there were 2,500 northern whites left in central Africa,” said Paul De Ornellas of the Zoological Society of London. “Poaching brought that down to 30 by the end of the 20th century, and now to the last two.”
  
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• First of London’s new drinking fountain locations revealed

  25-03-2018 01:05 via theguardian.com
  Mayor Sadiq Khan confirms that four of 20 outdoor fountains will be in the West End, Liverpool Street station and SouthwarkThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has revealed the locations of the first four drinking fountains to be installed in the capital under a new pilot scheme in an effort to combat single-use plastic.The first fountain was installed last week in Carnaby Street in the West End, while in the coming weeks two will be set up in Liverpool Street station and another in Flat Iron Square
  
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