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• Margaret Atwood: 'If the ocean dies, so do we'

  03-06-2018 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Speaking at a climate change conference in London, author Margaret Atwood supported a ban on single use plastic.
  
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• Margaret Atwood

  03-06-2018 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Speaking at a climate change conference in London, author Margaret Atwood supported a ban on single use plastic.
  
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• Don't turn to the military to solve the climate-change crisis| Nick Buxton

  03-06-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Warning about conflicts, wars and mass migration is the wrong way to approach thingsThe Australian Senate’s declaration last month that climate change is a “current and existential national security risk” was clearly intended to inject much-needed urgency into the country’s climate policy stalemate. Bringing together the unusual bedfellows of military generals and environmentalists to warn about the dangers of climate change, it has the possibility to break though Austral
  
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• Don't turn to the military to solve the climate-change crisis

  03-06-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Warning about conflicts, wars and mass migration is the wrong way to approach thingsThe Australian Senate’s declaration last month that climate change is a “current and existential national security risk” was clearly intended to inject much-needed urgency into the country’s climate policy stalemate. Bringing together the unusual bedfellows of military generals and environmentalists to warn about the dangers of climate change, it has the possibility to break though Austral
  
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• Newcastle fells more trees than any other UK council

  03-06-2018 19:33 via theguardian.com
  City has cleared 8,414 trees in last three years – twice as many as any other authorityNewcastle has become the tree-felling capital of the UK after the council chopped down almost twice as many trees as any other local authority.More than 110,000 trees have been cut down by councils across the UK in the last three years, according to figures gathered under the Freedom of Information (FOI) act by the Sunday Times. Some 8,414 were in Newcastle, more than in any other rural or urban local au
  
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• Farming and humanity versus the environment | Letters

  03-06-2018 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Guy Smith says it’s unfair to point the finger at farming as the cause of environmental damage, Iain Climie addresses food wastage and Dr Blake Alcott says the most effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is to not reproduceOne fundamental point has been overlooked by Kevin Rushby in his article about the plight of the countryside due to agriculture (The killing fields, G2, 31 May). There has been no intensification of agriculture in the UK for 25 years.Government statistics show pes
  
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• Greece tourism at record high amid alarm over environmental cost

  03-06-2018 16:56 via theguardian.com
  With 32 million visitors expected this year, fears grow that the country cannot copeGreece is braced for another bumper year. The tourists will not stop coming. For every one of its citizens, three foreign visitors – 32 million in total – will arrive this year, more than at any other time since records began.It’s an extraordinary feat for a country that has battled with bankruptcy, at times has been better known for its protests and riots and, only three years ago, narrowly esc
  
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• What was the fallout from Fukushima?

  03-06-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  When a tsunami hit the nuclear plant, thousands fled. Many never returned – but has the radiation risk been exaggerated?Shunichi Yamashita knows a lot of about the health effects of radiation. But he is a pariah in his home country of Japan, because he insists on telling those evacuated after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident that the hazards are much less than they suppose. Could he be right?Yamashita was born in Nagasaki in 1952, seven years after the world’s second atomic weapon
  
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• Rewilding success stories

  03-06-2018 07:59 via theguardian.com
  Reintroduction programmes of animals driven from their once-natural habits are a cause for optimismIn May, Dutch and Romanian European bison reintroduction programmes were declared successful after several years of conservation efforts. The Dutch project began back in 2007; the wild cattle had been extinct in that region for two centuries. Now, though, both national parks in question are reaping great environmental benefits from the bisons’ grazing, with a consequent flourishing of flora a
  
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• Eerie silence falls on Shetland cliffs that once echoed to seabirds’ cries

  03-06-2018 07:59 via theguardian.com
  Climate change has caused a catastrophic drop in the numbers of terns, kittiwakes and puffinsSumburgh Head lies at the southern tip of mainland Shetland. This dramatic 100-metre-high rocky spur, crowned with a lighthouse built by Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather, has a reputation for being one of the biggest and most accessible seabird colonies in Britain.Thousands of puffins, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes and fulmars gather there every spring to breed, covering almost every squar
  
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• When the sweet turns sour: Queensland split between sugar and solar

  03-06-2018 04:30 via theguardian.com
  As solar farms spread across the central agricultural regions of the sunshine state, opponents are becoming increasingly vocalColin Ash has spent a working lifetime in the cane fields near the Pioneer River in central Queensland, out past Marian, where the mill has processed sugar for more than 130 years.“You can’t get sentimental about things,” he says from the front seat of his truck as he drives slowly around the boundary of his property. “You’ve got to pay your
  
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• Whale dies from eating more than 80 plastic bags

  03-06-2018 03:44 via theguardian.com
  Pilot whale was found barely alive in Thai canal and vomited up five bags during fruitless rescue attemptsA whale has died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags, with rescuers failing to nurse the mammal back to health.
  The small male pilot whale was found barely alive in a canal near the border with Malaysia, the country’s department of marine and coastal resources said. Continue reading...
  
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• Bairnsdale's bat battle – photo essay

  03-06-2018 03:07 via theguardian.com
  A 10-year fight between a group of residents and the East Gippsland shire council over grey-headed flying foxes is heating up againThe Australian town of Bairnsdale in Victoria – 300km east of Melbourne – is known as the gateway to east Gippsland’s natural wonders. It is also the scene of a 10-year battle between a group of residents and the East Gippsland shire council over a colony of grey-headed flying foxes that roost along the town’s Mitchell River.In 2014, the counc
  
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