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• America's secret Cold War nuclear test films released

  13-07-2018 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists declassify films showing atmospheric nuclear tests conducted during the Cold War.
  
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• Weatherwatch: Antarctica proves to be even colder than previously thought

  13-07-2018 22:30 via theguardian.com
  Data from Nasa satellites has been matched with weather station information to reveal a chilly new low
  Where is the coldest place on Earth? Antarctica; yes, but where exactly? On 23 July 1983, the thermometer at the Vostok station, high on the East Antarctic plateau on recorded the lowest measured air temperature on Earth: a frigid -89.2C. But, in recent years, satellite data has revealed it can get even colder. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Pay what you feel’: the supermarket giving wasted food new life

  13-07-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  The Inconvenience Store in Melbourne is providing fresh produce to people doing it tough A man places his shopping bag on the counter filled with canned goods, fruit, vegetables and a loaf of bread. He passes it to a woman, who weighs the bag, while her colleague makes a note on a clipboard. Then they wish him luck.“Come back soon,” 19-year-old Vincent Hui tells him. No money changes hands. Asked why he had come to the shop, the man tells Guardian Australia: “Some days are just
  
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• WeWork says employees can't have any meat at events or on expenses

  13-07-2018 20:40 via theguardian.com
  The workspace company gave environmental reasons for banning meat from all budgets, including their upcoming festivalWeWork, the real estate company that rents out and manages office space, has announced that they will no longer hold any staff events that include meat, and that staff will not be able to expense any meals that include poultry, pork or red meat. In an email to staff, WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey also said that WeWork’s upcoming Summer Camp event, a music and food festiv
  
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• Sustainable Business Covered podcast: Seabins, Airlabs and EV tours with UPS

  13-07-2018 18:04
  Episode 45 of the Sustainable Business Covered podcast sees edie travel to UPS' Camden depot to discuss the electric vehicle revolution, before heading to the Greentech Challenge to see how innovators are combatting air pollution and ocean plastics.
  
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• Heatwave sees record high temperatures around world this week

  13-07-2018 17:28 via theguardian.com
  From Europe to Africa, extreme and widespread heat raises climate concerns in hottest La Niña year to date on recordRecord high temperatures have been set across much of the world this week as an unusually prolonged and broad heatwave intensifies concerns about climate change.The past month has seen power shortages in California as record heat forced a surge of demand for air conditioners. Algeria has experienced the hottest temperature ever reliably registered in Africa. Britain, meanwhi
  
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• UK schools move to ban the school run to protect pupils from air pollution

  13-07-2018 16:38 via theguardian.com
  Thousands of schools across the country are taking measures such as closing roads and setting up park and stride schemesSchools across the country are moving to ban the school run amid growing concern about the devastating impact of air pollution on young people’s health.
  The Guardian has found that thousands of schools in cities and towns – from Edinburgh to London, Manchester to Ellesmere Port – are taking measures to try to deter parents using their cars. These include closi
  
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• UK schools banning school run to protect pupils from air pollution

  13-07-2018 16:38 via theguardian.com
  Thousands of schools closing roads and setting up park and stride schemesSchools across the country are moving to ban the school run amid growing concern about the devastating impact of air pollution on young people’s health.
  The Guardian has found that thousands of schools in cities and towns – from Edinburgh to London, Manchester to Ellesmere Port – are taking measures to try to deter parents using their cars. These include closing roads, setting up “park and stride&rdq
  
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• Eight of 14 rhinos die after move to Kenyan national park

  13-07-2018 16:20 via theguardian.com
  Relocation of endangered animals carries risks but loss of half of them is highly unusualEight out of 14 critically endangered black rhinos have died after being moved to a reserve in southern Kenya, wildlife officials have revealed, in what one conservationist described as “a complete disaster”.Preliminary investigations pointed to salt poisoning as the rhinos tried to adapt to saltier water in their new home, the Kenyan Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife said in a statement. It suspe
  
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• Paddleboarders highlight plastic pollution on Mallorca trip

  13-07-2018 15:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Catherine Friend and Valerie Bisbal are the first people to circumnavigate Mallorca on paddleboards.
  
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• Meet the Winners: edie's Sustainability Leader of the Year Darian McBain

  13-07-2018 14:59
  With entries now open for edie's revamped Sustainability Leaders Awards 2019, edie looks back to recognise the achievements of this year's winners. First up, the Sustainability Leader of the Year, Thai Union's Darian McBain.
  
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• Molson Coors gets stamp of approval for science-based target

  13-07-2018 14:58
  Multinational brewer Molson Coors has had its target of halving greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its operations by 2025 approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).
  
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• UK imports salad from US, Spain and Poland as heatwave hits crops

  13-07-2018 13:50 via theguardian.com
  Wholesale prices soar by more than 30% and farmers have to renegotiate with supermarketsLettuce is being imported from the US, Spain and Poland as soaring temperatures increase demand but hit crops in the UK.The airline IAG Cargo said it had flown 30,000 heads of lettuce from Los Angeles to the UK in the past week alone. Continue reading...
  
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• The killing of a blue whale reveals how disconnected we are from nature | Philip Hoare

  13-07-2018 13:50 via theguardian.com
  We need a better story than the pathetic one played out by beautiful animals that we haul into the sea of our ignoranceThey might as well have shot a giant panda. This week an Icelandic whaling company, Hvalur hf, caused uproar when it was revealed that it had killed a blue whale. Hvalur has killed hundreds of fin whales – mostly destined as meat for export to Japan. It resumed its hunt in June, after a three-year hiatus. But no blue whale – a highly endangered cetacean – has b
  
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• Plastic roads, war and beach, and the country with no word for 'vagina'

  13-07-2018 13:01 via theguardian.com
  This week’s edition of the Upside looks at countries breaking free from the past“The past is never dead,” goes Faulkner’s famous line, “It’s not even past.” Sometimes the weight of our history – as individuals, families, nations – can slow down progress, discouraging us from finding solutions. This week, we bring you tales of people looking for ways to escape their country’s past and break new ground. Continue reading...
  
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• Has India found a solution to plastic pollution?

  13-07-2018 13:01 via theguardian.com
  This week’s edition of the Upside looks at cities breaking free from the past“The past is never dead,” goes Faulkner’s famous line, “It’s not even past.” Sometimes the weight of our history – as individuals, families, nations – can slow down progress, discouraging us from finding solutions. This week, we bring you tales of people looking for ways to escape their country’s past and break new ground. Continue reading...
  
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• Seven of 14 rhinos die after move to Kenyan national park

  13-07-2018 12:52 via theguardian.com
  Relocation of endangered animals carries risks but loss of half of them is highly unusualSeven out of 14 critically endangered black rhinos died after being moved to a new reserve in southern Kenya, wildlife officials have revealed.Kenya Wildlife Service refused to comment on the rhinoceros deaths but, speaking on condition of anonymity, one official said on Friday: “Seven of the rhinos died but it has not been established as to why.” Continue reading...
  
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• Kenya: 7 of 14 rhinos die after being moved between national parks

  13-07-2018 12:52 via theguardian.com
  Relocation of endangered animals carries risks but loss of half of them is highly unusualSeven out of 14 critically endangered black rhinos died after being moved to a new reserve in southern Kenya, wildlife officials have revealed.Kenya Wildlife Service refused to comment on the rhinoceros deaths but, speaking on condition of anonymity, one official said on Friday: “Seven of the rhinos died but it has not been established as to why.” Continue reading...
  
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• Sunscreen for cows: UK farmers struggle to cope with heatwave

  13-07-2018 12:23 via theguardian.com
  Traditional farming shows its benefits as stone barns and hedgerows provide cattle with relief from the heatSunscreen and waiter service for cows, and a renewed appreciation for traditional countryside structures such as stone barns and hedgerows, are some of the modern and ancient ways in which farmers are trying to cope with the heatwave.Record temperatures and a lack of rainfall have drawn comparisons with 1976, the UK’s biggest drought in living memory. Forecasters say the hot weather
  
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• UPS to bolster London charging infrastructure with old electric vehicle batteries

  13-07-2018 11:43
  EXCLUSIVE: UPS's sustainable development co-ordinator, Claire Thompson-Sage, has revealed that the logistics giant will incorporate batteries from its end-of-life electric vehicles (EVs) into its storage and charging network next year as it strives to create its first fully-electric fleet of delivery vans.
  
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• 'Bad things happen in the woods': the anxiety of hiking while black

  13-07-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Three African American hikers describe fears and stereotypes they have faced – and why they love hitting the trails Continue reading...
  
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• UK passes 1,000 hours without coal as energy shift accelerates

  13-07-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Revival of last eight coal plants when ‘beast from the east’ hit Britain proved to be briefBritain has been powered for more than a thousand hours without coal this year, in a new milestone underscoring how the polluting fuel’s decline is accelerating.The UK’s last eight coal power plants staged a brief revival when the “beast from the east” pushed up gas prices earlier this year, causing coal plants to fire up. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Disaster': half a million hectares of forest bulldozed in Great Barrier Reef catchment

  13-07-2018 07:03 via theguardian.com
  Conservationists, Labor and the Greens condemn clearing over four yearsMore than half a million hectares of forest was cleared in the Great Barrier Reef catchments over four years – an area more than twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory.Official environment and energy department data shows that 596,000 hectares of forest was cleared between 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2016. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: the Allen has become a river of gold

  13-07-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Allendale, Northumberland: The dazzling monkey flower is having a bumper year in the upper reaches of the Tyne river systemThe dry grass prickles my sandalled feet as I cross the biscuit-coloured field towards the East Allen. The green and cool haugh has burned up in the heat, its smell become Mediterranean, an earthy mix of dried clay and hay, bitter and sweet at the same time. The shrunken river threads its way between boulder islands, finding passage between rocks that are normally submerged.
  
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• Floods and landslides in Japan – in pictures

  13-07-2018 02:57 via theguardian.com
  Heavy rains that hit western Japan last week have resulted in landslides and flooding – the worst the country has experienced in 36 years. The death toll has risen to 200, with most of those in the Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures Continue reading...
  
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• Kinetic power treadmills and demand response apps: The best green innovations of the week

  13-07-2018 02:01
  A number of eye-catching and potentially transformational innovations have emerged that could help businesses and nations deliver on resource efficiency, low-carbon transitions and combat climate change. Here, edie rounds-up six of the best.
  
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• Iceman's last meal was high-fat, high-calorie feast

  13-07-2018 01:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Mountain goat, red deer, cereal grains and a toxic fern: What our ancestors ate 5,000 years ago.
  
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• Brexit 'could damage UK environment'

  13-07-2018 01:39 via bbc.co.uk
  MPs demand legislation to ensure the government delivers on post-Brexit air pollution promises
  
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