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• AB InBev unveils innovation accelerator for green startups

  05-08-2018 22:08
  The owner of alcoholic brands including Corona, Stella Artois and Budweiser is calling on startups to join new innovation programme aimed at solving more than 100 sustainability challenges by 2025.
  
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• The 'golden age of citizen science' and how it is reshaping the world

  05-08-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Environmental scientists are increasingly calling on private citizens to help them with their research and collect data The eastern bristlebird emits a high, sliding whistle, often in the middle of the dawn chorus, and frequently in a way that makes it hard to pick out.The small brown native songbird is endangered, with only about 2,500 left in Australia and 40 in Queensland, but because the bird is so shy, it is difficult for conservationists to monitor them. To make things more difficult when
  
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• People powered: connecting citizens with science projects around Australia

  05-08-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
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  05-08-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
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• Most Australians want more renewables to help lower power prices – poll

  05-08-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Survey comes as Victoria and Queensland urged to block national energy guarantee and business groups call for deal to be approvedMore than 70% of Australians want the government to set a high renewable energy target to put downward pressure on power prices, according to a new poll.The ReachTel poll, commissioned by Greenpeace, was released on Monday as progressive campaign group GetUp and environmentalists stepped up pressure on the Victorian and Queensland governments to block the national ener
  
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• Australia's 'golden age of citizen science': your chance to take part

  05-08-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Environmental scientists are increasingly calling on private citizens to help them with their research and collect data The eastern bristlebird emits a high, sliding whistle, often in the middle of the dawn chorus, and frequently in a way that makes it hard to pick out.The small brown native songbird is endangered, with only about 2,500 left in Australia and 40 in Queensland, but because the bird is so shy, it is difficult for conservationists to monitor them. To make things more difficult when
  
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• Welsh river study reveals 'troubling' decline of wildlife

  05-08-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Forty-year study shows loss of invertebrates, with repercussions for larger animalsOne of the longest-running studies of streams in the world – the minute study of 14 brooks that tumble through a remote Welsh mountain landscape – has exposed a troubling loss of riverine wildlife.Ecologists working on the Llyn Brianne Observatory project in mid Wales, which has been in operation for almost 40 years, have flagged up the disappearance and decline of invertebrates from the streams.Contin
  
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• Viral video shows snake eating pigeon in busy London street

  05-08-2018 13:00 via theguardian.com
  RSPCA called to incident after snake found coiled around bird in Leytonstone High RoadA snake has been seen eating a pigeon on a busy street in east London. Photographs and video posted on social media showed the snake coiled around the bird on the pavement outside a shop on Leytonstone High Road on Saturday morning.Continue reading...
  
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• A Living roof drive-through and Senegalese windfarms: The sustainability success stories of the week

  05-08-2018 11:13
  As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe.
  
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• Crunch time for Walkers over non-recyclable crisp packets

  05-08-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Petition calls on snacks firm to end use of plastic in the 11 million packets a day produced at Leicester factoryThe UK’s biggest crisp brand, Walkers, will come under pressure this week to explain why it is helping to fuel the plastic waste littering the streets and seas by producing more than 7,000 non-recyclable crisp packets every minute.A new analysis carried out by campaign organisation 38 Degrees has found that Walkers is set to produce an additional 28bn plastic crisp packets
  
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• Australian Bio-Bridges and Senegalese windfarms: The sustainability success stories of the week

  05-08-2018 10:13
  As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe.
  
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• Will giant cruise ships destroy the wonders their passengers claim to love? | Rowan Moore

  05-08-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Guides who shot a polar bear have been denounced as murderers. But what does that make the tourists who are ruining its fragile habitat?A special kind of shock comes with the shooting of a polar bear. Their magnificence, their appearance of cuddliness, their ferocity, their vulnerability, their anthropomorphism – all combine to make the death of a single male, at the hands of guides for a tourist cruise ship, worldwide news.The internet hummed with denunciation. It is hard to think of anot
  
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• Oceans’ last chance: ‘It's taken years of negotiations to set this up’

  05-08-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Wildlife in most of the lawless high seas faces an existential threat from fishing, shipping and the military. Next month, a landmark UN conference could finally bring hopeThe leatherback turtle is one of our planet’s most distinctive creatures. It can live for decades and grow to weigh up to two tonnes. It is the largest living reptile on Earth and its evolutionary roots reach back more than 100 million years.“Leatherbacks are living fossils,” says oceanographer Professor Call
  
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• We need less waste, not more food | Letters

  05-08-2018 06:59 via theguardian.com
  The key to UK food security is not to grow more but to ensure our supplies and to cut out profligacyThis year’s heatwave and climate change in general highlight growing risks to food supplies and not just in this country (“To feed the world, we must exploit science, not spurn its advances”). Assuming that Britain will always be able to import food is folly. In 2010, Russia banned grain exports after a drought, while Trump’s reaction to a poor US harvest can be imagined. A
  
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