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• Aeolus: Wind mapping satellite lifts off

  22-08-2018 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The Aeolus spacecraft launches into orbit to make the first truly global maps of wind behaviour.
  
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• Don't phase out solar panel subsidies, Sadiq Khan urges ministers

  22-08-2018 19:11 via theguardian.com
  London mayor challenges move to axe tariffs and discounts for householders installing solar PVSadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has embarked on a lobbying drive to persuade the government to keep the subsidies for household solar power.Khan has made solar one of the key planks of his energy policy, supporting community solar projects and negotiating collective solar installations for homeowners in the capital. Continue reading...
  
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• ISO 50001 revised to reflect changing energy landscape

  22-08-2018 19:02
  The ISO 50001 energy management standard has been revised for the first time since it was published to account for trends such as rising energy costs and climate change.
  
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• Cave girl was half Neanderthal, half Denisovan

  22-08-2018 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Genetic detective work gives a rare insight into the liaisons of early humans living 50,000 years ago.
  
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• Ancient fossil turtle had no shell

  22-08-2018 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists have found new evidence confirming that turtles once lived without shells.
  
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• Don't make waves: how to be an ethical beachcomber

  22-08-2018 18:46 via theguardian.com
  A holidaymaker has been threatened with a fine for pinching pebbles, but there are some things we are encouraged to take from our beachesA holidaymaker has been ordered to return a bag of pebbles to the Cornish beach they were taken from, or pay a £1,000 fine. This is troubling. When I put on my coat this morning – not worn since a trip to the seaside – I found in the pocket one piece of quartzite, two sandstone pebbles and a battered whelk shell. (It was the coat I wore for th
  
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• How plastic waste has been turned into benches

  22-08-2018 18:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Plastic waste collected at the Volvo Ocean Race is recycled and used to make items such as plastic benches.
  
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• Global food waste set to rise a third by 2030 without 'aggressive' action

  22-08-2018 17:20
  The amount of food wasted each year worldwide is set to rise by a third by 2030 without "urgent and aggressive" action from nations and corporates.
  
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• Ethiopia deploys hidden rabies vaccine in bid to protect endangered wolf

  22-08-2018 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Oral vaccination campaign will use goat meat baits to pre-empt outbreaks of rabies among Ethiopian wolvesRabies vaccines hidden inside goat meat baits have been deployed in the first campaign to protect the Ethiopian wolf, Africa’s most endangered carnivore.There are less than 500 of the wolves in the high mountains of Ethiopia and they are very vulnerable to infectious diseases from domestic dogs. The oral vaccine approach will next be rolled out to cover all six surviving populations of
  
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• Can Namibia’s desert lions survive humanity?

  22-08-2018 16:53 via theguardian.com
  The lions of the Namib Desert survive against incredible odds, but can they survive trophy hunting, human-wildlife conflict and climate change?
  Desert lions aren’t a distinct species or even a subspecies, but they are different. Drop a plains lion into the Namib Desert — where it may rain only 5 millimeters a year — and watch it perish. According to Izak Smit, who runs the local NGO, Desert Lions Human Relations Aid (DeLHRA), the desert lions of Namibia are able to go long peri
  
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• Report: Clean energy stocks no longer outpacing fossil fuel investments

  22-08-2018 14:38
  Clean energy investments by 200 of the world's leading corporations have underperformed compared to fossil fuel energy stocks over the past year and a half, new figures have revealed.
  
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• Aeolus space laser set to map Earth's winds

  22-08-2018 14:35 via bbc.co.uk
  A UK-assembled satellite goes into orbit later to make the first truly global maps of wind behaviour.
  
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• UK's first subsidy-free industrial solar project to power business park

  22-08-2018 14:06
  A business park in Buckinghamshire is set to become the first facility of its kind in the UK to generate more solar than it requires, once the nation's first subsidy-free industrial solar installation is completed on the site.
  
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• UK's first subsidy-free industrial solar project to create carbon-negative business park

  22-08-2018 14:06
  A business park in Buckinghamshire is set to become the first carbon-negative facility of its kind in the UK once the nation's first subsidy-free industrial solar installation is completed on the site.
  
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• Sweden's reindeer at risk of starvation after summer drought

  22-08-2018 13:05 via theguardian.com
  Indigenous Sami herders urge state to help mitigate impact of climate change in Arctic circleSweden’s indigenous Sami reindeer herders are demanding state aid to help them cope with the impact of this summer’s unprecedented drought and wildfires, saying their future is at risk as global warming changes the environment in the far north.The Swedish government this week announced five major investigations aimed at preparing the country for the kind of extreme heatwave it experienced in
  
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• How the TCFD recommendations are reshaping Moody's CSR efforts

  22-08-2018 13:01
  EXCLUSIVE: Moody's Corporation's global head of CSR Arlene Isaacs-Lowe believes that adopting the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has enabled the company to become green finance "standard-setters" and champion the benefits of transparency to the wider industry.
  
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• UK fracking push could fuel global plastics crisis, say campaigners

  22-08-2018 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Government aim to end plastic pollution undermined by keen support for fracking, says Campaign to Protect Rural EnglandThe push for a large-scale fracking operation in England will fuel the global plastic crisis and undermines the government’s claims that it is tackling the issue, according to a leading charity.The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) says fracking will not only destroy large areas of the countryside, it will exacerbate the global plastic binge which is already causing
  
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• What the future holds: 20 sustainability leaders outline the next 20 years of CSR - Part one

  22-08-2018 12:37
  EXCLUSIVE: In the first of a two-part feature, edie brings you the voices of 20 sustainability professionals and political activists to discuss what will define the next two decades of corporate sustainability and business leadership.
  
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• Thinking forward: 20 business leaders define the next 20 years of sustainability - Part one

  22-08-2018 12:37
  EXCLUSIVE: In the first of a two-part feature, edie hears from 20 sustainable business leaders, CSR experts and climate activists who together provide a revealing insight into how the next two decades of corporate sustainability will be shaped and defined.
  
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• More protection needed for Chinese pangolins

  22-08-2018 10:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Pangolins should be considered top priority for conservation in China, say scientists studying their decline.
  
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• Sustainable Business Covered podcast: How to build a sustainable supply chain

  22-08-2018 10:22
  Episode 47 of the Sustainable Business Covered podcast sees edie interview speakers at the Sustainable Supply Chains conference, to explore how corporates are future-proofing supply chains to boost resiliency against global megatrends.
  
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• Alleged massacre of Amazon tribespeople: what really happened? | Dom Phillips

  22-08-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A paddle and bad recording of a bar-room conversation were all investigators had to go on when claims surfaced of killings deep in Brazil’s Javari Valley last year
  When not selling breakfasts in this sleepy town on the western reaches of the Amazon, Algenor Costa fishes and hunts along the Jandiatuba River, as he has done for decades. Heading days upriver, he has often headed into the Javari Valley, a vast indigenous reserve where such activities are forbidden. “That’s the town
  
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• The heat is on for fans of publicly owned energy companies

  22-08-2018 07:01 via theguardian.com
  The stranglehold of the big six and tough market conditions bode ill for Labour policyJeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon may be big fans, but the rise of publicly owned energy companies looks like it is faltering in the face of tough market conditions.The movement was dealt a blow this month when a newly Lib Dem-controlled Portsmouth city council scrapped the former Conservative administration’s plans for an energy firm. Continue reading...
  
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• Green energy tariffs 'no longer an expensive luxury', study finds

  22-08-2018 07:01 via theguardian.com
  Green deals account for half of cheapest 10 tariffs, despite public thinking they are dearer, says uSwitchGreen tariffs now account for many of the cheapest deals on the energy market, despite many consumers still wrongly believing renewable energy deals are more expensive.Half of the top 10 cheapest tariffs are green ones offered by challenger suppliers taking on the big six.Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: a caterpillar transforms into a four-eyed, horned snake

  22-08-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  The Long Mynd, Shropshire: The caterpillar was so different from the large, pink and olive adult moth because it really was a chimeraA caterpillar crossed the path in a lumbering panic, suddenly exposed to the light and space of the valley floor, the boots of walkers and the teeth of dogs. It seemed so vulnerable that I picked it up to move it to safety, whereupon it became something else. Its head withdrew into the thick of its 80mm olive and black body, inflating two sets of eye-spots. Its hor
  
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• Is India ready to send someone to space?

  22-08-2018 02:58 via bbc.co.uk
  If this happens, India will become the fourth country to launch humans into space.
  
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• Forget 'survival of the fittest' – the laziest will inherit the earth

  22-08-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Species which use the most energy in their daily lives die out quicker than less energetic animals, say evolutionary biologists It is the perfect comeback for those who are admonished for not pulling their weight. Never mind that work is piling up, being lazy is a winning evolutionary strategy that postpones the extinction of the species.That, at least, is one interpretation. Researchers who studied nearly 300 forms of mollusc that lived and died in the Atlantic over the past five million years
  
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