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• Drought-stricken farmers challenge Coalition's climate change stance in TV ad

  15-09-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘We need to stick to the Paris agreement, we need to stop burning coal and we need to commit to more renewable energy,’ Longreach farmer says “This drought has really hit our family hard,” says Longreach farmer Jody Brown. “Climate change is making the droughts more severe.”Those two sentences are the opening lines to a new advertisement challenging the federal government’s stance on climate change and the drought in Australia’s eastern states. Con
  
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• Man dies from injuries suffered in shark attack off Cape Cod

  15-09-2018 21:30 via theguardian.com
  Police: man in 20s dies in attack off Newcomb Hollow BeachFirst fatal shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936Police said a man died after being attacked by a shark off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Related: Rising numbers of great white sharks headed toward Cape Cod, scientists sayContinue reading...
  
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• Nasa laser launches into space

  15-09-2018 18:41 via bbc.co.uk
  ICESat-2 will use laser beams to measure ice levels on Earth as it orbits 500km above the planet.
  
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• Off Tanzania, in one of the world’s richest seas, why is the catch getting smaller?

  15-09-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  In Dar-es-Salaam, local fishermen are being squeezed out by illegal boats with explosives which take much of the catch, killing coral reef and putting an eco-system at riskFishing boat XTK191, known as Home Boy, returned to Kivukoni fish market in downtown Dar es Salaam at dawn one day last week. The 15 young men on board the old dhow dropped anchor and heaved their catch over the side for others to run it across the beach to where hundreds of traders milled.Within an hour of landing in eastern
  
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• 'World's oldest brewery' found in Israel

  15-09-2018 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Researchers believe they have found the world's oldest brewery in a prehistoric cave in Israel.
  
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• ICESat will get unprecedented view of Earth's ice

  15-09-2018 15:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The US space agency launches a laser into orbit to assess the impact of climate change on the poles.
  
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• ICESat: Space will get unprecedented view of Earth's ice

  15-09-2018 15:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The US space agency launches a laser into orbit to assess the impact of climate change on the poles.
  
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• Sustainability Leaders Awards 2019: Entry deadline EXTENDED to Friday 21 September

  15-09-2018 10:00
  Due to popular demand, the entry deadline for the revamped Sustainability Leaders Awards has been extended by one week to Friday, 21 September 2018. So, if you want your green business project, strategy or team to get the recognition it deserves, you now have a few extra week left to enter.
  
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• Europe's meat and dairy production must halve by 2050, expert warns

  15-09-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Policymakers, farmers and consumers face ‘deeply uncomfortable choices’, says author of report advising urgent reduction of unsustainable livestock sectorEurope’s animal farming sector has exceeded safe bounds for greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient flows and biodiversity loss, and urgently needs to be scaled back, according to a major report.Pressure on livestock farmers is set to intensify this century as global population and income growth raises demand for meat-based product
  
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• This is how the world ends: will we soon see category 6 hurricanes?

  15-09-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  There is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane or tropical storm - yet. But a combination of warmer oceans and more water in the atmosphere could make the devastation of 2017 pale in comparisonThere is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane or tropical storm – yet. The highest level – the top of the scale for the most powerful, most devastating hurricane or tropical storm capable of destroying entire cities like New Orleans or New York – is a category 5 storm.Meteorologists
  
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• Country diary: ivy isn't just a plant, it’s a habitat

  15-09-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Stamford, Lincolnshire: Ivy wasn’t always a pariah, more a blessing. It protected houses from demons at times when spirits were closeA glove of ivy grasps the lower trunk of a mature silver birch. It’s long a thing of parasitic charm, this stuff – English ivy on trees, houses, walls. It’s bad, isn’t it? Weakens brickwork, cancers bark, kills trees. Get rid of it, they say. But it’s so pretty, you say.Ivy’s life cycle is vividly imagined. Juvenile, it gro
  
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• 'Gel-like' see-through fish discovered 7.5km down on Pacific ocean floor

  15-09-2018 04:20 via theguardian.com
  Scientists have been surprised to find three new kinds of snailfish thriving deep in the Atacama trench
  Scientists have discovered three new species of “hardcore” fish living in one of the deepest parts of the ocean, the see-through, scale-free creatures perfectly adapted to conditions that would instantly kill most life on Earth.An international team of researchers used state-of-the-art underwater cameras to find the new fish at the bottom of the Atacama trench in the eastern Pacifi
  
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• Josh Frydenberg: Australia's new treasurer is prepared to play the tough guy

  15-09-2018 02:28 via theguardian.com
  He’s a popular figure in the Liberal party – but says it’s more important to be respected • Josh Frydenberg interview – read the full transcript
  Australia’s new treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, insists he’s prepared to say no to his colleagues. Ask him to identify a tough decision he needs to make in his new portfolio, he says containing spending in the countdown to an election.In an interview with Guardian Australia, Frydenberg, who is popular with his collea
  
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• Nightingales 'could become extinct in Hampshire'

  15-09-2018 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  A wildlife trust is warning the species could become extinct in Hampshire.
  
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• Prickly cactus species 'under threat'

  15-09-2018 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The iconic cactus plant is veering into trouble say researchers.
  
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• Australia urges Japan to remain in IWC after its bid to lift whaling ban rejected

  15-09-2018 00:31 via theguardian.com
  Japan hints it may leave International Whaling Commission after attempt to resume commercial hunting voted downAustralia has encouraged Japan to remain within the International Whaling Commission after the country’s attempt to lift a 33-year ban on commercial whaling failed to win enough votes.Japan’s so-called “way forward” proposal for the IWC to start a “sustainable whaling” program lost by 41 votes to 27 on a tense final morning of the IWC meeting in Flori
  
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