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• Australia's climate idiocracy must end – and there's no time to waste | Greg Jericho

  13-10-2018 23:00
  The Liberal party’s biggest con was the idea that reducing emissions could be done without pain and at little costThis week came the news from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that we are screwed. I wish I could be more optimistic. I wish I could hold out some hope that things are about to improve. But I look at actions by governments around the world, and the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison governments, and I find the ability to retain a positive outlook smothered in the f
  
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• Pirates of the Med: the Mafia-style poachers threatening endangered fish

  13-10-2018 17:59
  The Calanques national park was targeted by a gang who sold fish to smart restaurants. Now in a landmark case, they will pay ‘environmental damages’Johan Jimenez stood on a cliff, peering through binoculars at a picturesque inlet in this unspoiled corner of the Mediterranean near Marseille.“They don’t think anyone is watching from up here on land,” said the armed guard from the environmental police, scanning the rocks below for day-trippers casually dropping fishing
  
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• Pirates of the Med: divers who plunder endangered species from protected waters

  13-10-2018 17:59
  The Calanques national park was targeted by a gang who sold fish to smart restaurants. Now in a landmark case, they will pay ‘environmental damages’Johan Jimenez stood on a cliff, peering through binoculars at a picturesque inlet in this unspoiled corner of the Mediterranean near Marseille.“They don’t think anyone is watching from up here on land,” said the armed guard from the environmental police, scanning the rocks below for day-trippers casually dropping fishing
  
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• Top climate scientist blasts UK’s fracking plans as 'aping Trump’

  13-10-2018 13:55
  James Hansen, ‘father of climate science’, accuses Britain of ignoring scienceOne of the world’s leading climate scientists has launched a scathing attack on the government’s fracking programme, accusing ministers of aping Donald Trump and ignoring scientific evidence.James Hansen, who is known as the father of climate science, warned that future generations would judge the decision to back a UK fracking industry harshly. Continue reading...
  
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• National Trust criticised for evicting a forest school from its woods

  13-10-2018 09:00
  Closing the outstanding-rated outdoor nursery in Kent is at odds with the charity’s own campaign to get children to play outdoors, say parents“Set your children free,” urges the National Trust’s campaign to get children outdoors. “Let them feel the wind in their hair, smell food cooking on an open fire, track wild animals and eat a juicy apple straight from the tree.”But young children will no longer taste such freedoms in National Trust woods in Kent after a
  
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• Cuadrilla is to start fracking in Lancashire. But we will not give in | Caroline Lucas

  13-10-2018 08:00
  The high court’s decision in favour of the shale gas giant will not deter the mass movement fighting the industry all the wayA whole new fossil fuel industry will launch in the UK on Saturday when energy giant Cuadrilla starts fracking for shale gas. This follows the defeat of Lancashire resident Bob Dennett’s attempt to block fracking in his local area with a court injunction – and comes just six days after a landmark report from the UN’s IPCC warning that we have just 1
  
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• Rothera wharf 'kit of parts' heading to Antarctica

  13-10-2018 03:25 via bbc.co.uk
  A team is preparing for the trip to the "most remote construction site in the world".
  
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• South Africa's ancient lost city of Kweneng rediscovered by lasers

  13-10-2018 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Descendants of the 15th Century residents are now fighting to have it recognised as their homeland.
  
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• Dear progressives: Craig Kelly, Abbott and Trump are making you their stooge | Simon Black

  13-10-2018 01:00
  Don’t amplify the views of those who want to diminish serious issues like climate change – even if it feels goodIt’s a spectacular trick to get someone to amplify your message when they disagree with you vehemently, describe you as an idiot and decry you as dangerous. But that is exactly what some conservatives have managed to do. I had been noticing this sleight of hand for a while but it was finally crystallised last week after the climate zealot and federal politician Craig
  
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