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• Oregon Zoo shares animal X-rays

  18-10-2018 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Oregon zoo posted images taken during routine health checks.
  
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• Save your energy – use a dishwasher | Brief letters

  18-10-2018 19:24 via theguardian.com
  Invisible women | Energy efficiency | Car-free holidays | Flu jab | Welsh dramaRe your article (The invisible women, G2, 17 October), as an ex-architect turned design and technology teacher (childcare issues), I contacted the publishers of our A-level textbook to explain that Ray Eames was not the brother of Charles but his wife. Of course, when the next edition was published the same misconception was repeated.
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  Ramsgate, Kent• Jo Steranka states: “Get rid of your dishwas
  
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• Green campaigners slam Gatwick's plans to use emergency runway to boost capacity

  18-10-2018 18:37
  Green campaign groups have criticised Gatwick Airport's newly-announced plans to bring its emergency runway into daily use, citing concerns over climate impacts and air pollution.
  
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• UK recycling industry under investigation for fraud and corruption

  18-10-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Watchdog examining claims plastic waste is not being recycled but left to leak into rivers and oceans
  The plastics recycling industry is facing an investigation into suspected widespread abuse and fraud within the export system amid warnings the world is about to close the door on UK packaging waste, the Guardian has learned.The Environment Agency (EA) has set up a team of investigators, including three retired police officers, in an attempt to deal with complaints that organised crim
  
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• UK plastic waste imports to Turkey boom – but at what cost?

  18-10-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Uncontrolled imports spark ‘garbage dump of the world’ fears in Turkey and raise fears over how much is ending up in landfillItinerant garbage pickers run down the hilly streets of Istanbul, their trolleys packed with plastic and other waste.Their haul is a boon for the recycling industry in Turkey. “We collect 80% of the waste from the streets,” said Recep Karaman, head of the street waste collectors association. Continue reading...
  
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• Turkey’s plastic waste imports from the UK are booming – but at what cost?

  18-10-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Uncontrolled imports spark ‘garbage dump of the world’ fears and raise fears over how much is ending up in landfillItinerant garbage pickers run down the hilly streets of Istanbul, their trolleys packed with plastic and other waste.Their haul is a boon for the recycling industry in Turkey. “We collect 80% of the waste from the streets,” said Recep Karaman, head of the street waste collectors association. Continue reading...
  
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• 'This is just the beginning': freed activists return to fracking site

  18-10-2018 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Trio of activists freed from prison after appeal get hero’s welcome at site of anti-fracking protest On Thursday morning, the day after being released from prison, three environmental activists who became the first people to be jailed for an anti-fracking protest in the UK returned to the Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool. Related: I’m out of jail after my fracking protest. But justice has not been done | Simon Roscoe BlevinsContinue reading...
  
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• My release from prison for protesting fracking does not equate to justice | Simon Roscoe Blevins

  18-10-2018 15:47 via theguardian.com
  The injustice of my time in jail is dwarfed by the profound inequities that inspired my protest in the first placeThis morning I woke up outside of prison for the first time since 26 September. I was jailed for 16 months after being convicted of causing a public nuisance for a four-day protest on top of a lorry at the UK’s first fracking site. On Wednesday the verdict was quashed by the court of appeal, on grounds that the sentence was, as the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, put it, &ldq
  
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• The Human Signature: Edward Burtynsky's Anthropocene – in pictures

  18-10-2018 13:09 via theguardian.com
  Burtynsky’s unsettling large-scale images of industrial-scale extraction, urbanisation and deforestation reveal humanity’s devastating impact on the planetThe exhibition will run at Flowers Gallery London from 17 Oct - 24 Nov Continue reading...
  
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• E.ON partners with BNP Paribas for 'green mortgages'

  18-10-2018 13:06
  E.ON and BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK have announced a new collaboration to bring "green mortgages" one step closer to the UK property market.
  
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• AB InBev teams up with WWF to champion supply chain water stewardship

  18-10-2018 12:57
  The world's largest brewer has launched new partnerships with WWF and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in a bid to accelerate water security initiatives in water-stressed areas around the world.
  
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• Zipcar's new London EV fleet clocks up 20,000 trips in three months

  18-10-2018 12:17
  Car-sharing firm Zipcar has revealed that its customers have made more than 20,000 trips in its new London-based fleet of electric vehicles (EVs), three months after the fleet was launched.
  
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• Revealed: US moves to keep endangered species discussions secret

  18-10-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  In a confidential document obtained by the Guardian, Trump officials say releasing records could have a ‘chilling effect’ on their deliberationsThe Trump administration is moving to restrict the release of information about its decisions on endangered species, according to a confidential internal document obtained by the Guardian.It comes as wildlife advocates and scientists accuse the government of attempting to weaken protections for wildlife, including wolves, grizzly bears and sa
  
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• PwC pledges to offset air travel emissions and source 100% renewable electricity

  18-10-2018 11:51
  Professional services giant PwC has this week pledged to source 100% renewable electricity for its global operations and to offset all emissions accounted for by flights taken by employees for business purposes.
  
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• Sir Quentin Blake brings science pioneers to life

  18-10-2018 11:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Amy Johnson is one of 20 renowned figures to feature in a new work from the much-loved illustrator.
  
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• 'Horrific' footage reveals fish suffocating to death on industrial farms in Italy

  18-10-2018 10:13 via theguardian.com
  An Italian NGO has published footage taken on intensive fish farms that appears to reveal troubling practices in an industry that so far has largely gone unregulated.Shocking footage of intensively farmed fish has emerged in Italy which raises questions about working practices on aquaculture farms for supermarket produce, and which has sparked fresh calls for regulation.Unlike mammals, fish have almost no legal protections in the EU and the images, secretly filmed in 2017 and 2018, represent the
  
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• Plague marching west: researchers study bats to stop their demise

  18-10-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Scientists work to stay ahead of white nose syndrome, a deadly fungus that has killed millions of bats in the US and CanadaNate Fuller was just starting out as a bat scientist nine years ago when he entered a massive cave in rural Pennsylvania to look for live animals. Instead, he found himself wading through a distressing muck, the decomposing bodies of thousands upon thousands of dead bats.That was in the early years of white nose syndrome, the creeping, lethal fungus that has decimated North
  
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• Minister backing fracking drive has never visited shale site

  18-10-2018 09:41 via theguardian.com
  Energy minister Claire Perry, who has defended fracking, admits she has ‘not yet had the opportunity’ to visit any siteThe minister spearheading the UK’s renewed push for fracking has admitted she has never been to a shale gas well.In the week that fracking restarted in the UK for the first time in seven years, the energy minister, Claire Perry, revealed to a fellow Conservative MP that she had not yet had the chance to visit a shale site. Continue reading...
  
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• A new leaf: the hardy trees reforesting the Amazon

  18-10-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Scientists in Peru have found tree species that thrive in land poisoned by gold miners; now they have started plantingFlying above the Tambopata River in a single-engine Cessna turboprop, the panorama is desolate. Jungle rivers are ripped open into a delta of sand dunes and stagnant, discoloured ponds. Ant-sized bulldozers roll down mud paths on the soggy moonscape dotted with glinting corrugated iron rooftops.Amid the roar of the propellers, Cesar Ascorra eagerly points to a cluster of newly pl
  
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• Potato spoons, pipe bots and mini wind turbines on Dyson awards list

  18-10-2018 08:01 via theguardian.com
  Many of the 20 contenders for this year’s prestigious global prize focus on ways to create a more sustainable futureCutlery made from potato peelings and a robotic cleaner that can tackle pollution in rivers, lakes and canals are among the groundbreaking international designs shortlisted for the prestigious annual James Dyson award.Over half the world’s population currently live in cities, according to the United Nations – a proportion expected to rise to seven in 10 people by
  
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• Dyson awards shortlist includes solutions to plastic waste and water pollution

  18-10-2018 08:01 via theguardian.com
  ‘Potato Plastic’ and a river-cleaning robot are among 20 contenders for this year’s prestigious global prizeCutlery made from potato peelings and a robotic cleaner that can tackle pollution in rivers, lakes and canals are among the groundbreaking international designs shortlisted for the prestigious annual James Dyson award.Over half the world’s population currently live in cities, according to the United Nations – a proportion expected to rise to seven in 10 people
  
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• Melissa Price 'can't recall' entire conversation with former Kiribati leader

  18-10-2018 07:52 via theguardian.com
  Australia’s environment minister says encounter was ‘pleasant and light-hearted’Melissa Price has said she can’t “recall the complete conversation” in which three witnesses say she disparaged Pacific nations to the former president of Kiribati but maintains the version provided by Labor’s Pat Dodson is incorrect.Under fire from Labor for misleading the House, the environment minister qualified her remarks that she “100% disagreed” with Dodson
  
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• As the fracking protesters show, a people’s rebellion is the only way to fight climate change | George Monbiot

  18-10-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Our politicians, under the influence of big business, have failed us. As they take the planet to the brink, it’s time for disruptive, nonviolent disobedienceIt is hard to believe today, but the prevailing ethos among the educated elite was once public service. As the historian Tony Judt documented in Ill Fares the Land, the foremost ambition among graduates in the 1950s and 60s was, through government or the liberal professions, to serve their country. Their approach might have been patric
  
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• As the fracking protesters show, a people’s rebellion is the only way to fight climate breakdown | George Monbiot

  18-10-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Our politicians, under the influence of big business, have failed us. As they take the planet to the brink, it’s time for disruptive, nonviolent disobedienceIt is hard to believe today, but the prevailing ethos among the educated elite was once public service. As the historian Tony Judt documented in Ill Fares the Land, the foremost ambition among graduates in the 1950s and 60s was, through government or the liberal professions, to serve their country. Their approach might have been patric
  
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• Country diary: a rocket propelled by wind and water

  18-10-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Roker beach, Sunderland: Sea rocket, with its lilac-coloured flowers, thrives in the sand in the toughest of seaside environmentsThe tide had turned and I walked up from the water’s edge, past tangled heaps of kelp cast up by autumn gales, then over soft, dry sand that is wetted only by extreme equinoctial spring tides. In a corner of the beach, between the promenade and the pier, I found a patch of sea rocket, Cakile maritima, still in full bloom.This maritime member of the cabbage family
  
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• Can a cooker help save the rainforest?

  18-10-2018 03:12 via bbc.co.uk
  The solar-powered cooker that uses an alternative to charcoal.
  
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