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• What do midterms mean for … climate change, the economy and other issues?

  07-11-2018 21:23 via theguardian.com
  The elections have changed the political landscape and will affect the Mueller investigation, the border wall, the economy, healthcare, climate change and redistrictingDemocrats in the House of Representatives are likely to reopen an intelligence committee investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election – and begin assisting the criminal inquiry on the same subject by the special counsel Robert Mueller. Continue reading...
  
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• Milestone carbon pollution plan rejected by Washington state voters

  07-11-2018 20:24 via theguardian.com
  Measure known as Initiative 1631 would have put a $15 fee on each ton of carbon dioxide emitted in the stateMidterm elections – live updatesA milestone plan to impose America’s first ever price on carbon pollution failed to win enough votes in Washington state, on a tough night for environmentalists who had pinned their hopes on a number of climate change-related ballot measures across the country. Related: Voting rights, marijuana and tampons: the night in ballot measuresContinue re
  
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• Oldest cave painting of an animal discovered in Borneo

  07-11-2018 19:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists spent several days trekking through rural Borneo to find the 40,000-year-old artwork.
  
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• 'Oldest animal painting' discovered in Borneo

  07-11-2018 19:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The earliest known painting of an animal has been identified in a cave on the island of Borneo.
  
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• Climate change: Bug covered 'bionic mushroom' generates clean energy

  07-11-2018 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Mushrooms for lunch inspire scientists to try to generate electricity from a fungus covered in bacteria.
  
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• Report: SDG focus generated $233bn in business revenue last year

  07-11-2018 17:44
  By moving to embed the aims of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their sustainability strategies, 13 of the world's biggest corporates have collectively generated $233bn of revenue.
  
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• Animals farmed: swine fever, chick culling and trophy hunting

  07-11-2018 17:39 via theguardian.com
  Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the webAnxiety about African swine fever is growing as it spreads rapidly in China, and also reaches Belgium. As we reported a couple of weeks ago, if it is detected in another major pork-producing country like Denmark, Germany, Spain or the US, “the pig mortality will be the least of our worries”, according to US expert Dennis DiPietre. “The business disrupti
  
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• ExoMars: Where to send Europe's robot rover?

  07-11-2018 14:36 via bbc.co.uk
  The joint Europe-Russia mission to the Red Planet in 2020 needs a destination to go do its science.
  
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• Report: SDG alignment generated $233bn in business revenue last year

  07-11-2018 13:44
  By moving to embed the aims of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their sustainability strategies, 13 of the world's biggest corporates have collectively generated $233bn of revenue.
  
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• University of Leeds unveils plan to become 'plastic-free' by 2023

  07-11-2018 12:39
  The University of Leeds and Leeds University Union have pledged to eliminate all single-use plastic items, including coffee cups, disposable cutlery and straws, from their operations by 2023.
  
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• Corporate reporting bodies launch project championing TCFD alignment

  07-11-2018 12:00
  A coalition of corporate reporting bodies including CDP and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched a new scheme aimed at unifying the business community's approach to sustainability reporting.
  
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• Former National Grid boss Steve Holliday: Britain is undergoing a chaotic energy revolution

  07-11-2018 09:42
  Former National Grid boss Steve Holliday has championed the role that businesses and innovators have played in igniting a "chaotic revolution" in the energy sector, by accelerating demand for renewable energy and battery storage installations.
  
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• Energy industry undergoing a 'chaotic revolution', former National Grid boss says

  07-11-2018 09:22
  Former National Grid boss Steve Holliday has championed the role that businesses and innovators have played in igniting a "chaotic revolution" in the energy sector, by accelerating demand for renewable energy and battery storage installations.
  
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• Urban mountains: Shenzhen's green rooftop project – in pictures

  07-11-2018 08:30 via theguardian.com
  The Chinese megacity of 12 million people is crowded, polluted, and vulnerable to flooding. A rooftop garden is using plants to make stormwater work for the city, and to improve the livelihoods of residents Continue reading...
  
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• Angus Taylor fails to get price cut commitment from energy retailers

  07-11-2018 07:40 via theguardian.com
  Offer of comparison rate for consumers falls short of call for lower prices by 1 JanuaryPower retailers have advanced a proposal to standardise comparison rates for all customers but have given no undertakings they will lower prices by January, during a roundtable with the energy minister, Angus Taylor.Taylor has claimed Wednesday’s Sydney talks as a win because retailers had proposed voluntary action during “constructive discussions” by offering up a standardised rate, making
  
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• David Attenborough has betrayed the living world he loves | George Monbiot

  07-11-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  By downplaying our environmental crisis, the presenter’s BBC films have generated complacency, confusion and ignoranceKnowingly creating a false impression of the world: this is a serious matter. It is more serious still when the BBC does it, and yet worse when the presenter is “the most trusted man in Britain”. But, as his latest interview with the Observer reveals, David Attenborough sticks to his line that fully representing environmental issues is a “turn-off”.H
  
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• Australian students plan school strikes to protest against climate inaction

  07-11-2018 04:09 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds say they will skip school, urging politicians to treat climate change as an emergencyHundreds of students around the country are preparing to strike from school because of what they say is a failure by politicians to recognise climate change as an emergency.They’ve been inspired by 15-year-old Greta Thunberg, a Swedish student who has been sitting outside the parliament in central Stockholm to draw attention to the fears younger generations hold about the global climate crisis and
  
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• Metop weather satellite launches into orbit

  07-11-2018 03:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Europe sends up a front-line weather satellite containing components made over a decade ago.
  
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• Northern white rhino: New hopes for IVF rescue

  07-11-2018 01:48 via bbc.co.uk
  A new study raises hopes of saving one of the last animals of its kind - the northern white rhino.
  
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• UK's renewables attractiveness drops amid no-deal Brexit fears

  07-11-2018 01:02
  The UK has fallen in a ranking of the world's most attractive renewable energy markets for investors, with apprehensions around Brexit cited as a major reason for a year-on-year drop in investment.
  
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• 'Single-use' named 2018 word of the year

  07-11-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Collins Dictionary picks term referring to products made to be used once and thrown away as word of the year after rise in environmental awarenessSingle-use, a term referring to products – often made of plastic –that are made to be used once and thrown away, has been named Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2018.Backstop Continue reading...
  
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