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• Saturn's spectacular rings are 'very young'

  17-01-2019 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  One of the most distinctive features in the Solar System is no more than 100 million years old.
  
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• The government isn't quite ready to drop its obsession with nuclear | Nils Pratley

  17-01-2019 19:51
  Greg Clark knows nuclear cannot compete with the likes of wind and solar – but he is not giving upThere was excellent news within Hitachi’s decision to shelve its plan to build a £16bn nuclear plant at Wylfa in Anglesey. Finally, a government minister may have grasped the basic problem with nuclear power. It is being “out-competed” by alternative technologies, especially wind and solar, the business secretary, Greg Clark, had to concede in the Commons. Exactly. So d
  
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• Swimming with sharks

  17-01-2019 17:40 via bbc.co.uk
  The shark, believed to be one known as Deep Blue, weighs 2.5 tonnes and is nearly 20ft long.
  
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• VW and Ford forge partnership to spur low-carbon transport transition

  17-01-2019 17:01
  Carmakers Ford and Volkswagen (VW) have forged a new low-carbon road transport partnership, which will see them work together to develop electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean technologies.
  
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• Climate change: Is nuclear power the answer?

  17-01-2019 16:57 via bbc.co.uk
  How green is nuclear power and what are the other options?
  
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• Nuclear power can be green – but at a price

  17-01-2019 14:36
  As Hitachi and Toshiba abandon plans for new British nuclear reactors, Damian Carrington assesses the merits of the technologyHitachi scraps £16bn nuclear power station in WalesAll sources of electricity face the same trilemma in the 21st century: carbon emissions, continuity of supply and cost. The UK government has placed a big bet on nuclear power, but reactors meet only two of the three challenges. Nuclear power is low carbon and a secure source of electricity – but it is hugely
  
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• UN chief outlines climate change and SDGs as key 2019 priorities

  17-01-2019 13:34
  UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said that countries must "dramatically accelerate" efforts to tackle climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the year ahead.
  
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• 'The truest free-range': why it's time to start eating roadkill

  17-01-2019 12:00
  Alaskans have been enjoying free, organic meat for the past 50 years. Should other places stop turning their nose up?My mother texts me four photos of a dead moose the week I leave Alaska. It is freshly hit. The pebbled pink brains fanning across the pavement have not yet grayed in the brisk autumn air. The animal will not go to waste. For the past 50 years, Alaska has been the only state where virtually every piece of large roadkill is eaten.Every year, between 600 and 800 moose are killed in A
  
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• Renewables forecast to overtake fossil fuels in 2020

  17-01-2019 11:29
  Renewables will overtake fossil fuels in 2020 to become the "dominant" source of power in Great Britain, EnAppsSys has predicted in a new report.
  
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• Hitachi scraps £16bn nuclear power station in Wales

  17-01-2019 10:11
  Japanese giant unable to agree deal with UK as fears grow for Anglesey atomic plantHitachi has scrapped plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales, becoming the second firm in two months to abandon a major nuclear project.The £16bn Wylfa plant on Anglesey was meant to be the next in a line of new nuclear plants behind Hinkley Point C but the Japanese conglomerate has been unable to agree a deal with the UK government. Continue reading...
  
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• Major utilities team up to launch sustainable finance hub for European businesses

  17-01-2019 10:06
  Utility giants EDF, SSE and Ørsted are among the 16 companies which have co-founded a new forum aimed at helping Europe's business community champion sustainable finance and impact investing.
  
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• Seeds, kale and red meat once a month – how to eat the diet that will save the world

  17-01-2019 08:00
  A complete overhaul of what we eat may be the only way to meet the needs of a planet in crisis. So what’s on – and off – the menu?The world faces many challenges over the coming decades, but one of the most significant will be how to feed its expanding global population. By 2050, there will be about 10 billion of us, and how to feed us all, healthily and from sustainable food sources, is something that is already being looked at. The Norway-based thinktank Eat and the British j
  
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• ‘Stop treating seas as a sewer,’ MPs urge in bid for protection treaty

  17-01-2019 07:30
  Paris agreement for the sea recommended as rates of plastic pollution to skyrocketA new global agreement to protect the seas should be a priority for the government to stop our seas becoming a “sewer”, according to a cross-party group of MPs.Plastic pollution is set to treble in the next decade, the environmental audit committee warned, while overfishing is denuding vital marine habitats of fish, and climate change is causing harmful warming of the oceans as well as deoxygenation and
  
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• World's coffee under threat, say experts

  17-01-2019 01:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Of 124 coffees in the world, we only drink two, but we need to protect all of them, say scientists.
  
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• The coffees you've never heard of which face extinction

  17-01-2019 01:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Of 124 coffees in the world, we only drink two, but we need to protect all of them, say scientists.
  
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• New plant-focused diet would ‘transform’ planet’s future, say scientists

  17-01-2019 00:30
  ‘Planetary health diet’ would prevent millions of deaths a year and avoid climate changeThe first science-based diet that tackles both the poor food eaten by billions of people and averts global environmental catastrophe has been devised. It requires huge cuts in red meat-eating in western countries and radical changes across the world.The “planetary health diet” was created by an international commission seeking to draw up guidelines that provide nutritious food to the w
  
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