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• Nasa calls time on silent Opportunity Mars rover

  13-02-2019 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The 15-year mission of "Oppy" the robot is declared over after repeated failed attempts to contact it.
  
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• To avoid environmental catastrophe, everything must change | Letters

  13-02-2019 18:41
  Readers respond to an article and editorial on the use of agricultural pesticides and the alarming decline in insect numbersIt is not just the insects that are in serious decline, but also the entomologists who study them (Plummeting insect numbers threaten collapse of nature, 11 February), both in terms of promoting and conserving beneficial species and combating pests. In 2016, I had an article published in the scientific literature entitled Insect biology – a vulnerable discipline?, hig
  
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• The mind-blowing life of the gateway bee – Look at Me podcast

  13-02-2019 18:00
  When you think about bees you probably thinking about honey, hives and yellow and black stripes, but these traits aren’t present in the majority of Australian bees. The bee you usually think of is the European honey bee. Yet Australia actually has more than 2,000 species of natives bees. In this episode of Look at Me we find out about the amazing life of a hardworking single mother, the blue-banded bee Continue reading...
  
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• Buy organic food to help curb global insect collapse, say scientists

  13-02-2019 15:28
  Urging political action on pesticide use is another way to help stem ‘collapse of nature’Buying organic food is among the actions people can take to curb the massive global decline in insects, according to leading scientists. Urging political action to slash pesticide use on conventional farms is another, say environmentalists. Related: Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'Continue reading...
  
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• Nasa's InSight mission: Mars 'mole' put on planet's surface

  13-02-2019 14:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The US space agency's InSight mission positions the second of its surface instruments on Mars.
  
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• Academics back UK schools' climate change strikes

  13-02-2019 13:12
  More than 200 sign letter to the Guardian saying pupils right to be angry at inactionSchool climate strike children’s brave stand has our support
  More than 200 academics have voiced their support for this week’s school climate strikes, in which thousands of young people are expected to take to the streets in towns and cities across the UK.The academics, including almost 100 professors, say the “tragic and desperate facts” of the unfolding climate breakdown – and the
  
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• #ThisIsACrisis: 7 harsh realities of the global climate crisis

  13-02-2019 13:02
  As humanity's negative impacts on the planet continue to grow, a new landmark report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is warning that the time period we have left to avert an "age of environmental breakdown" is growing rapidly smaller. Here, edie rounds up seven of the report's key findings.
  
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• Black panther: Rare animal caught on camera in Kenya

  13-02-2019 12:46 via bbc.co.uk
  It's thought to be the first time the rare animal has been photographed in Africa in a century.
  
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• How meeting the Paris Agreement will improve global economic growth

  13-02-2019 12:26
  A new report has outlined that meeting the 2C target established as part of the Paris Agreement will improve global GDP and boost investment. Here, edie explores how nations can make this vision a reality.
  
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• 'Uniquely American': Senate passes landmark bill to enlarge national parks

  13-02-2019 12:00
  Bill sets aside more than 1m acres of new wilderness and conservation areas including rivers in California and UtahJoshua Tree and Death Valley national parks are to be enlarged, and stunning river landscapes in California and Utah will be protected, under new legislation that passed the US Senate on Tuesday.In all the public lands package sets aside more than a million acres of new wilderness and conservation areas in western states. Continue reading...
  
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• New 'mysterious' frog species discovered in India's Western Ghats

  13-02-2019 11:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The new species were found after three years of extensive explorations in the Western Ghats.
  
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• 100 and counting: edie's Mission Possible Pledge Wall hits key business milestone

  13-02-2019 11:19
  More than 100 organisation - including Barratt Developments, BT, Ikea and Unilever - have now publicised new sustainability commitments on edie's 'Pledge Wall' as part of the Government-backed Mission Possible campaign to inspire green business action.
  
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• Lord Deben: Closed-loop plastic system 'perfectly possible' with revamped policy

  13-02-2019 10:38
  Measures outlined in the Resources and Waste Strategy (RWS) could spur progress towards a "completely circular economy" for plastics by forcing businesses to reexamine "vested interests" and financial incentives, the Committee on Climate Change Chairman Lord Deben has argued.
  
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• Giant pangolins: Study by Chester Zoo to protect mammals

  13-02-2019 10:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Conservationists from Chester zoo are conducting the first ever study of the animals, in Uganda.
  
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• Wildlife Photographer of the Year: the Lumix people's choice winner – in pictures

  13-02-2019 08:00
  David Lloyd’s Bond of Brothers, a heartwarming image of an affectionate pair of male lions, has been crowned the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Lumix people’s choice award. The picture, among 25 shortlisted for the 2018 competition, can be seen at the Natural History Museum in south-west London until 30 June Continue reading...
  
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• Pangolins: Rare insight into world's most trafficked mammal

  13-02-2019 01:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists release rare footage of the secretive giant pangolin to highlight the scaly mammal's plight.
  
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• Dirty secret

  13-02-2019 01:21 via bbc.co.uk
  One small town has become a dumping ground for the world's waste and it's causing a stink.
  
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• Kings of the jungle on top in photo award

  13-02-2019 01:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The winning pictures in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.
  
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• 'We saved our town from your plastic rubbish'

  13-02-2019 01:15 via bbc.co.uk
  When a Malaysian town was inundated with foreign plastic waste, a group of villagers decided to fight back.
  
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