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• Cruise companies accused of refusing to let stranded crew disembark due to cost

  05-05-2020 18:08
  
  Death toll of crew stranded by coronavirus continues to rise as industry blames ‘impractical’ safety requirements for blocking disembarkationCoronavirus - latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSome cruise companies have refused to agree to rules that would allow tens of thousands of stranded crew back to land, citing concerns about cost and potential legal consequences, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The largest trade association for the
  
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• The world stopped another Chernobyl by working together. Coronavirus demands the same | Serhii Plokhy

  05-05-2020 16:26
  
  The pandemic reminds me of a different invisible enemy. Once again, coordinated action is the only effective response
  Deja vu. In recent days I’ve had that sense more than once. Every time I come home, remove my mask and wash my hands, I start thinking whether it is safe to keep on wearing the clothes that I had on outside. What if they are contaminated by the virus? Well, I can change clothes, but what if the particles have already jumped somewhere else, and are now in my home? Some would
  
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• Climate change: More than 3bn could live in extreme heat by 2070

  05-05-2020 14:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Areas such as India, Australia and Africa are predicted to be among the worst affected.
  
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• Forest fire season is coming. How can we stop the Amazon burning?

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  The Guardian investigates fire in the state of Pará - to reveal the loopholes that allow deforestation to be legitimised We found the first fire without looking, crackling and roaring on farmland beside the busy Amazon highway, the flames consuming a road sign with its name – BR-163 – lying in the grass. Trucks thundered past, ferrying soya and corn from the agricultural heartlands of Brazil’s central-west to the ports of Santarém and Miritituba. Nobody was around
  
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• A deadly cycle of destruction: how greed for land is fuelling Amazon fires

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  The Guardian follows firefighters in the state of Pará to reveal the loopholes that allow deforestation to be legitimisedWe found the first fire without looking, crackling and roaring on farmland beside the busy Amazon highway, the flames consuming a road sign with its name – BR-163 – lying in the grass. Trucks thundered past, ferrying soya and corn from the agricultural heartlands of Brazil’s central-west to the ports of Santarém and Miritituba. Nobody was around
  
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• #SustyTalk: City to Sea's Rebecca Burgess on combatting single-use plastics during lockdown

  05-05-2020 13:40
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with not-for-profit campaigning organisation City to Sea's chief executive Rebecca Burgess discussing how the organisation is communicating with the public on the issue of single-use plastics during the coronavirus lockdown.
  
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• #SustyTalk: City to Sea's Rebecca Burgess on combatting single-use plastics during the lockdown

  05-05-2020 12:57
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with not-for-profit campaigning organisation City to Sea's chief executive Rebecca Burgess discussing how the organisation is communicating with the public on the issue of single-use plastics during the coronavirus lockdown.
  
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• Total commits to net-zero emissions by 2050 following investor pressure

  05-05-2020 12:37
  
  Global energy company Total is the latest in the sector to commit to net-zero emissions, setting a target for 2050 or sooner after extensive engagement with a climate action investor coalition.
  
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• Gas stoves making indoor air up to five times dirtier than outdoor air, report finds

  05-05-2020 12:00
  
  Gas cookers making people sick and exposing tens of millions to air pollution levels that would be illegal if they were outsideGas stoves are making people sick, contributing pollution that makes indoor air up to two to five times dirtier than outdoor air, according to a new report. Related: Microplastics found in greater quantities than ever before on seabedContinue reading...
  
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• Scottish Water switches on latest solar array at Dunfermline wastewater facility

  05-05-2020 11:15
  
  A wastewater treatment facility in Dunfermline is the latest Scottish Water facility to be fitted with onsite solar technology, as the water company progresses towards its net-zero carbon target for 2040.
  
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• One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study

  05-05-2020 10:35
  
  Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a new study that shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the global temperature.In a worst-case scenario of accelerating emissions, areas currently home to a third of the world’s population will be as hot as
  
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• We created the Anthropocene, and the Anthropocene is biting back | Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano

  05-05-2020 10:30
  
  It’s clear from a recent litany of disasters – from the coronavirus pandemic to America’s deadliest wildfire in a century – there are forces that cannot be domesticatedRead an excerpt from the authors’ new book on the worst US wildfire in 100 yearsAbout 12,000 years ago, human domestication of the natural world began in earnest with the intentional cultivation of wild plants and animals. Fast forward to today and our dominion over the planet appears complete, as 7.8
  
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• Conservation in crisis: why Covid-19 could push mountain gorillas back to the brink

  05-05-2020 08:30
  
  Once a step away from extinction, their survival was a rare success story. But groundbreaking gorilla conservation is now in peril
  Ecotourism collapse threatens communities and wildlifeAs he clambers down the forested ravine, soil slipping beneath his boots, Dr Fred Nizeyimana knows they are close. “I can smell them,” he says, just before the mountain gorillas come into view high in the canopy, plucking leaves and chomping on the vegetation. An adult female slides down a tree, a flas
  
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• Conservation in crisis: ecotourism collapse threatens communities and wildlife

  05-05-2020 08:30
  
  From Kenya to the Seychelles, coronavirus has dealt a devastating blow to efforts to protect endangered wildlifeHow Covid-19 could push mountain gorillas back to the brinkFrom the vast plains of the Masai Mara in Kenya to the delicate corals of the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles, conservation work to protect some of the world’s most important ecosystems is facing crisis following a collapse in ecotourism during the Covid-19 pandemic.Organisations that depend on visitors to fund projects f
  
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• Green stimulus can repair global economy and climate, study says

  05-05-2020 08:00
  
  Projects will deliver higher returns amid Covid-19 crisis than conventional spending, researchers claimGreen economy recovery packages for the coronavirus crisis will repair the global economy and put the world on track to tackle climate breakdown, but time is running out to implement the changes needed, new analysis has shown.Projects which cut greenhouse gas emissions as well as stimulating economic growth deliver higher returns on government spending, in the short term and in the longer term,
  
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• Coronavirus: Calls to shut down 'dirty fur trade'

  05-05-2020 02:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mink have caught Covid-19, adding to the list of infected animals, and prompting calls for trade bans.
  
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