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• Why shouldn't Greta Thunberg speak at CNN's coronavirus town hall?

  14-05-2020 20:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Thunberg isn’t a Covid-19 expert, but she’s world-renowned activist using her platform to inform people about the pandemicCoronavirus – latest US updatesCoronavirus – latest global updatesShortly after CNN announced yesterday that 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg would join a panel of experts discussing the coronavirus, the backlash began.“What place does Greta Thunberg have in this town hall?” asked the New York magazine journalist Yashar Ali. On t
  
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• Ozone layer: Concern grows over threat from replacement chemicals

  14-05-2020 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Substances used for air conditioning in new cars are building up in the environment
  
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• Ancient Tap O' Noth hillfort in Aberdeenshire one of 'largest ever'

  14-05-2020 15:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists say up to 4,000 people may have lived in more than 800 huts perched high on the Tap O' Noth.
  
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• Carbon price: Tax polluters not people to assist coronavirus recovery, report urges

  14-05-2020 15:29
  
  Carbon pricing aligned to the needs of the Paris Agreement can raise more revenue to support the coronavirus recovery than a tax on income or labour, new research by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has found.
  
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• Covid antibody test a 'positive development'

  14-05-2020 15:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The test, now approved in the UK, can tell who has had Covid-19 - but gives no guarantee they are immune.
  
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• Coral bleaching: Scientists 'find way to make coral more heat-resistant'

  14-05-2020 14:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers say they have developed a lab-grown strain of microalgae which is more tolerant to heat.
  
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• Stellar speaker line-up confirmed for Tuesday's Business Leadership online event

  14-05-2020 13:14
  
  Sustainability experts from L'Oreal, Microsoft, RBS and OVO Energy have all been confirmed for edie's Climate Action Business Leadership sessions, an afternoon of back-to-back online events focused on raising corporate sustainability actions.
  
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• Lord Barker, UPS and Skanska among speaker line-up for Wednesday's Net-Zero Carbon online event

  14-05-2020 13:14
  
  Former UK Energy Minister Lord Greg Barker, sustainability professionals from UPS and Skanska and the chief executives of green trade associations have all been confirmed to appear on edie's Net-Zero Carbon online event next Wednesday (20 May).
  
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• More than one million citizens back calls for EU green investments to spur Covid-19 recovery

  14-05-2020 12:30
  
  More than 100 environmental NGOs and one million European citizens have joined the calls for the European Union (EU) to stimulate the economy through massive green investment efforts.
  
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• Lockdown on the family farm has turned me into a small-scale Attenborough

  14-05-2020 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Self-isolating on the family farm has given one Guardian writer a chance to reappraise – and video – the natural world she grew up withI’ve moved back to my parents’ farm in Sevenoaks, Kent, after an absence of 10 years. Old school photos hang on my bedroom wall, my dad still has a fax machine, the radio in the kitchen is 1.5ft long and the freezer is full of meat. Veganism is off the menu.Like many children, boredom was a familiar foe growing up. Two of my brothers, now
  
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• 'I think of our videos as the wildlife equivalent of Match of the Day'

  14-05-2020 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Self-isolating on the family farm has given one Guardian writer a chance to reappraise the natural world she grew up withI’ve moved back to my parents’ farm in Sevenoaks, Kent, after an absence of 10 years. Old school photos hang on my bedroom wall, my dad still has a fax machine, the radio in the kitchen is 1.5ft long and the freezer is full of meat. Veganism is off the menu.Like many children, boredom was a familiar foe growing up. Two of my brothers, now in their 30s, have moved b
  
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• Methane observing firm eyes UK for key base

  14-05-2020 11:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Canadian firm GHGSat, which carries out methane monitoring from space, looks to set up a UK hub.
  
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• Superdrug ditches plastic from own-brand tampons

  14-05-2020 11:23
  
  Superdrug has announced that it has removed plastics from its own-brand tampons and launched a new range of menstrual products made from organic and sustainably certified materials.
  
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• Dunkin' switches to plastic-free cups and plans to double number of green restaurants

  14-05-2020 11:00
  
  US coffeehouse Dunkin' has confirmed that it has completed the replacement of all polystyrene foam cups to paper alternatives while also committing to double the number of energy efficient restaurants it owns in the next five years.
  
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• Hunger strikes and deaths as mental health crisis grips stranded cruise ships

  14-05-2020 08:45 via theguardian.com
  
  As tensions rise over failure to repatriate workers, plight of crews highlighted by the apparent suicide of a Ukrainian woman in Rotterdam
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSeveral deaths, a hunger strike and disturbances on board cruise ships have raised fresh concern about what crew members say is the deteriorating mental health of staff stranded aboard cruise ships still floating at sea.A worldwide standoff between cruise companies and health authorities has le
  
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• Deaths and hunger strikes point to mental health crisis on stranded cruise ships

  14-05-2020 08:45 via theguardian.com
  
  As tensions rise over failure to repatriate workers, plight of crews highlighted by the apparent suicide of a Ukrainian woman in Rotterdam
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSeveral deaths, a hunger strike and disturbances on board cruise ships have raised fresh concern about what crew members say is the deteriorating mental health of staff stranded aboard cruise ships still floating at sea.A worldwide standoff between cruise companies and health authorities has le
  
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• 'Everyone's on top of you, sneezing and coughing': life inside Ireland's meat plants

  14-05-2020 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Workers share Covid-19 fears over lack of social distancing, crowded accommodation and being forced to buy their own PPE
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMarco* felt the phlegm gather heavily on his chest for five days before he called his local health centre and told them he worked at the meat plant. He was tested within hours – the result was positive.“One hundred per cent, I know I got it in the factory,” he says. “If the disease was in
  
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• Country diary: from garlic mustard, through a glat, to the pulse of spring

  14-05-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Another of the places in this processional ritual was marked by a feather lodged in a blackthorn fork amid a gap in a hedgeThere are rights of way, and there are rites of way. One thing leads to another, and this way began with garlic mustard and led into the white pulse of May.Garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, has toothy, nettle-like leaves that have a garlicky pong when crushed; its 120cm stem is topped with a cluster of X-shaped flowers, each of four petals, that l
  
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• As the driest inhabited continent, Australia should listen to the oldest water science on the planet | Bradley Moggridge for IndigenousX

  14-05-2020 05:59 via theguardian.com
  
  There is not much water out there in many parts of the country – unless you know how and when to find itAustralia is often acknowledged to be the driest inhabited continent on Earth. It has been the traditional lands of Australia’s first peoples for thousands of generations. I am Kamilaroi and my cultural water (gali) place is Boobera Lagoon.Our ancestors told stories, danced, drew in sand and dirt, painted on walls and laid down lore that was passed down for generations to tell, sin
  
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• Coronavirus puts spotlight on landmark year for nature

  14-05-2020 02:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The pandemic could have an impact on conservation efforts for years to come, say conservation experts.
  
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• Northern Powergrid unveils community engagement decarbonisation plans

  14-05-2020 02:02
  
  The distribution network operator (DNO) for the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire has unveiled a new community energy engagement strategy outlining steps to use community-based consumption and power to respond to the climate emergency.
  
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• Coronavirus and Antarctica: 'Isolated within isolation'

  14-05-2020 01:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why the people on the only continent without a recorded case of coronavirus are in lockdown.
  
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