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• Elaphrosaur: Rare dinosaur identified in Australia

  18-05-2020 20:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The elaphrosaur roamed Australia 110 million years ago and was related to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  
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• Jonathon Porritt: Corporate advocacy must be cornerstone of coronavirus recovery

  18-05-2020 19:39
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Business leaders must use the Covid-19 recovery process as an opportunity to promote the benefits of deep decarbonisation, and to rebuild an economy based on strong social and environmental values, Forum for the Future’s founder-director Jonathon Porritt has told edie.
  
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• Jonathan Porritt: Corporate advocacy must be cornerstone of coronavirus recovery

  18-05-2020 19:39
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Business leaders must use the Covid-19 recovery process as an opportunity to promote the benefits of deep decarbonisation, and to rebuild an economy based on strong social and environmental values, Forum for the Future’s founder-director Jonathon Porritt has told edie.
  
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• Mars: Mud flows on Red Planet behave like 'boiling toothpaste'

  18-05-2020 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists make a surprising discovery about the Red Planet by playing with mud in the laboratory.
  
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• Electric bikes 'could help people return to work'

  18-05-2020 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A rise in electric-bikes would extend the range of cyclists using them to commute, a study finds.
  
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• Natural England gets £15m in extra government funding

  18-05-2020 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  One-off rise only ‘10% of what has been cut since 2009’, says Green partyThe government has allocated £15m in additional funding to Natural England for this financial year after a decade of cuts that have left England’s wildlife agency “in crisis”.Natural England’s chairman, Tony Juniper, said the funding marked a “significant change of trend” in the financing of the government body, which has seen its budget slashed by £180m since 2008
  
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• Natural England funding boost gets cautious welcome

  18-05-2020 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  One-off £15m rise only ‘10% of what has been cut since 2009’, says Green partyThe government has allocated £15m in additional funding to Natural England for this financial year after a decade of cuts that have left England’s wildlife agency “in crisis”.Natural England’s chairman, Tony Juniper, said the funding marked a “significant change of trend” in the financing of the government body, which has seen its budget slashed by £180m
  
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• ‘In crisis’ Natural England granted £15m additional funding

  18-05-2020 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  One-off rise not enough to counteract budget slashed by £180m over a decade of cuts, say criticsThe government has allocated £15m in additional funding to Natural England for this financial year after a decade of cuts that have left England’s wildlife agency “in crisis”.Natural England’s chairman, Tony Juniper, said the funding marked a “significant change of trend” in the financing of the government body, which has seen its budget slashed by &poun
  
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• Climate change: Future floods will delay emergency response

  18-05-2020 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Increases in rainfall in England could impact ambulance and fire crew response times.
  
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• Coronavirus offers chance to create fairer UK food supply chain, say experts

  18-05-2020 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A radical 10-year plan should draw on community crisis responses to fix ‘faultlines in our food system’‘A new normal’: how coronavirus will transform transport in Britain’s citiesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA radical 10-year recovery plan for the UK food system should draw on local and community responses to the Covid-19 crisis to create a more diverse, sustainable and fairer supply chain, say experts.The pandemic exposed fragil
  
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• 'A new normal': how coronavirus will transform transport in Britain's cities

  18-05-2020 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The dominance of the car is being seriously challenged for the first time in decades, say expertsCoronavirus offers chance to create fairer UK food supply chainIs this crisis the catalyst for greening the world’s airlines?Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAmid the confusion that followed Boris Johnson’s televised announcement easing the lockdown, Will Norman was clear about one thing – the way people move around cities would never be the same aga
  
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• Carbon scorecards and working groups: Engineers gear up to support UK's net-zero ambition

  18-05-2020 14:32
  
  The National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has outlined the steps that the engineering sector can take to assist with the UK-wide decarbonisation to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, while WSP has led an economy-wide call for strengthened net-zero policies.
  
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• Turning the meat industry upside down: a day with Germany's travelling butcher

  18-05-2020 13:23 via theguardian.com
  
  With ever larger meat plants in the spotlight over coronavirus clusters, one butcher has profited by going in the opposite direction – slaughtering animals on siteInside the white trailer parked up by the farm, the small team headed by Matthias Kürten are moving fast.Their work has a rhythmical soundtrack: a bandsaw cutting through bones, fat slopped into buckets, murmurs of chatter and knives being sharpened. Diced meat for stew, steaks, soup stock, mince and liver are sealed with th
  
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• Slaughter on site and no supermarkets: how Germany's mobile butcher is keeping meat local

  18-05-2020 13:23 via theguardian.com
  
  With ever larger meat plants in the spotlight over coronavirus clusters, one butcher has profited by going in the opposite directionInside the white trailer parked up by the farm, the small team headed by Matthias Kürten are moving fast.Their work has a rhythmical soundtrack: a bandsaw cutting through bones, fat slopped into buckets, murmurs of chatter and knives being sharpened. Diced meat for stew, steaks, soup stock, mince and liver are sealed with the inhale of a vacuum-packer, stamped
  
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• Viridor signs agreement on UK plastics chemical recycling initiative

  18-05-2020 12:16
  
  Waste management firm Viridor has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with chemical recycling company Plastic Energy to explore a system that treats non-recycled plastic waste using low-carbon electricity to create recycled plastic feedstocks.
  
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• Intel targets net-positive water use and world's 'most sustainable' PC

  18-05-2020 11:35
  
  IT manufacturer Intel has unveiled new sustainability targets for 2030, committing to achieving net-positive water use, being powered by 100% renewables and launching the "most sustainable and energy-efficient PC in the world".
  
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• Project seeks super view of Earth's mantle

  18-05-2020 11:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK scientists aim to build some of the most sophisticated models yet for how rock moves inside the planet.
  
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• Snipers, stylists and Staff Benda Bilili: Andy Hall's Africa – in pictures

  18-05-2020 08:57 via theguardian.com
  
  For decades, the Observer photographer Andy Hall has documented major events and daily life throughout Africa – from the Cuban withdrawal from Angola and the last days of apartheid to music, the obsession with football and the effects of climate change Continue reading...
  
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• Christiana Figueres: Businesses must put net-zero at heart of green recovery

  18-05-2020 08:30
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Governments and businesses have an "enormous opportunity" to build decarbonisation principles into the Covid-19 recovery process, the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres has told edie.
  
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• Lakeland fells shimmer in the heat haze: Country diary, 18 May 1970

  18-05-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  18 May 1970 Dust rose from the scree runs, and the rocks were warm to the touch, while on the tops people were dozing in the sunshine THE LAKE DISTRICT: The easiest way up Great Gable for the infirm or lazy is from a parked car on top of Honister Pass – a gently undulating walk of about three miles, with less than two thousand feet of ascent and the reward of changing views every few hundred yards. The other day I passed an old gentleman of perhaps 80 pottering along quite comfortably in t
  
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• Country diary: these trees have become part of the family

  18-05-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Stamford, Lincolnshire: We share our garden with this elderly couple and I breathe a sigh of relief when they burst into leafI know these two well. There they stand, side by side, rain or shine – stoic through the seasons, resolutely inseparable. We share a garden and, as I would any elderly couple, I check on them, watch them for change – and trouble myself by imagining what life would be like if we lost them.Trees do that when you have them close. They become a part of your family.
  
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