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• Terrawatch: could granite solve the hard problem of nuclear waste storage?

  02-06-2020 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers have found the rock has a self-sealing mechanism that keeps fluids locked awayWe need to find somewhere safe to dispose of high-level nuclear waste; a place where we can be confident it will be isolated and contained for hundreds of thousands of years. And if we want to keep a lid on global warming then we may well need to find a similar place to store carbon dioxide too. But where? Continue reading...
  
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• Cooling sector lagging behind on low-carbon innovation

  02-06-2020 15:34
  
  With news emerging that last month was the joint-warmest April ever recorded, new analysis from CDP has warned that major consumer electronic and cooling appliance firms are failing to innovate technology to spur decarbonisation.
  
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• Coronavirus: Public told to cut water use amid surge in lockdown demand

  02-06-2020 15:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Water companies are urging people to avoid using sprinklers and paddling pools during the lockdown.
  
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• Zalando unveils science-based targets, commits suppliers to set carbon goals

  02-06-2020 13:15
  
  Online fashion retail platform Zalando has built on its commitment to carbon neutrality across its own operations by having targets to reduce operational carbon emissions by 80% and emissions from the production of private label products by 40% approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
  
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• Princes commits to no export waste

  02-06-2020 11:30
  
  Food and drink firm Princes has committed to ensuring that all of its packaging is recycled and handled solely by UK re-processors, rather than exporting the waste abroad, to gain more certainty that its packaging is recycled or dealt with appropriately.
  
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• UK proposes national Emissions Trading System to replace EU carbon market

  02-06-2020 11:08
  
  The UK Government has published new proposals on its individual UK-wide Emissions Trading System (ETS) that would replace the EU's carbon trading variant.
  
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• Extinction crisis 'poses existential threat to civilisation'

  02-06-2020 09:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A study presents more evidence that the world is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.
  
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• Remembering Cheetahs photography competition – the winners

  02-06-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Remembering Wildlife, the groundbreaking charity picture book series, has announced the 10 winners of its photography competition to appear in its forthcoming book, Remembering Cheetahs, which will help to protect the world’s most endangered big cat. There are only around 7,100 cheetahs left in the wild. The book will be published on Monday 12 October and the winning images will be printed alongside stunning images donated by many of the world’s leading wildlife photographers Continu
  
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• 'The water will come back': why Kenya's struggle against flooding is far from over

  02-06-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Record-breaking rainfall has devastated communities – and with thousands displaced and more rain predicted the picture is bleakUsing a short piece of nylon line with a hook at one end and a long thin stick on the other, a mechanic and a nightclub doorman have only caught one small fish all day.“I’ve never been a fisherman before,” says Erick Ochieng on the edge of a flooded creek in the port city of Kisumu on the banks of Lake Victoria. “I used to work as a bouncer
  
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• Locked down afloat: why dozens of cruise ships ended up stranded in Manila Bay

  02-06-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands of Filipino and international crew members are stuck as they await results of Covid-19 testsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFrom the balcony of her cabin, Sofia Ivanov* welcomes the light rain that cools the scorching Manila summer. As coronavirus empties the world’s cruise lines of guests, crew workers like her get to use the luxurious guest rooms before they lose their jobs.Over two dozen other massive cruise ships dot her view of Manila B
  
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• Climate change: older trees loss continue around the world

  02-06-2020 06:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Every six seconds in 2019 the world lost an area of primary forest the size of a football pitch, a study says.
  
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• Why can't we leave them alone? The troubling truth about selfies with sloths

  02-06-2020 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  How the trappings of fame are causing problems for the placid mammal that has become a star of internet memes and InstagramNobody seems to know quite how the sloth became the rock star of the animal kingdom. From high in the Latin American rainforest, the absurd mammal is the focus of a frenzied obsession that shows no sign of abating. Sloths are on bank notes, adverts, T-shirts, internet memes and Instagram fan pages.“People are obsessed,” says Costa Rica’s president, Carlos A
  
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• Football pitch-sized area of tropical rainforest lost every six seconds

  02-06-2020 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Report also warns Australia will experience more extreme fire seasons due to climate crisisThe amount of pristine tropical rainforest lost across the globe increased last year, as the equivalent of a football pitch disappeared every six seconds, a satellite-based analysis has found.Nearly 12m hectares of tree cover was lost across the tropics, including nearly 4m hectares of dense, old rainforest that held significant stores of carbon and had been home to a vast array of wildlife, according to d
  
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• Berta Cáceres was exceptional. Her murder was all too commonplace | Nina Lakhani

  02-06-2020 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The powerful forces behind the death of the Honduran indigenous leader are still targeting human rights defenders and environmental campaigners like her
  Join a conversation with the author on Tuesday 9 June: Nina Lakhani joins Guardian US international editor Martin Hodgson to discuss the story behind Cáceres’s murder. Live on the Guardian at 1pm EST/10am PST/5pm BST. Email [email protected] to sign up and get a reminderFifty-one months ago today Berta Cáceres was gunne
  
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