Environment news

• Is the UK on track for a green Brexit?

  19-06-2020 14:15
  
  It's been a big week for Brexit news, with the UK kick-starting trade talks with Australia and progressing negotiations with the US and EU. But concerns that the promised 'green' Brexit will fail to materialise are mounting against a backdrop of no-deal warnings and the Covid-19 pandemic.
  
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• Sustainable Business Covered podcast: Streaming and the environment

  19-06-2020 13:38
  
  Episode 87 of the Sustainable Business Covered podcast sees edie discuss the energy impact of streaming and digitalisation, featuring interviews with former npower chief executive Paul Massara, UCL professor Yiannis Andreopoulos and vinyl CD manufacturer and retailer Key Production.
  
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• Tiny plankton tell the ocean's story – this vast marine mission has been listening

  19-06-2020 13:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Since 1931 ‘citizen scientists’ on ships have enabled data collection on the tiny building blocks of the sea. Now this research could shape how we tackle the climate crisisOn a clear day, from their small, unassuming warehouse on the south Devon coast, Lance Gregory and Dave Wilson can see right across Plymouth Sound to the Eddystone lighthouse. Today, they’re watching a ferry from Brittany, the Armorique, pull into dock.Behind it, the ferry is towing a one-metre-long device sh
  
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• Why you should go animal-free: 18 arguments for eating meat debunked

  19-06-2020 12:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Unpalatable as it may be for those wedded to producing and eating meat, the environmental and health evidence for a plant-based diet is clearWhether you are concerned about your health, the environment or animal welfare, scientific evidence is piling up that meat-free diets are best. Millions of people in wealthy nations are already cutting back on animal products.Of course livestock farmers and meat lovers are unsurprisingly fighting back and it can get confusing. Are avocados really worse than
  
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• Wildlife Conservation Society’s stance on meat clarified | Letter

  19-06-2020 12:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Susan Lieberman says the society’s concern is preventing the next wildlife disease spillover and subsequent human-to-human pandemic spread across the planetJohn Vidal’s story (‘Ban on bushmeat’ after Covid-19 but what if alternative is factory farming?, 26 May) suggests that calls by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other conservation organisations to halt the risky commercial trade of wildlife for human consumption somehow prefer a transition to intensive live
  
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• #SustyTalk: Farfetch's Tom Berry on spurring circular economy models for fashion

  19-06-2020 12:21
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with Farfetch's global director of sustainable business Tom Berry, who discusses circular economy engagement and innovation in the fashion sector.
  
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• 'Great British Rain Paradox': Public unaware of UK's water scarcity

  19-06-2020 12:21
  
  The risks of climate change and population growth on water scarcity in the UK remain hidden, with a new survey of 2,000 Brits revealing that water consumption is low down on the priority agenda for environmental concerns.
  
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• Report: Big-name brands failing to address plastic pollution crisis, despite improved pledges

  19-06-2020 11:25
  
  A survey of 50 of the largest consumer-facing goods firms, including PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz and Kellogg, has found that companies are generally failing to take ambitious action on plastic pollution, despite lofty pledges to do so.
  
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• Urban dwellers yearn for 'Good Life' allotments

  19-06-2020 10:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists estimate "lost allotments" in the UK could have provided 6% of the population with their "five-a-day" diet.
  
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• Breathtaking new map of the X-ray Universe

  19-06-2020 10:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new Russian-German space observatory produces the most detailed ever all-sky image seen in X-rays.
  
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• As UK lockdowns ease, will the silver linings of the pandemic persist?

  19-06-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Carbon emissions, crime levels and air pollution all fell but are now starting to reboundIn a sudden realisation of what climate campaigners have been urging for years, flights were cancelled, vehicle use plummeted and the oil industry found itself in turmoil as lockdown restrictions took hold. Continue reading...
  
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• As UK lockdowns ease, fears grow of return to pre-pandemic crime and pollution levels

  19-06-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Carbon emissions, crime and air pollution all fell but are now starting to reboundIn a sudden realisation of what climate campaigners have been urging for years, flights were cancelled, vehicle use plummeted and the oil industry found itself in turmoil as lockdown restrictions took hold. Continue reading...
  
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• The whales are moving up Australia's east coast: tell us about your best 'spot'

  19-06-2020 00:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Where do you go to watch migrating humpback and southern right whales? And what was your closest encounter?In a year desperately in need of good news, the oceans have delivered.The spectacular white whale known as Migaloo is believed to have been spotted off the New South Wales coast, partway through his annual journey from Antarctica to Queensland. Continue reading...
  
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