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• Dramatic footage fuels fears Amazon fires could be worse than last year

  17-07-2020 19:19 via theguardian.com
  
  As dry season starts campaigners sound alarm over ‘shocking’ scale of fires, as Bolsonaro doubles down on denials
  Dramatic new images have shown fires raging over wide areas of the Brazilian Amazon nearly a year after blazes across the region sparked an international crisis for the far-right government of President Jair Bolsonaro.The video images and photographs were filmed during a flight by Greenpeace over a wide area of forest in Mato Grosso state in the south of the Amazon on 9 J
  
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• Fresh government funding for animal feed made from captured CO2

  17-07-2020 18:16
  
  The UK Government has unveiled a £24m funding pot for innovations aimed at transforming the food system, including a project using captured CO2 to manufacture animal feed, amid fresh warnings of agriculture's links to illegal deforestation.
  
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• Air conditioning curbs could save years' worth of emissions – study

  17-07-2020 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  UN and IEA call for stricter standards to improve energy efficiency and cut use of HFCsUp to eight years’ worth of global greenhouse gas emissions could be prevented over the next four decades by setting tougher standards for air conditioning, according to a study.It found that improving the energy efficiency of cooling systems by using climate-friendly refrigerants could remove emissions equivalent to between 210bn and 460bn tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2060. Continue reading...
  
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• Two weeks left to register: edie's sustainable investment and climate disclosure webinar

  17-07-2020 15:06
  
  Sustainable finance experts from BlackRock Investment Stewardship, ING and Tideway will appear in edie's next webinar focusing on sustainable investment and climate disclosure, which will take place on Wednesday 29 July.
  
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• Beetle-mounted camera streams insect adventures

  17-07-2020 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers have developed a tiny lightweight video camera that can be carried by a beetle.
  
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• City Hall eyes options for powering London's tube network with 100% renewable energy by 2030

  17-07-2020 13:29
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has launched a market test for tube networks to be supplied with renewable electricity directly from generators, as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's commitment to deliver a zero-carbon rail network by 2030.
  
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• Vodafone on track for 100% renewable electricity in Europe in 2021

  17-07-2020 12:48
  
  Vodafone has vowed to power its European network - spanning 11 national markets - with 100% renewable electricity by the end of July 2021.
  
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• A million mink culled in Netherlands and Spain as coronavirus causes havoc for fur farmers

  17-07-2020 12:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Agriculture minister says origins of outbreak unclear after seven farm workers – and 87% of the mink – test positiveCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain has ordered the culling of nearly 100,000 mink on a farm and an estimated one million mink have already been culled on Dutch fur farms, as coronavirus wreaks havoc in the European fur farming industry. Joaquin Olona, agriculture minister for the north-eastern Aragon region, said the cull would invol
  
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• A million mink culled in Netherlands and Spain amid Covid-19 fur farming havoc

  17-07-2020 12:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Agriculture minister says origins of outbreak unclear after seven farm workers – and 87% of the mink – test positiveCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain has ordered the culling of nearly 100,000 mink on a farm and an estimated one million mink have already been culled on Dutch fur farms, as coronavirus wreaks havoc in the European fur farming industry. Joaquin Olona, agriculture minister for the north-eastern Aragon region, said the cull would invol
  
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• We Mean Business Coalition urging members to target net-zero by 2040 under new Amazon partnership

  17-07-2020 11:45
  
  More than 1,200 businesses will be encouraged to set and supported to deliver against net-zero targets deadlined no later than 2040, after We Mean Business Coalition partnered with Amazon.
  
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• Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – in pictures

  17-07-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland Continue reading...
  
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• A week of high swells – in pictures

  17-07-2020 05:42 via theguardian.com
  
  As a large low-pressure system deepened over the Tasman Sea this week, large swells hit the east coast of AustraliaHuge swells leave houses at risk Continue reading...
  
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• A million mink culled in Netherlands and Spain as virus causes havoc for fur farmers

  17-07-2020 03:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Agriculture minister says origins of outbreak unclear after seven farm workers – and 87% of the mink – test positive Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain has ordered the culling of nearly 100,000 mink on a farm and an estimated one million mink have already been culled on Dutch fur farms, as coronavirus wreaks havoc in the European fur farming industry. Joaquin Olona, agriculture minister for the north-eastern Aragon region, said the cull would invo
  
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• Scientists shed light on how the blackest fish in the sea 'disappear'

  17-07-2020 02:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts have shed light on the mystery of how the blackest fish in the deep sea are camouflaged.
  
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• The bilbies 'thriving' after a 100-year absence in New South Wales

  17-07-2020 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The marsupial has bred in the wild in New South Wales for the first time in a century.
  
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