Environment news

• Coca-Cola's plastic-free packs and V2G bus depots: The sustainability success stories of the week

  16-08-2020 23:35
  
  As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe.
  
  Read more

• Witness K is in the dock but institutions vital to Australia’s democracy are on trial | Ian Cunliffe

  16-08-2020 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Some people seem to be above the law. Those people do not include the whistleblower and his lawyer, Bernard CollaeryTimor-Leste only achieved independence in 2002. It was Asia’s poorest country and desperately needed revenue. Revenue from massive gas resources in the Timor Sea was its big hope. But it needed to negotiate a treaty with Australia on their carve-up. Australia ruthlessly exploited that fact: delays from the Australian side in negotiating a treaty for the carve-up of those reso
  
  Read more

• The Guardian view on the great outdoors: heeding the call of the wild | Editorial

  16-08-2020 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  A country better disposed to considerate wild camping and swimming would be a happier and healthier oneSupporters call it “wild camping”; opponents call it “fly-camping”. What both sides accept is that there has been an upsurge in the past few months, with increasing numbers of visitors pitching their tents on any bit of land they fancy. In part, this reflects the fact that official campsites have been wholly or partially closed, or are hugely oversubscribed in a summer w
  
  Read more

• Tessa Khan: ‘Litigation is a powerful tool in the environmental crisis’

  16-08-2020 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  When a court in the Netherlands ruled its government’s actions unlawful, it inspired others to hold big polluters to account• Time to reset: more brilliant ideas to remake the worldAt key moments in history, courts around the world have helped to accelerate social change – they have vindicated the demands of people fighting to end slavery, racial segregation and gender inequality. It should therefore come as no surprise that they are being called on to help resolve the biggest s
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• ‘We’re stewards of our land’: the rise of female farmers

  16-08-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nearly one in five farmers are women, with the number rising all the time. We ask four of them about their lives, work and a year of challenges
  On 23 March, the night lockdown was announced, Catherine St Germans was on a Zoom call with farmers, policymakers and activists. There was a sense of foreboding, as they became aware that lockdown would have a catastrophic effect on UK farms.Using nothing more complicated than Google Sheets and WhatsApp, St Germans and a team of volunteers created Farms
  
  Read more

• Plan to fence off Nairobi national park angers Maasai and conservationists

  16-08-2020 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Ten-year management strategy aims to combat habitat loss and dwindling wildlife in Kenya’s oldest national parkKenya’s oldest national park, which is facing threats from habitat loss, a decline in wildlife species and government infrastructure developments, is at the centre of a fresh row over its future.Created through a colonial proclamation in December 1946, the 45-square mile Nairobi national park is the only sanctuary in the world where wild animals roam freely next to a bustlin
  
  Read more

• We’ve got to start thinking beyond our own lifespans if we’re going to avoid extinction | Sonia Sodha

  16-08-2020 09:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Short-term analysis of ways to save society, and indeed humanity, is useless In a biology lesson about the bacterial growth curve, the parallels with the climate crisis were hard to miss. Stick bacteria in a test tube with food and their population will grow exponentially until, eventually, they run out of resources and kill themselves off. Even a couple of decades ago, the comparison with humanity’s predicament felt glaringly obvious; and we have not really strayed since from the inevitab
  
  Read more

• TV should expose the flaws of fast fashion, not treat it as entertainment | Lucy Siegle

  16-08-2020 08:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Recent series ignore environmental and social issues in favour of strained ‘fun’According to TV industry media, the fast fashion brand Missguided turned down more than 500 requests from TV production companies before agreeing to allow Pulse Films into its head office in Manchester last year. The fruits of that labour, Inside Missguided: Made in Manchester, a four-part series in Channel 4’s “coveted” 10pm documentary slot, were revealed last week.Let’s be hones
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Mauritius oil spill: Wrecked MV Wakashio breaks up

  16-08-2020 08:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The MV Wakashio, which spilled more than 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil off Mauritius, has split apart.
  
  Read more

• Here be dragonflies, thriving in Britain as never before

  16-08-2020 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Climate change has encouraged a wave of insect migrants from across the Channel. Should we celebrate or fear for the future?As the sun finally emerges from behind a cloud, I catch sight of a pair of dragonflies, yoked together in a mating position to rival the Kama Sutra. Yet this copulating couple, performing in a watery ditch on Canvey Island in Essex, are no ordinary members of their family. They are southern migrant hawkers: a species virtually unknown in the UK until a decade or so ago.The
  
  Read more

• Rising water levels in Kenya's Great Rift Valley threaten jobs and wildlife

  16-08-2020 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of people have been forced out of their homes by rising water levels in two Kenyan lakes.
  
  Read more

• Campaigners win fight to stop Maldives islands becoming luxury resort

  16-08-2020 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Local residents in the Maldives have won a campaign against developers and the government who wanted to turn two islands into a luxury resort.
  
  Read more

Follow @UK_Environment on Twitter!