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• Badger cull extended in England with more than 60,000 in line of fire

  07-09-2020 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigners say expansion is a betrayal as government had pledged to phase out cull
  The government’s badger cull is being expanded to 11 new areas of England including parts of Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire so that more than 60,000 badgers can be killed.Conservation groups said the expansion was a betrayal of trust after the government this year pledged to phase out the badger cull, intended to reduce bovine TB in cattle, after a scientific review cast doubt on i
  
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• Climate crowdsourcing: Government urged to put digital technology at heart of net-zero strategy

  07-09-2020 15:40
  
  A new report has called on the UK Government to secure a windfall of the emerging digital climate tech sector by embracing low-carbon innovation through policy measures - a move which could help slash emissions and add billions to the UK economy.
  
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• Two weeks left to register for edie's green recovery webinar sessions

  07-09-2020 15:30
  
  The first raft of speakers has been confirmed for edie's series of free green recovery-themed webinars and masterclasses taking place on Wednesday 23 September, with sustainable business experts from Aldersgate Group, BT, Bank of England, Ella's Kitchen, UKGBC all among the line-up.
  
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• Coca-Cola switches to 100% recycled plastics across Netherlands and Norway

  07-09-2020 13:55
  
  Coca-Cola is set to roll out bottles made from 100% recycled plastic (rPET) in the Netherlands and Norway, as part of the company's latest efforts in Western Europe to eliminate the use of virgin oil-based plastics in its products.
  
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• An invisible enemy: the battle to save black-footed ferrets from the plague

  07-09-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Yersinia pestis killed millions of people across Europe in the middle ages. Today it remains a deadly threat to one of the US’s most endangered speciesEvery year, from August to November, Travis Livieri becomes nocturnal. The field biologist goes out in his truck in Conata Basin, South Dakota, armed with a spotlight in search of one of the most endangered mammals in North America: the black-footed ferret. When the light catches the reflective green shine of the ferret’s eyes, he wait
  
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• UK needs 'significant' overhaul of infrastructure investment to reach net-zero, report claims

  07-09-2020 11:52
  
  The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has claimed that the UK Government needs to "undertake a significant programme of infrastructure investment" to enable regulators and private investment to create funding for critical net-zero infrastructure.
  
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• Absolut to trial 2,000 paper-based drinks bottles

  07-09-2020 11:11
  
  The Absolut Company will trial 2,000 paper-based bottle prototypes across Sweden and the UK later this year, to test the viability of paper as an alternative to single-use plastics in beverage applications.
  
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• Aerobatic display over the lake: Country diary, 8 September 1945

  07-09-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  8 September 1945 Few entertainments in country life surpass the sight of gulls wheeling slowly and gracefully over UllswaterPenrith, September 3There are few entertainments in country life to surpass sitting under the wooded Dunmallet Hill at the foot of Ullswater, especially on a summer evening. The steamer Raven is at rest at the Pooley pier, the very picture of laziness. In the Castlesteads opening, leading to the second reach, one discerns the scarlet sails of a yacht as it tacks for the hom
  
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• Country diary: there’s a telltale musky smell beneath the plum tree

  07-09-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Badgers have marked out their territory by anointing their droppings with scent from glands under their tailsThe last of the Victoria plums are rotting on the ground. I step around them, avoiding the sticky mess and gorging wasps. The air has a sweet alcoholic tang, like the day after a big party. Peacock butterflies and red admirals flit from fallen fruit, drinking the fermented juices. Docile and plum-drunk, a peacock lands on my hand. Its false eyes blink at me, as
  
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