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• Climate change: Former minister O’Neill blasts government "inaction"

  09-09-2020 16:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Claire O'Neill condemns what she calls broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.
  
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• McDonald's joins TerraCycle's Loop programme to trial reusable cups

  09-09-2020 14:32
  
  The world's largest restaurant company McDonald's has launched a new global partnership to utilise the Loop collection model from TerraCycle that will see reusable and returnable cups trialled to cut back on single-use plastics.
  
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• Coronavirus: Oxford University vaccine trial paused after participant falls ill

  09-09-2020 14:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  AstraZeneca describes the pause in its keenly-awaited final clinical trials as routine.
  
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• Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050, report warns

  09-09-2020 13:04
  
  Countries unable to withstand ecological threats among world’s least peaceful, analysis findsMore than 1 billion people face being displaced within 30 years as the climate crisis and rapid population growth drive an increase in migration with “huge impacts” for both the developing and developed worlds, according to an analysis.The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a thinktank that produces annual global terrorism and peace indexes, said 1.2 billion people lived in 31 cou
  
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• China claims 'important breakthrough' in space mission shrouded in mystery

  09-09-2020 13:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Very little is known about the Chinese vehicle that has been compared to the US's X-37 space plane.
  
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• UN report: Covid crisis does little to slow climate change

  09-09-2020 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Global lockdowns disrupted CO2 emissions temporarily say scientists but they didn't stop climate change.
  
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• Environmental groups claim victory as plans for Northumberland coalmine rejected

  09-09-2020 12:19
  
  Planning permission refused for ‘environmentally unacceptable’ mine near Druridge BayThe UK government has rejected plans to develop an “environmentally unacceptable” coalmine near Druridge Bay in Northumberland after years of fierce opposition from environmentalists.Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, refused planning permission for the project, saying the plans for a new open-cast mine in north-east England were “not environmentally acceptable”. Conti
  
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• How artificial salt marshes can help in the fight against rising seas

  09-09-2020 12:00
  
  Made from Crossrail clay, Europe’s biggest coastal habitat restoration project is a valuable flood defence but is itself threatened by climate changeIt is the third hottest day on record in the UK and the cool saline mud oozing through my toes provides welcome relief from the beating sun. I am standing barefoot in a shallow pool in Europe’s largest coastal habitat restoration project, Wallasea Island in Essex. The 670-hectare (1,656-acre) expanse of salt marshes, lagoons and mudflats
  
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• edie launches new business guide on energy data optimisation

  09-09-2020 11:44
  
  edie has today (9 September) published a new report outlining all the key considerations, challenges and benefits to investing in energy data optimisation to assist with low-carbon strategies.
  
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• #SustyTalk: Velux's Ingrid Reumert on lifetime emissions and the ecological crisis

  09-09-2020 10:52
  
  edie's SustyTalk series continues with Velux's VP for global communications, sustainability & public affairs Ingrid Reumert discussing how the window and blind manufacturer plans to account for its historic carbon emissions in order to become "lifetime carbon neutral".
  
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• Signify reaches carbon neutrality globally, revamps corporate goals for 2025

  09-09-2020 09:53
  
  Global lighting firm Signify has revealed it has reached its ambition to be carbon neutral across its operations and is now pledging to "go beyond" that original target.
  
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• UK could save £1.6bn and 17,000 deaths by improving air quality, report finds

  09-09-2020 09:34
  
  Improving air quality in England in line with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines could deliver a £1.6bn benefit while preventing 17,000 premature deaths each year that are linked to air pollution.
  
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• Hummingbird's temperature can fall to 3.3C at night to preserve energy

  09-09-2020 08:01
  
  Researchers in Andes find temperature a record for all birds and non-hibernating mammalsHummingbirds have scooped another record: they are not only tiny but can reach body temperatures below that of any non-hibernating mammal and any other bird.The hummingbird is among a number of small creatures, including certain bats, that can enter a state known as daily torpor, a phenomenon where they turn down their metabolism and body temperature to save energy. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: how four crates can feed a hundred thousand

  09-09-2020 06:30
  
  Sandy, Bedfordshire: Each seed potato planted five months ago has grown offspring a dozen or so times its own weightSpuds, tatties, taters – the time to unearth these magic tubers had come. Summer’s heaviest harvesting was under way in billows of dust, rolling tractors and trailer upon laden trailer bound for welcoming barns.Almost five months before, I had stood at this same field corner looking over newly ploughed soil, the fine tilth sculpted into a corrugated landscape of hillock
  
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• Amazon: In the cross-hairs of coronavirus and forest fires

  09-09-2020 02:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People living in the Brazilian Amazon are facing the twin dangers of the coronavirus and forest fires.
  
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• Thwaites: 'Doomsday Glacier' vulnerability seen in new maps

  09-09-2020 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sea and airborne surveys show how Antarctica's mighty Thwaites ice stream can be melted from below.
  
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• Air pollution causes 3m lost working days per year in UK, says CBI

  09-09-2020 01:01
  
  Analysis finds work absences related to poor air are costing Britain about £600m annuallyPolluted air in the UK causes 3m working days to be lost every year owing to people getting sick or taking time off to care for sick children, new research suggests.Cutting air pollution and meeting the World Health Organization standards would benefit the economy by about £1.6bn a year, by improving productivity, according to the analysis carried out by the CBI. About 17,000 premature deaths of
  
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