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• The Guardian view on game bird shooting: the threat is to nature | Editorial

  12-10-2020 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Steps to limit the harm caused by driven-grouse and pheasant shoots can no longer be put off – and the hunting industry must cooperate Slowly, and with a great deal of care, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has placed itself on a collision course with the game-shooting industry. Following an announcement a year ago, the organisation – which is one of the largest conservation charities in Europe – ran a review and consultation with members. At the weekend, its annua
  
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• German ship completes historic Arctic expedition

  12-10-2020 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The German Research Vessel Polarstern returns to port after drifting for a year in Arctic sea-ice.
  
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• 6 top tips for optimising your energy data on the road to net-zero

  12-10-2020 18:00
  
  The net-zero movement has expanded rapidly over the past 18 months, with 1,500+ businesses setting targets. But why is energy data optimisation so important to decarbonisation? And how best to do it?
  
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• More than 7,000 extreme weather events recorded since 2000, says UN

  12-10-2020 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Sharp rise in number of droughts, floods and wildfires has claimed 1.23 million lives and affected 4.2 billion people
  Extreme weather events have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, taking a heavy human and economic toll worldwide, and are likely to wreak further havoc, the UN has said.Heatwaves and droughts will pose the greatest threat in the next decade, as temperatures continue to rise due to heat-trapping gases, experts said. Continue reading...
  
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• Burberry and IBM collaborate on blockchain initiative to boost fashion supply chain traceability

  12-10-2020 13:25
  
  Burberry has revealed that it has supported IBM interns to develop a prototype cloud and blockchain tool aimed at tracing materials and products across the fashion supply chain, including information about their environmental and human impact.
  
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• Food and retail giants to collaborate on government-backed scheme to reduce food waste

  12-10-2020 12:43
  
  Some of the UK's largest retailers and food manufacturers, including Unilever, M&S, Nestlé and Amazon are collaborating to deliver a new network of "food waste champions" to help reduce the amount of food waste produced by the sectors.
  
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• Food and retail giants to collaborate on government scheme to reduce food waste

  12-10-2020 12:05
  
  Some of the UK's largest retailers and food manufacturers, including Unilever, M&S, Nestlé and Amazon are collaborating to deliver a new network of "food waste champions" to help reduce the amount of food waste produced by the sectors.
  
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• 'Heads in the sand': conservationists condemn US failure to protect wolverines

  12-10-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Denial of endangered species protections threatens species at risk amid climate crisis, conservationists sayThe US Fish and Wildlife Service has denied protection to wolverines under the Endangered Species Act, frustrating conservation groups who argue the species faces an existential threat from the climate crisis.According to the ruling announced on Thursday, the FWS considers wolverine populations in the lower 48 states to be stable and threats against wolverines to be less significant than t
  
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• New initiative to help investors funnel $10bn into climate solutions annually

  12-10-2020 11:49
  
  By allocating just 0.25% of their savings and investments to fund not-for-profit projects aiding climate adaptation and mitigation, individual investors could collectively funnel $10bn per year into this space by 2030, a pair of ex-financiers have claimed.
  
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• Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds

  12-10-2020 11:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Trillions of dollars of GDP depend on biodiversity, according to Swiss Re reportOne-fifth of the world’s countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing because of the destruction of wildlife and their habitats, according to an analysis by the insurance firm Swiss Re.Natural “services” such as food, clean water and air, and flood protection have already been damaged by human activity. Continue reading...
  
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• City of London Corporation targets net-zero by 2040

  12-10-2020 11:10
  
  The City of London Corporation has committed to reaching net-zero across its investments and supply chain by 2040, with an interim ambition to generate net-zero operational emissions by 2027.
  
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• This is my message to the western world – your civilisation is killing life on Earth | Nemonte Nenquimo

  12-10-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We Indigenous people are fighting to save the Amazon, but the whole planet is in trouble because you do not respect itDear presidents of the nine Amazonian countries and to all world leaders that share responsibility for the plundering of our rainforest,my name is Nemonte Nenquimo. I am a Waorani woman, a mother, and a leader of my people. The Amazon rainforest is my home. I am writing you this letter because the fires are raging still. Because the corporations are spilling oil in our rivers. Be
  
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• Fifth of nations at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds

  12-10-2020 10:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Trillions of dollars of GDP depend on biodiversity, according to Swiss Re reportOne-fifth of the world’s countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing because of the destruction of wildlife and their habitats, according to an analysis by the insurance firm Swiss Re.Natural “services” such as food, clean water and air, and flood protection have already been damaged by human activity. Continue reading...
  
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• Tree of the week: the crab apple tree that makes booze

  12-10-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This owners of this tree think of it as an old woman who keeps changing clothes – and has a sideline in liqueur …Annie Frazer moved into her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a year ago and was immediately smitten with the crab apple tree that lives in her garden. “We’ve not been together that long, but we love her,” she says. “She’s gorgeous.”The former linguist, 52, who is originally from Sheffield, lives with her husband, Greg, and their teenage
  
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• 'We've had so many wins': why the green movement can overcome climate crisis

  12-10-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaded petrol, acid rain, CFCs … the last 50 years of environmental action have shown how civil society can force governments and business to changeSupport Guardian journalism today, by making a single or recurring contribution, or subscribingLeaflets printed on “rather grotty” blue paper. That is how Janet Alty will always remember one of the most successful environment campaigns of modern times: the movement to ban lead in petrol.There were the leaflets she wrote to warn par
  
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• 'There is no planet B': the best books to help us navigate the next 50 years

  12-10-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Understanding animals, capitalism, the science of cloudseeding ... scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson shares his top picksAs wildfires burn in the western United States and the second wave of Covid-19 sweeps across the world, it’s becoming impossible to ignore the disasters we are hurtling towards. The population biologist Joel Cohen examines one central issue in How Many People Can the Earth Support?, approaching this question from various angles to help us understand why it has received s
  
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• Country diary: Chinooks send pigeons into a panicked swirl

  12-10-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Alnmouth, Northumberland: Meanwhile, dragonflies zap about as they hover and swoop above the furry reedmace heads, the Chinooks of the marsh
  At low tide the Aln runs deep between the sloping banks of the estuary. Reflections lie with barely a ripple across the smooth water: a stationary heron, a jaunty red buoy, the cross on top of Church Hill. The river’s course once looped around this little hill before the Christmas Day storm of 1806 that forced a new and more direct channel. The knoll
  
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• Birmingham's hydrogen buses and Levi's circular economy store: The sustainability success stories of the week

  12-10-2020 00:00
  
  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.
  
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