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• Pollutionwatch: Irish air quality to benefit from better data

  22-10-2020 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Bigger measurement network reveals issues such as nitrogen dioxide breach in Dublin
  A big expansion in Ireland’s air pollution measurement network is yielding information to shape solutions. New data reveals that Dublin has breached legal limits for nitrogen dioxide for the first time in a decade.This was on a busy road near Heuston train station, but computer modelling has projected problems on other city-centre streets, beside the M50 motorway and near the port tunnel portal. Continue re
  
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• Norway funds satellite map of world's tropical forests

  22-10-2020 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Norway pays for a monthly satellite dataset to track the state of the world's tropical forests.
  
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• Common Agricultural Policy to remain part of EU's biodiversity funding, despite criticism

  22-10-2020 16:31
  
  The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), voted on this week in the European Parliament and Council, will remain by far the biggest funding source for biodiversity protection schemes at EU level, despite claims that it has encouraged intensive and damaging farming.
  
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• Moncler commits to carbon neutrality and 100% renewable electricity

  22-10-2020 15:08
  
  Luxury fashion brand Moncler has pledged to ensure that its direct operations are carbon-neutral within a year and to transition to 100% renewable energy by 2023.
  
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• P&G to launch refillable shampoo bottles in 2021

  22-10-2020 14:59
  
  Procter & Gamble (P&G) will launch a refill format which uses 60%less plastic across several of its most popular shampoo lines in Europe next year.
  
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• The Estée Lauder Companies turns to blockchain to boost supply chain traceability

  22-10-2020 13:27
  
  The Estée Lauder Companies will introduce vanilla that has been traced throughout the supply chain using blockchain technology to more than 125 of its Aveda-brand products next spring.
  
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• Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record

  22-10-2020 12:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Delayed freeze in Laptev Sea could have knock-on effects across polar region, scientists sayFor the first time since records began, the main nursery of Arctic sea ice in Siberia has yet to start freezing in late October.The delayed annual freeze in the Laptev Sea has been caused by freakishly protracted warmth in northern Russia and the intrusion of Atlantic waters, say climate scientists who warn of possible knock-on effects across the polar region. Continue reading...
  
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• Glitter is an environmental abomination. It's time to stop using it | Adrienne Matei

  22-10-2020 12:21 via theguardian.com
  
  This year, several British brands announced they’d ban glitter from holiday products. US companies should follow suit
  Glitter is notorious for getting everywhere – touch one sparkly Christmas card and you’ll be finding flecks of the stuff in your food, hair and carpet for months. It’s so obnoxious some people even slather a mixture of it and Vaseline on political yard signs to punish thieves. But the real issue with glitter isn’t that it’s annoying – it&
  
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• Just 3 in 10 UK banks have a net-zero target, PwC claims

  22-10-2020 12:11
  
  A survey of 17 of the UK's largest banks has found that just five of them have net-zero targets or science-based emissions targets, meaning they risk breaching their legal requirements on climate change.
  
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• Dentsu International sets 2030 net-zero target

  22-10-2020 10:38
  
  Media and communications giant Dentsu International has announced a new 2030 net-zero target, underpinned by a science-based target to reduce absolute emissions by almost half.
  
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• Antarctica: an ecosystem under threat - in pictures

  22-10-2020 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Antarctica’s ocean is one of the most extreme environments on the planet, and home to its most productive life. A new series of images by Cristina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen and John Weller shows why Continue reading...
  
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• Nestle outlines plans to bring UK's first commercial scale chemical plastic recycling plant online

  22-10-2020 10:06
  
  Nestle has partnered with a chemical plastic recycling company with two commercial-scale facilities online in Spain, in the hopes of developing a similar plant in the UK.
  
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• Senate resolution aims to conserve 30% of US land and water by 2030

  22-10-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Senator Tom Udall’s ‘30 by 30’ proposal seeks to align US with international goals to protect and preserve global ecosystemsA US senator has introduced a proposal to conserve 30% of the country’s lands and seas in the next 10 years, amid a surge of similar proposals. Continue reading...
  
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• 'It's about saving ourselves': senator pushes plan to conserve 30% of US by 2030

  22-10-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tom Udall’s ‘30 by 30’ proposal seeks to align US with international goals to protect and preserve global ecosystemsA US senator has introduced a proposal to conserve 30% of the country’s lands and seas in the next 10 years, amid a surge of similar proposals. Continue reading...
  
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• Aerial Photographer of the Year 2020

  22-10-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands of photographers from 65 countries around the world submitted their best pictures taken with the aid of drones, helicopters and planes. The top award went to Sebastien Nagy of Belgium, but there were many other outstanding photographs, as this selection shows Continue reading...
  
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• Despite a loud opposing minority, low-traffic neighbourhoods are increasingly popular

  22-10-2020 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  YouGov poll found positive views on LTNs are three times higher than negative onesThey are not purely, or even mainly, about cycling, but the row about low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), – where some residential streets are closed to through motor traffic – epitomises broader attitudes in the UK towards safer, more human-friendly streets.And amid the daily froth of sometimes entirely false stories about LTNs closing roads, or slowing emergency service response times, one thing is oft
  
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• 2020 Luminar bug photographer of the year – winners

  22-10-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The winners have been announced in the Luminar bug photography awards 2020 in association with Europe’s leading invertebrate charity, Buglife.In their inaugural year, the Luminar bug photography awards have attracted an astonishing variety and quality of work from around the world. More than 800 photographers made submissions Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: autumnal reds and golds burn brightly

  22-10-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: This jumble of trees with its double flash of spring blossom and autumn colour is what marks the seasonsThe sun, a huge rose floating in the mist, opens as wood pigeon flocks return to fields, leaving trees smouldering with October fire. The trees on Wenlock Edge that really burn with autumnal reds and golds are on the rose spectrum: wild cherry and wild service. Both Prunus avium – gean, mazzard or wild cherry – and Sorbus torminalis – checker, cheque
  
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• Osiris-Rex: Nasa asteroid mission confident of success

  22-10-2020 03:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first images are released of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft trying to grab rock from asteroid Bennu.
  
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• Planners 'must prepare' for weather extremes - Met Office

  22-10-2020 02:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Met Office is launching a tool to help planners prepare for further weather extremes.
  
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• More pollution expected from stay-home workers

  22-10-2020 01:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Air pollution in big cities could increase because so many people are working from home, a report says.
  
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