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• Iconic Puerto Rico telescope to be dismantled amid collapse fears

  19-11-2020 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The iconic Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico is to be dismantled, officials announce.
  
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• Plastics an 'unfolding disaster' for US marine life

  19-11-2020 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For the first time, advocates have tracked how animals in US waters are harmed by plastic pollution.
  
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• New report details how businesses can help achieve SDG 7: Clean and Affordable Energy

  19-11-2020 16:21
  
  edie's latest SDG Spotlight report, produced in association with Bryt Energy, looks at how businesses and national policies can transform operations, services, supply chains and strategies to help deliver Goal 7: Clean and Affordable Energy.
  
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• Danish Covid mink variant 'very likely extinct', but controversial cull continues

  19-11-2020 16:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Farmers must still destroy animals before midnight, despite health ministry saying variant has not been found since SeptemberThe Covid-19 mink variant that led to a cull of all mink in Denmark and the resignation of the country’s agriculture minister on Wednesday, is “very likely extinct”, said Denmark’s health ministry.The cull was sparked by research from one of Denmark’s public health bodies, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), which showed that a mink variant of t
  
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• Blue whales have 'rediscovered' South Georgia

  19-11-2020 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The great whales are returning to the island that hosted the industry that nearly destroyed them.
  
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• Register for edie's next webinar: Making 2021 the 'super year' for corporate sustainability

  19-11-2020 15:40
  
  edie's next webinar will explore the redefinition of corporate sustainability leadership in 2021, through the lens of buildings and transport, the Sustainable Development Goals and net-zero strategies.
  
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• EP100: Businesses deliver £150m in energy savings through improved productivity

  19-11-2020 15:00
  
  Companies that have committed to increasing energy productivity have collectively avoided one billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e), while also delivering £150m ($200m) in energy cost savings.
  
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• Blue whale sightings off South Georgia raise hopes of recovery

  19-11-2020 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After single sighting in 20 years of surveys, new expedition and analysis bring 58When the Antarctic blue whale – the largest and loudest animal on the planet – was all but wiped out by whaling 50 years ago, the waters around South Georgia fell silent.Twenty years of dedicated whale surveys from ships off the sub-Antarctic island between 1998 and 2018 resulted in only a single blue whale sighting. But a whale expedition this year and analysis by an international research team resulte
  
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• UK to support plans for new global treaty to 'turn tide' on plastic pollution

  19-11-2020 14:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Lord Goldsmith says Britain, the second biggest per capita producer of plastic waste, could play leading role in tackling crisisBritain has thrown its weight behind a new global agreement to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, which Lord Goldsmith said would go “far beyond” existing international agreements.This week, the Guardian revealed there is growing support for such a treaty internationally, but that neither the UK nor the US, the world’s biggest per capita producers of
  
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• Climate change: Can sending fewer emails really save the planet?

  19-11-2020 13:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK officials are reportedly considering asking us to stop sending "thanks" emails - but why?
  
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• Firefighters and others on the climate frontline need Labour to be bolder | Matt Wrack

  19-11-2020 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The party talks loudly about the need for a green economic recovery with workers at its heart, but its policies fall shortThis week, the government announced a so-called “green industrial revolution”, with the slogan and some watered-down policies lifted straight out of Labour’s 2019 manifesto. With a £12bn investment pledge that Labour believes includes just £4bn of new money, it was rightly characterised by Ed Miliband as a “disappointment”. But the sa
  
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• The 'market' won't save us from climate disaster. We must rethink our system | Robert S Devine

  19-11-2020 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Expecting the free market to fix global warming is like trying to pound nails with a sawThe massive wildfires that have been rampaging across the American west this year are not purely natural disasters. They are partly products of the unnatural disaster of climate change – “unnatural”, in that the ultimate responsibility for global warming belongs not to physics but to our economic system. Nicholas Stern, the former chief economist of the World Bank, calls climate change the &
  
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• Andrew Griffith: What we know about COP26's net-zero business champion

  19-11-2020 12:24
  
  Boris Johnson has chosen Conservative MP Andrew Griffith as the UK's Net-Zero Business Champion for COP26. Here, we outline what we know about his history on climate action and his views on key environmental issues.
  
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• ‘Nobody asks us kids’: the youth-led approach to improving UK streets

  19-11-2020 12:09 via theguardian.com
  
  A radical project in east London is putting children and young people at the heart of the debate over liveable communitiesA group of sixth formers are talking about street play, hide-and-seek and football – and about how cars impact the way they use local spaces.“I have good memories of playing out,” says 17-year-old Sajidul Islam. “Big games of football with all my friends.” He thinks young people should be asked more often what they like about their neighbourhoods
  
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• ‘It isn't safe to walk’: how would young people plan UK streets?

  19-11-2020 12:09 via theguardian.com
  
  A radical project in east London is putting children and young people at the heart of the debate over liveable communitiesA group of sixth formers are talking about street play, hide-and-seek and football – and about how cars impact the way they use local spaces.“I have good memories of playing out,” says 17-year-old Sajidul Islam. “Big games of football with all my friends.” He thinks young people should be asked more often what they like about their neighbourhoods
  
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• Anger as IMO approves deal that will let shipping emissions rise through 2030

  19-11-2020 11:10
  
  Green groups and ministers have expressed anger and disappointment after the UN's shipping body approved measures which will let emissions from the sector grow for another decade.
  
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• Anger after IMO approves deal that will let shipping emissions rise through 2030

  19-11-2020 11:10
  
  Green groups and ministers have expressed anger and disappointment after the UN's shipping body approved measures which will let emissions from the sector grow for another decade.
  
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• Green New Deal: London launches £10m job-creation scheme for low-carbon sectors

  19-11-2020 10:47
  
  London Mayor Sadiq Khan has outlined plans to funnel £10m into the energy efficiency, low-carbon transport and skills sector as part of the capital's plans for a green Covid-19 recovery.
  
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• Endangered animals get entangled in plastics that riddle US oceans – study

  19-11-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 1,800 marine animals from 40 species suffering from contact with plastics over the past decadeEndangered marine mammals and sea turtles are routinely being entangled in or are swallowing pieces of plastic that now riddle the oceans off US coastlines, a new report has found.The plastic-induced toll stretches from Florida, where a manatee was found dead with a stomach filled with plastic bags and straws, to Virginia where a sei whale died after swallowing a DVD case causing stomach lacer
  
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• The secret world of pygmy seahorses, where males give birth – photo essay

  19-11-2020 08:45 via theguardian.com
  
  In his new book, marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith reveals the tiny, magical world of pygmy seahorses, one of the most elusive fish on the planetAfter spending hundreds of hours observing pygmy seahorses for my doctorate, I knew exactly when Tom, a Denise’s pygmy seahorse in Sulawesi, Indonesia, would give birth. He swam with great resolve (1) from where he slept each night with his partner, Josephine, against the current, to the edge of the gorgonian seafan (a type of coral)
  
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• Rediscover nature: winners and finalists – in pictures

  19-11-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A praying mantis, a huddle of butterflies, Galician horses and an alpine sunset are the winners of this year’s European Environment Agency’s ‘Rediscover Nature’ photo competitionContinue reading...
  
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• Country diary: a waterlogged world reverting to the wild

  19-11-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  St Dominic, Tamar Valley: A fresh approach to this water-prone area has brought plant and animal life flooding back to the landOn the parish’s edge, adjoining Viverdon Down and overlooked by Kit Hill, a 10-acre enclosure of wet ground is reverting to a wilder state, steered by new owners. The 1840 tithe map shows six small plots here, all called “moor”, although two of the three tiny fields then used for crops were named as “Brick Moor” perhaps a reference to the ri
  
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• Stirling pupils' penguin project pays off after new colony discovered

  19-11-2020 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Stirling High School students used satellite imagery and computer software to search for the birds.
  
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• COP26: Frustrated by delay, young activists stage virtual Mock COP

  19-11-2020 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Young climate activists call for urgent action at Mock COP as Covid delays UN climate talks.
  
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• Megaprojects risk pushing forests past tipping point – report

  19-11-2020 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Huge road, energy and mining projects driving into heart of world’s remaining forestsInfrastructure megaprojects risk pushing the world’s remaining forests past a “dangerous tipping point” and making climate targets unachievable, a report says.Tens of thousands of miles of roads and railways are planned alongside mines and dams, opening up the forests of South America, south-east Asia and central Africa to destruction, according to the report by a coalition of 25 research
  
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