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• RAF releases video of world's biggest iceberg

  08-12-2020 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The RAF has now released footage from its low-level reconnaissance flight over the giant A68a.
  
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• RAF release video of world's biggest iceberg

  08-12-2020 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The RAF has now released footage from its low-level reconnaissance flight over the giant A68a.
  
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• WRAP: UK's biggest businesses have cut unnecessary plastic packaging by 40%

  08-12-2020 18:23
  
  Businesses signed up to WRAP's UK Plastics Pact, which is supported by the likes of Unilever, Nestle and PepsiCo, collectively produced 40% fewer non-recyclable and unnecessary pieces of plastic packaging this year than in 2018.
  
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• Swine of the times: why is Kevin Bacon looking for a new home?

  08-12-2020 16:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Kevin Bacon is looking for a new home for a pig with the same name. What’s going on?Name: Kevin Bacon.Age: Four. Continue reading...
  
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• Euro-Russian Mars rover mission takes shape

  08-12-2020 14:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Another key milestone is reached in the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission to the Red Planet.
  
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• #SustyTalk: PepsiCo's Jim Andrew on green bonds and inclusive business

  08-12-2020 14:22
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with an exclusive interview with PepsiCo's chief sustainability officer Jim Andrew, who stepped into the role earlier this year.
  
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• Labour risks loss of young voters by 'going backwards' on climate

  08-12-2020 13:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Party supporters and activists warn inaction over its green new deal could harm electoral chances
  Labour risks losing support among young people unless it does more to champion a radical green new deal (GND) to tackle the climate crisis and rebuild the post-Covid economy with well-paid, unionised jobs, according to climate activists and young Labour supporters.School climate strikers and key youth groups within the party say they have been dismayed by what they see as the party’s failure t
  
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• Energy giants team up to halve green hydrogen costs by 2026

  08-12-2020 13:44
  
  Companies including Orsted and Iberdrola have teamed up in a bid to increase the world's green hydrogen production fifty-fold by 2026 - in a move they claim will halve costs.
  
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• Earth Photo 2020: nature photography winners – in pictures

  08-12-2020 12:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Earth Photo, the international competition and exhibition created by Forestry England and the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, aims to encourage discussion about the environment by telling stories about the natural world, its inhabitants and our treatment of bothContinue reading...
  
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• Our global fire crisis is the sign of a dying biosphere. But we can take action| Troy Vettese

  08-12-2020 12:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The unprecedented fires aren’t just caused by the climate crisis. Land use –especially real estate and animal husbandry – have a lot to answer forA good, natural fire can be a cleansing force. Yet, the recent and ongoing catastrophic fires around the world – including in Brazil, the US, Sweden, Russia and Australia – are not moments of a healthy fire cycle but conflagrations of a dying biosphere.Terrible as they are, the fires in the western American states are only
  
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• A video game garden: the delights of virtual botany

  08-12-2020 12:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Can rich video game worlds introduce us to nature? A forager, a programmer and a botany professor discuss the educational possibilities of simulated plantlifeSomething is afoot in the sleepy Shropshire village of Yaughton. The locals have vanished into thin air, and the roads throng with murmuring golden lights. Most unsettlingly of all, the local pub sells beer at 50p a pint. There’s a mystery to unravel, but when I visit with author and educator Adele Nozedar, we’re most interested
  
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• Mt Everest grows by nearly a metre to new height

  08-12-2020 11:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For the first time, China and Nepal agree an official height for the world's highest peak.
  
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• Earth Photo winners announced

  08-12-2020 11:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A project on abandoned spaces reclaimed by nature has won the 2020 Earth Photo competition.
  
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• The Vatican convenes business giants in bid to promote purpose-led capitalism

  08-12-2020 10:46
  The Vatican has convened representatives from more than a dozen of the world's biggest businesses, including EY and Kering, for a new alliance to champion more inclusive and sustainable financial systems.
  
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• Thousands more back Dr Timnit Gebru over Google 'sacking'

  08-12-2020 08:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Members of the researcher's AI ethics team have published a letter challenging the firm's account.
  
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• The Paris agreement five years on: is it strong enough to avert climate catastrophe?

  08-12-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With Trump no longer a threat, there is a sense of optimism around what the accord could achieve – but only if countries meet their targetsNo one who was in the hall that winter evening in a gloomy conference centre on the outskirts of the French capital will ever forget it. Tension had been building throughout the afternoon, as after two weeks of fraught talks the expected resolution was delayed and then delayed yet again. Rumours swirled – had the French got it wrong? Was another c
  
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• Chuck Yeager: First pilot to fly supersonic dies aged 97

  08-12-2020 06:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US pilot broke the sound barrier in 1947, helping to pave the way for America's space programme.
  
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• Country diary: calm waters and chasing birds

  08-12-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Waltham Brooks, West Sussex: A bird of prey spears low across the dark water and up over the reeds. The starlings react instantly, exploding in deafening alarm callsThe water shines blue and gold in the evening light. Across the fields, a herd of dark fallow deer runs out of the trees and across the brooks. One by one, they slow to a stop and queue, waiting as the animal in front of them disappears into a ditch, reappears as it climbs out, and then runs to catch up with the others.I count 79 dee
  
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• Hydrogen power: Firms join forces in bid to lower costs

  08-12-2020 01:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The possibility of a future powered significantly by clean hydrogen takes a small step closer.
  
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• Astronomy: 'Odd radio circles' in the sky a ‘genuine mystery’

  08-12-2020 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new high-powered telescope has discovered inexplicable ghostly circles in the sky.
  
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