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• UK Government to end support for overseas fossil fuel projects

  13-12-2020 23:01
  
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the UK Government will end financing and support for overseas fossil fuel projects in the build-up to COP26 in 2021.
  
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• Deadliest plastics: bags and packaging biggest marine life killers, study finds

  13-12-2020 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wide-ranging review finds whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds at mortal risk from marine debrisPlastic bags and flexible packaging are the deadliest plastic items in the ocean, killing wildlife including whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds around the globe, according to a review of hundreds of scientific articles.Discarded fishing line and nets as well as latex gloves and balloons were also found to be disproportionately lethal when compared with other ocean debris that animals mistakenly
  
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• New generation of Good Lifers set out to grow their own Christmas

  13-12-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Homegrown veg and even turkeys are on the menu for people converted to self-sufficiency during lockdownIt’s hard to reuse a chocolate advent calendar, but for Maya Levy it’s one of the best parts of Christmas.“It’s really cool – it’s in the shape of a gingerbread house. You melt the chocolate and wrap it in some foil,” she said. Each chocolate parcel goes into tiny wooden drawers in the advent calendar – one element of the 24-year-old marine biolog
  
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• Where's the beef with a greener future that also makes us happier and healthier?

  13-12-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Committee on Climate Change has shown that decarbonising is not only affordable but highly desirableFew crises come with a users’ manual. The government’s official climate advisers, the Committee on Climate Change, have come close, however, with a new 1,000-page tome setting out a blueprint for how Britain can decarbonise its economy and cut emissions to virtually zero by 2050.The committee’s green manifesto, published last week, brings to heel the two most pervasive myths
  
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• Having kids increases global warming. But don’t blame the parents…

  13-12-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  When world leaders get serious about reducing carbon emissions, we can raise families determined to improve the planet’s future When I had my daughter I felt like the first person to have a baby; now I’ve had my son, I feel like I might be the last. An academic study into how young people factor climate change into their reproductive choices makes for dark reading, with 96% “very or extremely” concerned about their potential children in a climate-changed world. For some t
  
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• George Clooney: ‘It’s been a crappy year, but we will come out of it better’

  13-12-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Marriage and fatherhood have given George Clooney a new perspective on life, work and the world we all share. While his young twins play outside, he talks about outsmarting war criminals, battles with Boris and dinnertime debates with AmalDad-chat with George Clooney, father of two. While the actor’s twin three-year-olds, Ella and Alexander, are out on the family tennis court, learning to ride their bikes, Clooney sits in a curtained edit suite inside his Los Angeles home, wondering how th
  
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• ‘Moving a giraffe is a delicate process’: rising waters threaten Kenya's wildlife

  13-12-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  East Africa’s Rift Valley lakes are expanding, endangering the communities that live on their shores and the animals that exist alongsideMarooned giraffes, fleeing flamingoes and stranded impalas: in recent years the rising water levels in east Africa’s Rift Valley lakes have become the norm, displacing people, threatening wildlife and submerging schools and hotels.The gradual rise was first noticed 10 years ago but was accelerated by heavy rains in 2019, according to Kenya’s p
  
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