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• Australian bird photographer of the year 2020: vote in the people’s choice awards

  12-01-2021 20:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Choose your favourite photo from entrants in BirdLife Australia’s annual photography awards. From a hungry fairy tern to a thirsty corella, the best images from photographers across Australia have been entered into this year’s prize. Voting will run until Friday 22 January.• This year’s Guardian/Bird Life Australia bird of the year poll will run from 27 September • View all categories of the 2020 BirdLife Australia Photography awards here and find out about volunteeri
  
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• #SustyTalk: How can the built environment deliver a green recovery?

  12-01-2021 17:00
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with a special panel discussion on the green recovery for the built environment, featuring Bennetts Associates' director Peter Fisher and FORE Partnership's managing director Basil Demeroutis.
  
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• Clothes washing linked to ‘pervasive’ plastic pollution in the Arctic

  12-01-2021 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Polyester fibres that injure marine life were found in sea water across regionThe Arctic is “pervasively” polluted by microplastic fibres that most likely come from the washing of synthetic clothes by people in Europe and North America, research has found.The most comprehensive study to date found the microplastics in 96 of 97 sea water samples taken from across the polar region. More than 92% of the microplastics were fibres, and 73% of these were made of polyester and were the same
  
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• UK's coal power spikes amid cold snap, despite 'greenest year on record' for electricity in 2020

  12-01-2021 16:12
  
  Coal and gas have routinely accounted for 60% of electricity generation in Britain over the past week, sparking concerns around the nation's ability to maintain energy security in a low-carbon manner during winter weather conditions.
  
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• 'There's real hope': Dalai Lama discusses climate crisis with Greta Thunberg – video

  12-01-2021 14:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The Dalai Lama met climate activist Greta Thunberg virtually on Saturday.The Tibetan spiritual leader said: 'I heard this young girl from Sweden. I really felt: Oh, there is real hope from our younger generation who really thinking this environment and these things.'
  During their conversation, Thunberg said she had heard a call to action and urged people to educate themselves on climate issues.
  'If I could have ask one thing of you, it would be to educate yourself, to try to learn as much as you
  
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• 'There's real hope': Dalai Lama discusses climate change with Greta Thunberg – video

  12-01-2021 14:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The Dalai Lama met climate activist Greta Thunberg virtually on Saturday.The Tibetan spiritual leader said: ‘I heard this young girl from Sweden. I really felt: Oh, there is real hope from our younger generation who really thinking this environment and these things.’
  During their conversation, Thunberg said she had heard a call to action and urged people to educate themselves on climate issues.
  ‘If I could have ask one thing of you, it would be to educate yourself, to try to le
  
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• Dalai Lama says he ‘felt real hope’ after hearing Greta Thunberg speak on climate crisis - video

  12-01-2021 14:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The Dalai Lama met climate activist Greta Thunberg virtually on Saturday.The Tibetan spiritual leader said: 'I heard this young girl from Sweden. I really felt: Oh, there is real hope from our younger generation who really thinking this environment and these things.'
  During their conversation, Thunberg said she had heard a call to action and urged people to educate themselves on climate issues.
  'If I could have ask one thing of you, it would be to educate yourself, to try to learn as much as you
  
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• Man saved from deportation after pollution plea in French legal 'first'

  12-01-2021 14:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Court says man would face ‘worsening of his respiratory pathology due to air pollution’ in country of originA Bangladeshi man with asthma has avoided deportation from France after his lawyer argued that he risked a severe deterioration in his condition, and possibly premature death, due to the dangerous levels of pollution in his homeland.In a ruling believed to be the first of its kind in France, the appeals court in Bordeaux overturned an expulsion order against the 40-year-old man
  
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• Bangladeshi man with asthma wins France deportation fight

  12-01-2021 14:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Court says man would face ‘worsening of his respiratory pathology due to air pollution’ in country of originA Bangladeshi man with asthma has avoided deportation from France after his lawyer argued that he risked a severe deterioration in his condition, and possibly premature death, due to the dangerous levels of pollution in his homeland.In a ruling believed to be the first of its kind in France, the appeals court in Bordeaux overturned an expulsion order against the 40-year-old man
  
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• Beefeater removes plastic from new bottle range

  12-01-2021 12:28
  
  Beefeater has launched a new 100% recyclable bottle, featuring paper labels and an aluminium cap that will be rolled out globally across its range of gins this month.
  
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• Florida manatee with 'Trump' etched on back prompts investigation

  12-01-2021 12:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An investigation is launched after the marine mammal was found with the president's name on its body.
  
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• Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

  12-01-2021 12:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US greenhouse gas emissions tumbled below their 1990 level last year, because of Covid-19 shutdowns.
  
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• A river used to run through it: how New Mexico handles a dwindling Rio Grande

  12-01-2021 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Rio Grande used to flow freely, but now in Las Cruces, humans, fish and plants are vying for water in the arid landscapeImagine the world without its most famous rivers: Egypt without the Nile, or London without the Thames. In Las Cruces, New Mexico, residents don’t have to envision the American west without the Rio Grande – it runs dry in their city almost every single year. Related: Hope grows that Biden will restore US national monuments shrunk by TrumpContinue reading...
  
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• Sky confirmed as COP26 principal media partner

  12-01-2021 11:36
  
  Sky has been named as the principal media partner for the COP26 climate summit and has published new sustainability criteria for its TV productions.
  
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• Bruichladdich distillery explores hydrogen heating

  12-01-2021 10:30
  
  Bruichladdich Distillery is exploring how hydrogen combustion technology can reduce reliance on fuel oil to meet the island-based facility's heating demand.
  
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• Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis

  12-01-2021 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Weaker sharks less effective hunters, which can upset the balance of the ecosystem, say authors of study into impacts of hotter oceansBaby sharks will emerge from their egg cases earlier and weaker as water temperatures rise, according to a new study that examined the impact of warming oceans on embryos.About 40% of all shark species lay eggs, and the researchers found that one species unique to the Great Barrier Reef spent up to 25 days less in their egg cases under temperatures expected by the
  
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• 'Loophole' will let UK continue to ship plastic waste to poorer countries

  12-01-2021 07:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Post-Brexit regulation doesn’t match new EU rules to tackle ocean pollution, despite UK being Europe’s largest plastic waste producerThe UK has been accused of failing to honour its promise to curb shipments of plastic waste to developing countries, after it emerged Britain’s new post-Brexit regulations are less stringent than those imposed by the EU.From 1 January, shipments of unsorted plastic waste from the EU to non-OECD countries were banned. Continue reading...
  
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• County diary: where there's muck, there's copper

  12-01-2021 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Sandy, Bedfordshire: The contents of a million privies were raked across the fields and with the human waste came illicit extrasWinter ploughing turns me into a mudlark of the fields, on the hunt for worthless objects of great value. The blades that buried 2020 have also unearthed human detritus of the ages, every mud-wrapped piece telling a story of loss or abandonment.Nine months of daily litter picks have sharpened my eye to spotting the bright and not so beautiful down the lane. All along th
  
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• Ocean pollutants 'have negative effect on male fertility'

  12-01-2021 01:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Harbour porpoises exposed to PCBs had shrunken testicles, suggesting sperm and fertility effects.
  
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