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• Twiggy Forrest sets sights on making the impossible possible when it comes to 'pure green energy'

  26-03-2021 20:00
  
  But critics question the continued inclusion of gas in Andrew Forrest’s grand climate ambition
  In the second half of last year, while most of the world was in pandemic lockdown, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest and a team of 50 staff did what others couldn’t. He spent five months crisscrossing the globe in a private jet, visiting more than 40 countries.It set Australia’s second-richest person on a path to an outcome that, if delivered, could transform the energy landscape of
  
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• 'Wanted, preferably alive': the $10,000 search for New Zealand's 'ghost' bird

  26-03-2021 19:00
  
  Many believe the South Island kōkako to be extinct – but the recovery of its North Island relative has given conservationists hopeThere are few good news stories in conservation, but one group of committed volunteers in New Zealand is hoping for something better – a miracle.Spurred on by the successful recovery of the North Island kōkako – a large, long-legged songbird with a blue wattle and haunting call – they are searching the South Island for its close relat
  
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• At least 20 livestock ships caught in Suez canal logjam

  26-03-2021 18:40
  
  Concerns for animals’ welfare if Ever Given blockage crisis is protracted
  At least 20 of the boats delayed due to a stricken container ship in the Suez canal are carrying livestock, according to marine tracking data, raising concerns about the welfare of the animals if the logjam becomes protracted.The 220,000-ton Ever Given is causing the longest closure of the Suez canal in decades with more than 200 ships estimated to be unable to pass, and incoming vessels diverting around southern Afr
  
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• Suez Canal: How are they trying to free the Ever Given?

  26-03-2021 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Operations are continuing to move a 400 metre long vessel stuck in the Suez Canal since Tuesday.
  
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• More chances to see the Northern Lights

  26-03-2021 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Activity on the sun, crucial for generating the charged particles we see in the sky as the aurora, is now on the increase . Our BBC Weather Watchers have grabbed some great shots of the recently and there could be more opportunities in the coming years as solar activity increases. Simon King finds out more.
  
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• Sustainable Business Covered podcast: How can the circular economy help us get to net-zero?

  26-03-2021 17:48
  
  The new edie podcast episode is streaming now, featuring four exclusive interviews to mark Circular Economy Week.
  
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• 'Uplifting': readers' photos of their local wildlife

  26-03-2021 15:59
  
  We asked UK and European readers to send in photos of the natural world near them from the last few weeksYou can send in your recent wildlife photos hereYou can see our previous selection of photos hereLiving with the coronavirus pandemic has meant many people are having to stay closer to home, but one benefit is having more time to take notice of the natural world around us. From in Highland cow in Oldham to a jackdaw in Ireland, UK and European readers have been sharing pictures and stories of
  
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• Carlsberg and WWF launch seagrass restoration project

  26-03-2021 14:38
  
  Beer giant Carlsberg will team up with WWF on a year-long partnership to restore carbon sequestering seagrass meadows across the UK coastline.
  
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• 'Bangladesh has come a long way': people of Dhaka on half a century of independence

  26-03-2021 13:46
  
  A rickshaw rider, a domestic worker, a student and a photographer on how their lives have changedThe making of a megacity: how Dhaka transformed in 50 years of Bangladesh
  Habibur Rahman, 48, rickshaw rider Continue reading...
  
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• Tesco unveils climate manifesto to assist net-zero target

  26-03-2021 12:01
  
  Tesco has unveiled a new "climate manifesto", pledging to help customers eat more sustainable diets, reducing food waste from farm to fork, and ramping up its efforts to become a net-zero business by 2035.
  
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• #SustyTalk: Kao Corporation's Dave Muenz on plastic packaging innovation

  26-03-2021 11:47
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with an exclusive discussion with Kao Corporation's senior vice president for ESG, Dave Muenz, hosted as part of our Circular Economy Week.
  
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• 5 changes to green policy that you need to know about this week

  26-03-2021 11:18
  
  There have been several important changes to green policy packages in the UK and Ireland this week. Here, edie rounds up the flurry of announcements.
  
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• British Land confirms approved science-based targets on journey to net-zero

  26-03-2021 11:03
  
  Property development and investment giant British Land has had interim carbon reductions targets to help deliver net-zero emissions approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
  
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• ‘Dare to believe’: young writers on their dreams of the sea

  26-03-2021 10:30
  
  To mark the UN’s ocean decade, contestants were asked to write imaginatively on ‘10 years in the ocean’
  Last November the Marine Biological Association (MBA) – one of the world’s longest-established bodies dedicated to research into our oceans and its ecosystems – led the first online Young Marine Biologist summit. Attracting more than 350 young people from 35 countries, the event, which celebrated the start of the United Nations’ Decade of Ocean Science
  
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• Want to make the streets safer for women? Start with cycling

  26-03-2021 08:00
  
  The UK’s cycling infrastructure is hostile to women – and smart new measures in Paris and Lisbon show that change is overdueIt was enraging and exhausting to read comments on social media in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder from men suggesting she had made a “poor decision” to walk home alone in the dark. Every day, women and gender non-conforming people reflexively make calculations about their safety in a way that most men do not have to – and yet sometime
  
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• Lockdown did not reduce air pollution from tyre wear in London

  26-03-2021 07:00
  
  Less traffic meant less congestion, but the remaining vehicles went fasterI asked William Hicks how he felt when lockdown suddenly happened in the middle of his year-long air pollution investigation. “Excited,” he replied. Not the answer that I expected. “It was like moving the field laboratory to a whole new road.” Hicks, and his team from Imperial College London, were studying tiny particles from tyres, brakes and road surfaces on London’s Marylebone Road.The insi
  
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• Country diary: magical moments that herald spring

  26-03-2021 06:30
  
  Ladybower, Derbyshire: Song thrushes pass their repeating phrases from one to the other, as I cycle along through this musical bubbleLate afternoon and cycling alongside Ladybower reservoir, I was enjoying that loose-limbed ease you get from moving in warm sunshine, how you realise that your body has been tensed for months against the cold. I was musing also on the arrival of spring, how something long anticipated can be so uncertain in its arrival. Were we there yet? This was certainly the firs
  
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• Waterfalls and wonder: Uluru under rain – in pictures

  26-03-2021 02:29
  
  Photographer Stacey MacGregor has captured the beauty and magic of rain falling on the rock, while the Northern Territory has been battered by severe storms. The massive sandstone monolith is sacred to the the Anangu Aboriginal people. Since late 2019 tourists have been prohibited from climbing it Traditional owners of Uluru make a splash using entry fee income Continue reading...
  
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• Bangladesh at 50: Why my ancestral home could be lost to climate change

  26-03-2021 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Bangladesh turns 50, a UK-Bangladeshi reflects on how climate change affects his parent's country.
  
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• Bangladesh at 50: Why climate change could destroy my ancestral home

  26-03-2021 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Bangladesh turns 50, a UK-Bangladeshi reflects on how climate change affects his parents' country.
  
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• UK startup Octopus Energy becomes renewable energy giant in £3bn deal

  26-03-2021 01:01
  
  Plan to create 50 million customers after takeover of Octopus Renewables hands UK supplier 300 projects in six countries The UK’s fastest growing energy supplier will soon become one of Europe’s biggest renewable energy investors in a deal worth more than £3bn, which could bring green energy to 50 million homes in six years.Octopus Energy will snap up its sister company Octopus Renewables in a move that will hand the startup a portfolio of about 300 renewable energy projects, a
  
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