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• Reckitt partners with WWF, pledging £10m donation

  30-03-2021 18:25
  
  Reckitt, the parent company of brands including Air Wick and Dettol, has announced a three-year partnership with WWF focusing on nature conservation.
  
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• Who pays for Suez blockage? Ever Given grounding could spark years of litigation

  30-03-2021 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Ship likely to be centre of protracted legal battle over what caused it to run aground in the Suez and who is to blameAfter hauling its 240,000-ton bulk down the Suez canal a week after blocking the essential waterway, the container ship the Ever Given is likely to become the centre of a protracted battle over who will pay for its rescue.The 1,312-ft-long ship was aground on the banks of the Suez Canal for a week, causing an estimated £7bn loss each day in trade owing to ships stuck on eit
  
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• #SustyTalk​: ING's Ben Colegrave on financing the hydrogen revolution

  30-03-2021 17:20
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with an exclusive discussion with ING's director for corporate finance on energy, Benjamin Colegrave.
  
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• Sustainable sets and nature-based investments: Inside Netflix's new net-zero strategy

  30-03-2021 16:00
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has today (30 March) pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2022. In an exclusive interview with edie, the firm's sustainability officer Emma Stewart outlines how it plans to ramp up in-house carbon reductions and use offsetting to meet this new climate goal.
  
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• Despite bats being critically important to our ecology AND adorable, we treat them with disdain

  30-03-2021 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We don’t want them in our parks and nice places because they behave like the wild animals they are
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• Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since 812'

  30-03-2021 13:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The early peak is thought to be linked to climate change as spring temperatures rise.
  
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• Canada declares fish fraud crackdown but leaves out restaurants

  30-03-2021 13:02 via theguardian.com
  
  New study released after Guardian Seascape investigation shows drop in seafood mislabelling, but campaigners argue it uses less strict methodologyCanada’s food safety authority has announced improved monitoring to tackle seafood fraud, after a recent Guardian Seascape analysis found fish mislabelling to be widespread. However,environmental campaigners are concerned samples taken for a key report behind the announcement did not include restaurants and food services and used a less accurate
  
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• What is that weird, tingling feeling? Could it possibly be ... hope? | Joel Golby

  30-03-2021 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The arrival of spring and the easing of lockdown has brought new optimism. Please don’t batter it into submission againI went off spring for a while. When you’re a kid, spring is a time as thick and ripe with ritual as Halloween or Christmas – pancake day, then daffodils, becoming very obsessed with lambs being born for some reason, then Easter itself, where your school takes a brief trip to a local church (“That guy got murdered, look! That guy got murdered in the gothes
  
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• One-third of the UK's biggest businesses signed up to 'Race to Zero' ahead of COP26

  30-03-2021 11:27
  
  Almost one in three FTSE100 companies have signed up to the UN's Race to Zero campaign, designed to accelerate the adoption of net-zero targets ahead of COP26.
  
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• British farmers 'planning to ramp up net-zero investments as part of Covid-19 recovery'

  30-03-2021 11:27
  
  A survey of hundreds of UK farmers has found that record proportions are planning to invest in measures to improve energy efficiency, increase renewable energy sourcing and boost carbon sequestration.
  
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• California relocates mountain lions making a meal of endangered sheep

  30-03-2021 11:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Drastic steps taken to protect the Sierra Nevada’s 600 bighorn sheep after another charismatic species developed a taste for themIn order to save one endangered species, California scientists are having to relocate another iconic creature that is, regrettably, eating it.The California department of fish and wildlife is in the process of moving mountain lions over 100 miles away from struggling populations of bighorn sheep, which are unique to the Sierra Nevada mountains. The herbivores wer
  
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• UK criticised for ignoring Paris climate goals in infrastructure decisions

  30-03-2021 10:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: scientists write to ministers and supreme court over recent ruling in Heathrow caseProminent scientists and lawyers have said the UK government’s decision to ignore the Paris climate agreement when deciding on major infrastructure projects undermines its presidency of UN climate talks this year.The experts – including the former Nasa scientist Jim Hansen, the former UK government chief scientist Sir David King and the economist Prof Jeffrey Sachs – have written to mi
  
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• We all learned to love nature in lockdown. Now let's turn that into practical action | Bella Lack

  30-03-2021 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s time to come out of our bubbles and challenge the way the government is approaching the environmental crisisI became an adult during the pandemic. Because of that, it was a pretty pitiful affair compared with the intoxication of what an 18th birthday is meant to be. Turning 18 is always going to be scary, but it is especially in a society that renders adulthood as something repellently formal.To be an adult is to be civilised. Or so I’ve been taught. Wilderness is an antonym for
  
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• Green investing 'is definitely not going to work’, says ex-BlackRock executive

  30-03-2021 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tariq Fancy once oversaw the start of the biggest effort to turn Wall Street ‘green’ – but now believes the climate crisis can never be solved by today’s free marketsFrom his desk in midtown Manhattan Tariq Fancy once oversaw the beginning of arguably the biggest, most ambitious, effort ever to turn Wall Street “green”. Now, as environmentally friendly investing grows at an exponential rate, Fancy has come to a stark conclusion: “This is definitely not g
  
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• Calm skies: the healing power of birdsong – in pictures

  30-03-2021 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Photographer Gary Calton’s pandemic wanderings around the North York Moors taught him how to be alone – and in harmony with the soothing music of nature Continue reading...
  
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• As a climate activist, I object to the Post Office selling me to Shell Energy

  30-03-2021 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It sold its home phone broadband business but I can’t leave without penaltyI am among the 465,000 Post Office home phone and broadband users who have been collectively sold to Shell Energy, and are to become the firm’s customers.As a climate activist, I most definitely do not want to become a customer of Shell Energy, something that I did not, and would never have, agreed to. Continue reading...
  
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• Crystal brains and witches' butter: discover the fabulous world of fungi

  30-03-2021 07:24 via theguardian.com
  
  The UK’s woods are full of strange specimens. But they aren’t easy to identify – even for the expertsA host of otherworldly characters are squatting in the wood. Conventional toadstools make way for more gelatinous bodies slopping around fallen trees, dead wood and tree stumps during the coldest months of the year. Many are wood-decaying fungi – things that look like crusts, skin, slime and bits of brain that use enzymes to break down and digest wood and other dead plant
  
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• Roaring success of Scottish windfarm shows global potential

  30-03-2021 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hywind Scotland is breaking world records for maximum output and now other firms are competing for sitesIt took 10 years to develop the first floating windfarm and it seemed to some a dangerous gamble to put it 15 miles off Aberdeen in the stormiest waters of the North Sea. But after three years of being in operation it has broken world records for maximum output.Its success even outstrips the speed with which Europe’s other offshore windfarms, those standing in shallow water, have gone fr
  
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• Country diary: a pregnant pause as the ewes return for lambing

  30-03-2021 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Tebay, Cumbria: We rest on the brow of the hill. Even with all the uncertainty there is much to be thankful for. The sheep look well and the weather is settledIt is three-and-a-half miles from one end of the farm to the other, and shortly before lambing, we must walk the pregnant sheep home. Since December, the ewes have been grazing down in the lush green pastures surrounding Low Park Farm, which was abandoned 50 years ago when the previous occupants emigrated to the US.The field systems and th
  
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• Why is it hard to get our head around fungi? (part one) – podcast

  30-03-2021 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Our colleagues from The age of extinction, Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield, are back with two new episodes. We often talk as if we know what species exist in the world – but we don’t. Could misclassifying the notoriously cryptic fungi have broader implications for what we know about the environment, and how we care for it? Continue reading...
  
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• After the deluge: NSW's flood disaster victims begin cleanup – in pictures

  30-03-2021 03:44 via theguardian.com
  
  More than a week after torrential rain hit New South Wales, communities are working to clean up what is left behind Continue reading...
  
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• After the deluge: NSW's flood disaster victims begin clean-up – in pictures

  30-03-2021 03:44 via theguardian.com
  
  More than a week after torrential rain hit New South Wales, communities are working to clean up what is left behind Continue reading...
  
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• 'Sky Zero Footprint Fund': Broadcaster launches £2m sustainable media prize

  30-03-2021 02:01
  
  After committing to becoming a net-zero business by 2030, Sky has unveiled a new competition to encourage firms across the media sector to accelerate their own sustainability initiatives and engage audiences with environmental issues.
  
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• Uganda climate change: The people under threat from a melting glacier

  30-03-2021 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A glacier in western Uganda is disappearing, endangering the traditions of those who live nearby.
  
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