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• Whaling activist Paul Watson celebrates release from jail after Denmark refuses extradition to Japan

  17-12-2024 14:47 via theguardian.com
  
  US-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd, who was arrested in Greenland in July, will now spend Christmas with his sonsPaul Watson, the anti-whaling campaigner, has spoken of delight that he will be reunited with his young children for Christmas after Denmark rejected Japan’s extradition request and released him from prison in Greenland.After 150 days in jail on the Danish autonomous territory, Watson, 74, was told by his lawyer on Tuesday morning that the Danish authorities had decided he was
  
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• Major report joins dots between world's nature challenges

  17-12-2024 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
  
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• Denmark refuses to extradite whaling activist Paul Watson to Japan, says lawyer

  17-12-2024 13:01 via theguardian.com
  
  US-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd was arrested in Greenland after Japan issued international warrantDenmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade, a Danish lawyer representing Watson said on Tuesday.US-Canadian Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group and of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, has now been released from detention in the Greenland capital Nuuk, Greenland police sai
  
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• Watchdog warns Defra and Ofwat they could face court over sewage dumping

  17-12-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Environment Agency also served notice after investigation found failures to comply with lawThe government, its water regulator and the Environment Agency could all be taken to court over their failure to tackle sewage dumping in England after a watchdog found failures to comply with the law.An investigation by the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) found Ofwat, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Environment Agency (EA) all failed to stop water companies
  
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• More than 6m homes at risk of flooding in England, says Environment Agency

  17-12-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Report says rivers, the sea and surface water endangering properties and that number could hit 8m by 2050More than 6m homes in England are at risk of flooding under the latest climate projections, a study by the Environment Agency has found.This could rise to 8m – or one in four properties – by 2050, the study said. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: Storm Darragh created holes in the woods | Anita Roy

  17-12-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wellington, Somerset: It’s not just trees that are felled, every leaf from every twig has been meticulously picked off by the windThe day before the storm was hushed and still, expectant as a theatre when the lights go down. Then Storm Darragh swept in, roaring and raging, tossing the scenery about. The government alert on my mobile nearly made me jump out of my skin – but apart from that, I spent the day oddly becalmed, safe from the huffs and puffs of the wolf trying to blow my hou
  
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• Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity

  17-12-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Restoring age-old land rights has enabled 300 villagers to build a profitable business and halt the exodus to the cityIt’s late morning and the sound of axes clacking against wood echoes through Pachgaon’s bamboo forest in the central Indian state of Maharashtra. A huge depot, larger than a cricket stadium, is full of bamboo branches, stacked neatly by size in different sections. Nearby is a small, windowless office painted in the colours of the forest – a record-keeper of Pach
  
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• One in four properties at flood risk by 2050 - report

  17-12-2024 04:20 via bbc.com
  
  Climate change could increase flood threats without improvements to defences, the Environment Agency warns.
  
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• Government has broken the law on sewage, says watchdog

  17-12-2024 01:44 via bbc.com
  
  The OEP has ruled that it allowed excessive sewage into England's rivers and seas.
  
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