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12m
UK vows to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 68% by 2030
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions will fall sooner and by more than any other major economy in the coming years.
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9m
US election: What a Trump or Biden victory means for the climate
What are the climate implications of a Trump or Biden presidency?
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9m
Carbon offsets: can you really pay off your carbon footprint?
Can we pay someone else to take responsibility for our carbon emissions?
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3m
Death toll rises in California as wildfires continue to rage
The death toll of the wild fire in Paradise in northern California has risen to 23, making it one of the deadliest fires in the state’s history. Two people have also died in a separate fire to the south near Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated and thousands of homes destroyed…
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2m
Quarter of a million people flee California wildfires
Three wildfires across California have caused massive destruction and claimed at least nine lives in the north of the state.
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3m
Consultation on bottle deposit scheme
Shoppers across England who buy bottles or cans of drinks could soon be charged a surcharge which they’d get back once they return the containers. Full details of the scheme, announced by the Environment Secretary Michael Gove, will go out to consultation.
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3m
Pre-packaged food ‘vital’ for some disabled people
For many, the post-Christmas period is a time of rethinking what we eat and drink. Some try a dry January while others start the year with the good intentions of eating more healthily. But what about eating more sustainably? This week the government published a 25-year plan for the environment and targeted excess packaging, while…
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5m
Sylvia Earle: America’s female ‘aquanaut’
She was one of America’s first women ‘aquanauts’, setting a deep sea diving record in 1979. At 82, Sylvia Earle remains a passionate deep ocean explorer and campaigner for the seas. She says she still dives at least once a month otherwise she gets “dry rot.” She has just given the Natural History Museum Annual…
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6m
Yorkshire village takes on Swiss petrochemical giant over fracking injunction
A south Yorkshire village will take on the Swiss petrochemical giant INEOS over a wide-ranging injunction to protect its fracking operations.
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3m
More than a thousand killed in Asian monsoons
Heavy monsoon rains have deluged India, Bangladesh and Nepal in the region’s worst flooding in years. More than a thousand people have died and millions are homeless.
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3m
Government launches energy review over cost and climate change
How to cut down energy bills while still meeting targets on climate change? That’s the challenge for a new independent review tasked with examining ways of controlling costs.
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3m
The Pacific island polluted by discarded plastic
It is one of the world’s remotest places – and one of the world’s biggest dustbins. The tiny Henderson Island in the South Pacific has become inundated with millions of pieces of discarded plastic. Marine scientists say it’s evidence of the “grotesque” extent of pollution.
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2m
Is the UK government about to scrap its renewable energy target?
t’s an ambitious target and one that the government is on course to miss. The UK is currently committed to getting 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, under the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive.
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4m
British nature after Brexit
Leaving aside the nature of Britain after Brexit what about Britain’s nature?
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4m
Scott Pruitt says CO2 not primary contributor to global warming
Donald Trump’s new head of the Environmental Protection Agency has said that he doesn’t agree that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.