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by Rupert Neate in New York on (#T29C)
CEO announces plan to phase out controversial shows at its San Diego park by 2017 after protests that began after release of documentary BlackfishSeaWorld will end theatrical orca shows at its theme park in San Diego next year as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the company in the wake of mounting protests over its treatment of animals.
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by Letters on (#T2G4)
Philip Hoare writes of fog coming from the east (The mist that muffles yet inspires our art, 3 November). As a child growing up in a village near the Thames in Essex, I remember that the arrival of fog promised sprat suppers, when these little silver fish were floured, then fried and served with lemon or vinegar and bread and butter. Old people would eat them whole, heads, bones and tails. “You need a fog for sprats,†my mother insisted, and it was true that the two usually coincided, although surely this was an old fishwives’ tale? After she died, I read that when fogs descend and rob the North Sea of light, shoals of sprats rise to feed near the surface, making them easier prey. If this is true then fog has even more to commend it.
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by Rowena Mason and Adam Vaughan on (#T2BC)
Letter from Amber Rudd revealing UK is forecast to fall 3.5 percentage points short of target exposes ‘dark side of government energy policy’, says GreenpeaceThe energy secretary, Amber Rudd, has been accused of misleading the public after a leaked letter revealed that the UK is predicted to fall short of its European Union obligations to get 15% of its energy from renewables by 2020.The letter from Rudd, which was obtained by the Ecologist magazine, discloses that the department’s internal forecasts say the UK will only manage to get about 11.5% of energy from renewables by that point, but adds that “publicly we are clear that the UK continues to make progress to meet the targetâ€. Continue reading...
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by Patrick Barkham on (#T24T)
The exotic species colonising the south coast are the experts when it comes to adapting and surviving. We should learn from themSomething stunning happened last week, which has never before occurred in Britain in November: a subtropical butterfly, the long-tailed blue, was seen flying on the south coast of England. Another unprecedented event took place one August evening: a volunteer at the Dungeness bird observatory was strolling home from the pub when he was transported to summer holidays on Mediterranean verandas – he heard the nocturnal whirring of tree crickets. Hundreds of these warmth-loving insects have now been found breeding in Britain for the first time.Related: Exotic butterfly to make spectacular late-summer emergence Continue reading...
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by Jessica Elgot on (#T1T9)
Conservationists took flight when a furious farmer in only blue T-shirt and pants took exception to their efforts to remove poaching trapsBird enthusiasts attempting to remove illegal poaching traps in a French village have been met with fury by a local farmer, armed with a shovel and wearing nothing but a blue T-shirt and underwear.Members of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) had taken several journalists on an operation to stop the poaching of finches, a protected species, in the village of Audon, south-west France. Continue reading...
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by Damian Carrington on (#T1MH)
Global warming milestone is one of three climate records set to be broken in 2015, says UK Met OfficeClimate change is set to pass the milestone of 1C of warming since pre-industrial times by the end of 2015, representing “uncharted territory†according to scientists at the UK’s Met Office.
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by John Vidal, and Jesse Winter in Port Harcourt on (#T1HA)
20 years after the death of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoniland communities still see little benefit from promised oil clean-up, and have no basic servicesCommunities in the oil-rich region of Ogoniland say they feel just as marginalised and in need of work and development as they were before the executions of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other chiefs in November 1995.
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by Helen Pidd North of England editor on (#T1DN)
Nearly 90 cyclists were killed riding their bikes in England and Wales last year, but how are you most likely to come a cropper while cycling? And are you more likely to die falling off a ladder? Helen Pidd sifts through the figuresWould you have guessed that 70 people died in England and Wales in 2014 from falling off a ladder? That 15 fell off a cliff and yet just one man died falling out of a tree last year? Five women died from “pain and other conditions associated with female genital organs and menstrual cycleâ€; nine people passed away from a “foreign body entering into or through eye or natural orificeâ€. The list of ways to die, detailed in Office for National Statistics (ONS) annual mortality data published, goes on.But as a cyclist, I was most interested in looking at how cyclists died. The stats make sobering reading. Continue reading...
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by George Monbiot on (#T10K)
Welsh government plans to reopen Cardigan Bay to destructive dredging suggest it’s an even worse defender of our key conservation areas than Westminster – and that’s quite a featThree weeks ago, a friend and I took our kayaks down to Cardigan Bay, and launched them on to a flat sea. Even from the beach we could see that something was happening: the sea serpent heads of cormorants were emerging from the water with mackerel in their beaks, while gulls squabbled over the smaller fish being driven to the surface.By the time we were half a mile from the shore, we found ourselves surrounded by great flocks of herring gulls, guillemots and razorbills, sitting on the surface, watching a constellation of tiny flashes as shoals of sandeels were herded by the mackerel far below. Every so often, as a shoal was driven towards the surface, the gulls would go mad, squawking and fighting and dipping their heads into the water, and the diving birds would disappear into the sea. Continue reading...
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by Laura Villadiego on (#T102)
The environmental impact of palm oil is in the spotlight but the workers who endure exploitation in the name of our cakes and cosmetics are largely ignoredThe thick haze that has covered vast parts of south-east Asia in recent months has put the ecological impact of the palm oil industry back in the spotlight, but the ongoing issue of tough working conditions for plantation workers remains shrouded behind a veil of silence.When the Dutch introduced the first palm oil trees on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the 19th century, they also brought migrants from India and China to cultivate the plantations. Continue reading...
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by Guardian Staff on (#T104)
Large parts of China are blanketed with some of the worst levels of dangerous acrid smog on Monday. Levels of the most dangerous airborne particulates PM2.5, which are linked to cancer and heart disease, reached almost 50 times the World Health Organisation maximums in Liaoning province, seen here• Airpocalypse now: China pollution reaching record levels Continue reading...
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by John Abraham on (#T0Y0)
The Obama Administration made the right decision to reject the Keystone XL projectThe stupid-from-the-beginning Keystone XL pipeline is dead. It was designed to make it easier to sell the dirtiest of all fuels (tar sands and petcoke), which pollute our air and are inefficient as fuels. The proposed project was incompatible with solving climate change. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama have now decided that building the pipeline is not in our best interest.This latest decision was often used as a symbol for all of Obama’s actions on the environment. The reality is that Obama’s decision on Keystone is only one part of his legacy. Under the Obama Administration, we have gone from being a laggard to a leader. We have created multiple international agreements with other countries like China to deal with pollution and climate change.
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by Michael Berkowitz on (#T0XY)
This week’s 100 Resilient Cities summit in the Mexican capital offers a chance for global experts to develop the tools they need to make their cities strongerDepending on how you count them, there are about 10,000 cities around the world, housing more than 50% of the world’s population. By all estimates, that number is only increasing and by 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Our cities face an ever-expanding range and severity of challenges – from increasing climate-related hazards to additional stresses on infrastructure, society and the economy.With so many risks – both known and unknown – how can cities become more resilient to the social, economic and physical challenges of the 21st century? And how can cities utilise these perceived challenges as means to better plan and create thriving cities, resilient to the potential shocks and stresses that will accompany such stark changes? Continue reading...
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by Press Association on (#T0HN)
Ofgem says that business customers lost out on receiving better information about their energy consumptionE.ON has been told to pay £7m to the Carbon Trust for its “unacceptable†failure to supply enough advanced smart meters to business customers, regulator Ofgem has revealed.The energy giant will also face a sales ban and a further £7m redress if fails to meet its new interim targets. Continue reading...
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by Guardian Staff on (#T0D4)
From Britain to the Middle East and China, engineers and architects are pushing the boundaries of possibility as they strive to create the biggest and the best
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by Kate Lyons and Nabeelah Shabbir on (#T0BG)
Poll by Guardian and partner papers finds Europeans pessimistic but proactive before crunch Paris climate talksEnglish speakers are the least optimistic about humanity’s chances of avoiding dangerous climate change, according to a survey of readers in English, French, German and Italian conducted by the Guardian, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung and La Stampa.Related: Storm and drought: what Europe has to fear from climate change Continue reading...
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by Kate Lyons, Nabeelah Shabbir, Michael Bauchmüller on (#T0BJ)
From picking up rubbish to cleaning the sea, people across the continent are making a huge a differenceClimate change has vanished from the headlines since the financial crisis elevated other economic concerns to the top of the agenda. But across Europe there is no shortage of activists trying to make a difference before this month’s UN climate summit. Continue reading...
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by Tomasz Ulanowski in Warsaw, Manuel Planelles in Ma on (#T0BM)
Deserts in Spain, snowless ski resorts in Italy, deforestation in Germany – and seas that keep on rising
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by Adam Vaughan on (#T0A4)
Supermarket’s test of customer support for cosmetically imperfect vegetables fails to convince chef, whose new BBC series highlights food waste in BritainSupermarket Morrisons’ efforts to encourage customers to buy wonkier-shaped vegetables have been branded “pathetic†by the chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.The BBC show Hugh’s War on Waste last week saw the broadcaster giving away oversized and curvy parsnips outside a Morrisons branch in Wimbledon, to highlight the food waste he says is caused by supermarkets’ excessively exacting cosmetic standards. Continue reading...
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by Simon Ingram on (#T06H)
King’s Cliffe, Northamptonshire There’s not much left of the airfield now. Roofless buildings with narrow eyes, clearings. It’s farmland, mostly. What remains hides behind summer leaves yet to atrophy to winter bones
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by First Dog on the Moon on (#T05S)
Does it eat something very specific and live in a place that we’ve chopped down? Then you may have an endangered creature
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by Tom Phillips in Beijing on (#T047)
In some areas level of harmful particles in the air were 56 times the levels considered safe by the World Health OrganisationResidents of north-eastern China donned gas masks and locked themselves indoors on Sunday after their homes were enveloped by some of the worst levels of smog on record.
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by Joshua Robertson in Brisbane on (#T00C)
Australian Conservation Foundation takes battle against Queensland mine to federal court, arguing Greg Hunt failed to consider the impact of climate pollution on the Great Barrier ReefThe Australian Conservation Foundation has launched what it described as a historic bid to have the federal government’s approval of Adani’s Carmichael coalmine declared illegal – but the action has prompted one Coalition senator to renew calls for a crackdown on so-called “green lawfareâ€.The ACF on Monday lodged the challenge in the federal court in Brisbane, arguing the environment minister, Greg Hunt, failed to consider the impact of climate pollution from Australia’s largest proposed mine on the Great Barrier Reef. Continue reading...
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by Martin Farrer and agencies on (#SZWY)
Shares in the mining multinational continued to fall amid calls for more regulation in the wake of the collapse of two dams at its co-owned iron ore mineThe boss of BHP Billiton will arrive in Brazil on Monday to see at first-hand the devastation wrought by the collapse of a dam at an iron ore mine co-owned by the company that has left at least two dead and dozens missing.Three days after the rupturing of two dams unleashed a massive flood of mud on nearby villages, authorities were still struggling to determine the cause of the disaster or even recover the bodies of as many as 28 people lost in the torrent. Continue reading...
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by Dulce Ramos in Mexico City on (#SZS2)
Clogged with traffic, crippled by poor infrastructure – the capital is notoriously hard to navigate on foot. Enter Peatónito, the activist fighting for safer streetsThe traffic light turns red at the corner of Avenida Juárez and Eje Central, the busiest pedestrian crossing in Mexico City, used by around 9,000 people every hour. Tonight, a driver stops his grey Peugeot exactly on the crossing where the masses are trying to pass. His car is now a steel barrier for those trying to reach the Palacio de Bellas Artes. A masked man dressed in black makes his way through the river of people, walking purposefully towards the Peugeot. His black and white striped cape, reminiscent of a zebra crossing, flaps behind him. He goes to the car, flings his cape over his shoulder, and pushes the Peugeot backwards to make space.“My name is Peatónito, and I fight for the rights of pedestrians,†he says, introducing himself. The driver smiles and reverses willingly and eventually the pair shake hands. With the pedestrian crossing again flowing as it should, Peatónito heads back to the pavement where he will wait until he is needed again. The traffic light turns green. Continue reading...
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by Mark Anderson on (#SZAB)
Efforts to curb climate change must be twinned with programmes to cut poverty, warns a study of the threat posed by global warming to food securityThe world must pair efforts to stabilise climate change with programmes to eliminate poverty if vulnerable people are to be kept from falling back into hardship as rising temperatures wreak havoc on food security and livelihoods, a report has said.As many as 100 million people could slide into extreme poverty because of rising temperatures, which are caused by greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank report said. The bank’s most recent estimate puts the number of people living in extreme poverty this year at 702 million, or 9.6% of the world’s population.
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by Maev Kennedy on (#SZJS)
250-year-old Cubbington pear named tree of the year after public vote but is set to be felled to make way for transport schemeThere is good news and bad news for the 250-year-old Cubbington pear tree, one of the oldest and largest wild pears in Britain. The good news is that it has scooped the Woodland Trust tree of the year title after attracting more than 10,000 votes from members of the public. The bad news is that its hilltop site in Warwickshire is in the proposed path of the HS2 train line.HS2 planners say that because the tree has a hollow trunk it would be impossible to move elsewhere, but promise that it will be propagated from cuttings. Continue reading...
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by RC Spencer on (#SZJ3)
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 7 November 1915Surrey
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by Juliette Jowit on (#SZ2G)
Speaking before Paris summit, expert says Europe must take urgent steps such as ending fossil fuel subsidies and encouraging electric carsEurope has to step up its effort to combat climate change and wake up to the urgency of the situation, the climate change expert Lord Stern has said before crunch UN talks in Paris later this month.Europeans need to end subsidies for fossil fuels, multiply energy efficiency efforts, improve mass public transport systems and accelerate the roll-out of electric cars in order to live up to their commitments, Stern told the Guardian in an interview. Continue reading...
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by Lettie Kennedy on (#SYKS)
Patrick Barkham’s guide to Britain’s Neptune Coast teems with characters, history and literary allusionIt is often said that Britain is a maritime nation but, writes Patrick Barkham in his new biography of the British shore, we might be more accurately described as “a coastal nation, happiest when looking seawardâ€.Examining our enduring love of the seaside, Coastlines addresses themes of childhood, passion, war, industrialism, art and faith, and the ways in which each has coloured perceptions of the shore. Alongside lurid tales of Cornish wreckers and chronicles of the first saints of Lindisfarne sit skilful pen-portraits: an account of the painter Rex Whistler creating his grandiose symbolic panorama at Plas Newydd in Anglesey during the 1930s is brilliantly evocative, while one of the book’s most moving passages tells the story of Keith Lane, whose wife’s suicide at Beachy Head prompted him to become an unofficial counsellor to others he encountered on the Sussex cliffs. Barkham is adept at capturing the genius loci of a landscape, too: Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland, built by the Earl of Lancaster in the 14th century, is “a dark Avalon of colossal ambitionâ€, while the dreadful “pagodas†at the abandoned MOD facility on Orford Ness are memorably described as “psychotic cathedrals of Mutually Assured Destructionâ€. Continue reading...
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by Airah Cadiogan on (#SY2D)
The second anniversary of typhoon Haiyan is a timely reminder that the world’s most vulnerable communities should be at the heart of the Paris climate talksIn the small fishing town of Salcedo in the Philippines’ Eastern Samar province, fishermen and women have been struggling to feed themselves since Haiyan first made landfall 20km away on 8 November 2013.Already among the poorest people in the country, their livelihoods were shattered when eight-metre high waves wrecked the coral reef near their area. Continue reading...
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by Marcus Barnes on (#SY33)
Ex-train-tagger Marcus Barnes found himself arrested for ‘encouraging’ crime when he produced a graffiti magazine. Here he tells the story of the three-year nightmare that ensued and examines our contradictory attitudes to the art formOn Monday 12 December 2011 a three-year ordeal, which my barrister later described as an “Orwellian nightmareâ€, began. I woke up to a text message from my sister: “Marcus your [sic] gonna go mad. The police are here and they’re taking all your magazines and stuff from your room.â€The British Transport Police had been on my trail for a year or so and I was well aware that my past crimes as a graffiti artist might catch up with me – associates of mine had been apprehended, as part of Operation Jurassic, an investigation into the activities of their crews GSD (Goat Squad) and YRP (Yard Raving Posse), who were prolific on trains here in the UK and overseas. My name had come up during their interviews because I’d travelled abroad with some of them to indulge in “graffiti tourism†in countries where attitudes to graffiti are more lax and permissive. What I didn’t realise was that I was to become the first person in the UK to be charged with “encouraging the commission of criminal damage†contrary to section 46 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 as part of Operation Pandora, an offshoot of Operation Jurassic focused entirely on me, Marcus Anthony Barnes, and my magazine, Keep the Faith. Continue reading...
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by Elizabeth Day on (#SY00)
A magical encounter in the sea off Hawaii changed Susan Casey’s life and set her on a quest to discover more about one of the most loved marine mammalsSusan Casey hadn’t given that much thought to dolphins when she went for a swim off the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Maui one afternoon in July 2010. In fact, she was more worried about sharks. The weather was bad – low clouds and a stormy sea – and there had been a recent spate of shark attacks in the area. It was dusk and no one else was in the water.But Casey was drawn to the shoreline. She was flying back to her life as a magazine editor in New York city the following day and this was the last chance she would have to kick out against the waves. Continue reading...
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by Lucy Siegle on (#SXSV)
Avoid the usual toxic brew by choosing from the increasing range of natural productsA friend of mine swears by Dr Bronner’s organic soap. She uses it to wash her hair and body, and also to clean the shower afterwards.I used to think she was being puritanical; then I found out the average woman uses 12 toiletries per morning, containing 168 ingredients. Now I admire her brave anti-materialism. The fewer ingredients, the less the chance of creating a toxic brew with a negative impact on the planet. Continue reading...
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by Elizabeth Day in Los Angeles on (#SXCF)
As residents cut water use, even the rich rage at the mysterious ‘Wet Prince of Bel Air’, who used 11.8m gallons in one yearDean Gamburd has been a Bel Air resident all his life. Normally, he has nothing but good things to say about his neighbourhood, one of the most affluent in Los Angeles, where the streets are lined with opulent houses and well-tended flowerbeds. Jennifer Aniston, Nicolas Cage and Kim Kardashian have homes here. It’s a nice place to live.But today Gamburd, a former firearms consultant in his 60s, is angry. Very angry. “It’s criminal,†he says, sitting at a table outside Starbucks. “There’s no other word to use.†Continue reading...
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by Observer editorial on (#SXCS)
Since the election, the government has performed a series of dizzying U-turns on its green policiesPresident Obama reputedly remarked of the forthcoming UN climate change summit: “I’m dragging the rest of the world behind me to Paris.†Later this month, 149 nations will congregate to agree national targets for reducing carbon emissions. But Britain, once regarded as a global leader, has relegated itself to the ranks of those reluctantly being pulled along in Obama’s wake.Since the election, the government has performed a series of dizzying U-turns on its green policies. It has announced cuts to subsidies for onshore wind and solar energy; scrapped the zero carbon homes standard; ended the green deal for home insulation; and reversed its promise to exclude national parks from fracking. Continue reading...
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by Reuters in Mariana on (#SX8V)
Nineteen people missing as mining executives suggest that an earth tremor could have triggered the disastrous collapse of two damsRescue teams have struggled to reach villages devastated by a massive mudflow after two dams burst at a major iron ore mine in south-east Brazil.The twin bursts, which mining executives think could have been triggered by an earth tremor, wrought havoc more than 50 miles downstream and prompted officials to warn that many people are likely to have died. Continue reading...
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by Guardian staff and agencies on (#SX76)
Adam Bandt and Richard Di Natale say a carbon tax delivers as much to the budget as increasing or broadening the GST, while costing households lessRelated: Raising GST to 15% 'will cost poorest families 7% of disposable income'The Australian Greens say a carbon tax would raise as much revenue as increasing the GST rate or broadening its base, while also reducing pollution. Continue reading...
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by John Vidal on (#SX1G)
Twenty years after ‘judicial murder’, Nigeria’s Ogoni people highlight international storm over oil spillage pollutionLeaders of Nigeria’s Ogoni people have threatened to disrupt the country’s oil industry if the government does not release a British artwork commemorating the 20th anniversary of the execution of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.
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by Daniel Boffey on (#SWHG)
John Gummer, PM’s climate change adviser, fears impact of subsidy cuts to solar and wind powerDavid Cameron’s chief climate change adviser has warned that the government is “clearly failing†in key policy areas and needs to regain the confidence of investors in green technology, in the runup to next month’s crucial global summit in Paris.Lord Deben, chairman of the UK’s independent committee on climate change, told the Observer of his concerns, particularly regarding the continued waste of energy from draughty homes and the failure to exploit the potential of renewable heat technology. Continue reading...
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by David Agren in Calgary on (#SW9M)
Prime minister looks forward but some have accused the US of ‘hypocrisy’, as shale oil production sent US production soaring by four million barrels per dayThe Obama administration’s decision to kill the Keystone XL pipeline met with disappointment and derision – though little surprise – in Calgary, the boomtown-turned-bust capital of Canada’s oil industry. It also induced some provincial angst as Alberta attempts to open new markets for a product that floats rough 50% of its economy.
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by Karl Mathiesen in New York on (#SW8N)
Obama said approving project would undercut global leadership as climate change is a diplomatic imperative that overrides traditionally domestic interestsThe symbolism was everything. Standing before a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt, the conservationist president who 104 years ago busted the Standard Oil monopoly, Barack Obama made his own tilt at an environmental legacy.
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by Design by James McLeman on (#SVRH)
In a circular economy, everything is designed so that nothing is sent to landfill. Use this interactive to learn what this means for the design of different car parts
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by Dave Hill on (#SVJW)
Boris Johnson’s east London suburban cycling scheme is meeting strong opposition, though estate agents seem very keen on itIt was a lively scene outside Walthamstow Town Hall: hundreds of people, young and old, female and male of many faiths and ethnicities united in advance of a full council meeting against what they see as the heedless imposition of one of Boris Johnson’s “mini-Holland†cycling infrastructure schemes. “Let’s have justice not a dictatorship,†read one placard. “We are not the silent minority, we are the vocal majority,†a banner cried.This is not how things were meant to be. When the Labour-run borough secured “full mini-Holland status†and £30m from Conservative-run City Hall in March 2014, Johnson declared himself “incredibly impressed†by the “thirst†of all the leading borough funding bidders “to transform themselves into better places for people.†Clearly, a lot of people who live in Waltham Forest aren’t seeing the changes in their streets in quite that way. Continue reading...
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by Miles Brignall on (#SVJ7)
Some households are eligible for grants and free insulation – or even new boilersThousands of householders – particularly those on low incomes – are missing out on free energy efficiency measures, including new boilers, because they may not be aware that help is available. Since 2013, energy firms have been ordered by the government to reduce energy consumption and support people at greater risk of fuel poverty through what is known as the energy company obligation (ECO) scheme.So far around 1.5m energy-saving measures have been installed in households across Britain, at a rate of around 25,000 a month. However, with winter weather just around the corner, householders who live in older properties that may not have such measures in place are being encouraged to see if they are entitled to a free or low-cost upgrade. Continue reading...
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by Jim Perrin on (#SVE4)
Poppit Sands, Pembrokeshire Greenland whitefronts come from the cold north to overwinter here, and run the gauntlet of “sportsmenâ€, their blued barrels loaded with deadly ejaculateAlong the dune-path, sloes and haws hung from thorn thickets, late flowers grew in profusion: bladder campion, herb robert, guelder rose, colonies of evening primrose, michaelmas daisies, clotted blooms of faded meadowsweet, rustling dry spikes of ladies’ tresses. By stepping stones marking the change of spring-fed stream to saltwater rhyne, a kingfisher burst from the reeds, whirred low above the water, its flash of orange and azure in brilliant contrast to mud banks between which a little egret, infinitely graceful of form, stalked on yellow feet and stabbed down with dark dagger beak. Skeins of geese calling plangently wheeled high overhead before gliding down to net-pools upriver of perilous Cardigan Bar: Canada geese and Greenland whitefronts come from the cold north to overwinter here, and run the gauntlet of “sportsmenâ€, their blued barrels loaded with deadly ejaculate, against whom the Welsh government affords this declining and lovely waterfowl scant protection.Related: Country diary: Talsarnau, Gwynedd: Alarm call from the plover, as the wildfowling season approaches Continue reading...
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by Rachel Dixon on (#SVAG)
You don’t have to go to Brazil to trek through a rainforest – Snowdonia has its very own wet woodland just waiting to be exploredDoes the phrase “save the rainforest†conjure up visions of: a) Brazil, b) Borneo, or c) north Wales? You may not know it but Britain is home to 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres) of rainforest, in areas including western Scotland, Cumbria, south-west England and, yes, north Wales. And these temperate forests are just as precious – and under just as much threat – as their tropical counterparts.
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by Reuters in Mariana on (#SV59)
Rescuers continue search for survivors after flooding from two collapsed dams used by mines owned by BHP Billiton and Vale swept through six villagesRescue teams searched through mud and debris on Friday for dozens of people missing after a pair of dams collapsed at a Brazilian mine owned by two of the world’s biggest iron ore producers.
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by Lenore Taylor Political editor on (#STNP)
Exclusive: mirroring the Turnbull government’s tax debate with all options ‘on the table’, six different climate policies are canvassed at closed-door summitLeaders from business, welfare, the conservation movement, the electricity sector and the union movement have moved to try to fill Australia’s climate policy vacuum by starting a new slogan-free debate to help political parties find workable greenhouse policies.
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by Bill McKibben on (#STHZ)
We’ve shown that people aren’t going to just give up and go away when the government ignores climate change, if we can show them how to have an effectIn the first two weeks of the Keystone fight, we couldn’t get any press to pay attention to our work to defeat the environmental disaster we knew it would be if it were approved – none at all. Because back then in the summer of 2011 everyone knew that we couldn’t win. No one ever beats big oil.Now I’m sitting here fielding dozens and dozens of phone calls and emails from reporters, because we did: Barack Obama announced on Friday that he had denied TransCanada’s proposal to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Continue reading...
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