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Greta Thunberg: face of the global climate strikes - in pictures
The huge influence of the Swedish schoolgirl who first began the Friday’s for Future strikes in 2018 is evident across this week’s global protests
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Norfolk slows down coastal erosion with sandscaping scheme
Sand from Great Yarmouth seabed creates mobile dune defences to protect villages
An artificial dune of nearly 2m cubic metres of sand has been created on the Norfolk coast in an innovative approach to slowing coastal erosion.
In the £20m sandscaping scheme, enough sand to fill one-and-a-half Wembley stadiums has been dredged from existing North Sea seabed extraction sites off Great Yarmouth and ferried to the rapidly eroding coastline beside the large gas terminal at Bacton.
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'Pollution knows no borders': Jeremy Corbyn addresses London climate strike – video
Jeremy Corbyn has called Donald Trump’s decision to walk away from the Paris climate agreement ‘disgraceful’ in a speech to climate strikers in London.
The Labour leader said the climate emergency could only be solved by international action. ‘Destroying nature ultimately destroys all of us’, he added
Continue reading...‘Do you really need a 10-year-old to show you how?’ Parker’s poem on the climate crisis – video
Climate striker Parker recited a poem with a powerful message on climate change at the global climate strike in Brisbane, Australia, on Friday. Ten-year-old Parker said he joined the strike ‘to tell the government that climate change is real and they need to act’. An estimated 300,000 people gathered at more than 100 rallies across Australia on Friday, calling for action to guard against climate change
- Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – live updates
Global climate strike: millions protest worldwide – in pictures
People around the world have been walking out of school and work to join the latest protests against the climate crisis. The global day of action, calling for a reduction in emissions, is being held in the run-up to a UN summit in New York
Continue reading...Dozens of people poisoned this year by salmonella-infected British eggs
Exclusive: since January at least 45 consumers have fallen ill, investigation finds, despite assurances of very low risk
Dozens of people have been poisoned after consuming British eggs contaminated with salmonella, an investigation has found, despite recent government assurances that the risk had been virtually eliminated.
At least 45 consumers have fallen ill since January this year in a major disease outbreak health officials have traced back to contaminated eggs and poultry farms. Salmonella can cause food poisoning and – in the most serious cases – can prove fatal. Public Health England (PHE), which monitors salmonella, is not aware of any deaths.
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Hundreds of thousands attend school climate strike rallies across Australia
Organisers of the school strike for climate estimate 300,000 people turned out in more than 100 cities and towns
Hundreds of thousands of Australians took to the streets on Friday as they called for greater action on the climate emergency in more than 100 cities and towns across the country.
Organisers of the school strike for climate claimed about 300,000 people attended dozens of rallies, including an estimated 100,000 in Melbourne and 80,000 in Sydney. The unprecedented climate crisis protests were likely the largest public demonstrations in Australia since the marches against the Iraq War in 2003.
Continue reading...From Alan Jones to the Daily Mail: the Australian media's bizarre reactions to the climate strike
Jones cited Joseph Goebbels while the Mail found a child who said they just wanted the day off school
The Daily Mail found a child at the climate strike who said they just wanted the day off school and Alan Jones quoted Joseph Goebbels. Those were just some of the more bizarre takes on the climate strike from sections of the media on Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied across Australia in what were overwhelmingly peaceful events but on Sydney’s most popular breakfast program Jones interviewed climate sceptics and claimed school children were being brainwashed by adults with a political agenda.
Continue reading...Signs of the times: the best Australian climate strike placards
Australian climate strikers’ signs send government a bleakly humorous Texta message
Laughing in the face of looming apocalypse, Friday’s climate strike brought out the best in dark Australian humour.
While many signs were deadly serious, teens are nothing if not witty and they came armed with memes and pop culture references.
Continue reading...New windfarms will not cost taxpayers after subsidies hit record low
Cost of supporting offshore turbines drops to less than market price for energy
New renewable energy projects will be built at no extra cost for millions of British energy bill payers after record low state-backed subsidies fell below the market price the first time.
The results of a government subsidy auction have revealed that the cost of supporting offshore wind turbines has tumbled by almost a third in two years to record lows of less than £40 per megawatt hour (MWh).
Continue reading...Meet the scientists turning algae into carbon-neutral clothes – video
The fashion industry is a fossil-fuel-guzzling operation as many of our clothes are made from petroleum-based textiles such as polyester. Even natural fibres such as cotton have a huge carbon footprint and require a large portion of the world’s pesticides.
In a bid to solve this disastrous environmental equation, scientists and designers are creating completely new textiles from fast-growing, carbon-sucking organisms such as micro- and macro-algae, mycelium (elements of fungus), bacteria and fermented yeast. These new biotechnologies efficiently convert sunlight and CO2 into mass raw materials, suck carbon out of the atmosphere and pave the way to a carbon-negative wardrobe
- Dr Mark Liu, from the deep green biotech hub at the University of Technology, Sydney, left his career as a fashion designer to focus on developing textiles made from micro-algae
- Charlotte McCurdy is a global security fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design and has created a carbon-negative raincoat from macro-algae
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