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Optare Metrodecker all electric bus joins iconic London bus routes
Next time you visit London, you could be crossing London Bridge in an electric double-decker bus.
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Ancient Egyptian mummification 'recipe' revealed
CP Daily: Wednesday August 15, 2018
Online survey available for interested stakeholders
Sustainability Victoria is leading a national project to examine photovoltaic systems and assess possible options for stewardship programs to potentially manage the products at end-of-life.
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ESB proposes major changes to reliability framework of NEG
The NEG may have gone through Coalition party room, but the ESB wants to make significant changes to the nature of the reliability option - in case a coal generator fails.
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New pesticides may harm bees as much as existing ones – study
Ability of bumblebees to reproduce, and rate at which colonies grow, compromised by new sulfoximine-based insecticides
A new class of pesticides positioned to replace neonicotinoids may be just as harmful to crop-pollinating bees, researchers have warned.
In experiments, the ability of bumblebees to reproduce, and the rate at which their colonies grow, were both compromised by the new sulfoximine-based insecticides, they reported in the journal Nature.
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Sea life in 'peril' as ocean temperatures hit all-time high in San Diego
Between 1982 and 2016, the number of ‘marine heatwaves’ doubled, and likely will become more common and intense as the planet warms, study finds
Even the oceans are breaking temperature records in this summer of heatwaves. Off the California coast near San Diego, scientists in early August recorded all-time high seawater temperatures since daily measurements began in 1916.
“Just like we have heatwaves on land, we also have heatwaves in the ocean,” said Art Miller of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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$444m reef grant to cost taxpayers extra $11m, says Labor MP
Chris Bowen says it ‘defies logic’ that the grant was awarded without a competitive tender process
The transfer of $443.8m to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation will cost taxpayers another $11m in public debt interest, Labor’s treasury spokesman Chris Bowen says.
Bowen has questioned what oversight Treasury and the Department of Finance had of the decision to award such a large amount of funding to the small charity in one instalment.
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Hugh Synge obituary
The botanist Hugh Synge, who has died of cancer aged 67, was a roving ambassador for wild plants. In 2007, he was voted one of the 20 most influential British conservationists by BBC Wildlife magazine.
While on the staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in the 1970s, he helped to compile the first Red Data Book of plants. Published in 1979, co-edited with Gren Lucas, this was a landmark publication that assembled for the first time detailed case histories of plant species to explain why so many of them were vanishing.
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Pine marten spotted in Northumberland for first time in 90 years
Fearsome predator was extinct in England but Scottish relatives have crossed the border and set up home in Kielder forest
The pine marten, a fearsome but diminutive predator driven to extinction in England, has returned to the country’s largest forest for the first time since 1926.
Stills and video from a camera trap have recorded a mature pine marten devouring peanut butter put out for red squirrels at a secret location in Kielder forest, Northumberland.
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Badger campaigners lose high court battle to limit cull
Wildlife campaigner Tom Langton claims the culls themselves risk making bovine TB epidemic worse
Badger culling will be extended across England on an open-ended basis, conservationists have warned, after the high court rejected a challenge to the legality of the government’s policy.
Licences to allow badger culling to continue in particular areas beyond a four-year period are legal, ruled Mr Justice Cranston, rejecting a challenge brought by the independent ecologist Tom Langton.
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