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India will abolish all single-use plastic by 2022, vows Narendra Modi
Country will also introduce a campaign against marine litter and a pledge to make 100 national monuments litter-free
India will eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022, prime minister Narendra Modi has announced.
The pledge is the most ambitious yet of the global actions to combat plastic pollution that are taking place in 60 nations around the world. Modi’s move aims to drastically stem the flow of plastic from the 1.3 billion people living in the fastest growing economy in the world.
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Heathrow's third runway plan confirmed by transport secretary – video
The government has approved a controversial plan to expand the London hub after years of delays and opposition from campaigners.
The transport secretary, Chris Grayling, said the announcement was a 'historic moment' that showed the government had a clear vision to build 'a Britain fit for the future'.
Critics say the creation of an additional runway will cause further harm to the environment and may end up costing the taxpayer billions
Heathrow's third runway gets go-ahead from Chris Grayling
Tory splits mean government may have to rely on Labour and SNP to win parliamentary vote
The government has finally given the green light to the controversial plan to build a third runway at Heathrow airport following years of delays and opposition from campaigners.
The transport secretary, Chris Grayling, said the announcement represented a “historic moment” that showed the government had a clear vision to build “a Britain fit for the future”. Critics claim it will damage the environment and could end up costing the taxpayer billions.
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Government has given the green light, but there are still many more potential obstacles
The cabinet has endorsed as official policy a revised national policy statement on aviation, whose key point is to enable Heathrow expansion, specifically a third runway to the north-west of the existing airport. A wider vote will now take place within 21 sitting days in parliament, or by 10 July.
Continue reading...Day Zero: how Cape Town stopped the taps running dry – video
Early this year, the South African government announced that Day Zero was looming – a moment, after three years of unprecedented drought, when dam levels would be so low that taps would be turned off and people would have to fetch water at communal collection points.
After taking remedial measures, Capetonians managed to push back the date of Day Zero until next year. We visited the city to find out how the threat of an apocalyptic disaster has changed lives
Heathrow Airport: Cabinet set for new runway decision
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Families around the world join war on plastic - in pictures
To celebrate World Environment day, Reuters photographers met people from Athens to Singapore trying to play their part as the war on plastics becomes a key political topic
Eight million tonnes of plastic - bottles, packaging and other waste - are dumped into the ocean every year, killing marine life and entering the human food chain, the United Nations Environment Program said in December.
While governments and retailers started clamping down on plastic bags through bans and small fees more than a decade ago, the focus has now increasingly turned to eradicating throwaway items such as straws and takeaway food and drink packaging.
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Give MPs a free vote on Heathrow expansion, says Justine Greening
Ex-minister says opponents of third runway should be allowed to have their say
The government must allow a free vote on Heathrow expansion plans to allow ministers and MPs to represent their constituents, the former education secretary Justine Greening has said.
Greening, a fierce critic of the plans, said ministers such as Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, should be allowed to register their long-held opposition to a third runway without breaking collective cabinet responsibility.
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Australia's large fish species declined 30% in past decade, study says
Call for fisheries changes after study says excessive fishing mostly to blame
The number of large fish species in Australian waters has declined by 30% in the past decade, mostly due to excessive fishing, a new study says.
Marine ecology experts are calling for changes to fisheries management after publication of the study by scientists from the University of Tasmania and the University of Technology (UTS), Sydney.
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Coral decline in Great Barrier Reef 'unprecedented'
Reef monitoring program shows northern section has lost half of its coral cover
A steep decline in coral cover right across the Great Barrier Reef is a phenomenon that “has not been observed in the historical record”, a new report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science says.
The institute, Australia’s government-backed marine research agency, periodically releases results of a long-term reef monitoring program. Each reef along the Queensland coast is visited by researchers every two years to assess its condition and coral cover.
The latest results, released on Tuesday, detail how major bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 have impacted on different sections of the reef. AIMS said it had no previous record of bleaching events occurring in successive years.
“Over the 30-plus years of monitoring by AIMS, Great Barrier Reef reefs have shown their ability to recover after disturbances, but such ‘resilience’ clearly has limits,” the report says.
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