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Country diary: the hollow hills of legend
Bronkham Hill, Dorset: The wind pours larksong over the humps and bumps of a bronze age barrow cemetery
The sound of chiffchaffs shouting in the woods falls away as I follow the South Dorset Ridgeway upwards to the high chalk. The way is starred with white stitchwort running through clumps of shocking-pink campion and the last of the bluebells.
Continue reading...Dutch fishermen to sail fleet into Amsterdam in wind turbine protest
Workers say they are taking action in response to vast amount of windfarms being constructed in their waters
The Netherlands may be the land of the windmill, but fishermen are planning a major protest on Saturday against the Dutch government’s latest wind turbine construction in the North Sea, with an armada of fishing boats sailing into Amsterdam.
After alighting from at least 15 boats at the back of Amsterdam’s central station, it is understood that hundreds of fishermen will march to the capital’s Damrak canal, where they will upend bags of small fish deemed too small for sale by the EU, and cover them with red dye.
Continue reading...The rapidly changing dynamics of Australia’s grid
Wind and solar slashing corporate energy costs by 40%
Graph of the Day: EV uptake to boost global electricity demand by four Australias
Another record month for RenewEconomy, just short of magic million
EVs. It’s on Clover Moore, Sally Capp and Graham Quirk
Australian banks double down on global fossil fuel expansion
Protection of Australia’s Commemorative Places and Monuments
Protection of Australia’s Commemorative Places and Monuments
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'Food Fighter': One woman's battle against food waste
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Methane ice dunes found on Pluto by Nasa spacecraft
Climate expert launches new firm to circumvent traditional process for developing US carbon offset protocols
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Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock - it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland
Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date of the damage farming does to the planet.
The new research shows that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75% – an area equivalent to the US, China, European Union and Australia combined – and still feed the world. Loss of wild areas to agriculture is the leading cause of the current mass extinction of wildlife.
Continue reading...Mountain gorilla population rises above 1,000
New total represents an increase of 25% since 2010 in its central African heartland
It is one of the most recognisable animals in the world and one of the most endangered, but a new census reveals the surviving mountain gorilla population has now risen above 1,000.
This represents a rise of 25% since 2010 in its heartland of the Virunga Massif in central Africa. It also marks success for intensive conservation work in a region riven by armed conflict, and where six park guards were murdered in April.
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