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How 100% renewables can create jobs and even save the gas industry
The gas industry of the future could manufacture and deliver renewable fuels, rather than mining and processing natural gas.
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How warmer waters threaten Arctic Ocean life
Celebrities call on Japan to scrap resumption of whaling
Letter to Shinzō Abe signed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Fry attacks decision to leave IWC
Celebrities and environmentalists are demanding Japan reverse its decision to resume whaling, condemning the “cruel and archaic practice which has no place in the 21st century”.
An open letter to the Japanese prime minister, Shinzō Abe, criticises Tokyo’s decision to leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC), as campaigners plan a peaceful protest march on the Japanese embassy in London on Saturday.
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Vermont unlikely to hit climate goals under current approach
Virginia committee to re-hear legislation on implementing RGGI auctions
California issues 600k new offsets with majority coming from ODS
EU Market: EUAs ease back below €25 as German coal phaseout plans loom larger
Here's how a 100% renewable energy future can create jobs and even save the gas industry
Brittle star sea 'dinosaurs' at risk from commercial fishing, researchers say
Ancient species lives at depths of 200 to 800 metres, where key commercial fishing species are found
Species as old as the dinosaurs are swimming around in tropical waters at depths accessed by commercial fishermen, according to a world-first study conducted by Australian researchers.
The study, published in the journal Nature on Thursday, examined data on brittle sea stars pulled from 1,500 research voyages in the southern hemisphere from the equator to Antarctica.
Continue reading...California’s PG&E secures financing for future operations
Peter Le Mare obituary
My father, Peter Le Mare, who has died aged 95, was a soil scientist, woodworker, yoghurt maker, occasional needleworker, environmentalist and all-round good egg.
He worked on the Tanganyika groundnut scheme at Kongwa (now in Tanzania) in the 1940s, initially living and working in tents until houses were built.
Continue reading...Calls for emergency action plan as myrtle rust pushes plants to extinction
Experts say some members of ‘enormously important’ myrtle family could be extinct within five years, with others to follow
Australia must roll out an emergency national response to an invasive plant disease that is rapidly pushing at least four plant species to imminent extinction, experts have told Guardian Australia.
A draft emergency action plan for the fungal disease myrtle rust proposes that a rapid collection of seeds and plant material needs to be mobilised before several species disappear altogether.
Continue reading...John Lanchbery obituary
My colleague John Lanchbery, who has died suddenly of sepsis aged 71, was a physicist and climate change expert.
A veteran of international climate change negotiations, John attended the Rio Earth summit in 1992, and every UN summit on climate change since, representing the RSPB and BirdLife International since 1998.
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Government will miss its cycling target by a mile. It's time to invest
Activists want 5% of transport spending to go on active travel, as happens in Scotland
It is possible a million or more people have cycled past the Houses of Parliament in the past 12 months, but you could be forgiven for thinking this has gone unnoticed by those on the other side of the black railings.
On Wednesday, as the cycle superhighway through Parliament Square whisked commuters to work, inside, the transport select committee heard the government would miss its cycling target. It is predicted to achieve just a third of the 800m hoped-for extra cycling trips by 2025, with much of that predicted growth restricted to London.
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