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Only a third of plastic food packaging can be recycled, councils say
Scrap ‘smorgasbord’ of plastics used in packaging, town hall chiefs tell manufacturers
Only a third of the plastic in packaging pots and trays for food can be recycled, local authorities have said.
Town hall chiefs urged manufacturers to scrap the “smorgasbord” of plastics used to package foods from fruit and vegetables to yoghurt, margarine and microwave meals to help cut waste and increase recycling.
Continue reading...Plastic food pots and trays are often unrecyclable, say councils
Trump administration lifts ban on pesticides linked to declining bee numbers
Environmentalists say lifting the restriction poses a grave threat to pollinating insects
The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of genetically modified crops in dozens of national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted.
Environmentalists, who had sued to bring about the two-year-old ban, said on Friday that lifting the restriction poses a grave threat to pollinating insects and other sensitive creatures relying on toxic-free habitats afforded by wildlife refuges.
Continue reading...Drought devastation seen from above – video
From ground level, the drought affecting regional Australia looks like a brown dustbowl, but from the air it is transformed into a heartbreaking story of shapes and textures as the land cracks open under a blazing sun
• Australia’s drought crisis and farmers’ stories of anxiety, fear and resilience
Continue reading...Could the NEG bring down power prices? It's hard to be confident that it will
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Electric vehicle chargepoint policy leaning on a lamp-post adaptation | Letters
John Armitt is absolutely right to highlight the growing importance of a national, highly visible electric chargepoint network. As he will know, in the UK there are already around 14,000 public chargepoints, of which at least 1,300 are rapid chargers, forming one of the larger networks of rapid chargepoints in Europe. New legislation will enable further swift growth and ensure the UK’s infrastructure network is easier to use and still more reliable for electric vehicle drivers. And the government’s recently launched Road to Zero strategy envisages a further massive expansion of electric and low emission vehicle charging infrastructure. It includes a consultation on proposals for chargepoints to be installed with all newly built homes in England, where possible. We are also looking at how far new lamp-posts can include on-street charging infrastructure, and will be providing guidance to local authorities to support this.
The move to zero emission vehicles is the biggest automotive technology change since the invention of the combustion engine. I and my colleagues are seeking to ensure the UK is and remains at the forefront of this revolution.
Jesse Norman MP
Minister for electric vehicles
The week in wildlife – in pictures
A quarter of a million roosting gannets in Yorkshire, an orca whale mother keeps her dead calf afloat and Norwegian reindeer seek cool in busy road tunnels – it’s the week in wildlife
Continue reading...Engineered pig lung transplant 'a success'
Chimp sanctuary created by World Bank threatened by World Bank-backed dam
Bank helped create reserve for endangered primates, but has since funded studies used to approve dam that would flood newly created habitat
Less than a year after it helped to create one of the planet’s most important chimpanzee sanctuaries, the World Bank is accused of backing a dam project that could flood the newly protected habitat.
The 6,426 square-kilomet re Moyen-Bafing national park was established by the government of Guinea last November with the support of the International Finance Corporation , the private sector lending arm of the World Bank.
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Pollution is slowing the melting of Arctic sea ice, for now | John Abraham
Human carbon pollution is melting the Arctic, but aerosol pollution is slowing it down
The Arctic is one of the “canaries in the coal mine” for climate change. Long ago, scientists predicted it would warm quicker than other parts of the planet, and they were right. Currently, the Arctic is among the fastest-warming places on the planet. Part of the reason is that as the Arctic warms, ice melts and ocean water is uncovered. The ocean is darker than ice so it in turn absorbs more sunlight and increases its warming. This is a feedback loop.
Another reason is that the Arctic doesn’t get that much sunlight so increased energy from the atmosphere has a bigger influence there than it would have elsewhere.
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