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‘Love our bogs’: UK should harness all its landscapes in fight for climate – report
First complete assessment of how UK nature-based solutions can combat the climate and biodiversity crises released ahead of crucial environment summits
Regenerating native woodland, restoring grassland and rewetting peatland must be priorities when tackling the “two defining crises of our age”, according to the first complete assessment of how UK nature-based solutions can combat the climate and biodiversity crises.
More than 100 ecologists examined how all kinds of landscapes – from urban to agricultural to coastal – could be enhanced to maximise carbon retention, biodiversity and human wellbeing. These nature-based solutions (NbS) must be implemented at scale to reap benefits, according to the 190-page peer-reviewed report, published by the British Ecological Society.
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IEA upgrades wind and solar forecasts again, as record 2020 becomes new normal
A new report from the IEA shows that for 2020 renewable energy saw its largest growth since 1999, and it set to hold that growth for at least two years.
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The don’t-mention-climate budget delivers on its goal
The single most definitive driving force behind Scott Morrison's climate policy has been avoiding talking about climate policy.
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New Brunswick sets out income tax cut to offset provincial CO2 levy
Czech utility CEZ sees coal power output slide further in Q1
EU Market: EUAs break €53 to continue record-breaking run
California power demand slips to lowest in two decades in 2020, as natural gas sources rise
EU capitals may seek to keep current distribution of GHG cuts under higher target -media
Queen's Speech: Government makes pledges on animal welfare
A Scottish Highland Cow: ‘On yonder hill there stood a coo’ | Helen Sullivan
They are benevolent vegetarian gods. They watch over, through shielded eyes, the very few animals that have a fringe.
William Topaz McGonagall, the “worst poet in the history of the English language”, is responsible for some of my mother’s favourite words in the world to say. She delivers them in a decent-enough Scottish accent, and she does so whenever the opportunity presents itself: “On yonder hill there stood a coo / It’s no’ there noo / It must’a shif’ted”. When I hear this rhyme I picture a Scottish highland cow, its coat waving in the icy flaff.
McGonagall, who has a certain genius for coos, unfortunately also felt moved to capture in rhyme disasters, “calamities” and freak accidents. He chose to pay tribute to the people who died in the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster thus:
Beautiful railway bridge of the silv’ry Tay
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last sabbath day of 1879
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.”
Biden administration approves first major US offshore windfarm
84-turbine site off Massachusetts will be capable of generating power for 400,000 homes and businesses
Joe Biden’s administration has approved the construction of the US’s first large-scale offshore windfarm, with 84 turbines to be erected off the coast of Massachusetts.
The approval of the project, which will generate about 800 megawatts of energy, enough to power around 400,000 homes and businesses, is a boost to Biden’s agenda of ramping up renewable energy production across the US in order to confront the climate crisis.
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Trillions of brood X cicadas move closer to emergence as soil temperatures rise
Great Eastern Brood set to emerge in the last two weeks of May and into early June, with hordes of bugs to push up from underground
Brood X, otherwise known as the great cicada hatching of 2021, is drawing closer as soil temperatures in some parts of America move closer to 64F (18C) – the trigger, according to scientists, for trillions of the insects to push up to the surface and into the trees to mate.
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Continue reading...Forest the size of France regrown worldwide over 20 years, study finds
Nearly 59m hectares of forests have regrown since 2000, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off
An area of forest the size of France has regrown around the world over the past 20 years, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off, a new analysis has found.
Nearly 59m hectares of forests have regrown since 2000, the research found, providing the potential to soak up and store 5.9 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide – more than the annual emissions of the entire US.
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‘It’s terrifying’: the English village overwhelmed by landfill stink
For miles around Walleys Quarry in Silverdale, people have reported waking up in the night struggling to breathe
It may have been labelled the country’s smelliest village but it is much more than a bad stench making life miserable for the residents of Silverdale in Staffordshire.
For miles around Walleys Quarry landfill near Newcastle-under-Lyme, people have reported waking up in the middle of the night struggling to breathe, with itchy eyes and sore throats. Those with asthma have had their medication increased, and some have reported nosebleeds.
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