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'Shame on you': Boots berated for wrapping prescriptions in plastic bags
Campaigners say pharmacy chain should uphold promise to reduce plastic packaging
The pharmacy chain Boots has come under fire for using plastic bags, rather than paper ones, to package some of its prescriptions.
Environmental campaigners and customers criticised the firm, which signed up to a high-profile scheme to cut plastic packaging last year.
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California ETS advisory committee member considering options after job move
The week in wildlife – in pictures
A bobcat, a Burmese python and a baby elephant
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CN Markets: Pilot market data for week ending May 17, 2019
Brazil's Vale warns another mining dam at risk of collapse
Australia’s weekly offset issuance drops to 145k
Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment
From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’
The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world.
Instead of “climate change” the preferred terms are “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global heating” is favoured over “global warming”, although the original terms are not banned.
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NZ Market: New Zealand’s carbon price falters on cap confusion
Revealed: air pollution may be damaging 'every organ in the body'
Exclusive: Comprehensive analysis finds harm from head to toe, including dementia, heart and lung disease, fertility problems and reduced intelligence
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It’s time to kick this mob out, and end this climate crap
It's time for Australia to seize the opportunities in climate action and renewable energy. It's time to kick this mob out and end the climate crap.
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Redflow expands into China
The Redflow deployment will be part of the Haidong Transportation Group’s Smart Grid Project in Qinghai Province, which is recognised as a key market in China’s shift to a low carbon renewable energy future.
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The real world versus the Coalition’s scare campaign
Coalition ministers have been keen to promote the results from BAEconomics’ theoretical modelling exercise, but ignoring what is happening in the real world.
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