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Awkward questions about biodiversity | Letters
Damian Carrington are to be congratulated on a wide-ranging and informative article on the urgency and scale of the current global threat to biodiversity and the Guardian (What is biodiversity and why does it matter to us?, theguardian.com, 12 March). However, we of the Beyond Extinction Economics (BEE) network have reservations about the article’s diagnosis of its causes, and proposals for addressing the crisis.
First, to say “we” or “human activity” is responsible for biodiversity loss sidesteps the more serious challenge of identifying the specific socio-cultural, and, more centrally, economic drivers of destruction. Second, to slip easily from population rises to industrial development, housing and farming as the causes of the destruction of wild areas evades critical questions about what sort of industry, producing what sort of consumer goods and what kind of farming and food distribution system – let alone questions as to who has the power to decide and who gets to consume and who doesn’t.
Continue reading...New oil threat looms over England's national park land, campaigners warn
More than 170,000 acres of protected countryside in the south-east face risk of drilling
More than 170,000 acres of protected countryside, including national park land, in the south-east of England are at risk from a new wave of oil drilling, environmental campaigners have warned.
Under threat are areas of outstanding natural beauty in the Weald, which runs between the north and south downs, and the South Downs national park, Greenpeace said.
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Who owns water? The US landowners putting barbed wire across rivers
New Mexico is a battleground in the fight over once public waterways, sparking fears it could set a national precedent
As Scott Carpenter and a few friends paddled down the Pecos river in New Mexico last May, taking advantage of spring run-off, the lead boater yelled out and made a swirling hand motion over his head in the universal signal to pull over to shore. The paddlers eddied out in time to avoid running straight through three strings of barbed wire obstructing the river.
Swinging in the wind, the sign hanging from the fence read “PRIVATE PROPERTY: No Trespassing”.
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Camera attached to a minke whale captures rare footage – video
For the first time ever, scientists in Antarctica have attached a camera to a minke – one of the most poorly understood of all the whale species. The camera (attached with suction cups) slid down the side of the animal – but stayed attached – providing remarkable video of the way it feeds.
Continue reading...Electrolux seeks to power Adelaide factory with solar and battery storage
UK car industry must pay up for toxic air 'catastrophe', super-inquiry finds
Unprecedented joint inquiry by four committees of MPs demands polluters pay for air pollution causing ‘national health emergency’
The car industry must pay millions of pounds towards solving the UK’s toxic air crisis under the “polluter pays” principle, according to an unprecedented joint inquiry by four committees of MPs.
The MPs call the poisonous air that causes 40,000 early deaths a year a “national health emergency” and are scathing about the government’s clean air plans. These judged illegal three times in the high court, with the latest plan condemned as “woefully inadequate” by city leaders and “inexcusable” by doctors.
Continue reading...Country diary: this landscape has little to offer a shy fieldfare
Crook, County Durham: starving birds lose their inhibitions if apples are available in gardens
The steep climb from the start of the Deerness Valley Way follows the route of an old rope-worked incline where, a century ago, a stationary engine on the hilltop hauled railway wagons up from Bankfoot coke works. Today it was hard work hauling ourselves up the hill, with every footstep sinking into thawing snow that was still knee-deep in places.
Continue reading...CEFC backs push for solar and storage in all new-build homes
Six months overdue, Victoria battery storage tender announcement still “imminent”
Trump’s new economics director is climate denier who thinks animals can ‘snuggle’ under pipelines
South Australia’s renewable energy future hanging by a thread
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ARENA launches $12.5 million distributed energy resources funding initiative
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Microplastics found in more than 90% of bottled water, study says
Researchers find levels of plastic fibres in popular bottled water brands could be twice as high as those found in tap water
A new analysis of some of the world’s most popular bottled water brands says more than 90% contain tiny pieces of plastic.
Analysis of 259 bottles from 19 locations in nine countries across 11 different brands found an average of 325 plastic particles for every litre of water being sold.
Continue reading...MPs warn of 'poisonous air' emergency costing £20bn a year
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