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CP Daily: Thursday February 21, 2019
Insects decline: What do insects actually do?
'A Britain which no longer exists'
UN: Growing threat to food from decline in biodiversity
NA Markets: Traders await WCI auction results as RGGI deadens
California’s PG&E willing to explore splitting gas, electric businesses
World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity
Plants, insects and organisms crucial to food production in steep decline, says UN
The world’s capacity to produce food is being undermined by humanity’s failure to protect biodiversity, according to the first UN study of the plants, animals and micro-organisms that help to put meals on our plates.
The stark warning was issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation after scientists found evidence the natural support systems that underpin the human diet are deteriorating around the world as farms, cities and factories gobble up land and pump out chemicals.
Continue reading...Grand Canyon tourists possibly exposed to radiation at museum, whistleblower says
Park safety director alleges buckets of uranium sat near exhibit for almost 20 years, but interior department says there’s no risk
For almost 20 years, workers and visiting school children at a Grand Canyon museum may have been unknowingly exposed to radiation from three buckets of uranium sitting next to a taxidermy exhibit, according to allegations from a National Park Service safety director.
The whistleblower says officials learned about the buckets last year and tried to hide the revelation, according to the Arizona Republic newspaper. Earlier this month, Elston “Swede” Stephenson emailed all park staff and brought the matter to the attention of the head of the interior department, which oversees the park service, and the agency’s internal watchdog.
Continue reading...Why is this horse dressed like a zebra?
Catch the buzz: how a tropical holiday led us to find the world's biggest bee
Voluntary climate initiative to force corporates to set goals deeper than 2C
Environmental groups, utilities reach deal on New England hydroelectric line
How human food is changing wildlife
EU Market: EUAs tumble 6.5% to new 2-month low as bears regain control
World's biggest bee found alive
Teeny T. rex relative discovered in US
World's largest bee, missing for 38 years, found in Indonesia
Biologists discover single female Wallace’s giant bee inside a termites’ nest in a tree
As long as an adult thumb, with jaws like a stag beetle and four times larger than a honeybee, Wallace’s giant bee is not exactly inconspicuous.
But after going missing, feared extinct, for 38 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered on the Indonesian islands of the North Moluccas.
Continue reading...Greta Thunberg tells EU: your climate targets need doubling
Swede, 16, says EU cannot just ‘wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge’
The EU should double its climate change reduction targets to do its fair share in keeping the planet below a dangerous level of global warming, the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has told political and business leaders in Brussels.
Flanked by students from the Belgian and German school strike movements, the Swedish teenager said it was not enough to hope that young people were going to save the world.
Continue reading...MPs turn heat on ministers amid boiler installation slowdown
Critics warn of ‘chronic public health crisis’ as green initiative leaves homes in the cold
Campaigners and MPs have accused ministers of leaving vulnerable households in the cold, as figures show installations of insulation and boilers have sunk to their lowest levels since the government’s flagship energy efficiency scheme started six years ago.
Delays to legislation were blamed by fuel poverty campaigners for the fall, which coincided with households being hit by energy price increases.
Continue reading...Greta Thunberg to politicians: 'we're fighting for everyone's future' – video
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, has told an EU conference: 'since our time is running out we have started to clean up your mess and we will not stop until we are done.'
In response to people who have criticised the school climate strike movement for promoting truancy, Thunberg said, 'they don't want to talk about it ... because they haven't done their homework, but we have'
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