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Plastic 'nurdles' found littering UK beaches
London to introduce £10 vehicle pollution charge, says Sadiq Khan
Owners of more polluting cars will have to pay extra levy from October to drive within congestion charge zone
Older, more polluting cars will have to pay a £10 charge to drive in central London from 23 Octoberthe city’s mayor, has said.
Confirming he would press ahead with the fee, known as the T-charge, Sadiq Khan said: “It’s staggering that we live in a city where the air is so toxic that many of our children are growing up with lung problems. If we don’t make drastic changes now we won’t be protecting the health of our families in the future.
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Zealandia: Is there an eighth continent under New Zealand?
Omens turn to charm in Ted Hughes' badlands
Mexborough, South Yorkshire No longer ‘more or less solid chemicals’, the gunmetal waters of the Don are clean enough for salmon
There were wisps of snow in the liverish sky over Main Street, Mexborough. I passed a shop offering cash for clothes, 40p a kilo, across the road from a tattoo parlour, and then stopped outside its shuttered neighbour. This was, from 1938, the family home of Ted Hughes. The poet’s parents ran it as a newsagent’s.
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Labor’s policy dance likely means more gas, not renewables
Victoria seeks to build country’s biggest grid-scale battery storage
UK scientists seek closer relationship with US after Brexit
US battery maker sees “tremendous opportunity” with Australian utilities
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APRA says climate change already poses “system-side” financial risks
Australia’s electricity market is not agile and innovative enough to keep up
Queensland’s largest solar plant bought by Europe investment fund
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Tiny plastic pellets found on 73% of UK beaches
Great Winter Nurdle Hunt finds thousands of pellets used in plastic production washed up on shorelines around country
A search of hundreds of beaches across the UK has found almost three-quarters of them are littered with tiny plastic pellets.
The lentil-size pellets known as “nurdles” are used as a raw material by industry to make new plastic products.
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Afraid of the rise of a Canadian Trump? Progressive populism is the answer | Martin Lukacs
Anti-establishment sentiment is surging to a record high—the question now is who will capture and channel it.
Believe Canada is immune to Trump-like conservatism? That the country could never be swept by a right-wing populist scapegoating the vulnerable, promising to bring back jobs, and beating the drum of law-and-order? Think again. The conditions for such an eruption are on stark display.
A poll released this week reveals a stunning lack of trust in government among Canadians—and a dramatic drop since Justin Trudeau came to power. No less than 80 percent think the Canadian elite are “out of touch” with ordinary people. 60 percent believe mainstream politicians won’t solve our problems. As in the rest of the world, it is no different here: anti-establishment and populist sentiment is surging like never before.