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Scientists transplant soil fungi in race to save world’s threatened orchids
Display at Chelsea flower show highlights work in UK and US to bring orchid habitats back to health
Scientists are racing against the clock to save the world’s orchids by discovering the soil fungi they need to thrive, breeding them and then, in a first for conservation, transplanting them into orchid habitats.
Among the showy blooms at Chelsea flower show this week was a moss-covered exhibit, sprouting from which were the types of rare, native flowers one does not normally see at horticultural exhibits.
Continue reading...EU’s sweeping corporate due diligence law clears final hurdle
Seven EU countries plead for greater use of recycled carbon in chemicals, plastics
CN Markets: CEAs stable as liquidity improves, price outlook remains blurry
Australian agri-tech firm develops beta soil organic carbon measurement models
North Yorkshire town has UK’s highest concentration of ‘forever chemicals’
PFAS contamination recorded in groundwater on Angus Fire site in Bentham, and includes chemicals with known health impacts
A small North Yorkshire town has been found to have the highest concentration of “forever chemicals” in the UK, it can be revealed.
The market town of Bentham, which is home to 3,000 people and set on the banks of the River Wenning, is also home to the Angus International Safety Group – locally known as Angus Fire – which, since the 1970s, has been producing firefighting foams containing PFAS at a factory near the town centre.
Continue reading...Conservation International to enter nature credit market, screen buyers
Why a new ruling on the law of the sea and climate change matters for Australia and especially our island neighbours
The government’s cash splash aims to kickstart Australia’s battery industry. Has it flipped the right switches?
Week in wildlife – in pictures: dormouse gets a checkup, a lucky kingfisher and a waving seal pup
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Continue reading...Heavy water: how melting ice sheets and pumped groundwater can lower local sea levels – and boost them elsewhere
CCS project vetoed in Australia over water pollution concerns
Australian student helps discover potentially habitable planet the size of Earth – video
Shishir Dholakia of the University of Southern Queensland's Centre for Astrophsics has identified Gliese 12b, a possibly temperate Earth-sized planet just 40 light years away. The student has been co-leading an international team that published the discovery in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Continue reading...UK’s Environment Agency chief admits regulator buries freedom of information requests
Speaking at the UK River Summit, Philip Duffy said officials do not want to reveal the true ‘embarrassing’ environmental picture
The head of the Environment Agency has admitted that freedom of information requests have been buried by the regulator because the truth about the environment in England is “embarrassing”.
Philip Duffy, the body’s chief executive, told an audience at the UK River Summit in Morden, south London, this week that his officials were “worried about revealing the true state of what is going on” with regards to the state of the environment.
Continue reading...Latest Snowy 2.0 business case a surprise, but batteries might eat its lunch
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Equatic unveils ISO-certified MRV methodology for ocean-based carbon removals
Vestas trials helicopters powered with green fuel in offshore wind first
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