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The crowds flocking to Banksy’s latest work are missing the point: the damaged tree at its heart | Gio Iozzi
City trees are an incredible green resource but are under serious assault. Banksy’s stark image shows the damage being done
Amid the excitement around Banksy’s latest art piece – a tree mural unveiled on a wall in Islington, north London – very little is being said about the tree at the centre of the story, a brutally pollarded 50-year-old cherry, and what it communicates about the way our urban trees are “managed”.
I visited it on Monday, just 10 minutes’ cycle from my house, and stood startled by the large, leafless tree, its bark darkened by pollution. It splays upwards like an agonised hand, with green paint – literal green wash – splashed up the wall behind it by a woman holding a pressure washer. But gradually I felt horrified, dismayed as the media filmed stories and crowds of people smiled, cooed and held their phones aloft for the latest Instagrammable image. People talked about whether the work could be “stolen” and the effect it would have on house prices and rents.
Gio Iozzi is a London-based writer and tree campaigner who set up Haringey Tree Protectors
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‘Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters
Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to ‘destroy whole ecosystems’
Industrial vessels suspected of using a harmful fishing method known as bottom trawling spent more than 33,000 hours in British marine protected areas last year, a new analysis of satellite data shows.
Ten of these vessels, primarily from the EU, were responsible for a quarter of this activity in offshore protected areas, according to Oceana UK, a conservation group.
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Campaigners warn over failure to curb Europe’s ‘runaway’ transport emissions
Greenhouse gases from sector could make up 44% of continent’s total output by 2030, says transport group
The failure to tackle Europe’s “runaway” transport emissions could lead to the sector pumping out nearly half of the continent’s planet-heating pollution by 2030, a report has found.
Driven by polluting cars and pushed higher by the growing thirst for flights, transport emissions in Europe have grown 26% since 1990 – even as efforts to clean up other areas of the economy have led to an overall emissions fall.
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Energy Insiders Podcast: Would you trust your utility to control your solar?
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System strength: Beware the distracting allure of the silver bullet
Energy market reform feels like early Tarantino, there are so many lustrous projectiles in flight.
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World needs a terawatt of renewables a year, but only solar is staying on track
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Wind turbines have negligible impact on house prices, new study finds
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Climate records smashed in 2023, according to WMO. But the reality might be much worse
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Market operator explains why the lights won’t go out with wind, solar and storage
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‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel slogan
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Man dies after being bitten by snake in north Queensland
Ambulance officers treated the man, believed to have been bitten by an eastern brown snake, but he died later in Townsville hospital
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A man has died in hospital after being bitten multiple times by a snake in north Queensland.
Queensland ambulance service paramedics were called to a Deeragun property after 3pm on Tuesday. The man was in a critical condition and had sustained “multiple” snake bites at a separate address. He was taken to Townsville hospital but later died.
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Video shows koalas clinging to trees as gum trees cut down on Kangaroo Island – video
WARNING: contains images some viewers may find distressing
Footage supplied to Guardian Australia shows koalas clinging to falling blue gums as logging occurs on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The footage was taken across two days in November 2023 and January 2024. Logging has been stopped while an investigation takes place.
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Painted towers and monopoles: There is more than one way to do overhead transmission
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