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England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-05-13 16:00

Water campaigner Feargal Sharkey says newly designated sites will join ‘ignoble, floundering list of failure’

Twenty-seven new bathing sites will be designated in England ahead of this summer’s swimming season, the government has announced.

Giving waterways bathing status means the Environment Agency has to test them for pollution during the summer months, putting pressure on water companies to stop dumping sewage in them.

Church Cliff beach, Lyme Regis, Dorset

Coastguards beach, River Erme, Devon

Coniston boating centre, Coniston Water, Cumbria

Coniston Brown Howe, Coniston Water, Cumbria

Derwent Water at Crow Park, Keswick, Cumbria

Goring beach, Worthing, West Sussex

Littlehaven beach, Tyne and Wear

Manningtree beach, Essex

Monk Coniston, Coniston Water, Cumbria

River Avon at Fordingbridge, Hampshire

River Cam at Sheep’s Green, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

River Dart estuary at Dittisham, Devon

River Dart estuary at Steamer Quay, Totnes, Devon

River Dart estuary at Stoke Gabriel, Devon

River Dart estuary at Warfleet, Dartmouth, Devon

River Frome at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset

River Nidd at the Lido leisure park in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

River Ribble at Edisford Bridge, Lancashire

River Severn at Ironbridge, Shropshire

River Severn at Shrewsbury, Shropshire

River Stour at Sudbury, Suffolk

River Teme at Ludlow, Shropshire

River Tone in French Weir Park, Taunton, Somerset

River Wharfe at Wetherby Riverside, High St, Wetherby, West Yorkshire

Rottingdean beach, Rottingdean, East Sussex

Wallingford beach, River Thames, Berkshire

Worthing Beach House, Worthing, West Sussex

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Japan main bourse to add GX-ETS units to carbon marketplace

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-05-13 15:52
Japan's main trading bourse is planning to add emissions reductions issued under the GX League to its carbon trading platform, expanding the scope of units tradable beyond offsets from the national J-Credit programme.
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Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-05-13 14:00

Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe

The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7tn (£5.6tn) in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement to limit carbon emissions, according to research.

In 2016, after talks in Paris, 196 countries signed an agreement to limit global heating as a result of carbon emissions to at most 2C above preindustrial levels, with an ideal limit of 1.5C to prevent the worst impacts of a drastically changed climate.

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Islamic finance group, Saudi firm sign Maldives blue carbon partnership

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-05-13 13:24
An Islamic finance group has teamed up with a Saudi Arabian carbon specialist firm to explore the potential for reducing emissions and earn carbon credits from the vast seagrass meadows and mangrove forests in the Maldives.
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How a long-lost fish species was brought back to Bendigo

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-05-13 13:05
Reintroducing locally extinct species is a challenging affair, but with the right partnerships everyone can help make it happen. Sean Buckley, Lecturer in Molecular Ecology and Environmental Management, Edith Cowan University Luciano Beheregaray, Matthew Flinders Professor of Biodiversity Genomics, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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27 new wild swimming sites for England - but are they clean?

BBC - Mon, 2024-05-13 11:04
Twenty-seven new sites have been designated for summer pollution monitoring.
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27 new wild swimming sites for England - but are they clean?

BBC - Mon, 2024-05-13 11:04
Twenty-seven new sites have been designated for summer pollution monitoring.
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Land grabs for carbon offsetting projects, mostly in Africa, Latin America, threaten global food production -study

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-05-13 08:01
Global food production is under threat from the spread of carbon projects that interfere with the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and indigenous peoples worldwide, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America, research released Monday has found.
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More desalination is coming to Australia’s driest states – but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheries

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-05-13 06:16
States are once again turning to desalination to secure freshwater supplies. The problem is, they’re often choosing the wrong spot for ecosystems and fisheries Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Is the Coalition planning to overtake Labor and tax rich inner-city EV drivers? | Paul Karp

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-05-13 01:00

The commonwealth had state electrical vehicle taxes struck down in court. Now reform is stuck in the slow lane

Tax reform is hard. It creates winners and losers.

But there are some taxes that seek to correct unfairness and share the load more evenly.

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Hope for rare mountain chicken frog thanks to London-born froglets

BBC - Sun, 2024-05-12 10:26
Frantic efforts are being made to save the endangered mountain chicken frog, native to just two Caribbean islands.
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The man who took on the coal industry to save a forest - and won

BBC - Sun, 2024-05-12 09:24
Alok Shukla has spent years fighting to protect a key Indian forest from mining companies.
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Eco-brutalism: when angular concrete meets the wonder of nature – in pictures

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-05-12 02:00

On her @brutalistplants Instagram page, Olivia Broome collects photographs that combine the angular shapes of raw concrete with the greenery of the natural world. “I really enjoy the aesthetic of eco-brutalism and tropical modernism,” she says. “I love mezzanines and ziggurats, and when you pair them with plants it softens them up. Brutalism can be this quite harsh, austere architecture style, but with nature involved, it balances it all out.” Now collected in a book, the images bring together buildings from across the globe, from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka, London to Mexico. “It’s a pleasant movement that people can get behind, especially in smaller spaces and modern cities – it’s nice to fill them with plants and nature.”

Brutalist Plants (Hoxton Mini Press, £20) will be published on Thursday

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