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Mike Harding on Richard Martin, who pushed the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle Act through parliament in 1822, and Robin Russell-Jones on how our love of meat is helping to drive other mammals to extinction

“Humanity Dick” (real name Richard Martin), who got the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle Act that you mention in your briefing (What is the true cost of meat?, 7 May) passed in 1822, was the owner of Ballynahinch Castle in Connemara.

In the middle of Ballynahinch Lough there is a small island; Humanity Dick used to have anybody he found mistreating animals rowed out there and marooned until they repented of their crimes. He was particularly hard on anybody who mistreated donkeys it seems.

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The European Commission on Monday announced the long-awaited dates for 2018’s EU aviation allowance auctions.

A new study says global tourism accounts for 8% of carbon emissions, far larger than previously thought.

Study across 24 countries suggests the fossil fuel industry has reshaped conservative political values in the US and Australia

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If you reckon the 11 September terrorist attacks might have been an “inside job” or there is a nefarious new world order doing whatever it is the illuminati do, what are you likely to think about the causes of climate change?

Academics have suggested that people who tend to accept conspiracy theories also underplay or reject the science showing humans are causing rapid and dangerous climate change.

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Traded volumes in China’s eight pilot emissions trading schemes fell by two-thirds in April compared to the same month last year, as the delay of the national ETS has seen many traders exit.

The Australian government has contracted around 20 million offsets from landfill gas projects, but 95% of those seem set to stop generating carbon credits in 2021 after the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC) recommended their crediting periods should not be extended.

Australia will not replenish the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) in Tuesday’s budget even though the ERF is quickly running out of cash, news agency AAP reported Monday.

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It’s global warming that will hurt the economy in red states, not a carbon tax.

A working paper recently published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond concludes that global warming could significantly slow economic growth in the US.

Specifically, rising summertime temperatures in the hottest states will curb economic growth. And the states with the hottest summertime temperatures are all located in the South: Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Arizona. All of these states voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

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London scientist Tom Pike watches his experiment leave Earth on a six-month journey to Mars.

Mobile towers built in wrong places, what's next for the Murray Darling basin plan, and the Country Women's Association gets behind hemp seeds

Results show Carmichael mine in Queensland no longer a viable proposition, analysts say
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Adani’s coal-fired power business has reported more heavy losses, prompting the Indian conglomerate to announce it would shift away from using expensive imported coal.

Analysts say the fourth-quarter financial results for Adani Power, a subsidiary of the Adani group, showed the proposed Carmichael mega-mine in Queensland was no longer a viable proposition.

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The festival of snake-catchers (festa dei serpari) in Cocullo, Italy, is an annual religious procession in which the St Dominic’s statue is carried in procession, covered with living snakes

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9 May 1918 The plantations here are very varied – pine and spruce and Scotch fir and larch, mixed with beech and birch and oak

Wotton (Surrey) May 8.
The twisted, angular stems of the “Hurts” (as whortle-berries are called in Surrey) have broken into leaves, tinted red and brown, and the heath-like flowers hang little lanterns all over the bushes. These flowers take on a bright pink light when the sun shines through them.

All about this country a great deal of tree-felling is being done, but some care is being taken to disfigure the scene as little as possible. The skyline is often preserved and the edges of roads, so that until you penetrate into the woods, you do not find the havoc. The plantations here are very varied – pine and spruce and Scotch fir and larch, mixed with beech and birch and oak. The air is full of a delicious mixture of scents – the resin of the conifers, the fruity, cocoa-nut smell of the gorse in sunshine, the indescribably personal smell of young bracken. No tree, perhaps, is more irregular in coming out than the beech. In the same tree there will be a few lower branches in full leaf while all the rest is dormant. There are whole plantations which still show the uniform glowing red-brown of the tightly scrolled buds; in others the pale green leaves, incredibly tender, are still fringed with silver hairs. A few oaks make patches of golden green. The wayfaring tree is almost as grey as a carnation leaf, its umbels still tightly folded in their felted covering. From the junipers, as you brush by them, rise clouds of sulphur-coloured pollen; the whole prickly little bush has a glaucous tint, and so have the last year’s fruits which cluster along the stem.

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Long-awaited review of precarious transport fuel security released by federal government – but are EVs being taken into account?

A site at Kwinana, south of Perth, has been earmarked for one of world's biggest lithium refineries.

Dr Craik invites written submissions from farmers and any interested stakeholders, comments are invited from Monday 7 May until Friday 15 June 2018.

Dr Craik invites written submissions from farmers and any interested stakeholders, comments are invited from Monday 7 May until Friday 15 June 2018.

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation has launched its Innovation Grants Round and will accept applications from not for profit organisations in Victoria.

New chairman's views on climate change and climate scientists is a bad sign on how AMP will handle climate risk.