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Asda opens new sustainability store.

Supermarket giant has opened its new sustainability trial store and unveiled a new plastics reduction strategy with a promise that customers will not pay more for greener options.

Climate

How Air Pollution, Food Delivery and Plastic Waste Are Connected.

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a link between air pollution, food delivery and

Climate Environment

Drought and hunger drive Nepal farmers to India, defying COVID ban.

Western Nepal has suffered a long dry spell, harming rice harvests and pushing farmers across the border to seek work even amid the pandemic NARAINAPUR, Nepal - As an exceptionally wet monsoon season caused floods and landslides across much of Nepal, Buddhi Prasad Chaudhary, a farmer in

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Campaigners criticise global deal on carbon emissions from shipping.

Green groups say agreement will allow emissions to continue to rise in the next decade.

Climate

Feeling the heat over Arctic sea ice.

David Nowell thinks Extinction Rebellion should focus on insulating homes, running public transport cooperatives and campaigning for major economic reforms, while Iain Climie says late Arctic ice formation should surprise nobody.

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Climate crisis: Extinction Rebellion blockades gates at Ineos refinery after government data shows firm is major source of pollutants.

‘We are here to expose the climate destruction that Ineos is causing,’ activists say.

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Can California’s top wine region survive the era of megafire?

As the climate crisis brings increasingly unpredictable fire seasons, the future of the $43bn industry is uncertain

Climate Environment

The Plastic Myth and the Misunderstood Triangle.

Of all the plastic we've ever produced, only 9% has been recycled. So what happened to all that plastic you've put in the recycling bin over the years? Hands up if you grew up thinking that recycling plastic waste is key to saving the environment.

Environment

The Global Youth Led Campaign To Save Bugoma Forest. NEMA Revoke ESIA certificate.

Bugoma Forest is continuing to face serious threats from loggers, farmers, and NEMA a government agency entrusted with protecting our natural resources.

Environment

South African environmental activist shot dead in her home.

Fikile Ntshangase was involved in legal dispute over extension of coalmine in KwaZulu-Natal. A South African environmental activist who opposed the extension of a coalmine near her home has been shot dead in her home.

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Climate change increasingly threatens human health, food and water security and socio-economic development in Africa.

Multi-agency report highlights the current and future state of the climate in Africa

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Key player in war on climate change? The Pentagon.

In the final presidential debate Thursday night, Vice President Joe Biden called climate change an "existential threat to humanity" that we have a moral obligation to address.

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Climate change: 'Dangerous and dirty' used cars sold to Africa.

Millions of highly polluting used cars from rich countries are being "dumped" on developing nations, according to a UN report. Between 2015 and 2018, some 14 million older, poor quality vehicles were exported from Europe, Japan and the US.

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Africa is Warming Fast, and the Most Vulnerable Are Being Hit Hardest.

African nations are spending between 2% and 9% of their gross domestic product on climate adaptation and mitigation measures, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

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Climate change: Better warning systems needed for extreme weather - UN

A new UN report says the world needs to rapidly raise investment in early warning systems for extreme weather events. Over the past 50 years, recorded disasters have increased five-fold, thanks in part to climate change.

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Trump-linked groups spending millions campaigning against LGBT and women’s rights in Europe.

Campaigners warn of US ‘dark money’ take-over across continent.

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Coral reef taller than Empire State Building is first discovered in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for 120 years.

It makes a total of eight tall detached reefs in the area, including at Raine Island, home to the world’s most important green sea turtle nesting area

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Radioactive Fukushima waste water contains substances which ‘could damage human DNA’, Greenpeace warns.

Plans to release over a million tonnes of water into the sea ‘will have serious, long-term consequences’ environmental group says.

Environment

‘Zombie batteries’ causing hundreds of waste fires, experts warn.

Industry urges people not to throw out dead batteries with household rubbish or recycling.

Environment

Nine insect-eating bird species in Amazon in sharp decline, scientists find.

Paper suggests climate crisis reducing insects in lowlands and central jungle, as fruit-eaters not affected Bird species are in decline even in the remote parts of the Amazon, far from human interference, a study shows.

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