Submissions from independent.co.uk

• Greta Thunberg condemns ‘unlawful’ police ban on Extinction Rebellion climate change protest: “If standing up against the climate and ecological breakdown and for humanity is against the rules then the rules must be broken.”

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  Published 17th Oct 2019
• ‘They should be allowed to cry’: Ecological disaster taking toll on scientists’ mental health - ‘We’re documenting destruction of world’s most beautiful ecosystems, it’s impossible to be detached’

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  Published 11th Oct 2019
• China deploys 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in bid to grow 6 million hectares of new forest this year

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  Published 8th Oct 2019
• More than 60 scientists from 11 countries have signed an open letter calling for governments around the world to cut the quantities of meat and dairy served in schools and hospitals as part of a move to “maintain a safe climate and planet for the future of humanity”.

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  Published 7th Oct 2019
• Thousands of ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pollution into sea - Global shipping companies have spent millions rigging vessels with “cheat devices” that circumvent new environmental legislation by dumping pollution into the sea instead of the air, The Independent can reveal.

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  Published 29th Sep 2019
• Greta Thunberg says adults who attack her ‘must feel threatened’ after Trump mocks teen activist

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  Published 27th Sep 2019
• Hundreds of people have held a high-altitude “funeral” for a Swiss glacier that has been lost to global warming. Climate activists dressed in black clothes climbed to 2,600 metres above sea level to pay their respects to the last remnants of the Pizol glacier in the Glarus Alps, east Switzerland.

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  Published 23rd Sep 2019
• Global strikes begin in what could be largest climate protest in history - follow live

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  Published 20th Sep 2019
• Climate change: Should we sue politicians for crimes against humanity? | The Independent

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  Published 6th Sep 2019
• Macron says France will block EU trade deal with Brazil over Amazon forest fires

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  Published 23rd Aug 2019
• Amazon rainforest fires: Bolsonaro claims NGOs are setting protected region ablaze without providing evidence

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  Published 22nd Aug 2019
• Four people killed every week defending environment as murder rate doubles in 15 years, report says

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  Published 6th Aug 2019
• July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, preliminary data shows

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  Published 2nd Aug 2019
• Climate change laws must be extended to protect the whole environment, think tank says

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  Published 2nd Aug 2019
• Human-animal hybrids to be developed in Japan after ban controversially lifted

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  Published 31st Jul 2019
• Hundreds of reindeer starve to death on Arctic islands 'due to climate change': Researchers have never found so many carcasses in Svalbard in 40 years of monitoring animal's population

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  Published 30th Jul 2019
• Consumers urged to boycott yellowfin tuna caught from unsustainable Indian Ocean fishing with yellowfin stocks being 'overfished and at risk of collapse'

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  Published 25th Jul 2019
• Renewable sources of energy produced more electricity than coal and nuclear power combined for the first time in Germany, according to new figures.

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  Published 24th Jul 2019
• Elephant extinction would ‘speed up climate crisis by making forest trees smaller’

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  Published 19th Jul 2019
• Holland covers hundreds of bus stops with plants as gift to honeybees - Shelters support biodiversity while also capturing dust to improve air quality and storing rainwater

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  Published 15th Jul 2019
• Turtles born at key breeding ground will all be turned female by climate change, study predicts

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  Published 12th Jul 2019
• Endangered rhino numbers ‘soar by 1,000%’ in Tanzania after crackdown on poaching gangs - And elephant populations have risen by nearly half in five years, thanks to a blitz on illegal ivory hunters, the president’s office said.

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  Published 11th Jul 2019
• Trump's environment speech: As the president touts his record, here's what his administration has done | The Independent

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  Published 9th Jul 2019
• Bird spotted feeding chick cigarette butt in ‘devastating’ picture

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  Published 1st Jul 2019
• World leaders push back on attempts by Trump to water down climate change commitments

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  Published 30th Jun 2019
• Trump dismisses need for climate change action: ‘We have the cleanest water we’ve ever had, we have the cleanest air’. ‘It doesn’t always work with a windmill,’ says US president as he rejects green energy. "It doesn’t always work with solar because solar’s just not strong enough."

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  Published 30th Jun 2019
• The disruption caused by Extinction Rebellion demonstrators and student climate strikers has “definitely been worth it” to raise awareness of the global warming emergency, UK shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said

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  Published 26th Jun 2019
• McDonald's UK to scrap McFlurry lids and single use plastic salad bowls

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  Published 23rd Jun 2019
• People who don't have children benefit our environment more than any campaign

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  Published 19th Jun 2019
• Melt ponds open in Arctic as permafrost melts at levels not expected until 2090

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  Published 18th Jun 2019
• Chemical that castrates frogs among new pesticides approved by Bolsonaro in Brazil despite being banned elsewhere: Three weedkillers approved this year contain Atrazine, which chemically castrates frogs

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  Published 16th Jun 2019
• Banned pesticide DDT still damaging ecosystems 50 years after it was sprayed: ‘Yesterday’s environmental crisis in the 1950s through 1970s remains today’s problem’

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  Published 13th Jun 2019
• Meat eaters are destroying the planet, says report

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  Published 11th Jun 2019
• Indian temple helps nurture 'extinct' turtle back to life

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  Published 11th Jun 2019
• Trump administration tries to block youth lawsuit claiming ‘there is no constitutional right to a stable climate system’

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  Published 6th Jun 2019
• British billionaire attacks governments for failing to tackle climate change or end poverty

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  Published 3rd Jun 2019
• Climate 'apocalypse' to leave Scotland in ruins within a decade

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  Published 30th May 2019
• World Health Organisation’s recognition of traditional Chinese medicine ‘could push species into extinction’ - Failure to condemn use of animal parts in traditional remedies ‘egregiously negligent and irresponsible’, wildlife groups say

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  Published 29th May 2019
• Trump administration orders government agency to stop predicting long-term climate change impacts

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  Published 29th May 2019
• Philippines passes law requiring students to plant 10 trees if they want to graduate - Legislation formalises existing tradition and could result in 175 million new trees each year if properly adhered to

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  Published 28th May 2019
• LEGO reaches 100% renewable energy target three years ahead of schedule

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  Published 22nd May 2019
• Climate crisis: Satellites to monitor air pollution generated by every power station in the world

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  Published 21st May 2019
• Less usage of pesticides

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  Published 19th May 2019
• Two-fifths of Americans say climate change will influence their vote in 2020 election, according to poll

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  Published 17th May 2019
• Global investment in coal tumbles by 75% in three years, as lenders lose appetite for fossil fuel - More coal power stations around the world came offline last year than were approved for perhaps first time since industrial revolution, report says

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  Published 16th May 2019
• ‘More than 2,000’ mothers and families march through London demanding urgent climate action

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  Published 13th May 2019
• A majority of British voters would support radical action to slash greenhouse gases to nearly zero by 2050 at a cost of tens of billions of pounds, a new poll has found.

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  Published 13th May 2019
• Support for fracking falls to lowest ever level, finds official UK government survey - Destruction to natural environment the main reason for opposing fracking

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  Published 13th May 2019
• Thousands of parents to stage climate change protest as health secretary launches ‘dirty air’ study: Matt Hancock warns of growing national emergency caused by 'deadly poison' of air pollution

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  Published 12th May 2019
• Climate crisis: Huge VAT rise on solar panels makes installation ‘entirely uneconomic’, say experts - ‘We could not have a clearer sign the government has failed to even begin to grasp the urgency’, says Green Party co-leader

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  Published 10th May 2019
• US refuses to sign declaration protecting the Arctic because it references climate change

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  Published 8th May 2019
• Edinburgh city centre goes car-free to combat air pollution: Open air yoga and chess games fill streets for trial initiative

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  Published 6th May 2019
• Republicans scrap rules put in place after an explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform killed 11 workers & triggered the largest marine oil spill in US history

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  Published 6th May 2019
• UK government makes history by passing motion to declare ‘environment and climate change emergency’

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  Published 2nd May 2019
• Video shows sea of plastic bottles after London Marathon

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  Published 28th Apr 2019
• Endangered turtle returns to lay its eggs at beach only to find runway has been built

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  Published 12th Apr 2019
• Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed’

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  Published 11th Apr 2019
• Trump issues new permit for ‘climate-killing’ Keystone XL pipeline in attempt to sidestep court ruling

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  Published 1st Apr 2019
• Trump administration forced to consider climate change impacts for the first time after court defeat over drilling permits

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  Published 22nd Mar 2019
• Republicans using ‘socialist’ scheme to save unprofitable coal plants

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  Published 15th Mar 2019
• Iceland announces plan to kill over 2,000 whales

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  Published 12th Mar 2019
• India bans imports of plastic waste

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  Published 10th Mar 2019
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says it is 'legitimate' for people to not want children because of climate change

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  Published 28th Feb 2019
• Botswana to consider lifting hunting ban and let tourists shoot elephants

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  Published 25th Feb 2019
• Massive restoration of world’s forests would cancel out a decade of CO2 emissions, analysis suggests

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  Published 17th Feb 2019
• Norway approves copper mine in Arctic described as 'most environmentally damaging project in country's history'

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  Published 16th Feb 2019
• International outrage over trophy hunter who paid $110,000 to kill rare mountain goat

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  Published 14th Feb 2019
• Six new species of tentacle-faced fish 'warriors' discovered

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  Published 10th Feb 2019
• A butterfly sanctuary is about to be demolished to make way for President Trump’s hotly contested border wall between US and Mexico, prompting outrage and protests from Native American and conservationist groups. Trump administration is deferring 28 environmental laws to build wall.

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  Published 6th Feb 2019
• CO2 levels expected to rise rapidly in 2019, Met Office scientists warn

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  Published 4th Feb 2019
• Sheep farmer felt so guilty on way to slaughterhouse he drove lambs to sanctuary & became vegetarian - 'I’m not ignorant to how farming works but it always made me stressed. They knew their fate'

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  Published 1st Feb 2019
• Farmworkers shown jabbing pigs with pitchfork in undercover footage - Warning graphic images

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  Published 1st Feb 2019
• Each day a cruise ship emits as much pollution as a million cars

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  Published 29th Jan 2019
• World must slash waste and create 'circular economy' to reach climate change targets, report says

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  Published 24th Jan 2019
• Trump confuses weather with climate change again: 'Wouldn’t be bad to have a little good old fashioned Global Warming right now!'

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  Published 20th Jan 2019
• Hundreds more species under threat of extinction than previously thought, scientists say

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  Published 17th Jan 2019
• Trump administration wants to reclassify leaking nuclear waste to avoid cleaning it up, say officials

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  Published 11th Jan 2019
• Water-emitting trains fuelled by hydrogen "to be introduced in two years" [UK]

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  Published 8th Jan 2019
• Rice farming up to twice as bad for climate change as previously thought, study reveals: Levels of overlooked greenhouse gas are up to 45 times higher in fields that are only flooded intermittently

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  Published 3rd Jan 2019
• Trump to axe Obama law stopping coal plants poisoning air with mercury

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  Published 30th Dec 2018
• India just cancelled 14 huge coal-fired power stations as solar energy prices hit record low

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  Published 16th Dec 2018
• Famous Yellowstone park wolf shot dead by trophy hunter

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  Published 2nd Dec 2018
• The worlds greatest earthmoving endeavour ever. By termites

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  Published 20th Nov 2018
• Lion has face and paws cut off as 4 other big cats die of poisoning at South African wildlife reserve - Poachers may have mutilated animal for 'trophy hunters or...traditional medicine'

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  Published 7th Oct 2018
• Wild dolphins learn to 'walk on water' by copying tricks from captive animals, study finds

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  Published 30th Aug 2018
• Rare jumping spider discovered in UK for first time ever

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  Published 17th Aug 2018
• Report finds biggest users of GMO feed, meat and dairy corporations, to surpass oil industry as world's biggest polluters

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  Published 13th Aug 2018
• Killer whale mother finally lets dead newborn calf go, after unprecedented 17 days

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  Published 13th Aug 2018
• Two-thirds of UK 'want to bin rules preventing new onshore wind farms'

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  Published 18th Jul 2018
• World’s largest protected rainforest declared in Colombia

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  Published 5th Jul 2018
• Trump quietly reverses elephant trophy ban

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  Published 4th Jul 2018
• Catastrophic drought threatens Iraq as major dams in surrounding countries cut off water to its great rivers

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  Published 3rd Jul 2018
• Costa Rica to ban fossil fuels and become world's first decarbonised society

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  Published 29th May 2018
• Why farmers are trying to turn 'craft beef' into the next craft beer - Favoring small-scale & independent farms, the term "craft beef" captures the move away from factory farming & subsequent rise of sustainable meat production, championing a more environmentally-friendly product.

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  Published 24th May 2018
• Pet dog raised by Chinese family for 2 yrs turns out to be a black bear - Owners grew suspicious when animal showed talent for walking on 2 legs

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  Published 14th May 2018
• The Tories are planning to halt onshore wind farm production, despite most people supporting it

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  Published 30th Apr 2018
• Chlorinated chicken may be the least of UK food worries when it comes to signing a trade deal with Trump: Post-Brexit, chances are you'll be shopping blind, unable to avoid GMO American 'cheddar' even if you wanted to

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 10th Apr 2018
• Scotland produces record amount of energy from renewables as green schemes generate two-thirds of electricity: Nation beats rest of UK with 68.1 per cent of energy needs met without fossil fuels.

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  Published 2nd Apr 2018
• Total renewable power produced in 2017 could have supported UK for the whole of 1958

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  Published 22nd Feb 2018
• China reassigns 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in bid to fight pollution

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  Published 18th Feb 2018
• French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to shut all of his country’s coal-fired power plants by 2021. “We've also decided to make France a model in the fight against climate change”, Mr Macron said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 25th Jan 2018