Submissions from independent.co.uk

• UN warns of ‘steady stream’ of infectious diseases unless world tackles wildlife exploitation

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 13th Jul 2020
• Yes!

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 12th Jul 2020
• Higher temperatures may drive mosquito-borne Zika virus into Europe

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 9th Jul 2020
• Half the world lacks access to air pollution data to tackle public health threat

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 9th Jul 2020
• Beavers born in Essex for 'first time since Middle Ages'

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  Published 3rd Jul 2020
• Anger as Boris Johnson's £5bn infrastructure spending boost lacks vital environmental measures

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  Published 30th Jun 2020
• Earth is accelerating towards sixth mass extinction event that could see the ‘disintegration of civilisation’, with ‘more than 500 species on course to go extinct in next two decades,’ scientists warn

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  Published 3rd Jun 2020
• New nuclear power plant planned for Suffolk coast ‘would be devastating’ for wildlife

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  Published 28th May 2020
• Climate crisis: Two years of vegan living cancelled out by one long-haul flight, study suggests

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  Published 26th May 2020
• Stop the Wildlife Trade: Wuhan officially bans eating wild animals. Along with the consumption ban, the Chinese city is to become a 'wildlife sanctuary' where virtually all hunting of wild animals is banned.

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  Published 21st May 2020
• World Bee Day: are we ignoring biodiversity risks in the same way we ignored the pandemic?

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  Published 20th May 2020
• South Africa traffics thousands of endangered wild animals to China in ‘corrupt and growing’ trade, investigation finds

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  Published 18th May 2020
• Discarded face masks and gloves rising threat to ocean life, conservationists warn

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  Published 18th May 2020
• Nine of the most breathtaking mountain hikes in the UK

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  Published 11th May 2020
• Brazilian deforestation could trigger new pandemics, experts warn

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  Published 3rd May 2020
• Remote cameras are revealing the human impact on rainforest species in Africa

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  Published 3rd May 2020
• In recent weeks, rare leatherback turtles have been found nesting in numbers not seen for decades on beaches in Florida and Thailand. And experts say the resurgence of the vulnerable leatherback is likely closely linked to the desertion of beaches across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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  Published 21st Apr 2020
• ‘Human beings have overrun the world’: David Attenborough calls for an end to waste in impassioned plea to address climate change. ‘The world is not a bowl of fruit from which we can just take what we wish’

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  Published 20th Apr 2020
• Britons enjoying cleaner air, better food and stronger social bonds say they don't want to return to pre-lockdown 'normal' - Poll suggests only nine per cent of public want full return to pre-lockdown life

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  Published 17th Apr 2020
• Environmentalists slam Trump’s plan to open 2.3m acres of wildlife refuges for hunting

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  Published 12th Apr 2020
• Coronavirus: Hundreds of conservation experts join forces to pressure WHO to force live animal markets to close

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  Published 7th Apr 2020
• The ozone layer is healing, new study finds.

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  Published 29th Mar 2020
• McDonald’s to remove plastic toys from Happy Meals

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  Published 17th Mar 2020
• Five tough questions to ask about reaching net zero climate targets

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  Published 16th Mar 2020
• Cattle emissions make butter production three-and-a-half times more damaging to environment than plant-based spreads, study finds

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  Published 11th Mar 2020
• Greta Thunberg condemns EU climate change plan as 'surrender'

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  Published 4th Mar 2020
• Greta Thunberg tells young activists to 'be the adults' as 30,000 climate protesters descend on Bristol

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  Published 1st Mar 2020
• ‘Lives at risk’ as River Severn set to rise to highest level in 20 years

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  Published 25th Feb 2020
• Anti-Greta: Far-right groups trying to turn teenager into climate change-denying version of Greta Thunberg

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  Published 25th Feb 2020
• Climate crisis could cause economic recession ‘like we’ve never seen before’, study warns

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  Published 18th Feb 2020
• Beavers cut flood risks, clean rivers and boost wildlife, major study of wild population in UK reveals

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• Wild beavers reduce flood risk and boost wildlife, study finds

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• Steve Coogan says super-rich 'spin environmental issues' to look good

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  Published 17th Feb 2020
• Fury as Botswana sells 60 elephant shoot permits to trophy-hunters

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• Endangered wolf walks nearly 9,000 miles to find mate but dies alone - Canine was ‘beacon of hope’ whose death is setback for ‘wolf recovery’ in US

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  Published 10th Feb 2020
• H&M accused of ‘greenwashing’ over plans to make clothes from sustainable fabric

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  Published 3rd Feb 2020
• Prince Charles criticised for flying 125 miles to give speech on reducing aircraft emissions

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  Published 3rd Feb 2020
• Environmental groups sue to halt Alaska oil drilling after Beluga whale numbers plummet from 1,300 to 279

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  Published 3rd Feb 2020
• Doomsday clock: Humanity closer to annihilation than ever before, scientists say Clock is now set to 100 seconds to midnight, experts announce

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  Published 23rd Jan 2020
• Trump targets Greta Thunberg in barely coherent tirade: "She beat me out on Time Magazine"

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  Published 22nd Jan 2020
• Boris Johnson accused of making impossible pledge for climate crisis summit

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  Published 20th Jan 2020
• Trump tells Americans threatened by rising oceans to use ‘mops and buckets’ instead of building barriers

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• New sleeper train from Sweden will get passengers to London by morning - Sweden's government wants to provide viable alternatives to short-haul flights

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• TIL Germany is turning 62 military bases into wildlife sanctuaries

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  Published 13th Jan 2020
• Poison and explosives used to kill elephants as record numbers die in Sri Lanka

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  Published 13th Jan 2020
• Grass found growing around Mount Everest as warming climate melts ice, reports a new study using satellite data. Increase in vegetation could play role in region’s water supply, which reaches 1.4 billion people.

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  Published 10th Jan 2020
• Australia: More than 10,000 camels to be shot because they drink too much water - Govt. says animals wreaking havoc in drought-afflicted areas, causing damage to infrastructure

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  Published 8th Jan 2020
• Long distance train tickets in Germany slashed by 10% to tackle climate crisis

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  Published 5th Jan 2020
• Trump to remove climate change factors from environmental laws around major infrastructure projects - Revised law allows federal agencies to overlook environmental impact

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  Published 5th Jan 2020
• Rewilding the UK: movement aims to tackle climate change – by reintroducing bears, wolves and eagles into Britain - Restoring vast tracts of land to nature would help reduce carbon emissions and allow long-gone species to return – but not everyone supports ambitious proposals

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  Published 5th Jan 2020
• England’s first wild beaver colony in centuries is ‘helping communities and climate’

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  Published 5th Jan 2020
• Mexico rivers turning into ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ while government stands idle

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  Published 31st Dec 2019
• Boris Johnson takes private jet to fly 25 minutes, despite train taking just 53 minutes

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  Published 10th Dec 2019
• The world’s most polluting companies could be sued for their contributions to global warming, a major human rights inquiry has found in what has been described as a “landmark victory for climate justice”.

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  Published 10th Dec 2019
• 2019 Nobel Prize winner warns there is no 'Planet B'. Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets, urges Nobel prize-winning astronomer

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  Published 9th Dec 2019
• World's first human composting site to open - Process saves metric tonne of CO2 while using up an eighth of energy devoted to cremation, firm behind funeral home says

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  Published 9th Dec 2019
• Green machine: How hydrogen is powering the right bus for the planet

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  Published 8th Dec 2019
• 'Dead zones' expanding rapidly in oceans as climate emergency causes unprecedented oxygen loss

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  Published 8th Dec 2019
• Climate change close to ‘point of no return’, UN secretary general warns ahead of key international talks - Continued inaction would be ‘betrayal of our entire human family and all generations to come’, says Antonio Guterres

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 5th Dec 2019
• PRC / Peking dumps 200 million cubic metres of waste in sea after drive to stop throwing it in rivers

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  Published 5th Dec 2019
• Renewable power generation to jump 50 per cent in five years – but it’s still not enough

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  Published 4th Dec 2019
• 'The United States is still in': Nancy Pelosi defies Trump over Paris climate change agreement in Spain

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  Published 4th Dec 2019
• Government heavily redacts report revealing how it planned to convince public fracking is a good idea

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  Published 3rd Dec 2019
• Leonardo DiCaprio and Bill Clinton among John Kerry’s all-star ‘World War Zero’ climate coalition. Stars aim to win over those sceptical of need to cut carbon emissions by 2020.

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  Published 1st Dec 2019
• Brazil's far-right president Bolsonaro says Leonardo DiCaprio paid for Amazon rainforest fires. 'The future of these irreplaceable ecosystems is at stake and I am proud to stand with the groups protecting them,' actor says.

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 30th Nov 2019
• Critically endangered Sumatran orangutan found alive after being shot 24 times

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  Published 30th Nov 2019
• Climate change activism ‘reducing mental health symptoms among young people’

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  Published 28th Nov 2019
• The Amazon rainforest fires are ‘melting glaciers over a thousand miles away’

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  Published 28th Nov 2019
• Boris Johnson to be replaced by melting ice statue

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  Published 28th Nov 2019
• Half of dead baby turtles found by Australian scientists have stomachs full of plastic

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 28th Nov 2019
• Extinction Rebellion prosecutions dropped en masse after protest ban ruled unlawful.

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 27th Nov 2019
• Fossil fuel production on track to exceed safe climate change limits by 120%

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 20th Nov 2019
• UK: Companies that fail to tackle climate change will be delisted from the London Stock Exchange, Labour announces

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  Published 19th Nov 2019
• Trump administration to limit scientific and medical research used for public health law - Government agencies ‘can now justify rolling back rules on health and environment’

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 12th Nov 2019
• Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary the country has run out of rubbish

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 12th Nov 2019
• Scientists Urge People to Eat Less Meat Amid Declaration of Climate Emergency

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  Published 8th Nov 2019
• If we want to stop the climate emergency, we need to break the taboo around population and contraception

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 7th Nov 2019
• ‘Untold human suffering’: 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency. ‘Despite 40 years of major global negotiations, we conduct business as usual and have failed to address this crisis,’ group says.

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 5th Nov 2019
• Trump vows 'no more' federal aid to Calif. as devastating wildfires continue to burn - “Every year, as the fire’s rage & Calif. burns, it is the same thing-& then he comes to the Federal Govt for $$$ help. No more. Get your act together Governor."

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 3rd Nov 2019
• Trump's energy secretary refuses to cooperate with impeachment inquiry — unless he gets an 'open hearing'

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  Published 3rd Nov 2019
• Humans have made ‘tragic, desperate mess’ of planet says David Attenborough

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 20th Oct 2019
• Qatar now so hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors - Giant coolers in public areas accelerating climate crisis further by using electricity from fossil fuels

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  Published 18th Oct 2019
• 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.”

  (independent.co.uk)

  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’

  (independent.co.uk)

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

  (independent.co.uk)

  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”.

  (independent.co.uk)

  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.

  (independent.co.uk)

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

  (independent.co.uk)

  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.

  (independent.co.uk)

  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

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 30th 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

  (independent.co.uk)

  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'

  (independent.co.uk)

  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.

  (independent.co.uk)

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

  (independent.co.uk)

  Published 19th Jul 2019