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Our emissions, our responsibility
If someone tells you that they will reach net zero, I urge you not to be impressed until they have told you how.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 31st March 2021
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Climate change
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- Environment & ethics
- Farming
- Climate change
New bank could fast-track sustainable farming
Government should set up a new bank to help finance farmers moving into agroecological or regenerative farming, report finds.
By Jack Thompson - 30th March 2021
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- Climate change
- Farming
- Nature
Climate change threatens milk and potatoes
British cows and potatoes will suffer increased heat stress and disease pressures because of climate change, the Met Office has said.
By Jack Thompson - 24th March 2021
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- Politics
- Biodiversity
- Climate change
Green Brexit fails to arrive
Air quality, nature restoration and chemical regulations are among the environmental protection that are static or weaker since Brexit despite government pledges.
By Nina Pullman - 17th March 2021
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- Ethical business
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
A different kind of Amazon
How one indigenous community in the Peruvian rainforest is pioneering shade-grown coffee produced under the canopy, future-proofing their way of life and the fragility of their forest ecosystem.
By Nina Pullman - 16th March 2021
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- Food waste
- Ethical business
- Climate change
Send surplus food to people not energy
Edible food surplus should go to people in need not used as cheap power for subsidised anaerobic digesters, writes City Harvest’s Laura Winningham.
By Laura Winningham - 9th March 2021
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- Ethical business
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
UK banks linked to deforestation, report finds
Barclays, HSBC and NatWest are among UK banks found to be linked to deforestation in Brazil as spotlight on unethical finance grows.
By Jack Thompson - 4th March 2021
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- Food waste
- Climate change
Confessions of a kitchen bin
Environmental journalist Anna Turns weighed her household waste after a week before setting a mission to reduce it with the help of tips and tricks from food waste experts.
By Anna Turns - 2nd March 2021
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- Biodiversity
- Climate change
- Environment & ethics
Caterpillars and tackling the biodiversity crisis
A caterpillar spotted while gleaning a field for leftover crops sparked a conversation around the connection between species, writes Chantelle Norton.
By Chantelle Norton - 2nd March 2021
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- Health
- Farming
- Seeds
Breeding food for nutrition: common sense or quasi science?
The agri revolution led to a focus on crop yields above all else – but researchers are beginning to look again at nutrition in our food.
By Jack Thompson - 9th April 2021
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- Environment & ethics
- Fish
Seaspiracy questions reality of ‘sustainable’ fishing
The Netflix documentary has been welcomed for spotlighting damage from large-scale fishing while its claim that no fish is sustainable is disputed.
By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021
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- Nature
- Biodiversity
Biodiversity is about habitats not just species
More than just reefs and rainforests, habitat diversity also covers the heaths, woodlands, fens and bogs closer to home. Here's how you can help protect and visit some of the habitat restoration…
By Becky Blench - 8th April 2021
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- Plastic
- Nature
- Mental health
Charity launches biggest-ever UK beach clean
Charity Surfers Against Sewage hopes to galvanise 100,000 Brits to clean a million miles of rivers, beaches and green spaces to counter the rise in single-use plastic since the pandemic.
By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021
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- News from the farm
- Fish
- Environment & ethics
The uncomfortable truth about fishing
I found it hard to disagree with the main conclusion of Seaspiracy: that there is almost no sustainable fishing, and the labels claiming sustainability fall a long way short of delivering it.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 8th April 2021
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- Inequality
- Farming
- Politics
What can we glean from the loss of the Commons?
The pandemic has brought a fresh perspective on the power of community and feelings of injustice: let’s channel this anger positively and build dignified food security for all, writes David Markson.
By David Markson - 6th April 2021
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