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  1. Environmental Science

Bottom trawling ban ‘must be top of agenda’

The British Government has been told to introduce a complete ban on ocean bottom trawling in its waters, as a former environment minister said some companies were treating the seas like a “bottomless pit”. Labour’s Barry Gardiner said trawlers with nets that stretched more than a mile long “scrape away the existence of all life […]
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Hyperscale data centres will ‘turbocharge emissions’

Strain However, incredibly, there is as yet no national level guidance on planning for water use by data centres – and the operators themselves have been unwilling to give detailed information.  The industry likes to talk up its use of air-cooling, or to indicate how much of its water is actually recycled. But air-cooling and […]
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Sovereign forests

There might be ways to harvest resources responsibly, but a cleaner option is a shift in cultural attitudes to reduce consumption among industrialised nations. Public outcry could leverage pressure on politicians to enlarge ranges for flora and fauna.  Profit Considering the waste that has resulted over the past hundreds of years by industrial societies, modern […]
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The real power brokers

Similarly, the big four professional services companies – Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PWC – all make fortunes helping the fossil fuel industry. While they generally talk a good game on climate action, in reality, they aren’t in the business of putting major clients out of business.  Extraction Together, these firms produce a vast economic interest vested in the status quo, […]
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A century of Woodcraft Folk

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, the former MP for Brighton Kemptown, started attending his local group aged six. Three decades later, having spent seven years in parliament, he has now been appointed chief executive of the charity he grew up in.  Responsibilities “It guided my most formative work” he tells me “I went into politics because of Woodcraft […]
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Protecting the protectors

As part of its long-term conservation efforts in the Amazon, The Caring Family Foundation has partnered with Associação Médicos Da Floresta (AMDAF) to launch a medical bus that provides specialist healthcare to Indigenous Amazonian communities, including gynaecology, paediatrics, cardiology and ophthalmology diagnosis and treatment.  Since the start of the year, the mobile health unit has offered […]
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Declaring war on the climate

Military spending rises will increase these emissions. However, the exact relationship between military spending and military carbon emissions is highly complex and not easy to predict.  For example, will extra funding be mainly used to increase military activity, leading to rises in fossil fuel use by combat planes or warships?  Or will the funding be […]
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