Category: Green
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Green news roundup: Extreme heatwaves, the cooling problem and puffins in peril
The week’s top environment news stories and green events. If you are not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox
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How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction
Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there’s still time to stop it.
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Prince William urges Chinese to stop buying ivory and rhino horn
Duke of Cambridge uses speech hours before Chinese president Xi Jinping’s UK state visit to campaign against trade in illegal wildlife products
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Marine food chains at risk of collapse, extensive study of world’s oceans finds
Important ecosystems could be massively damaged by 2050 unless greenhouse gas emissions and localised pollution is drastically reduced, researchers say
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Green news roundup: coral die-off, wildlife in Chernobyl and Africa’s largest windfarm
The week’s top environment news stories and green events. If you are not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox
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‘All-natural’ perfumes rarely are – but independent makers hope to change that
Natural materials can be pricey and hard to find – and when it comes to ‘gorgeous’-smelling ingredients like whale feces, no two samples smell the same. But smaller perfumers are rising to the challenge