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Protests at plans for salmon farm near Lochranza, on Arran
Scottish Salmon Company wants to build 20-cage site close to tourist destination
Islanders on Arran are protesting against plans to install one of the UK’s largest fish farms close to one of the island’s most treasured holiday destinations.
The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) wants to build a fish farm near Lochranza on the northern tip of Arran, which will be more than twice the size of most other salmon farms.
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Greta Thunberg: 'I wouldn't have wasted my time' speaking to Trump
- Swedish activist and president attended UN climate summit
- ‘He’s not listening to experts … why would he listen to me?’
Greta Thunberg has said she wouldn’t have wasted her time talking to Donald Trump about climate change at the UN climate change summit in New York earlier this year – the same event she was pictured glaring at the one of the world’s leading climate-change deniers.
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'It's nice to meet you': Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough speak over Skype – video
Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough thanked each other for their climate activism when they spoke for the first time in a Skype call. The discussion was part of the Swedish activist's guest-editing slot on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Attenborough praised the teenager for raising awareness of the climate crisis, to which Greta said nature documentaries inspired her to take on the cause
Continue reading...'She's happy': Greta Thunberg's father says climate activism helped her beat depression - video
Greta Thunberg's father has spoken about how activism helped his daughter out of depression. Speaking to the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Svante Thunberg says he had thought it was 'a bad idea' for his daughter to take to the frontline of the battle against climate change but adds that her activism helped her battle depression. 'You think she's not ordinary now because she's special, and she's very famous, and all these things. But to me she's now an ordinary child,' he says. As part of Greta’s guest editorship of the programme, she also talks to Sir David Attenborough for the first time.
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Greta Thunberg: climate activism has made her 'very happy', says father
Svante Thunberg says he was concerned about his daughter’s school strike but that her campaigning had helped her beat depression
Greta Thunberg’s father has opened up about how activism helped his daughter out of depression but still worries about how she will deal with the impact of her international fame.
Speaking to the BBC to mark his daughter’s guest-editing slot on the Today programme, Svante Thunberg revealed he thought it was a “bad idea” for Greta to stage the school strike that catapulted her into the public eye.
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The environment in 2050: flooded cities, forced migration – and the Amazon turning to savannah
Unless we focus on shared solutions, violent storms and devastating blazes could be the least of the world’s troubles. Civilisation itself will be at risk
‘Good morning. Here is the shipping forecast for midday, 21 June, 2050. Seas will be rough, with violent storms and visibility ranging from poor to very poor for the next 24 hours. The outlook for tomorrow is less fair.”
All being well, this could be a weather bulletin released by the Met Office and broadcast by the BBC in the middle of this century. Destructive gales may not sound like good news, but they will be among the least of the world’s problems in the coming era of peak climate turbulence. With social collapse a very real threat in the next 30 years, it will be an achievement in 2050 if there are still institutions to make weather predictions, radio transmitters to share them and seafarers willing to listen to the archaic content.
Continue reading...National plastics summit to tackle Australia’s growing rubbish problem
Environment minister Sussan Ley says consultation with states and industry will look at ‘innovative’ ways for dealing with the issue
Environment minister Sussan Ley has announced the nation’s first plastics summit to be held next year in an attempt to address the problem with Australia’s growing rubbish problem.
With Australia no longer able to send its mixed plastic waste overseas from 2021, and plastic use predicted to double once again in the next two decades, Ley said the summit will bring together retailers, researchers, school children, and governments to work out how to tackle the crisis.
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UK ethical consumer spending hits record high, report shows
Market including food, drinks, clothing and energy has risen almost fourfold in past 20 years
Ethical consumer spending has hit record levels in the UK, according to a new report that reveals the total market – including food, drinks, clothing, energy and eco-travel – has swelled to over £41bn.
Total ethical spending has risen almost fourfold in the past 20 years and outgrown all UK household expenditure, which has been broadly flat, according to the new study from Co-op.
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The spoon-billed sandpiper has been brought back from the brink after a conservation programme in Gloucestershire
After eight years, conservationists have succeeded in helping spoon-billed sandpipers hatch chicks at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust headquarters in Gloucestershire.
The birds belong to the world’s only captive flock of spoon-billed sandpipers, considered to be among the rarest of waders, and highly threatened. About 200 or so birds are thought to be left in the wild.
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