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1181.Minister’s claims that solar panels harm UK food security are false (2015-02-18)

( Environmental news )

... Documents from environment secretary Liz Truss’s own department reveal they lack any data to back up claims used to justify removal of subsidies from farm land with solar panels. British food security is not being harmed by the spread of solar panels in the countryside as claimed by the UK’s environment secretary, documents from her... ...

1182.Biofuel from trash could create green jobs bonanza, says report (2015-02-17)

( Environmental news )

... Advanced biofuels industry could spur hundreds of thousands of jobs across Europe, says new report, but key European parliament vote next week could throw clean fuel ambitions into disarra. ...

1183.Penguins lost ability to taste fish (2015-02-17)

( Environmental news )

... Penguins can taste only sour and salty food, scientists have discovered. A genetic study suggests the flightless birds lost three of the five basic tastes long ago in evolution. Taste is critical for survival in most animals, but may not matter in the penguin, which swallows fish whole, say researchers in China and the US. ...

1184.Sub-Saharan African countries are failing to plan for climate change (2015-02-16)

( Environmental news )

... Failure to factor climate change into long-term investment and planning risks leaving countries across sub-Saharan vulnerable to droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea-levels. ...

1185.The truth behind the wind power subsidies row (2015-02-16)

( Environmental news )

... Do claims in a recent IPPR report that 100 UK wind turbines are receiving unfair subsidies at a cost of £400m to consumers add up? Fiona Harvey investigates. ...

1186.Coastal communities dumping 8m tonnes of plastic in oceans every year (2015-02-13)

( Environmental news )

... China ranked top polluter as figures suggest total plastic litter ending up in the seas could rise tenfold by 2025. ...

1187.Out of the blue, on the edge of the world, killer whales converge to feast (2015-02-13)

( Environmental news )

... In the first of a series of special reports on extraordinary marine environments under threat, Guardian Australia’s ocean correspondent visits a ‘pinprick’ in the Southern Ocean where, once a year, a jaw-dropping wonder of nature takes place. ...

1188.UK threatens to hit back at Austria over Hinkley Point legal challenge (2015-02-12)

( Environmental news )

... UK ministers are warning their Austrian counterparts that an arsenal of retaliatory measures will be launched if Vienna goes ahead with plans to challenge an EU state aid decision approving subsidies for new nuclear reactors at Hinkley point in Somerset. A diplomatic cable from the Austrian embassy in London to Vienna, seen by the Guardian,... ...

1189.Fossil fuel lobby goes on the attack against divestment movement (2015-02-12)

( Environmental news )

... The speed at which the fossil fuel divestment campaign is growing seems to have rattled its opponents in the coal and oil lobbies ...

1190.Richard Branson leads call to free global economy from carbon emissions (2015-02-05)

( Environmental news )

... Prominent business leaders claim setting a net-zero emissions target for 2050 would push companies into reducing their reliance on fossil fuels. Governments should set a clear target of making the world’s economy free from carbon emissions by mid-century, Sir Richard Branson and a group of other prominent businesspeople have urged. ...

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