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It's cute and it's cuddly. And in 30 years, campaigners say, the koala will be extinct. But this emblematic animal has a curious history – and its fate is mired in politicsWhen south-eastern Australia was consumed by bushfires in February, one image shut out all others. Nearly 200 humans might have perished, but a koala had (Read More)
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Governments at the world summit on food security at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome last week took few of the required steps to respond to rising hunger (World leaders agree to global food strategy, 17 November). As with the food security strategy agreed at the L'Aquila G8 meeting, much (Read More)
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If you’ve been following significant parts of the blogosphere for the last few days, you would have heard by now about “Climategate,” the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, one of the leading bodies supporting man-made global warming. The emails (Examiner.com has a decent summary (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Levy on City trading aimed at restoring trust in banks• Survey shows more than 50% of voters back planGordon Brown will take his radical proposal to tax City trading to Britain's business leaders today, as a survey shows that more than half of voters would back the plan, if the proceeds went to help the poorest in society (Read More)
NYT > Global Warming:
Most television weather presenters have studiously avoided using their slots to discuss global warming. But that may be changing. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Chance to limit warming squandered, says scientist• World needs to prepare to cope with at least 3-4C riseClimate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the world's chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the government has (Read More)
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East Antarctic sheet shedding 57bn tonnes of ice a year and contributing to sea level rises, according to Nasa aerial surveyThe world's largest ice sheet has started to melt along its coastal fringes, raising fears that global sea levels will rise faster than scientists expected.The East Antarctic ice sheet, which makes up (Read More)
TreeHugger:
photo via APSome climate activists are losing faith in both President Obama's ability and commitment to clean energy and battling climate change. But what if we John McCain were president? Where would we be today? Not in a good place, if his rhetoric on the Senate climate bill is any measurement. McCain, once a leader on cl (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Departmental wrangling over "feed-in tariffs" scuppers Ed Miliband's aim to have policy in place by Copenhagen summitEd Miliband's hope of having a key government policy on renewable energy in place before the Copenhagen summit have been dashed by internal wrangling over the final levels at which so-called "feed-in tariffs" (Read More)
The Guardian:
President Barack Obama is considering setting a provisional target for cutting America's huge greenhouse gas emissions, removing the greatest single obstacle to a landmark global agreement to fight climate change.The Observer has learnt that administration officials have been consulting international negotiators and key pl (Read More)
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Having moved behind the camera, supermodel Helena Christensen has turned her focus on climate changeSupermodel-turned-photographer Helena Christensen goes beneath the surface with her latest project, a collection of pictures documenting the effects of climate change in Peru, her mother's native country. Here she describes (Read More)
The Guardian:
How did fur, once taboo, become so acceptable – desirable even – again? Elizabeth Day investigates an ethical dilemma that goes to the heart of the fashion industry – and meets the animal rights campaigner who refuses to be defeatedOn an otherwise unremarkable grey autumn day in London last month, a few hundred protesters t (Read More)
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Call them 'twitchers' at your peril: how birdwatching has taken off in Britain. By Kate KellawayBirdwatching – when it is non-birdwatchers you are talking to – produces an almost uniform reaction: amused condescension, as if the sheer harmlessness of the activity were dangerous or put it beyond the pale as a subject. It's t (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Nick Cohen suggests that Nacro, the crime reduction charity, no longer criticises government policy because it "has become dependent on the state" ("How the government buys the silence of charities", Comment). He argues that participation in private sector bids to run prisons prevents Nacro from arguing that fewer people sh (Read More)