Government pulls plug on its remaining UK electric car subsidies
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/14/government-pulls-plug-on-its-remaining-uk-electric-car-subsidies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
This planet is dying and we are all acting too slowly. Thoughts, debates & suggestions on how we can act FAST and attempt to save the planet. No business posts or posts unrelated to saving the planet will be accepted and posters will be removed from the loop.
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Government pulls plug on its remaining UK electric car subsidies
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/14/government-pulls-plug-on-its-remaining-uk-electric-car-subsidies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Plan to scrap Natural England being considered
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/13/plan-to-scrap-natural-england-will-disrupt-net-zero-targets-experts-say?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&fbclid=IwAR2TkGu2vbWq7431wzraQYBgwCqozae5YTe0Ds7lTkFfB-oI-Joonpc9rhU&fs=e&s=cl
Boris’s rewilding obsession could backfire
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-boris-johnson-really-care-about-food-security-
Petition to demand better protection for ancient and veteran trees
https://campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/99702/petition/1?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tp22_advocacy
Ministers quietly abandon ‘green crap’ as focus shifts to food security
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-quietly-abandon-green-crap-as-focus-shifts-to-food-security-pzxlggm7p?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1654968518-1
Critical shortage of tree surgeons
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/11/macho-lumberjacks-need-not-apply-young-people-wanted-in-uk-forestry
What to do with old EV batteries- a solution?
Another innovative idea - oh I do like a bit of positive news.
https://www.positive.news/environment/ev-batteries-are-an-environmental-headache-this-startup-has-a-solution/
Eroding coastlines expose toxic waste
This article is three months old, but I don't think it has been posted before.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/17/toxic-waste-revealed-as-eroding-coastlines-expose-old-landfills
Activists take water regulator to court
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/09/activists-take-water-regulator-ofwat-to-court-over-sewage-in-english-and-welsh-rivers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Plastic grass adverts are greenwash
The ASA agrees.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/08/adverts-claiming-evergreens-plastic-grass-eco-friendly-asa
Council overruled on Surrey Hills gas drilling
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/08/fury-government-council-overruled-surrey-hills-gas-drilling?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://e360.yale.edu/features/insect_numbers_declining_why_it_matters
44% of world’s land surface needs increased protection
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/nearly-half-of-planets-land-in-need-of-conservation-attention-to-halt-biodiversity-crisis
Stop the government failing on plastic and screwing up nature
https://act.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/stop-plastic-pollution-destroying-nature
Consultation on environmental targets closes 27th June 2022.
Scroll down for documents.
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/natural-environment-policy/consultation-on-environmental-targets/
There is some disagreement about whether fish will swim through the bubbles, but it seems like a good idea.
https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1533954941987049474
https://jmdean1982.medium.com/time-to-get-angry-beyond-the-cosy-consensus-in-british-nature-conservation-a833ee0fd7ec
Toxic sediment poisoning crustaceans?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/06/dead-shellfish-beaches-safety-secrecy-britain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Toxic sediment poisoning crustaceans?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/06/dead-shellfish-beaches-safety-secrecy-britain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Sorry it`s facebook the post didn`t seem to go to a link with this vid on...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/664910066991956/permalink/2165626910253590/
Science doesn’t support HS2’s ancient woodland strategy
https://felixonline.co.uk/issue/1802/environment/science-doesn-t-support-hs2-s-ancient-woodland-strategy
The Queen planting trees through the decades
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7737279/The-Queen-planting-trees-decades.html
Dormant bluebells appear on Exmoor after hundreds of years
There is hope, but nature sometimes needs a bit of help.
https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/20158413.dormant-bluebells-appear-exmoor-hundreds-years/
An Introductory Guide to Young Tree Establishment
Free download from The Arb Association.
https://www.trees.org.uk/Help-Advice/Guide-to-Young-Tree-Establishment
The guide lists reasons to plant trees. It missed out noise reduction.
180 hours community service and £393 costs for killing birds of prey
Is this a deterrent?
https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/investigations/posts/community-order-for-gamekeeper-after-birds-of-prey-found-down-wiltshire-well
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/june/worlds-largest-plant-australian-seagrass-clone.html
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/54040/busted-5-tricks-the-aviation-industry-plays-on-us-to-appear-green/
The Indian rhino's return from the brink
More positive news.
https://www.animaljournal.co.uk/article/conservation/indian-rhino-return-brink
You Eat a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week
https://nautil.us/you-eat-a-credits-card-worth-of-plastic-every-week-17950/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
Susbidies could have insulated 2million homes!!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/31/sunak-uk-oil-subsidy-could-have-insulated-2m-homes-says-thinktank
G7 countries to stop funding fossil fuel development overseas (Edited)
Some (partly) good news.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/30/g7-countries-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuel-development-overseas?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Scientists sound alarm on global pollution
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-polluted-babies-millions-dead-scientists.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
Whales could capture 1.7 billion tonnes of CO2 a year
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/10/27/restoring-whales-to-their-pre-hunted-numbers-could-capture-1-7-billion-tonnes-of-co2-a-yea
A short history of environmental action
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/28/beekeepers-and-communists-how-environmentalists-started-a-global-conversation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Plastic pollution from tobacco products
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/26/big-tobacco-is-killing-the-planet-with-plastics-no-smokescreen-should-hide-that-acc?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
A festival celebrating 70 years of Nature Reserves in England
https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/festival-of-national-nature-reserves/
A second ‘super’ nature reserve being created.
The first was in Dorset, this is in Somerset. Others are planned for the Peak District, Norfolk and somewhere else that I can’t remember. Seems a good move.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-super-national-nature-reserve-created-to-protect-rare-wildlife
https://www.positive.news/society/positive-news-stories-from-week-21-of-2022/
Good news from an urban garden
https://www.positive.news/society/the-rio-de-janeiro-garden-that-saves-lives/
Wall Street financing deforestation
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/bidens-executive-order-on-forests-can-help-stop-wall-street-from-financing-deforestation/
National Farmers Union funding legal challenges to curbs on river pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/27/national-farmers-union-funding-legal-challenges-to-curbs-on-river-pollution?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
The surprising downside of #NoMowMay
https://www.rewildingmag.com/no-mow-may-downside/?fbclid=IwAR0GQvPs_Te2laV-iBX_RlXfugp5li1RJbprx1ZlQXmFxsETni5-XdYT3kU
Something more uplifting.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/26/it-looks-beautiful-uk-gardeners-leaving-lawns-uncut-no-mow-may-
Ministry of Defence under fire for ‘inventing rules’ to sell wildlife haven
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/11/ministry-of-defence-under-fire-for-inventing-rules-wildlife-haven-middlewick-ranges?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other