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
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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
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/20/cuckoo-cheating-by-nature-nick-davies-review
TfL 10 minute survey on Air Quality,if you`d like to do it.
https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/cleanair?utm_source=ehq_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ehq-Have-your-say-on-our-proposals-to-help-improve-air-quality-tackle-the-climate-emergency-and-reduce-traffic-congestion&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=website&utm_source=ehq
Half of UK’s butterfly species vulnerable to extinction
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/25/butterfly-species-uk-vulnerable-extinction-conservation-red-list?CMP=share_btn_tw
More Bloody `Recycling` Greenwashing.
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/04/none-of-sainsbury-s-flexible-plastic-recycled-in-the-uk/?fbclid=IwAR1J_8Mp6-kG9xko7q4Jv5276qXgom76RZRxnwUi-PKaTnJqpWPSUBY1bAk
Growing food on public green space.
https://www.positive.news/environment/what-would-happen-if-unloved-public-spaces-became-community-farms/
Hard-right Tories push to delay environmental land management scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/20/hard-right-tories-push-delay-environmental-land-management-scheme-brexit
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