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theguardian.com —  1+ hour, 21+ min ago

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/21/the-race-to-save-the-world-documentary-climate-activists

outside Los Angeles to Washington DC over the course of 2014; speaks with Aji Piper and his brother ... dozen other climate activists, drove about a half hour north to a railyard in Everett, Washington. ... Instead, the director, Joe Gantz, focuses on the personal lives of a representative but by no means comprehensive ... York; and embeds with the longtime climate activist Bill Moyer, who helped organize "kayaktivism" protests ... to thwart the harboring of a Shell Arctic drilling rig in Seattle with a fleet of kayaks. ... ...

theguardian.com —  1+ hour, 32+ min ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/22/the-worst-electric-vehicle-policy-in-the-world-automotive-coalition-pans-victorias-ev-tax

The signatories include Hyundai, Volkswagen, Uber, Jetcharge, the Clean Energy Council, Solar Citizens ... Behyad Jafari, the chief executive of the Electric Vehicle Council, said if the tax passed parliament ... Michael Bartsch, the managing director of Volkswagen Group Australia, described the proposal as an "anomaly ... branded the Victorian government's proposed electric vehicle tax the "worst electric vehicle policy ... it would make Victoria a "national pariah" on electric vehicle policy. ... ...

nytimes.com —  1+ hour, 44+ min ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/arts/television/earth-day-greta-thunberg-david-attenborough.html

This year's specials include a Greta Thunberg documentary, a David Attenborough extravaganza, James Cameron ... to the Antarctic and from Sri Lanka to the Caribbean. ... -- you can go avuncular with "Life in Color With David Attenborough," on Netflix, or flinty with "Greta ... If you like some Hollywood glamour with your ecology, you can listen while Sigourney Weaver narrates ... 19 on the Smithsonian Channel, is at the other end of the scale from the lushly pictorial and high-minded ... ...

theguardian.com —  1+ hour, 47+ min ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/21/falling-birthrates-could-be-a-tonic-for-the-planet

Yet in 2017, the Guardian covered research (by Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas) showing that the "greatest ... Adair Turner, former chair of the UK's Climate Change Committee and pensions commission, put it best: ... Polly Toynbee asserts that "a dearth of babies is no answer to solving the climate crisis". ... Polly Toynbee points out that official figures for births are not yet available. ... Polly may be worried, but the planet would breathe a sigh of relief. ... ...

theguardian.com —  1+ hour, 52+ min ago

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/21/ikea-to-invest-34bn-by-2030-in-renewable-energy

Jesper Brodin, the chief executive of Ingka Group, said Ikea's growing clean energy ambitions over the ... Pia Heidenmark Cook, the company's chief sustainability officer, said: "We have already come a long way ... Ingka Group, the owner of most Ikea stores, spent EUR2.5bn over the last decade installing 935,000 solar ... Ikea plans to accelerate its investment in renewable energy by spending an extra EUR4bn (? ... The Swedish furniture giant plans to focus part of the new renewable energy investment in India by equipping ... ...

theguardian.com —  3+ hour, 2+ min ago

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/21/the-race-to-save-the-world-review-climate-change-protest-documentary

For example, Bill Moyer, a resident of Washington state, spends most of his time leading a campaign against ... The Race to Save the World is released on 22 April on digital platforms. ... Similarly, Abby Brockway, another protester parent who blocks the path of a train ferrying oil, says ... It doesn't help that director Joe Gantz seems determined to serve up these stories with lashings of soppy ... several months as they protest, get arrested and face charges in court. ... ...

theguardian.com —  3+ hour, 18+ min ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/21/raw-sewage-breaches-uk-rivers-10-times-greater-than-watchdog-environment-agency-estimates

Peter Hammond, professor of Computational Biology, University College London, said his work analysing ... The scale of water companies illegally discharging sewage is 10 times greater than the Environment Agency ... The figures show water companies released raw sewage into rivers more than 400,000 times last year, amounting ... Despite the scale of raw sewage released into rivers, the EA does not test river water for faecal bacteria ... full details of the scale of raw sewage discharged into rivers by water companies in 2020. ... ...

theguardian.com —  3+ hour, 53+ min ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/21/fossil-fuel-funding-and-world-leading-research-at-oxford

11m from fossil fuel firms, report finds, 20 April), the KACST-Oxford Centre for Petrochemical Research ... firms, writes in support of the KACST-Oxford Centre for Petrochemical Research Re your report (Oxford ... Arabia - the only such centre outside the Middle East. ... _Peter P Edwards_, responding to a report about Oxford University's receipt of money from fossil fuel ... In 2018, KOPRC, a joint research centre created by the University of Oxford and the King Abdulaziz City ... ...

earther.gizmodo.com —  4+ hour, 3+ min ago

https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-technique-could-turn-plastic-back-into-oil-which-i-1846733316

author Dionisios Vlachos, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of ... Delaware, said in an email. ... a bunch of Tupperware won't change that. ... These high-heat techniques, Vlachos said, break down most of the chemical bonds in the plastic, which ... A new study poses an interesting solution: Melting plastic bags and bottles back into the oil it was ... ...

theguardian.com —  4+ hour, 24+ min ago

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/apr/21/girl-in-the-baobab-tree-luis-tato-best-photograph

s Munita, Alex Webb and Gordon Parks among many others. ... The tastiest ones are usually higher up' The vast Zinder region in Niger, west Africa, is the most ... _Influences:_ Cristina Garc?a-Rodero, Tom? ... I love this image of the girl in the baobab tree because it's not spectacular. ... This girl, who was 10 or 11, lived in the village of Malawama. ... ...