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Monday February 29th, 2016
Emissions on the rise from Australia’s largest climate polluters, data shows
Guardian
29 Feb 2016Decline of Pollinators Poses Threat to World Food Supply, Report Says
New York Times
29 Feb 2016Scientists Protest Cuts and Commercialization at Australian Climate Center
New York Times
29 Feb 2016Law change ‘will make farmers in Australia more vulnerable to gas company abuses’
Guardian
29 Feb 2016Thursday February 25th, 2016
€400k damages to mussel firms over fishing ban is overturned by Irish Supreme Court
Irish Independent
25 Feb 2016Increased flooding in US coastal cities caused by climate change, study says
Guardian
25 Feb 2016Brexit would harm efforts to tackle global poverty and climate change, UK aid figures warn
Guardian
25 Feb 2016Fossil fuel use must fall twice as fast as thought to contain global warming –...
Guardian
25 Feb 2016‘We are on the verge of a litter crisis’ – British ‘grotspots’ cleaned for the...
Guardian
25 Feb 2016Monday February 22nd, 2016
Indoor and outdoor air pollution ‘claiming at least 40,000 UK lives a year’
Guardian
22 Feb 2016Eight UK river basin management plans will be inadequate to meet EU water pollution targets...
Guardian
22 Feb 2016China to build ventilation ‘corridors’ in Beijing to help tackle air pollution
Guardian
22 Feb 2016Climate experts urge leading scientists’ association: reject Exxon sponsorship
Guardian
22 Feb 2016Sami reindeer herders battle conservationists and miners to cling on to Arctic culture
Guardian
22 Feb 2016Climate change politics is blinding us to the devastating effects of dirty air
Guardian
22 Feb 2016Thursday February 18th, 2016
Fossil-fuel industry gets $2,000 in ‘subsidies’ for each $1 in party donations
Guardian
18 Feb 2016Hinkley Point decision ‘soon’ as EDF extends generation at four nuclear plants
Belfast Telegraph
18 Feb 2016Man arrested in anti-fracking protest at Woodburn, County Antrim forest drill site
Belfast Telegraph
18 Feb 2016Billions of bits of plastic waste threaten humans and wildlife, Australian senators told
Guardian
18 Feb 2016Ford becomes latest corporation to sever ties with conservative Alec lobby
Guardian
18 Feb 2016Monday February 15th, 2016
Scientists: air pollution led to more than 5.5 million premature deaths in 2013
Guardian
15 Feb 2016Ecos Centre Ballymena gets £1.6m investment as Northern Ireland Science Park expands into Mid and...
Belfast Telegraph
15 Feb 2016Thursday February 11th, 2016
Climate change may have helped spread Zika virus according to WHO scientists
Guardian
11 Feb 2016Monday February 8th, 2016
Thursday February 4th, 2016
From liquid air to supercapacitors, energy storage is finally poised for a breakthrough
Guardian
4 Feb 2016We’re drowning in cheap oil – yet still taxpayers prop up this toxic industry
Guardian
4 Feb 2016US electricity industry’s use of coal fell to historic low in 2015 as plants closed
Guardian
4 Feb 2016Water bills set to increase in UK and Wales despite damning report over pricing
Belfast Telegraph
4 Feb 2016Monday February 1st, 2016
Temperature study of last two millennia ‘confirms global warming a reality’
Belfast Telegraph
1 Feb 2016US to stop approving oil fracking off California coast until review is complete
Guardian
1 Feb 2016Tell the truth, ExxonMobil: a low-carbon future is affordable – and necessary
Guardian
1 Feb 2016