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Friday 12 September 2014
Friends of the Earth's shift on nuclear should be celebrated, not denied

Roger Harrabin: The green group’s opposition is now less ideological and more functional, and that’s a sign of maturity
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Roger Harrabin
08.54 EDT
Thursday 11 September 2014
2050 weather forecasts: why we need stories like this to tackle climate change

Ed Gillespie: The UN’s mock weather forecasts from the future are part of the cultural revolution needed to address global warming
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Ed Gillespie
09.02 EDT
Monday 1 September 2014
A doomed Earth of science fiction may well become a reality

Andrew Simms: Our climate altering activities are hurtling us towards the fictional future of a hot, melting world
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Andrew Simms
12.50 EDT
Tuesday 5 August 2014
Drink up, then eat the glass – the trend for edible food packaging and tableware

Flavoured, edible glasses from Loliware, made with agar, a seaweed-based gel.

Rich McEachran: New technologies are being used to make edible packaging for food and drink. It could reduce what we send to landfill, but will it taste any good?
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Rich McEachran
07.34 EDT
Friday 1 August 2014
It's time energy policy hums to a different tune

Andrew Simms: Why is the UK government seeking to exploit more fossil fuels when we can’t burn what we already know is there?
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Andrew Simms
11.48 EDT
Thursday 31 July 2014
India puts GM crop trials on hold

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar: BJP-led government gives in to demands from nationalist RSS to not surrender country’s food security to foreign companies
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11.23 EDT
Tuesday 29 July 2014
Why I want to save the leopard that killed my dog

Janaki Lenin: Few people saw ‘Macavity’ and even fewer worried about him, but now Indian forestry officials want to trap and relocate him
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Janaki Lenin
00.00 EDT
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Not investing in new nuclear power would be a costly gamble for the UK

Keith Parker: Nuclear must be a part of the UK's low carbon energy mix because renewable sources cannot provide power 24/7
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07.27 EDT
Friday 18 July 2014
India's forest cover is on the up – but are the numbers too good to be true?

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar: Upward trend in forest cover seems far-fetched to some observers, as land is given over to power stations and mining
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09.58 EDT
Wednesday 16 July 2014
How the web is helping waste-pickers clean up Bangalore's rubbish

Shreya Dasgupta: I Got Garbage project brings informal waste recyclers in India's IT capital face-to-face with the people who create the rubbish
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07.11 EDT
Thursday 10 July 2014
India's new policy puts roads ahead of wildlife concerns

Janaki Lenin: Faster approvals for military projects along China border could put 60 national parks and their iconic animals at risk
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Janaki Lenin
12.46 EDT
EDF nuclear deal is a bad economic bet

Tom Burke: Rising renewables output makes promise to buy Hinkley Point electricity at twice its current price a costly gamble
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Tom Burke
07.12 EDT
Wednesday 9 July 2014
Lego told 'everything is not awesome' in viral Greenpeace video

Adam Vaughan: With nearly 1m page views, film of an oil-stricken Arctic built from Lego bricks is latest salvo in campaign against Shell deal
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Adam Vaughan
10.52 EDT
Tuesday 8 July 2014
How the crocodile and gibbon epitomise an ongoing Indian conflict

Soumya Mukerji: Conservation biologist Bahar Dutt's book Green Wars explores the tension between development and the environment
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10.44 EDT
Wednesday 2 July 2014
Our oceans will be infinitely poorer if we lose our sharks

Steve Backshall: We must adopt catch limits for species such as the blue and mako sharks if we are to save their populations from collapse
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10.28 EDT