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A draft Motion prepared for the EU Parliamentary Committe for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in March 2016.
Draft Motion prepared by Rapporteur Mireille d'Ornano on behalf of the Europe of Nations and Freedom Group.
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Research in Florida finds 88% of samples have pathogen that resists at least one antibiotic
Antibiotic resistance is rising in dolphins, researchers have said, mirroring the trend seen in humans.
Scientists examined disease-causing organisms, or pathogens, found in samples from the blowholes, gastric fluid and faeces of bottlenose dolphins from the Indian River Lagoon in Florida. The samples were collected between 2003 and 2015.
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Group said that Roger Hallam had been apprehended for the second time in three days
One of Extinction Rebellion’s co-founders has been arrested for the second time in three days after trying to fly a drone near Heathrow Airport during an environmental protest, the group said.
Roger Hallam was detained on Saturday while attempting to disrupt flights at Britain’s busiest airport with the device.
Continue reading...Tiffany Francis-Baker looks back on her six months as a Forestry Commission writer in residence – and urges us to take care of our woodlands
For centuries, forests have been the backdrop for fairytales, folklore and fantasy. From Robin Hood to Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks to The Gruffalo, writers have been drawn to the darkness and light they find in woodland, sowing the seeds of their imagination in the fertile soil that lies beneath a canopy of rustling leaves.
Tiffany Francis-Baker is one such writer. On 30 September, she will complete the first writer’s residency offered by the Forestry Commission in celebration of its centenary year. For the past six months, she has been visiting forests all over England, looking for inspiration for a long-form narrative poem she is writing.
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In this extract from her latest book On Fire, the No Logo author looks at why capitalism and politics have got in the way of addressing the climate crisis
• Interview with Naomi Klein: ‘We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism’
On a Friday in mid-March, they streamed out of schools in little rivulets, burbling with excitement and defiance at an act of truancy. The little streams emptied on to grand avenues and boulevards, where they combined with other flows of chanting children and teens. Soon the rivulets were rushing rivers: 100,000 bodies in Milan, 40,000 in Paris, 150,000 in Montreal. Cardboard signs bobbed above the surf of humanity: THERE IS NO PLANET B! DON’T BURN OUR FUTURE. THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!
There was no student strike in Mozambique; on 15 March the whole country was bracing for the impact of Cyclone Idai, one of the worst storms in Africa’s history, which drove people to take refuge at the tops of trees as the waters rose and would eventually kill more than 1,000 people. And then, just six weeks later, while it was still clearing the rubble, Mozambique would be hit by Cyclone Kenneth, yet another record-breaking storm.
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Young activists rallied in protest of inadequate government action on the climate crisis, chanting: ‘Protect our future’
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg – who has inspired young people around the world to strike in protest of inadequate government action on the crisis – accompanied her American counterparts in the youth climate movement at a rally near Donald Trump’s White House on Friday.
Thunberg quietly joined near the edge of the group, whispering along with chants and shaking her head when thanked by other advocates.
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Noise and pollution would threaten thousands of animals in Richmond Park, group says
The impact of thousands of newly routed flights over Richmond Park has been almost completely ignored in Heathrow airport’s environmental impact report on its plans for a third runway, campaigners have said.
As the consultation on Heathrow’s expansion approached closure on Friday, environmental campaigners said the effect of the expansion on the biodiversity, tranquility and environment on the park had yet to be properly addressed.
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Climate emergency activists protest against the environmental impact of the fashion industry by gluing themselves to the doors of the venue, while others lie in a pool of fake blood
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The UK has lost a third of its natural habitats in the last 50 years. At a bee and pollination festival in Bristol, visitors celebrated public spaces and gardens as increasingly valuable for bees
Photographs by Alex Turner
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Telethon asking viewers to give £2.4m for forests project to help tackle climate crisis
People in Denmark will be able to “plant trees” from the comfort of their sofa in what is believed to be the world’s first TV fundraiser for forests.
On Saturday the national broadcaster TV2 will air Denmark Plants Trees, a two-and-a-half hour live benefit event which will ask viewers to donate funds to plant 1m trees across the country.
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Numbers of top five species up on last year while small tortoiseshell moves north
It has been a painted lady summer. Nearly half a million of the migratory creatures were counted in British parks and gardens as part of the biggest butterfly survey in the world.
The painted lady topped the charts of the annual Big Butterfly Count with 420,841 recorded during high summer after their first big influx on British shores in a decade.
Continue reading...A survey shows few understand the long-term effects of meningitis for people like Lesley.
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Owen Carey said he had a dairy allergy but was not told his meal contained buttermilk, a coroner rules.
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The UK is the worst of seven high-income countries for key cancers including lung, colon and pancreas.
Fertility experts find that the left testicle is warmer, but only when a man has his clothes on.
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The video site's algorithm promotes medical misinformation in a number of languages, the BBC finds.
Campaigners say there is a desperate need for the NHS to invest in services to catch up with demand.
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The Trump administration is changing how the government defines water, and new rules will have significant effects on wildlife and water quality.
The winners of the Nature Conservancy's photo contest celebrate the natural world in all its splendor.
Part babysitter, part friend, a puppy named Remus hangs out with a cheetah cub named Kris at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Scientists take a deeper look at how chameleons change color, and learn some tricks that could benefit humans.
With K2-18b, scientists may have found the first Super Earth with water vapor in its atmosphere.
If you've ever wondered what hamsters and the French Revolution have to do with the first day of fall, we've got the answers.
Nieuwkoop, a sustainable community in the Netherlands, made the night skies safer for bats by using LED lights with a red glow.
Family sends an SOS message in a bottle from California's Arroyo Seco River — and it saves them.
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