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Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian 24/3/2025
Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality. ...more
New national forest to see 20m trees planted 24/3/2025
New national forest to see 20m trees planted Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. ...more
Swiss scientists hope to save biggest glacier in the Alps even as ice loss accelerates 24/3/2025
Swiss scientists hope to save biggest glacier in the Alps even as ice loss accelerates The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although significant ice loss is now inevitable. ...more
Saudi Aramco launches first direct air capture test unit 21/3/2025
Saudi Aramco launches first direct air capture test unit Saudi oil giant Aramco has launched a pilot direct air capture unit able to remove 12 tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere, it said on Thursday. ...more
UK must spend £1.5bn a year on flood defences to protect public, experts warn 21/3/2025
UK must spend £1.5bn a year on flood defences to protect public, experts warn Researchers cite £2.4bn annual cost of flooding and say a third of England’s critical infrastructure is at risk. ...more
Amazon to sell carbon credits to suppliers, customers 21/3/2025
Amazon to sell carbon credits to suppliers, customers Amazon has begun selling carbon credits to its suppliers, business customers and other companies, the U.S. retail giant said, which can be used to offset their climate-damaging carbon emissions. ...more
Your home could be built with ‘carbon-negative’ sand 21/3/2025
Your home could be built with ‘carbon-negative’ sand Scientists say they have invented a “carbon-negative” alternative to sand that could be used to build homes more sustainably. ...more
The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist 21/3/2025
The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist The Climate Fiction Prize, a new award that means to acknowledge “the best novel-length work of fiction published in the UK engaging with the climate crisis,” has announced its first shortlist. ...more
Record 2024 temperatures accelerate ice loss, rise in sea levels, UN weather body says 20/3/2025
Record 2024 temperatures accelerate ice loss, rise in sea levels, UN weather body says Record greenhouse gas levels helped bring temperatures to an all-time high in 2024, accelerating glacier and sea ice loss, raising sea levels and edging the world closer to a key warming threshold, the U.N. weather body said on Wednesday. ...more
Trump administration may fire more than 1,000 EPA scientists and scrap research office, Democrats say 20/3/2025
Trump administration may fire more than 1,000 EPA scientists and scrap research office, Democrats say As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists – 75% of the research programme’s staff – could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the house committee on science, space and technology. ...more
 
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