Environment minister Tony Burke says the government has done its best to stop downgrading of UN heritage status . . . → Read More: Great Barrier Reef on the brink as politicians bicker
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Better recycling and resource use has potential for net exports of more than £20bn and 10,000 new jobs by 2020 . . . → Read More: UK recycling industry has potential to create 10,000 new jobs, report finds
South-north diversion project aimed at preventing water shortages has had no shortage of problems and criticism . . . → Read More: China’s mega water diversion project begins testing
Australians could be sitting on more than 1,000tn cubic feet of untapped gas, study finds, but lacks infrastructure to exploit it . . . → Read More: Australia has huge deposits of shale gas – but it won’t come cheap
Cities shunt polluting plants to areas where damage is less visible as proof linking cancer rates to pollution remains elusive . . . → Read More: China’s cities: push for ‘green’ centres creates suburban ‘cancer villages’
Death rates in communities near chemical, pharmaceutical or power plants exceed the national average, but residents face a wall of denial and intimidation . . . → Read More: Inside China’s ‘cancer villages’
A typical pair of synthetic trainers generates 30lbs of emissions, equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for a week . . . → Read More: Running shoes leave large carbon footprint, study shows
Designers applying circular economy principles to boiling water, to produce a kettle that’s both stylish and sustainable . . . → Read More: Closed loop design: how to make a better kettle
Authorities push forward plans for 314 metre-high dam on Dadu river which would affect rare plants and fish . . . → Read More: World’s tallest dam approved by Chinese environmental officials |
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