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The Earth's Corr: Have a think about the meat on your plate as you sit down to Christmas dinner

We produce way more meat than NI folks could ever possibly eat - and the animals and our environment are suffering because of it

Belfast Live

Does NC need new rules for poultry farms? That question divides lawmakers

As Democratic lawmaker Pricey Harrison sees it, North Carolina needs stronger regulation to protect neighbors and the environment from rapidly expanding poultry farms.

Tribune News Service

Environmental Violations Cost $23b in Saudi Arabia

Saudi environmental officials revealed that violations have resulted in an estimated annual loss of SAR 86 billion ($23 billion) and pointed to security authorities fighting off 9,200 environmental violations during the last three years. In 2022 alone, the Kingdom’s authorities registered 3,500 environmental violations. Colonel Abdul Rahman bin Qadan Al-Otaibi…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Charges laid over failed recycling program

Victoria's Environment Protection Authority has laid charges after the nation's largest soft plastic recycling scheme was shut down.

AAP

Winter storm cancels flights, closes schools in Canada

A major winter storm hitting Ontario and Quebec has caused widespread flight cancellations and school closures, and has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers

The Independent UK

Colombia's oil theft soars, leaving trail of environmental harm

In a clearing of Colombia's Pacific jungle, the dense canopy encircles an area of desolation left by a clandestine refinery, where oil waste blackens everything underfoot, seeping into the soil and coating the vegetation.

Reuters

Soft plastics recycling operator REDcycle charged by Victoria's environmental watchdog

Victoria's environmental watchdog charges the operators of the REDcycle program used by major supermarkets, alleging the company secretly stockpiled plastic bags.

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Still seeking answers to lake fish tragedy

The state's environmental watchdog remains tight-lipped about the progress of its investigation into a mass fish kill in Lake Macquarie in September.

Newcastle Herald

Could ‘Peer Community In’ be the revolution in scientific publishing we've all been waiting for?

In 2017, three researchers from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Denis Bourguet, Benoit Facon and Thomas Guillemaud, founded Peer Community In (PCI), a peer-review-based service for recommending preprints (referring to the version of an article that a scientist submits to a review committee). The…

The Conversation

Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction

A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the “fate of the entire living world”. All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough: a deal to protect 30% of all land and water…

The Conversation

Tory minister tells Brits 'iron wrapping paper' to save cash as nurses get pay cut

Environment Minister Rebecca Pow posted a video of herself ironing her old wrapping paper to re-use it, adding: 'Obviously you have to be really careful, low low low heat on the iron, because one does not want any risk of fire'

Daily Mirror

Small, fast-moving animals perceive time faster than large, slow ones, study finds

Findings may lead to better understanding of how light pollution may affect some species

The Independent UK

Timeline: Half a century of oil spills in Nigeria’s Ogoniland

Since oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Nigeria in 1958, thousands of oil spill incidents have happened.

Al Jazeera

COVID hit companies hard. Why some kept their sustainability commitments, and others didn't

Covid-19 has had profound implications for the “role of business in society”. One of them is the pandemic’s effect on companies’ sustainability strategies. These are efforts to avoid companies’ harmful impacts on the environment and communities, and to enhance the positive impacts.

The Conversation

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No greenhouse gas limits for Victoria's coal-fired power plants as Supreme Court rejects challenge

A Victorian court rejects arguments by environmental groups that the state's EPA should have imposed greenhouse gas limits on coal plants in the Latrobe Valley.

The Conversation

Smart buildings: What happens to our free will when tech makes choices for us?

Smart buildings, which are central to the concept of smart cities, are a new generation of buildings in which technological devices, such as sensors, are embedded in the structure of the buildings themselves. Smart buildings promise to personalize the experiences of their occupants by using real-time feedback mechanisms and forward-looking…

The Independent UK

Spurred by regulators, 3M to phase out "forever chemicals"

Chemical and consumer products maker 3M will phase out the manufacturing of so-called “forever chemicals” and try to get them out of all their products within two years

The Guardian - UK

‘Embrace history’: UN environment chief calls for immediate action on Cop15 deal

Inger Andersen said we must not ‘pause for a second’ as we ‘change the relationship between people and nature’

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Vic Supreme Court throws out EPA coal case

The Victorian Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the Environmental Protection Agency in the first case to test Victorian climate change legislation.

The Guardian - UK

Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified

The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous

Dynamite News

Delhi Govt Launches Campaign Against Open Burning To Curb Pollution

Environment Minister Gopal Rai directed department officials to run 'Anti Open Burning Special Campaign' for the next 10 days in view of increasing pollution in Delhi. Read on for details:

Daily Mirror

French ski resort becomes first in Europe to introduce smoking ban

In France, approximately 20 to 25,000 tonnes of cigarette butts end up in the environment every year, while 3,000 cigarette butts were collected on the ski area of Les Gets alone

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial: A school district's indefensible treatment of LGBTQ students

The Central Bucks School District is one of the wealthiest school systems in Pennsylvania. That will come in handy since the district is paying a lawyer $940 an hour to defend a federal complaint of its own making.

Reuters

'Qatargate' scandal casts light on 'untouchable' EU lawmakers

As a corruption scandal rocks the European Parliament, lawmakers and campaign groups say a lack of asset declarations, little reporting on contacts with third countries and barely any sanctions created an environment where rule-breaking could go unpunished or undetected.

Chicago Sun-Times

The pandemic changed the workplace. It’s an opportunity to confront ageism.

The typical workplace now includes workers from five generations. That shift, plus changes in the workplace since the pandemic, are an opportunity to make the work environment better for all.

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