Environment news
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- ‘Explore lightly’: Palau makes all visitors sign pledge to respect environment
- Plans for major nuclear power station in Wales win green light
- Tesco faces legal threat over marketing its food with ‘fake farm’ names
- Arctic permafrost thawing faster than ever, US climate study finds
- World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas extraction
- Quarter of Christmas jumpers were worn once and discarded last year
- UK to bring back beavers in first government flood reduction scheme of its kind
- Macron awards US scientists grants to move to France in defiance of Trump
- Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, says report
In depth
- ‘A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off
- Fueling dissent: how the oil industry set out to undercut clean air
- EU must not burn the world’s forests for ‘renewable’ energy
- I wrote about farmers’ suicides – and the reaction has been overwhelming
- After years of toxic oil spills, indigenous Peruvians use tech to fight back
Multimedia
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- ‘Soul-crushing’ video of starving polar bear exposes climate crisis, experts say
And finally ...
Size does matter: wine glasses are seven times larger than they used to be
Something to think about as you reach for your Christmas tipple. Festive drinking has changed somewhat over the last 300 years.