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Scientists put forward plan to create universal species list

A plan to create the first universally recognised list of species on Earth has prompted hopes of an end to centuries of disagreement and confusion…

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Renault Trucks developing network for recycling truck parts with Indra

Renault Trucks is stepping up its transition to a circular economy and is developing a network with Indra for recycling and reusing truck parts. The…

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Tyre waste recycling plant to be built in the UK

A Norwegian tyre waste recycling company has announced its first plant will be located in the UK and is currently assessing sites, with a view…

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Egypt: About 40 tons of waste collected from the Red Sea

The Red Sea was cleaned from 19 June 2020 to 29 June 2020 as part of a 10-day initiative called “Ethadar lel-Akhdar” (be civic-minded towards…

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Welsh Research Identifies New System for Pharmaceutical Detection in Wastewater

A research team at Swansea University in Wales have developed a new method for fast removal and detection of wastewater pollutants that come from everyday…

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Coronavirus: world treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics, says UN

The world is treating the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but not the environmental cause, according to the authors of a UN…

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Scuba divers are turning plastic waste in the oceans into Covid face masks

A group of scuba divers have come up with a neat way of tackling two major problems, by recycling ocean plastic waste into coronavirus face…

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UK waste firm Biffa loses appeal after exporting dirty waste to China

One of the UK’s biggest waste firms has lost a case in the court of appeal to overturn a criminal conviction for exporting dirty waste…

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Discovery of fish never recorded in the Amazon shows richness of Brazil’s Calha Norte

Brazilian scientists have identified six fish species never before seen in the Amazon in Pará’s state’s Calha Norte, one of the best-preserved and least studied…

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Study: Climate change increasingly raised as a human rights issue in court cases

Climate change is increasingly being harnessed as a human rights issue in legal claims and court cases around the world, as the mass popularity of…

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