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Month: August 2020
Ban SUV adverts to meet UK climate goals, report urges
Advertising of sports utility vehicles, which emit more greenhouse gases than other cars, should be banned…
Country diary: a prickle of excitement among the purple thistles
Empingham Marshy Meadows has transformed since April, the spring flora being succeeded by clouds of fragrant…
More coal power generation closed than opened around the world this year, research finds
The size of the global coal power fleet fell for the first time on record over…
Leaders duel over coronavirus relief bill
Top negotiators for a coronavirus relief bill couldn’t even agree on what they agree on Sunday,…
Karen Bass renounces her praise for Fidel Castro
Bass told Fox host Chris Wallace that her perspective “developed over time” and that she now…
Pelosi accuses Trump, Birx of spreading misinformation about coronavirus
POLITICO reported Friday that the speaker expressed the same sentiment in a closed meeting with Treasury…
Open up offshore windfarm subsidy scheme, urges Scottish Power
One of Britain’s biggest wind power developers has called on the government to scrap the limit…
The Methuselah tree and the secrets of Earth’s oldest organisms
As old-timers go, the Methuselah tree in California’s White Mountains takes some beating. According to research…