20/11/201820 Nov, 2018 in Earth News by Earth-News Here’s a selection of today’s environment related news from around the web. We do the hard work, so you don’t have to. Government spending foreign aid money to promote fracking in China Exclusive: ‘It is a flagrant misuse of the UK’s aid budget to fund the fossil fuel industry overseas when the priority must be shifting to low carbon energy and boosting climate resilience’ The Independent Dead fish to power cruise ships Norwegian company to use leftovers from fish processing to make biogas to fuel liners the Guardian Dozens arrested after climate protest blocks five London bridges Thousands of protesters occupied bridges across the Thames over extinction crisis in huge act of peaceful civil disobedience the Guardian ‘I want great climate,’ says Trump as he tours area devastated by California wildfires 'We’ve got to take care of the floors, you know the floors of the forest, very important' The Independent Editorials: Where UK newspapers stand on climate change and energy Carbon Brief has isolated and summarised editorials on a variety of topics related to energy and climate change from the past five years. Carbon Brief Trump Says He’ll Nominate Andrew Wheeler to Head the E.P.A. (Published 2018) The president made the announcement while leading a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House. www.nytimes.com Veteran Democrats wary of climate push by Ocasio-Cortez and her allies - POLITICO www.politico.com National Trust has £30m invested in fossil fuels Exclusive: investments in oil, gas and mining companies held indirectly via portfolio fund the Guardian ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet From 2018: With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable, but the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts, Bill McKibben writes. The New Yorker Contributions of Climate Change, CO2, Land-Use Change, and Human Activities to Changes in River Flow across 10 Chinese Basins Abstract As an essential source of freshwater river flow comprises ~80% of the water consumed in China. Per capita water resources in China are only a quarter of the global average, and its economy is demanding in water resources; this creates an urgent need to quantify the factors that contribute to changes in river flow.… AMETSOC 3 things businesses can do to win the climate change fight | CNN Business Renewable energy needs to replace traditional energy as quickly as possible, and electric vehicles need to replace the internal combustion engine in the next 10 to 15 years, writes Jeff Nesbit, executive director of Climate Nexus. CNN 'We're getting our environmental priorities wrong – it's about calories, not climate change' In short, will we be able to feed our kids properly as more extreme weather becomes the norm? The Independent UK's richest man eyes North Sea oil and gas fields Jim Ratcliffe's company Ineos is in talks to buy assets reportedly worth $3bn from ConocoPhillips. BBC News 'We're getting our environmental priorities wrong – it's about calories, not climate change' In short, will we be able to feed our kids properly as more extreme weather becomes the norm? The Independent Ask a Scientist: How to Deal with a Climate-Change Skeptic An event, co-hosted by the Climate Museum and Columbia University’s Earth Institute, stations scientists with “climate-communication tips” in prominent and iconic public spaces around the city. The New Yorker Gruesome discovery of Czech tiger farm exposes illegal trade in heart of Europe A haul of fresh pelts and rotting remains marks the end of a five-year probe into an international crime ring. Authorities fear it points to a wider problem in Europe the Guardian Turbines may be turfing out peat's carbon-cutting benefits Supersizing thousands of wind turbines across Scotland’s countryside may not be the most green way to cut global warming because the structures could be cancelling out the carbon-cutting contribution made by the ground underneath them, a government-funded report has warned.The majority of wind farms www.thetimes.co.uk Rate this post