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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.

Arabian Sea Sharks May be the Most Threatened in the World - EcoWatch

Sharks, rays and chimaeras are some of the most threatened fish in the world. More than 50 percent of species in the Arabian Sea are at elevated risk of extinction due to coastal development, overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction. According to an expansive new study, spanning more than a dozen countries...

EcoWatch

UN Climate Conference Features Meat (and Emissions) Heavy Menu

Non-profits say the food could emit the equivalent of burning 500,000 gallons of gasoline.

Bloomberg.com

COP24 Organizers Accused of Censoring Climate Campaigners While Letting Pro-Fossil Fuel Message Flourish

New reporting by Agence France-Presse shows U.N. organizers asked for "dirty energy" reference to be removed from video that would be projected within summit venue

Common Dreams

Seabird populations have dropped 70% as fishing industry competes for food

Pressure from fishing adds to pollution and climate change to make ocean-going species 'most threatened bird group'

The Independent

COP24 video: Three need-to-knows from the UN climate talks in Katowice | Carbon Brief

The latest round of international climate negotiations concluded late on Saturday evening in Katowice, Poland. Carbon Brief’s video brings you three key details you need to know about the UN climate talks this year.

Carbon Brief

Nations overcome last-minute divisions to forge climate deal

Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late on Saturday to agree rules for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerous effects of global warming.

The Telegraph

UN climate accord 'inadequate' and lacks urgency, experts warn

Agreement will fail to halt devastating rise in global temperature, say scientists

the Guardian

UK fracking policy faces court challenges

Friends of the Earth granted judicial review it hopes will help alter planning rules

the Guardian

Make climate crisis top editorial priority, XR campaign urges BBC

Extinction Rebellion group call on BBC to tell ‘full truth about ecological emergency’

the Guardian

How the U.S. Squandered Its Leadership at the U.N. Climate Conference

American delegates are working under a President who plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement in 2020 and who outright dismisses climate science.

The New Yorker

At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts | Bill McKibben

Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice, says Bill McKibben, co-founder of grassroots climate campaign 350.org

the Guardian

Increasingly Powerful Tornadoes in the United States

Tornadoes in the United States appear to be getting more powerful The upward trend is independent of occurrence time and changes to the damage scale Part of the trend is linked to increases in CIN ...

AGU Journals

Chile to host U.N. climate talks in 2019

Chile has been selected to host the next United Nations' climate conference in 2019, it was announced at the current meeting in the Polish city of Katowice on Friday.

U.S.

Blackcurrants threatened by warm winters

Milder winters may mean that blackcurrants no longer thrive in Britain, scientists say.Lower yields of the fruit, which has been cultivated in the UK since at least the early 17th century, may force

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France wants to support women’s role in addressing climate change

The inclusion of women in the climate debate remains in its early stages. The French women involved in the climate negotiations are trying to alert people to this issue. EURACTIV France reports.

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UN University director: ‘Biggest polluters should issue climate passports’

Climate change-related migration is a big issue at COP24. The idea, which involves issuing passports to the citizens of small Pacific island countries at risk of disappearing, is making its beginnings. EURACTIV France reports.  

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Alaska's vanishing ice threatens to destroy cultures – including our own | Victoria Herrmann

Climate change is putting the very existence of one remote indigenous community in doubt but we are all feeling the effects of a warming Arctic

the Guardian

Can Poland wean itself off coal?

Climate experts say the renaissance can be stopped but change must happen now – and the main obstacle is at the top

the Guardian

All homes may have to separate food waste in drive to cut emissions

But councils, already stretched, could demand extra money to implement eco-friendly scheme

The Independent

What Could Go Wrong With Climate-Change Investing

The consensus that climate change will do obvious damage to long-run stock returns is wrong on a crucial point: that society is sure to act to stop global warming.

WSJ

Questions over energy firms’ £58m debt to renewables obligation scheme | Letters

Letters: To protect customers, renewables obligations need to be managed as commercially as networks and wholesale markets, writes Stephen Littlechild

the Guardian

A youth activist on the climate crisis: politicians won't save us | Victoria Barrett

At the COP24 conference, leaders lack the urgency felt by communities on the frontlines of a global threat

the Guardian

Sellafield, former star of the nuclear age, scrubs up for a different future

When uranium was scarce, reprocessing was all the rage. Two decades on, the Cumbrian plant, though still a major source of jobs, has outlived its mission

the Guardian

Our environment is for life, not just for Christmas | Letters

Letters: Fiona Gomersall on ecological damage caused by Christmas trees, Rachel Kennerley on richer nations bearing the greatest burden, Sandy Irvine on population pressures and John Hobson on a carbon-added tax. Plus letters from Daniel Scharf, and Dr Stephen Brien of the Legatum Institute

the Guardian

6th Largest US Coal Company Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

With 19 mines in the US and in Canada, Westmoreland Coal Co. is the 6th largest coal company in America, but it recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

CleanTechnica

Head in the clouds: the woman scaling fresh climate change heights

For 40 years, Nalini Nadkarni has studied cloud forest in the Costa Rican town of Monteverde. Now global warming is drying out its lush hanging gardens

the Guardian

It’s capitalism that will win the fight against climate change

The climate-change experts who gathered at the heart of Poland’s coal-mining industry in Katowice earlier this month could be forgiven for feeling gloomy.

The Telegraph

The Paris Accord Promised a Climate Solution. Here’s Where We Are Now. (Published 2018)

The world is not on track to meet its goals under the Paris climate agreement, even as warnings grow more dire. How did we get to this point?

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COP24 shows global warming treaties can survive the era of the anti-climate ‘strongman’

Trump and Bolsonaro may be against any action on climate change, but they are not the norm.

The Conversation

Climate deal reached with almost 200 countries after major summit

‘A year of climate disasters and a dire warning from the world’s top scientists should have led to so much more,’ says Greenpeace

The Independent

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