Environment Page
Environmental news and issue from Nottingham, the East Midlands and beyond.
Whether it is climate change, loss of bio diversity or pollution of your local area, you will have a real concern about the environment. If you don’t, then you must be burying your head in the sand, and it is time to stop doing that, before it is too late.
This page is here to help you to do just that.
We will be posting events and news as soon we are made aware of them. If you are putting on an event and you want a bit of extra publicity, then send us a link.
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Scottish bottle deposit scheme to be blocked
but evidence from Europe suggests it’s the way forward
The Conversation
Unrecycled drink containers are a huge problem in the UK. A survey by Planet Patrol, a non-profit organisation, found that the drinks industry was responsible for more than a third of the litter found in the UK in 2020 and 2021. The items included plastic and glass bottles, metal drinks cans, single-use cups and lids.
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UN climate report
Scientists release 'survival guide' to avert climate disaster
BBC
UN chief Antonio Guterres says a major new report on climate change is a "survival guide for humanity".
Clean energy and technology can be exploited to avoid the growing climate disaster, the report says.
But at a meeting in Switzerland to agree their findings, climate scientists warned a key global temperature goal will likely be missed.
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Climate Action Fund
Nature and Climate
Community Fund
We’re looking for projects that focus on the link between nature and climate. We want to fund projects that use nature to encourage more community-led climate action. We expect these projects to bring other important social and economic benefits. Like the creation of strong, resilient and healthy communities or the development of ‘green’ skills and jobs.
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Nextdoor Nature
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Nextdoor Nature is bringing communities together to help nature flourish where they live and work. Thanks to £5 million funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Nextdoor Nature will provide people with the advice and support they need to help nature on their doorstep, and leave a lasting natural legacy to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
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Starlings and Social Networks
Naturebang
BBC
Starling murmurations, those swirling, shifting sky-patterns made by hundreds of birds moving in synchrony, are one of nature’s greatest spectacles.
How do they avoid crashing into each other? Becky Ripley and Emily Knight delve into the maths behind the movement with some computer modelling to help
them chart the flight patterns, and discover the secret.
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HS2 Ltd have got their nature calculations wrong
Wildlife Trusts
HS2 Ltd, the company responsible for the HS2 railway, had promised to make up for the damage the route would cause to nature.
Concerned by the huge risk to wildlife that the current route poses, we've spent almost a year looking into the official HS2 nature loss calculations. And the numbers don't add up. No-one has checked the detail. Until now.
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Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks
BBC
Nations have reached a historic agreement to protect the world's oceans following 10 years of negotiations.
The High Seas Treaty aims to place 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030, to safeguard and recuperate marine nature.
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Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks
BBC
Nations have reached a historic agreement to protect the world's oceans following 10 years of negotiations.
The High Seas Treaty aims to place 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030, to safeguard and recuperate marine nature.
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RHS Plants for Pollinators
Get your
garden
buzzing
The Royal Horticultural Society
Fill gardens with RHS Plants for
Pollinators plants
♦ Grow a range of plants for year-round
flowering
♦ Avoid plants with double or multi-
petalled flowers
♦ Never use pesticides on plants in
flower
♦ Provide nest sites for wild bees
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DefendNature: We Need You
No Nature. No Future.
yellow hammer at side of road
#DefendNature: We Need You
No Nature. No Future.
Nature is under attack from a raft of announcements by UK Government. Politics may be in for a turbulent ride, but so is UK's wildlife and wild places, which continue to be threatened by changes to nature and climate laws.
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