Environment News

See who’s saying what about the Environment and how different sections of the Press approach the same story.

UK is endangering people’s health by denying their right to clean air, says UN in The Guardian

Britain’s biggest waste mountain: Council dumps 50,000 tons of plastic rubbish in an abandoned airfield as it’s too expensive to recycle in the Daily Mail

Plastic becoming too expensive to recycle, councils say, as giant waste mountain is discovered in The Telegraph

Plastic recycling industry’s problems costing councils up to £500,000 a year in The Guardian

‘Hit it between the eyes’: Elephants CHARGE at hunters after they kill Namibia bull in the Daily Express

Elephants take revenge after hunter shoots herd member dead while being told ‘hit it between the eyes’ in the Daily Mirror

UK plastics recycling industry under investigation for fraud and corruption in The Guardian

Is this the solution to ending plastic waste? Craze for filling bottles with non-recyclable packaging to create reusable ‘Ecobricks’ hits the UK in the Daily Mail

Ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2032 instead of current ‘unambitious’ target, MPs say in The Independent

MPs call for ban on petrol and diesel car sales by 2032 in The Guardian

‘Largest living thing’ on Earth is dying after decades of human interference, scientists say in The Independent – Go To Article

Where riots will break out because there’s no more water: Map reveals the hotspots for conflict over depleted supplies in the next 100 years in the Daily Mail – Go To Article

The Antarctic is ‘singing’, scientists find, and it could help them monitor climate change in The Telegraph – Go to Article

Everglades: climate change threatens years of work to reverse manmade damage in The Guardian – Go To Article

Ocean plastic now polluting shipwrecks and desecrating war graves of servicemen lost at sea, warn divers in The Telegraph – Go To Article

‘Untouched’ Pacific island forests could be destroyed within 20 years due to unsustainable logging in the Independent – Go to Article

UK farm funding remit launched before EU subsidies are cut in The Guardian – Go To Article

Chilling study warns of the ‘profound implications’ of rising temperatures as it finds catastrophic insect loss in Puerto Rico rainforest following 2C rise in the Daily Mail – Go to Article

Nature will need up to five million years to fill the gaps caused by man-made mass extinctions, study finds in The Independent – Go to Article

Donald Trump declares climate change will ‘change back again’ in the Daily Mirror – Go to Article

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