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How built environment correlates with risk of cardiovascular disease

Researchers have used Google Street View to study hundreds of elements of the built environment, including buildings, green spaces, pavements…

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Environment

Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds | Environment

A global shift to a mostly plant-based “flexitarian” diet could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help restrict global heating to…

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Environment

Calls for international criminal court to end ‘impunity’ for environmental crimes | Environment

The international criminal court (ICC) has been urged to start investigating and prosecuting individuals who harm the environment. Academics, lawyers…

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Environment

Radical pay-what-you-can restaurant faces eviction from mill it refurbished | Environment

A Gloucestershire restaurant with a radical business model, in that it feeds all comers regardless of their ability to pay,…

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‘I’ll run until there’s no sea left’: the gas-mask wearing ultramarathoner circling the Salton Sea | Environment

On an otherwise desolate horizon, a black dot materialized along the dramatic shoreline of California’s Salton Sea one recent Saturday…

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Environment

UK scheme to spur take-up of heat pumps delayed after gas lobby pressure | Environment

The government has delayed by a year its scheme for spurring the take-up of heat pumps, under pressure from the…

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World

Alaska dinosaur tracks reveal a lush, wet environment

A large find of dinosaur tracks and fossilized plants and tree stumps in far northwestern Alaska provides new information about…

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Environment

Greta Thunberg dragged by police from climate protest outside Swedish parliament – video | Environment

Swedish police have forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and other climate activists after they blocked the entrance to the Swedish parliament…

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Environment

Are Swedish dishcloths more environment-friendly than paper towels? We investigate | Environment

It’s an old adage: don’t cry over spilled milk. But is it fair to want to cry over how many…

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Environment

Critically endangered stonefly with ‘remarkable’ lifespan faces extinction as Victorian government decision condemned | Environment

A critically endangered stonefly, which can outlive most other insects, may become extinct after the Victorian government made an “incredibly…

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