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More than 70% of all plastic ever produced has become litter and less than a tenth of that has been recycled (or down-cycled as it is sometimes called) because it still exists as plastic somewhere.
Environment	The Plain Truth - Spring-Summer 2018



Exposure to man-made chemicals killed more than 50,000 Britons in 2015, giving the UK one of the worst records of pollution deaths in Europe, a major study has found. Globally, pollution claimed nine million lives in that one year, said researchers. In the UK, 8.39% of deaths were due to pollution, a higher proportion than in many other European countries, including Germany and France.
Environment	The Sentinel - 20th October 2017



Councils could bring in charging zones for the dirtiest vehicles, under plans published by the Government to tackle illegal levels of air pollution. Ministers have unveiled a £255 million fund to help local authorities come up with ways to improve air quality, ranging from improving public transport and changing road layouts to charging for polluting vehicles if other measures are insufficient.
Environment	The Sentinel - 27th July 2017



France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040. Hybrid cars make up about 3.5 per cent of the French market, with pure electric vehicles accounting for 1.2 per cent.
Environment	The Sentinel - July 7th 2017



Nowadays, each UK household produces more than a tonne of rubbish annually, and, on average, each person throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks. To put that into perspective, the nation’s refuse would fill Lake Windermere every eight months. It would fill the Royal Albert Hall in less than two hours.
Environment	The Sentinel – 16th March 2017



Higher water temperatures in 2016 caused the worst destruction of corals ever recorded on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, with 67 per cent killed in the reef’s worst-hit northern section.
Environment	The Sentinel - 29th November 2016



More than 3,500 churches have switched their electricity from fossil fuels to renewable energy, or have registered to do so, according to research published by Christian charities.
Environment	Civil Society News - 2nd September 2016



A shock report this week claimed air pollution is killing 40,000 people in the UK every year. The study found outdoor air pollution is now bigger killer than ever before - shooting up from 29,000 annual deaths at the time of the last report. A rise in diesel car ownership - which has trebled in the past 15 years - is partly fuelling the health crisis.
Environment	The Sentinel – February 26 2016



Around the world, bumblebees and other wild bees are declining in both diversity and abundance. Some 9% of nearly 2,000 species on the European Red List of Bees are threatened with extinction. Of our 178 bee species, the RSPB have found that more than half are decreasing or strongly decreasing in number.
Environment	Third Way - March 2016



In England and Wales, according to the “State of Nature” report from the RSPB in 2013, the area of lowland meadow plummeted by 97% between the 1930s and 1984. Three-quarters of the bumblebees’ preferred food plants have declined over the past 80 years.
Environment	Third Way - March 2016



Global temperatures are set to rise more than one degree above pre-industrial levels, says the UK’s Met Office. The world would then be half way towards 2C, the gateway to dangerous warming.
Environment	The Sentinel - 10th November 2015



The unrestricted use of fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100 if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on climate change says in a stark report that most of the world’s electricity can – and must – be produced from low carbon sources by 2050. If not, the world faces ‘severe, pervasive and irreversible’ damage. The UN said inaction would cost ‘much more’ than taking the necessary action.
Environment	The Sentinel - 3 November 2014



By 2010, money invested in green and ethical retail-funds in the UK reached £9.5 billion, the investment-research organisation EIRIS says. This represents about 750,000 ethical investors. Ten years ago, there were only about 200,000.
Environment	Third Way, October 2013



Britain's potholed road network could be 'brought to its knees' by another spate of bad weather, council transport bosses warned today. They said swathes of local roads could become unusable if there is more flooding or another severe winter. The Local Government Association warned of a £10.5billion repairs backlog and a 'spiral of decline'. One in five roads are now classed as being in a 'poor condition’.
Environment	Daily Mail June 19 2013



After suffering several soggy summers, it is not the news we were hoping for. Met Office experts who got together to discuss recent unusual weather patterns predicted yesterday that Britain faces a decade of wet summers. They blame natural warming in the Atlantic for pushing a current of fast-flowing air in the upper atmosphere, known as the jet stream, further south. Scientists say the likelihood of successive heavy downpours is increased if Britain is stranded north of the jet stream for long stretches of summer. They claim more traditional summers will return after between five and ten years. Since 2007, when forecasters suspect the phenomenon began, six of the seven summers have been washouts with higher than average rainfall.
Environment	Daily Mail June 19 2013

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