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...change Vanishing nature You have probably heard that biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is being eroded away. Climate change, pesticides, deforestation and intensive farming all contribute to this downward trajectory. Butterflies have declined by 50% since the 1970s, with 8% of resident British species extinct, and 41% of the survivors now classed as threatened...

...climate change. Fossil fuel prices WindEurope, an offshore wind industry group, says that at the present rate of installations it’s likely Europe will be producing about seven per cent of its electricity from offshore wind by 2030. By some calculations, all this building work would seem to make little economic sense. Fossil fuel prices are low on the world market, and...

...climate change, a serious threat to the future of the planet. It is not just fast-growing cities like Beijing or Delhi that are reeling from the effects of vehicle pollution. At least 40,000 deaths in London each year are attributed to outdoor air pollution, much of it the result of the noxious fumes emitted from internal combustion engine-driven cars, trucks and buses,...