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‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewable
Lobbying group spent nearly $30m on ads touting ‘clean energy’ potential of propane – and downplaying full climate impacts
This story is co-published with Heated
Members of a propane industry lobbying group strategized to downplay the full climate impacts of propane and market it as “renewable” or “clean energy”, recordings reviewed by the climate newsletter Heated and the Guardian reveal.
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Domestic wood burners having a deadly impact in outside areas
Deaths due to wood-burning stoves are comparable to those of ‘black summer’ bushfires, says Australian study
Scientists are starting to count the health cost of heating our homes with wood. One study, in Canberra in Australia, has found that deaths from everyday exposure to smoke from wood burners is comparable with those during the unprecedented “black summer” bushfires of 2019/2020.
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Ministers urged not to play culture wars over species reintroductions in England
Exclusive: Head of government taskforce calls for evidence not anecdote in debate over the beaver, white-tailed eagle and others
Culture wars by ministers over the reintroduction of animals such as the beaver and the lynx must end if we are to restore nature in England, the head of the government’s taskforce on the issue has said.
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‘Biggest, baddest’ – but is it the cleanest? World’s largest cruise ship sets sail
Claims that Icon of the Seas, the vast new ship described as ‘human lasagne’, runs on clean fuel have been labelled greenwashing as LNG’s methane emissions are a more potent climate gas than CO2
The largest cruise ship in the world, which embarks on its first commercial voyage from Miami on Saturday, was launched amid a fanfare of superlatives. Longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall, the Read more: ‘Biggest, baddest’ – but is it the cleanest? World’s largest cruise ship sets sail
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After being hunted to near extinction, wolves have returned to Europe. But when one killed Ursula von der Leyen’s family pony, it ignited a high-stakes battle. Are the animals’ days numbered?
It was a mild, windless night, sometime before dawn on 1 September 2022, when a large grey wolf trotted out of the woods beside Beinhorn, a hamlet of old barns and graceful wooden houses in the German state of Lower Saxony. The keen nose of the male wolf almost certainly scented that...
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