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The Guardian The environment inside our skins, the obesity epidemic and the food industryThe GuardianWe now accept that polluters pay for polluting the environment outside our skins, but we have another equally important environment inside our skins. Over 100 years ago Claude Bernard introduced this idea and said: “The stability of the internal …

The Guardian Proof that sustainable meat and dairy farming can workThe GuardianHere on our rented family farm of 100 dairy cows with some beef and sheep, we are in the first year of a three-year, final-stage experiment to challenge the idea that treating our animals, land, environment and the people who work and live here…

The Guardian New airplane biofuels plan would ‘destroy rainforests’, warn campaignersThe GuardianCarlos Calvo Ambel, a spokesman for Transport and Environment, said: “Most biofuels are worse for the climate than jet fuel. Quality should always go before quantity. Establishing a goal even before the rules are set out is putting the cart before the … and…

The Guardian Penguin catastrophe leads to demands for protection in AntarcticaThe GuardianOnly two Adélie penguin chicks from a colony of more than 18,000 breeding pairs have survived the Antarctic summer due to unusually extensive sea ice, prompting environmental campaigners to call for a new protected marine area. The penguins in Terre … and more »

Fluctuating environments can help cooperating bacteriaScience DailyDr Mauro Mobilia, from the University of Leeds, and Professor Erwin Frey and Karl Wienand, from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, have mathematically modelled bacterial colonies competing in an environment with randomly fluctuating amounts of … and more »

Chicago Tribune Odd bedfellows fight Trump bid to boost coal, nuclear energyChicago TribuneEnergy Secretary Rick Perry attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on July 18, 2017. An unusual coalition of business and environmental groups is opposing the Trump administration’s renewed push toward coal and nuclear …Pro-Trump energy group blasts plan to…

The Hill Dallas’ Energy Transfer wins right to keep oil flowing through contentious Dakota Access pipelineDallas News (blog)Boasberg found that it is likely the Army Corps of Engineers will be able to justify previous decisions made while permitting the $3.8 billion pipeline built by Energy Transfer Partners. ETP argued that a shutdown would cost it…

MIT News Grad students earn Department of Energy computational fellowshipsMIT NewsThe 2017 MIT recipients of the U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowships are (clockwise from top left) Peter Ahrens, Mariam Rathbun, Annie Yuan Wei, and Kevin Silmore. Image courtesy of the Department of Chemical …

CBS News Bloomberg unveils clean energy commitment to counter rollback of emissions ruleCBS NewsFormer New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an increased commitment to end America’s coal dependency and transition the U.S. economy to a clean energy future. On Wednesday, Bloomberg announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies, …Peabody Energy Applauds Trump Coal PlanCBS St. Louis all 41…

BBC News How would a state-run energy company work?BBC NewsMore detail will be provided when the Scottish government publishes its new energy strategy later in the year. The basic details are that “energy would be bought wholesale or generated in Scotland – and sold to customers as close to cost price as …Nicola Sturgeon defied…