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Volkswagen changes tack, loses market share, and another boss exits
Environment
Professor David Bailey on Volkswagen changing tack over the 'dieselgate' affair.
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Where will the West Midlands Combined Authority stand on nature?
Environment
Looking at WMCA’s early public statements it is difficult to see where nature fits in with its plans.
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The humble colt's-foot is a significant early flowerer
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Colt's-foot brightens our neighbourhoods when little else is in flower, it feeds insects and was once a freely available medicine. Nothing in nature is insignificant.
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Have we all got the energy for a Brexit?
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The outline of a deal for the º£½ÇÊÓƵ has just been announced, and an early Brexit vote looks a distinct possibility.
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Government announces 23 new Marine Conservation Zones
Environment
The Government has recently announced the designation of 23 new Marine Conservation Zones meaning that 20% of England's seas, about 8,000 square miles is theoretically protected.
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Microchips in Birmingham bins 'won't be used for charging'
Politics
New scheme will activate chips inside city's 4000,000 wheelie bins so council can keep track of refuse collection
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2015 was a bad year for nature
Environment
Looking back over 2015 it is easy to find the bad news for nature, finding the good news not so.
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More needs to be spent on engineered flood defences
Environment
The floods are no surprise, scientists have been predicting such events for a generation because of global warming.
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Mixed reactions after the Le Bourget climate talks
Environment
Naturally, sceptics will argue that the Paris talks were all a monumental waste of time and money, whereas many environmentalists will bemoan the fudge and obfuscation in the final outcome.
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New energy centre planned to serve Birmingham businesses
Commercial Property
Rolton Kilbride lodges new proposals to create hub in Castle Bromwich which will bake rubbish to create for energy with Jaguar Land Rover among intended users
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Catch the Birmingham Buzz
Environment
Birmingham is one of eight cities where landscapes will be improved by planting wildflowers to attract and support bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other important insects.
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Birmingham City University academics help bid to save rare peatlands
Environment
New government-backed Peatland Code aims to slash carbon dioxide emissions by 220 million tonnes and protect rare wildlife
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Climate talks - how to lose at cards
Environment
Andrew Whitehead picks the key points out of the recent Autumn Statement from an environmental perspective
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New Birmingham City Council leader pledges to clean up the streets
Politics
Coun John Clancy makes bold mission to work with the city and its residents as he outlines his plans after being installed as the new leader of the council
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Insect world embraces climate change
Environment
New species of bees, dragonflies, butterflies and many other insects are now breeding in Britain for the first time.
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Climate talks - The stage is set
Environment
With a sharp focus now on security concerns, the French capital will continue to dominate the headlines, as many world leaders finalise their travels plans and head for the French capital later this month for the COP 21 climate talks in Paris.
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The VW scandal has a long way to go
Politics
Since the Volkswagen emissions scandal the company has brought in a new CEO, posted its first quarterly loss in 15 years, and has sought pin the blame on a few 'rogue' software engineers.
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See your garden as a potential nature reserve
Environment
There was a time when wildlife and nature reserves were thought of as being somewhere else, anywhere else in fact, than in towns and cities.
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We cannot go on reaping from the natural world without sowing
Environment
The Government begins the challenge to frame a 25 year plan for better looking after nature, both for its own sake and for the benefits it brings to us.
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Birmingham's missing park
Eastside
Although Birmingham is famous for its parks and open spaces it has never had an attraction in its own right, a magnet for those visitors from home and abroad craved by the city’s hoteliers and restauranteurs.
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Why the quality of water is vital for our wildlife
Environment
In Britain a quarter of our original wetland species have become extinct, and the populations of those remaining are much reduced.
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2,650 West Midlands jobs threatened by feed-in tariff cuts, campaigners warn
Environment
Up to 2,650 solar jobs in the West Midlands are under threat because of tariff cuts, an industry body has warned. The vast majority of the 3,310 people employed in the solar sector in the region could be at risk due to the proposed 87 per cent, according to the Solar Trade Association
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Protest over backing for fossil fuel by West Midlands council pension funds
Environment
Friends of the Earth says West Midlands council workers do not want their pensions invested in coal and oil. Invest in local housing and renewable energy instead say campaigners.
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City council green scheme for Birmingham homes scrapped
Environment
Authority claims government has 'moved the goalposts' on green deal policy which aims to make thousands of homes in the city more energy efficient
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