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   How the right-wing press is embracing green politics   
   India Bourke, New Statesman via Carbon Brief   
      
   "They have spent decades spreading climate scepticism and denial, but   
   this week the Sun and the Express both announced new climate-focused   
   campaigns," writes India Bourke, online editor for the New Statesman's   
   international edition. She continues: "So far, some of these news   
   outlets have adopted a bold, slightly boisterous climate-swagger. This   
   is visible in the Sun's `Team Green' slogan, echoing the Olympics, and   
   in the Express's call for Boris Johnson to `lead the world' in a green   
   `crusade'." The shift "is cause for celebration", says Bourke, but   
   "what will be important now is the kind of climate response these   
   papers advocate in their coverage". She concludes: "It is crucial that   
   any positive impulse for national pride regarding climate action also   
   reflects a collaborative effort with the rest of the world. How far   
   the press can convey this will be the real measure of climate coverage   
   success." At the same time, the Daily Express has a fifth day of   
   articles on its "Green Britain Needs You" series, while a Sun   
   editorial sidesteps its "Team Green" campaign to argue: "In the entire   
   decade the Sun has successfully campaigned for a fuel tax freeze we   
   cannot think of a worse time for the ­Chancellor to abandon it."   
      
   Meanwhile, Press Gazette news editor Charlotte Tobitt interviews Daily   
   Express editor Gary Jones on the direction he is taking the paper   
   since he took over 3 years ago. The article covers the paper's new   
   green campaign, which "will run over the next 7 months in print   
   and digital to ask readers to sign a petition to boost the tax system   
   to fight climate change and protect the environment". Jones says: "In   
   the past the Express has neglected to highlight the most important   
   issue we face, namely protecting the planet by collectively doing all   
   we can to make the right choices. We are now very much engaged in   
   campaigning for Green Britain and will be highlighting the issues   
   affecting us all and future generations in the run-up to the UN   
   Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this Nov and beyond."   
      
   And elsewhere in newspaper projects, the Guardian has launched   
   "America's Dirty Divide" - a year-long series focused on environmental   
   inequality and racism in the US. The project "will explore the links   
   between climate, environment and social justice and will interrogate   
   why access to clean air, water and sanitation is so often divided   
   along race and class lines". And the Scotsman has a piece explaining   
   how individuals, organisations and businesses can "get involved at COP26".   
      
      
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   United Airlines orders 200 vertical-takeoff electric airplanes   
   Ars Technica, 10 Feb 2021 22:47Z   
   The success of uncrewed electric drones in the last couple of decades has   
   caused some people to wonder if similar construction techniques to those   
   used in ...   
      
   [China v World:]   
   China Bans BBC World Service, Following UK Ban Of Chinese Network   
   NPR, 11 Feb 2021 18:53Z   
   The Chinese state news agency said the BBC had "undermined China's national   
   interests and ethnic solidarity." Britain stripped the license for CGTN, the   
   ...   
      
   Whales' Long, Loud Calls Reveal Structure beneath Ocean Floor   
   Scientific American, 11 Feb 2021 19:52Z   
   Scientists investigating a seismic fault off the US West Coast have an   
   unlikely new ally in their quest to create images of the Earth's crust deep   
   beneath the ...   
      
   Deficit projected at $2.3 tr for 2021, not counting additional stimulus,   
   CBO says   
   CNBC, 11 Feb 2021 21:51Z   
   The federal budget deficit is projected at $2.3 tr in the 2021 fiscal   
   year, a drop from last year but well ahead of anything the US has ever seen.   
      
   BREAKING (12 Feb): Another 2 people have been added to the growing   
   list of new UK covid cases in Melbourne. The new cases bring the total   
   to 13. Authorities are also warning there was an 8 hr window on Tue at   
   an airport cafe where the virus could have escaped interstate.   
      
   'Sustained talks led to agreement': India and China agree to pull back   
   troops at border   
   ABC News, 11 Feb 2021 12:39Z   
   Defence minister Rajnath Singh tells Indian parliament an agreement has been   
   reached over Pangong Tso, a glacial lake at 4,270 metres, after several   
   rounds of talks between military commanders and diplomats.   
      
   Nick Coatsworth under fire over aerosol transmission and AstraZeneca vaccine   
   on Q+A   
   ABC News, 11 Feb 2021 13:38Z   
   As cases from Melbourne's Holiday Inn coronavirus outbreak grow, Australia's   
   top infectious diseases expert is told he is "wrong" to say there is a   
   debate about aerosol transmission.   
      
   'A step back into traditional roles': Fears the jobs recovery isn't working   
   for women   
   ABC/PM, 11 Feb 2021 17:35Z   
   New analysis of the jobs market shows women with degrees are doing worse   
   than their male peers, raising fears about the impact of COVID-related   
   unemployment on their careers.   
      
   Astronomers Just Confirmed The Most Distant Known Object in The Solar System   
   ScienceAlert, 11 Feb 2021 07:36Z   
   The most distant known object in the Solar System is now confirmed.   
   FarFarOut, a large chunk of rock found in 2018 at a whopping distance of   
   around 132 ...   
      
   Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence   
   Gizmodo, 11 Feb 2021 06:11Z   
   The 4 pigs came to win. If they played the game well, they got delicious   
   dog food (they used to get M&Ms, but the humans decided those were too sugary).   
      
   Former Republican officials in talks to form center-right anti-Trump party:   
   report   
   The Hill, 11 Feb 2021 04:09Z   
   A contingent of former Republican officials are in talks to form a political   
   party that would break away from supporters of former President Trump,   
      
   [Peter Ridd:]   
   Controversial marine scientist gets chance to fight his dismissal in High Court   
   ABC News, 11 Feb 2021 05:22Z   
   A Queensland academic who was sacked from James Cook University after making   
   critical comments about the research of his colleagues gets the chance to   
   argue his case in the High Court.   
      
   CDC: COVID-19 quarantine unnecessary for fully vaccinated people   
   ampAxios, 11 Feb 2021 0:42Z   
   People who are fully vaccinated no longer need to quarantine after   
   exposure to someone infected with the coronavirus, the Centers for   
   Disease Control and ...   
   [How could this policy *possibly* go wrong?  Elsewhere the cluster of   
   B117 cases that somehow(TM) escaped Melbourne's quarantine system has   
   grown to 11.  Several states have moved to bar people from Melbourne   
   crossing their borders until further notice].   
      
     Cathay Pacific temporarily suspends all flights to Australia, except to   
   Sydney   
     ABC News, 11 Feb 2021 03:23Z   
     Cathay Pacific temporarily suspends all flights to Australia, except to   
     Sydney, after the Hong Kong Government imposes new COVID restrictions.   
      
   Poll: 1 in 3 Americans say they definitely or probably won't get a COVID   
   vaccine   
   OregonLive, 10 Feb 2021 21:38Z   
   About 1 in 3 Americans say they definitely or probably won't get the   
      
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