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A brother and sister in Spain started a company to collect and turn the ghost nets into furniture, decorative materials and plastic pellets. 1.000

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Simplified: A brother and sister in Spain started a company to collect and turn ghost nets into furniture decorative materials and plastic pellets

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6 months ago
A mission from 2024 spanned five days and pulled up 4,900 kilograms of netting — roughly the weight of an African elephant. 1.000

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Simplified: A 2024 mission spanned five days and pulled up 4900 kilograms of netting

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6 months ago
Our goal is to create value through impact, not just clean up the oceans,” said Amaia Rodríguez Solá, who with her brother, Julen Rodríguez, started Gravity Wave in 2019. 1.000

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Simplified: Amaia Rodríguez Solá said their goal is to create value through impact not just clean up the oceans

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6 months ago
Gravity Wave works with companies that want to finance cleanup operations to burnish their green credentials, as well as partners that buy the recycled materials to use in items ranging from furniture... 1.000

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Simplified: Gravity Wave works with companies that want to finance cleanup operations and partners that buy recycled materials

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6 months ago
Getting them off the ocean floor can require dayslong dives from expert teams. 0.900

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Simplified: Getting ghost nets off the ocean floor can require dayslong dives from expert teams

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6 months ago
When most people think of ocean waste, they often picture mounds of plastic that wash up on the sandy beaches of remote islands in the Pacific. 0.900

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Simplified: People often picture mounds of plastic on sandy beaches when thinking of ocean waste

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6 months ago
Environmentalists face a hidden scourge in abandoned fishing nets that drift beneath the waves and blanket the ocean floor. 0.900

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Simplified: Environmentalists face a hidden scourge in abandoned fishing nets

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6 months ago
The species has never been a migrant to the UK, and is yet to have been recorded breeding here, which is what a resident species would do. 1.000

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Simplified: Species has never been migrant to UK and is yet to have been recorded breeding here which is what resident species would do

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6 months ago
But whether the species stays long term is yet to be seen, he says, as its food source is a garden species called Candytuft that is not as widely planted here. 0.900

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Simplified: Whether species stays long term is yet to be seen as its food source is garden species called Candytuft that is not as widely planted here

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6 months ago
"There are species that are rare in the UK and periodically over the years they have turned up in ones and twos... but it's not really indicating any significant shift in our fauna," he said. 1.000

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Simplified: Species that are rare in UK periodically over years have turned up in ones and twos but it's not really indicating any significant shift in our fauna...

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6 months ago
Dr Dan Hoare, Director of Nature Recovery at Butterfly Conservation, said the species had made an "ecological leap". 1.000

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Simplified: Dr Dan Hoare Director of Nature Recovery at Butterfly Conservation said species had made ecological leap

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6 months ago
Whilst it is thought a warming climate has played a role in its spread, modelling from a 2008 Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies showed that even under the most extreme warming scenarios the... 0.900

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Simplified: Warming climate has played role in its spread modelling from 2008 Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies showed species was not expected in Low C...

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6 months ago
Until recently, the range of the Southern Small White was limited to Southern Europe, in particular south-east Europe. 1.000

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Simplified: Until recently range of Southern Small White was limited to Southern Europe in particular south-east Europe

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6 months ago
It is not yet clear what has driven the species' expansion, though a warming climate is thought to be part of the answer. 0.800

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Simplified: It is not clear what has driven species' expansion though warming climate is thought to be part of answer

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6 months ago
The first UK sighting was confirmed at Landguard Bird Observatory in Suffolk, after a volunteer managed to snap a photo. 1.000

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Simplified: First UK sighting was confirmed at Landguard Bird Observatory in Suffolk after volunteer snapped photo

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6 months ago
A species of butterfly previously only found in Southern Europe has been seen in the UK for the first time, according to charity Butterfly Conservation. 1.000

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Simplified: Butterfly previously found in Southern Europe has been seen in UK for first time according to Butterfly Conservation

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6 months ago
Solvay also has rare earth operations in China, and Mr Kehren says "there are solutions to do it in a very responsible way without polluting". 0.900

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Simplified: Mr Kehren says there are solutions to handle rare earth operations responsibly without polluting

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6 months ago
One reason China has forged ahead of the rest of the world regarding rare earths is that it has been more willing to handle the radioactive pollution that can be caused by the mining and processing. 0.900

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Simplified: China has been more willing to handle radioactive pollution caused by mining and processing

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6 months ago
Solvay also has rare earth operations in China, and Mr Kehren says "there are solutions to do it in a very responsible way without polluting". 0.900

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Simplified: Solvay has rare earth operations in China and there are solutions to do it responsibly without polluting

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6 months ago
One reason China has forged ahead of the rest of the world regarding rare earths is that it has been more willing to handle the radioactive pollution that can be caused by the mining and processing. 0.900

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Simplified: China has been more willing to handle radioactive pollution caused by mining and processing

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6 months ago