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A proposed new coal mine in Cumbria gained government approval on 7 December 2022. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove approved the Woodhouse Colliery project, which will be the UK’s first new coal mine for three decades. The new mine, near Whitehaven, will cost around £165 million to build and will create around 500 new jobs in the area. Around 100 of these jobs are expected to be taken by people from outside the local area. Once operational, it will produce in the region of 2.8 million tonnes of coking coal per year, most of which will be used in the steelmaking industry. The mine will also produce an estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

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A new ban on domestic flights has been approved by Brussels and will apply to domestic flights in France where there is an existing alternative by rail that takes less than two and a half hours. This will have the immediate effect of ending flights between Paris Orly airport and the cities of Lyon, Nantes and Bordeaux.

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After two weeks of intense negotiations, developed countries agreed to provide a fund to assist poorer countries that are being impacted by the extreme effects of climate change. It's not exactly a new idea. Since 2009, a promise has been in place for richer nations to provide $100 billion (84 Bn) in climate finance by 2020, but the new agreement has brought finance for rescue and rebuilding of poorer countries affected by the impacts of climate change that they didn't cause (something they have been requesting for the last 30 years) into reality.

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Speaking at COP27 on 15 November, President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told a delighted audience that 'Brazil is back. In his speech, Lula committed to working towards zero deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, reversing the environmental damage that was allowed under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.

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On 15 November 2022, the United Nations estimated that the world’s human population reached 8 billion people. It was only twelve years ago that the planet’s population hit 7 billion. However, the population is growing at its slowest rate since 1950 and is now expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and peaking at around 10.4 billion by 2080.

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The government confirmed yesterday that the moratorium on fracking in England, which has been in place since 2019 has been lifted. The moratorium, which effectively banned all fracking operations in England was put in place because of concerns over earth tremors that were being caused by fracking wells.

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Scientists at the Oxfordshire-based Joint European Torus (JET) laboratory made a significant breakthrough yesterday in their mission to harness the power of nuclear fusion - the energy that powers the stars.

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