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Rounding up this week’s climate news so you don’t have to.

 

1. SHOULD HAVE BEEN BIGGER NEWS: Google now massively underestimates the climate impact of flights. The change follows consultations with “industry partners” (so that would be, um, airlines...). 

2. NAUGHTY NATURE: A real-life Beauty and the Beast this week. The reintroduction of bison to a Kent nature reserve is already proving to be a huge success, and the large blue butterfly (yes, that’s the technical name) has seen its best Summer in the UK in 150 years.

3. CREATIVE COMPANIES: We’ve still not mastered turning water into wine (apart from that one time...), but hopefully Coca Cola will have better luck turning carbon dioxide into sugar. Check out their plans here.

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Our last no flying trip from London to Naxos Island was pretty extreme, and not the type of trip that’s always feasible, so this time we wanted to show that it can be easy peasy and affordable to switch your short-haul flight for a train or two...

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