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M&S to start charging for plastic carrier bags

Marks and Spencer customers will have to pay 5p for plastic bags, with the money raised going to an environmental charity.

Chief executive Sir Stuart Rose said the company wanted to "make it easy for our customers to do their bit to help the environment".

Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean

UK scientists working in Antarctica have found some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of West Antarctica.

If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to a significant rise in global sea level.

creating zero waste

Here's the blog of someone who's trying to create zero waste during a one week period.

::via jane perone of horticultural, who has written a post - 10 uses for a woolly jumper