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‘I’m 90 for goodness sake’: rainforest activist to pedal 104 miles down Thames

Veteran campaigner Robin Hanbury-Tenison is raising money for a research station near his home in Cornwall Pedalling on water for more than a hundred miles in a heatwave, pushed back by east winds and having to navigate 31 locks would be a challenge for anybody. But when that

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The Tassie devils in my neighbourhood keep stealing shoes and laundry, but I adore them | Kelley Swain

The thievery of these little creatures is endlessly amusing to me, but there have been, I’m told, a few rounds of inconvenience Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast To have your knickers go missing at a music festival may be seen as evidence of having a

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Trump administration reverses decision to scrap ocean monitoring system

Move to dismantle $368m sea observatory initiative faced opposition from experts and lawmakers The Donald Trump administration has reversed its decision to dismantle a $368m deep-sea observation system following an outcry from lawmakers and ocean experts . On Thursday, the

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Heathrow third runway likely to affect health of millions nearby, official report warns

Expansion could also harm access to housing, education, healthcare, open spaces and transport, analysis says Construction of a third runway at Heathrow is likely to have significant adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of up to 3 million people living nearby, an official

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South African men sentenced in ‘world’s largest’ rhino horn trafficking case

‘Mastermind’ Dawie Groenewald given fine of 2m rand or four-year jail term almost 16 years after arrest Two traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what police said was the world’s largest such case, partly bringing to an end an almost

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Showdown in the desert: the small town fending off a new California gold rush

A prospecting company’s search for gold has the town of Lone Pine and Indigenous leaders on edge, as the Trump administration greenlights new projects across the American west Lone Pine, population 1,882, lies along a stretch of California highway framed by the vast Inyo

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‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds

Top 10% generate climate and biodiversity damage bill that exceeds economies of most countries, say researchers The environmental damage bill racked up by the highest-consuming 10% of the world’s population has reached up to $5.7tn a year – larger than the economy of every

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Lake Tahoe residents ‘horrified’ by plans to spray cancer-linked glyphosate in public lands

Federal agency to use herbicide to clear lands for replanting after 2021 Caldor fire – but public reaction to plan is fierce Katherine Levy remembers a childhood deeply rooted in the natural offerings of Lake Tahoe – water-skiing in the summer and working as ski instructor on

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Drax cleared after investigation into sourcing of wood pellets

Generator’s shares rise as regulator finds no evidence of misleading statements about fuel’s sustainability The City watchdog has closed an investigation into the owner of the Drax power plant after an almost 10-month review into whether the company’s sustainability claims

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‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves

More than half of Ayetoro – a Christian utopia founded in the 1940s – has been lost to the ocean, and its remaining people are running out of options In the early hours of 15 February 2019, the Atlantic Ocean came for Arowo Victoria’s livelihood. The 60-year-old retired midwife

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Cambridge experts recreate 336-year-old garden to commemorate ‘father of natural history’

John Ray, 17th-century botanist who coined words petal and pollen, was a tutor at Cambridge when he created his first garden He coined the terms petal and pollen, helped to lay the foundations of modern biology and is widely regarded as the greatest English naturalist of the

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