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• Rajendra Pachauri speaks out over sexual harassment claims

  26-03-2016 23:00
  
  Nobel peace prize winner and former IPCC boss says climate change sceptics are behind allegations he harassed female colleagueIt was the crowning glory of a distinguished career when, in December 2007, the head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the charismatic Rajendra Pachauri, collected the Nobel peace prize in Oslo.Elected by governments five years before to chair the small independent organisation charged with informing them on the state of global climate science,
  
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• Wyoming wolves slaughter 19 elk in rare 'surplus killing', say wildlife officials

  26-03-2016 20:00
  
  Carcasses of 17 calves and two adults found earlier this week
  Wildlife officials say nine wolves in pack were responsible for deathsA pack of Wyoming wolves killed 19 elk in a rare “surplus killing”, wildlife officials said late on Friday after finding the carcasses of 17 calves and two adults on a snowy plain near the tiny town of Bondurant. Related: Idaho hunters target gray wolves in controversial predator derbyContinue reading...
  
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• Warts and all: critically endangered warty piglet on show in Cornwall

  26-03-2016 19:47
  
  Visitors to Newquay zoo can now catch a glimpse of Visayan warty piglet born in February Zookeepers are celebrating the birth of a critically endangered warty piglet. The Visayan warty piglet was born in February at Newquay zoo in Cornwall, where it is now on show. Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: 'Cat-in-the-box' survives eight days in post

  26-03-2016 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A cat has survived eight days trapped in a box of DVDs which was posted from Cornwall to West Sussex.
  
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• Environmental art is on the rise – with a little help from Leonardo DiCaprio

  26-03-2016 16:30
  
  Olafur Eliasson, Shepard Fairey and Tomás Saraceno are among a growing group of artists creating works that draw attention to the effects of climate changeThe image looks like a scene from a science fiction movie about an alien landscape on another planet: a 28-by-24-foot LED wall depicting an impressive, circular array of giant mirrors surrounding a tower lit at the top. But this is very much an earthly construct. It’s an artwork reflecting the emergence of renewable energy: a digi
  
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• Human impact on Earth's global energy

  26-03-2016 14:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The impact humans have made on Earth in terms of how we produce and consume resources has formed a 'striking new pattern' in the planet's global energy flow, according to researchers from the University of Leicester.The research suggests that Earth is now characterised by a geologically unprecedented pattern of global energy flow that is pervasively influenced by humans -- and which is necessary for maintaining the complexity of modern human societies.The new study, published in the journal 
  
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• Too good to be true? The Ocean Cleanup Project faces feasibility questions

  26-03-2016 13:00
  
  While the 21-year-old founder of the Ocean Cleanup Project has succeeded in raising over $2m for a device that would extract plastic from the ocean, critics say the high-cost initiative is misdirectedLast year, nonprofit foundation The Ocean Cleanup hit a milestone en route to its goal of deploying a large, floating structure to pull plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The organization issued a press release announcing it had completed a reconnaissance expedition that would pave the wa
  
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• Climate change may be a burning issue – but election campaign tells another story

  26-03-2016 12:30
  
  As Alaskans choose their Democratic nominee after a winter wiped out by high temperatures, among Republicans the climate question has been near invisibleAs Alaskans go to the polls in the Democratic caucuses on Saturday, one of the most pressing issues should be what is staring them in the face – or, rather, what isn’t: snow and ice.Related: 'There was just no snow': climate change puts Iditarod future in doubtContinue reading...
  
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• Pictures of the day: 26 March 2016

  26-03-2016 12:02
  
  Today: Chariot racing, oil spills in Taiwan and Jagger rocks Cuba
  
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• VIDEO: Giant panda enjoys tiny bubble bath

  26-03-2016 09:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Washington's Smithsonian National Zoo has released footage of its giant panda, Tian Tian, enjoying a bubble bath.
  
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• Grebe joins dippers in the Highlands

  26-03-2016 06:30
  Loch Ruthven, Highlands There was a splash as the Slavonian grebe landed close to the hide. What colours - the bird was so close I was in aweWalking along the eastern shore of Loch Ruthven I was full of anticipation approaching the wildlife hide. The loch, surrounded by snow-capped hills, was flat calm. A few faint croaks broke the silence. I stopped to listen and only then noticed a male toad at the side of the path, shuffling along as only toads do, heading for the loch and the distant call.Th
  
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• Poland approves large-scale logging in Europe's last primeval forest

  26-03-2016 02:54
  
  Greenpeace accuses government of ignoring scientists over fate of Bialowieza woodland, home to 20,000 animal species and Europe’s tallest treesPoland has approved large-scale logging in Europe’s last primeval woodland in a bid to combat a beetle infestation despite protests from scientists, ecologists and the European Union.The action in the Bialowieza forest is intended to fight the spread of the spruce bark beetle. Continue reading...
  
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• Federal oil, gas leases stall over bird concerns in US West

  26-03-2016 00:24
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Concerns over a bird that ranges across the American West continue to delay federal oil and gas lease sales, five months after Interior Secretary Sally Jewell proclaimed the Obama administration had found a way to balance drilling and conservation.
  
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