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• Protected birds killed in Cheshire: Country diary 100 years ago

  05-06-2016 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 9 June 1916June 8“I came across six dead herons tied to a tree in the Goyt Valley,” writes a friend of mine. Some of them were quite young, evidently not having left the nest, and all had been killed about the same time. One reader of the “Manchester Guardian,” if he sees this note, will be especially annoyed; he has watched the birds here for years, even before he was certain that a small heronry had been established. No
  
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• VIDEO: Lab tries to grow human organs inside pigs

  05-06-2016 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs.
  
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• Gene editing lab tries to grow human organs inside pigs

  05-06-2016 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs.
  
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• Great white shark suspected of killing Perth diver to be hunted

  05-06-2016 23:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Western Australia Department of Fisheries sets drum lines to catch and kill shark reported to be be between three and six metres longA great white shark suspected of killing a 60-year-old diver in Perth’s north is being hunted.The woman was diving with a 43-year-old man one kilometre offshore from Mindarie marina just before midday on Sunday when she was mauled. Continue reading...
  
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• Exclusive - Saudi reform plan approved by top economic council

  05-06-2016 22:38
  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's National Transformation Plan, a pivotal element of the "Vision 2030" reforms announced in April by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will be put before the cabinet for approval on Monday, a senior Saudi source told Reuters. The plan is expected to flesh out sector-by-sector details of the implementation of Prince Mohammed's programme, which is intended to restructure the kingdom's entire economy and make it less dependent on oil revenue.
  
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• Corruption and violence test Mexico ruling party in state elections

  05-06-2016 22:30
  By Dave Graham XALAPA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican regional elections on Sunday pose a major test for the ruling party's hopes of retaining the presidency in 2018 as discontent over corruption and violence fuels support for the anti-establishment message of a resurgent leftist firebrand. Voters were choosing new governors in a dozen of Mexico's 31 states, including bastions of President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, that could fall to the opposition after more th
  
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• Greens want 'fair price' for solar power and access to grid for all

  05-06-2016 22:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Greens launch clean energy policy with spending to put solar in schools, a ‘fast-track’ to renewable energy and a right to solar for rentersThe Greens want to regulate the electricity system to ensure a “fair price” is paid for solar-generated electricity and ensure a “legal right” to connect to the grid by forcing energy companies to prove they cannot connect a consumer.The Greens’ clean energy policy would put $192m for solar into schools, establish a
  
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• The European Union’s record on clean beaches and dirty air | Letters

  05-06-2016 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The coalition of rightwing politicians backing Brexit consists of climate change deniers, environmentalist cynics and no-holds-barred free-marketeers. For George Eustice to claim the UK’s environment will be top of a list of priorities if Britain decides to leave the European Union is, frankly, ridiculous (Minister attacks ‘spirit-crushing’ green directives, 31 May).The big environmental challenges the UK faces – air pollution, catastrophic climate change, fish stock
  
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• Son of the circus thrives as crude-oil traffic cop

  05-06-2016 15:19
  Unruly animals, however well-trained, have a way of making the shipping of thousands of barrels of crude oil every day seem a bit less hectic. "Crude oil is easier," Holan said. “There is a specific infrastructure built for oil with the idea that there would be repeat business. With the circus, there's always one-off moves and unpredictability.” Holan's own journey, which includes stints removing radioactive dirt from nuclear facilities and coordinating helicopters for airlifts
  
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• World Environment Day: drought drives global rise in hunger – in pictures

  05-06-2016 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  On World Environment Day, more than a quarter of a billion people, half of them children, are suffering the impact of severe drought across three continents. Aid agencies are working to deliver emergency food parcels to prevent people starving, and to help build livelihood resilience to extreme weather eventsContinue reading...
  
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• Mexican state elections test ruling party's hopes for 2018

  05-06-2016 09:05
  Voters across Mexico choose new governors in a dozen of Mexico´s 31 states, including bastions of President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) at risk of falling to the opposition after more than 80 years of one-party rule. National attention is focused on oil-rich Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico, the country's third most-populous region, which the PRI has ruled since the party's inception in the late 1920s. Years of gang violence, mounting debts and allegations of
  
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• Woman found dead off Perth after suspected shark attack

  05-06-2016 07:31 via theguardian.com
  
  A woman who was reportedly a diver is found dead with injuries ‘consistent with a shark attack’A woman has been found dead in the water off Perth after a suspected shark attack.Police said the woman was found in waters off Mindarie about 11.50am on Sunday with significant injuries that were “consistent with a shark attack”. Continue reading...
  
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• PM and Boris clash over EU fishing laws

  05-06-2016 02:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron and Boris Johnson clash over the impact of the EU on the UK's fishing industry, during an interview with the BBC's Countryfile programme.
  
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• Protest and oil sheen on Columbia river follow Oregon train derailment

  05-06-2016 00:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Townspeople rally to demand halt to shipping of volatile oil by railBooms deployed on river to contain spill from unknown sourceEnvironmental crews worked on Saturday to contain a sheen of oil that appeared in the Columbia river along the Washington-Oregon border after a Union Pacific train derailed and caught fire. Officials said there was no immediate indication of harm to wildlife. Related: Train carrying oil derails near Oregon's Columbia river gorgeContinue reading...
  
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