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• Juno Probe Will Run Hellish Radiation Gauntlet at Jupiter Monday

  02-07-2016 22:10
  
  The Juno spacecraft's long-awaited arrival at Jupiter Monday (July 4) will be a baptism by fire. If all goes according to plan Monday night, Juno will slip into orbit around the giant planet and get its first taste of the solar system's most intense radiation environment — a region where huge swarms of electrons are accelerated to nearly the speed of light by Jupiter's magnetic field, which is 20,000 times more powerful than Earth's. "Once these electrons hit a spacecraft, they immediately
  
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• The lion herding sheep in Russia's Dagestan

  02-07-2016 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This lion's role on a farm in northern Russia will surprise you.
  
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• Dead whale towed off California beach and back to sea after big stink

  02-07-2016 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Authorities used boats and ropes attached to tail to pull the humpback far out into the water before Fourth of July weekend crowds began arrivingThe reeking carcass of a dead humpback whale was towed back out to sea some 24 hours after it washed up at a popular Los Angeles County beach on Friday.Authorities used boats pulling ropes attached to the tail to pull the whale off the sand during the evening high tide, taking the animal far out to sea and avoiding a foul stench and grim scene on the be
  
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• Farmers forecast food price rises and job losses in life after the EU

  02-07-2016 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  At the Royal Norfolk Show, some producers were looking forward to a post-Brexit Britain, while others worried about workers for fruit fields and abbatoirsAs England’s largest agricultural jamboree, the Royal Norfolk Show normally functions as a shop window for the country’s farming prowess. But this year it also offered a glimpse of the problems facing a post-Brexit nation. In the showground, amid displays of fresh fruit, vegetables and prize-worthy bulls, the talk was of how farmers
  
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• A good job if you can get it: America's solar workforce is heating up

  02-07-2016 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The national solar industry is expected to add 30,000 jobs in 2016, a 14.7% jump from last year. Who are the workers building this new market? Antwain Nelson held various jobs in the construction field for several years, but the work never felt fulfilling. Then an opportunity to volunteer in low-income neighborhoods introduced him to his current job and, he says, a clear career path.“The first day, I fell in love with it,” says Nelson, 25, an installer of solar energy systems and a l
  
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• State of play

  02-07-2016 11:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK science is one of the biggest winners from Britain's membership of the EU. Now it stands to lose the most from Brexit.
  
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• Vietnam urges 'fair' ruling from court handling South China Sea case

  02-07-2016 09:01
  Vietnam has called for an international tribunal in The Hague to deliver a "fair and objective" ruling in an arbitration case lodged by the Philippines that challenges China's expansive claims in the South China Sea. In a carefully worded statement two days after the court announced July 12 as the verdict date, Vietnam's foreign ministry said it hoped the ruling would provide a basis for peacefully resolving rows. Vietnam is not a direct party to the case but stands to gain if the verdict favour
  
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• A fitting last stronghold for the whinchat

  02-07-2016 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Rosebush, Pembrokeshire Views from this bleak saddle take in the headlands that ruckle the northern coast of Pembrokeshire Bwlch Gwynt – “wind-pass” - lies between the two westernmost summits of Mynydd Preseli’s moorland ridge. The name fits perfectly with this bleak saddle marred by extensive forestry clearcut. Views distract attention from the ruined immediate landscape. They spread wide, take in Ramsey, the craggy crest of Ynys Bery off its southern tip, isolated rocks
  
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• Dead whale towed off Los Angeles beach ahead of holiday

  02-07-2016 06:23
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The reeking carcass of a dead humpback whale was towed back out to sea some 24 hours after washing up at a popular Los Angeles County beach Friday.
  
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• Paris drives old cars off the streets in push to improve air quality

  02-07-2016 03:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Vehicles made before January 1997 banned from streets of French capital from 8am to 8pm, Monday to FridayParis has banned old cars from its streets in a war on air pollution that environmentalists hope will also drive dirty vehicles from the centres of other European cities. Air pollution, in large part caused by fine particulate fuel emissions, kills 48,000 people each year in France, about 400,000 in Europe and around 3.7 million worldwide, data published by France’s public health agency
  
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