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• Dig to uncover rare undisturbed Bronze Age burial

  09-07-2016 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An archaeological dig is under way on what experts say is a very rare undisturbed Bronze Age burial mound in Lancashire.
  
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• New arrivals reach International Space Station

  09-07-2016 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russian, American and Japanese astronauts enter the International Space Station.
  
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• Nissan Leaf 30kWh Tekna car review – ‘It’s relaxing’

  09-07-2016 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With a top speed just shy of 90mph, the Leaf doesn’t have many pretensions in the boy racer department Often, when I think an idea won’t catch on (the mobile phone, the breakfast bar), it’s just because I haven’t thought about it as hard as its inventor has; I fear this may be true of the Nissan Leaf. It struck me as inherently preposterous to design a car that has to be delivered on the back of another car, because no one can be sure it’ll make the journey on
  
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• Iran sees fire-hit petchem plant back online within three weeks

  09-07-2016 11:07
  DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran expects most units at its Bu Ali Sina petrochemicals complex to resume operations within three weeks, after a fire was extinguished early on Saturday, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying by his ministry's website, Shana. "The paraxylene tower will take longer to get back (online)," Zanganeh said, adding that the rest of the plant would be restarted in two to three weeks, Shana said. The fire broke out at the complex in the southwestern city of Bandar Mahshahr
  
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• From basket weavers to salt farmers: the women leading a renewables revolution

  09-07-2016 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From female basket weavers in Tanzania to the women farming salt in Gujarat, social enterprises are helping women become clean energy entrepreneurs“People call us Mama Solar,” says Solar Sister entrepreneur Hilaria Paschal. In her native Tanzania, Paschal and her fellow basket weavers buy solar lights and clean cookstoves from Solar Sister, a social enterprise empowering women to bring clean energy to rural African communities, and sell them to friends and neighbours living without a
  
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• Why won't TV show more women's cycling?

  09-07-2016 08:52 via theguardian.com
  
  The two most important bike races in the world are on right now: but you can only watch the Tour de France boys on telly. Meanwhile, fans of the Giro Rosa must check Twitter to follow the girls. Helen Pidd talks to TV networks — and cycling commentator Ned Boulting —to find out whyJuly is the best month of the year for cycling fans: three glorious weeks of the Tour de France to gorge on, provided you can wrestle the remote from any Wimbledon watchers in your life.Yet while it is poss
  
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• These urgent bird calls are designed to distract

  09-07-2016 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  South Uist If the oystercatchers had sounded anxious, the new arrival sounds almost desperate, for its call has a panicky breathlessness about itAt the end of a hot summer day what could be pleasanter than a peaceful evening stroll down to the beach? The sun is still warm, there’s just the lightest of breezes, and the only sound to be heard is that of a skylark singing overhead. But we haven’t walked far before an oystercatcher takes to the air, uttering a succession of loud, shrill
  
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• Great Barrier Reef: government must choose which parts to save, says expert

  09-07-2016 00:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Professor Hugh Possingham says authorities must confront prospect that some parts of reef are doomed and focus on what to preserveGovernments must decide which parts of the Great Barrier Reef they most want to save and confront the prospect that some of it may be doomed, an expert on conservation modelling has warned.University of Queensland professor Hugh Possingham said agencies, including the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, needed to make tough decisions about which parts of the nat
  
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• Climate change may shrink Adélie penguin range by end of century

  09-07-2016 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Climate has influenced the distribution patterns of Adélie penguins across Antarctica for millions of years. The geologic record tells us that as glaciers expanded and covered Adélie breeding habitats with ice, penguins in the region abandoned their colonies. When the glaciers melted during warming periods, the Adélie penguins were able to return to their rocky breeding grounds.Now, a NASA-funded study by University of Delaware scientists and colleagues at other institutions
  
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