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• Cancer, sea life, mental health: the UK research that will be hit by Brexit

  16-07-2016 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  With EU grants worth hundreds of millions of pounds now in peril, leading institutions risk losing their place at the forefront of innovationWithin a day of the announcement of Britain’s decision to quit the EU, Prof Dame Til Wykes was contacted by a leading candidate for a professorship in her department at King’s College London. The candidate no longer wished to be considered for the post, she was told. Three days later, a similar message was received from a second candidate. One o
  
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• Turkey reopens key route for oil, grains transit after coup attempt

  16-07-2016 13:39
  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish maritime authorities have reopened Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait to transiting tankers after shutting it earlier on Saturday for several hours following what the government said was an attempted coup by a faction in the military. The Bosphorus is one of world's most important chokepoints for the maritime transit of oil with over three percent of global supply - mainly from Russia and the Caspian Sea - passing through the 17-mile waterway that conne
  
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• Fire hits Russia's Bashneft oil company unit, kills three

  16-07-2016 09:28
  A fire broke out at a hydrocracker unit on Saturday morning at the Ufaneftekhim refinery owned by Russian oil company Bashneft in the Urals, killing three people and injuring another two, the company said. The fire was localised by 0550 Moscow time (0250 GMT), Bashneft said in a statement.
  
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• Carbon-free banking: where to save, invest and borrow

  16-07-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We look at the range of options available if you want to move away from companies connected to fossil fuelsIf you are worried about climate change, it has never been easier to move your money away from companies connected to fossil fuels, with plenty of carbon-free banking and investment options available. So says the editor of Ethical Consumer, which describes itself as the UK’s leading alternative consumer magazine, and which has this month published a personal finance guide to carbon di
  
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• US Navy banned from using sonar that harms dolphins and walruses

  16-07-2016 06:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Low-frequency sonar used for training and testing can injure whales and other marine life, and disrupt their feeding and matingA federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the US Navy was wrongly allowed to use sonar in the nation’s oceans that could harm whales and other marine life.The ninth circuit court of appeals reversed a lower court decision upholding approval granted in 2012 for the Navy to use low-frequency sonar for training, testing and routine operations. Continue reading...
  
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• Blue butterflies and black ants thrive on a New Forest heath

  16-07-2016 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Yew Tree Heath, New Forest Below me, the heath drops steadily away through hectares of heather, with patches of grey-green gorse and burgeoning brackenTo seek a commanding view of Yew Tree Heath, I climb a wartime relic. In 1939, an anti-aircraft battery was set up here, with a control centre whose mound offers me the view that I’m after. The tree-line has etched the horizon for millennia. It still does where the chimneys of Marchwood’s industry have not intruded with jagged fingers
  
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