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• Push for ban on domestic ivory trade spurs feud at international summit

  10-09-2016 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  As coalition of countries, including the US, push for resolution to end ivory trade, Japan, Namibia, South Africa and Canada raise concerns at Hawaii meetingA resolution to end the domestic trade in ivory has descended into acrimony at a major conservation summit, with a handful of countries, including Japan and South Africa, objecting to the proposed ban.
  A coalition of countries, including the US, France, Gabon, Kenya and Malawi, spoke in favor of an International Union for the Conservation of
  
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• Algerian energy minister sees consensus on need to steady oil price - APS

  10-09-2016 18:11
  By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's energy minister has said there is a consensus among OPEC and non-OPEC members about the need to stabilise the oil market to support prices, state news agency APS reported on Saturday. Noureddine Bouterfa was speaking after meeting his Saudi counterpart Khalid al-Falih and OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo in Paris late on Friday. Bouterfa has travelled to Qatar, Iran and Russia this week to push for the oil price to be stabilised between $50
  
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• OPEC not seeking definite price range, but market stability at Algiers meeting - Barkindo

  10-09-2016 17:43
  OPEC is not seeking a definite price range for crude but wants to stabilise the market at a meeting in Algiers later this month, OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo said, according to Algerian state-run APS news agency on Saturday. APS said he made his comments to the agency after meeting late on Friday with the Algerian and Saudi oil ministers in Paris.
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: why are woodlice living in my globe artichokes?

  10-09-2016 11:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Our gardens expert has the answerWoodlice have taken up residence in my globe artichokes, leaving them hollow and dried out. I have grown them for many years and this is the first time I have had this problem – what I can do?
  Woodlice feed on dead or decaying organic matter. They like damp conditions in which to hide by day, mostly coming out to feed at night. Woodlice are a good thing in the compost heap as they help to break things down. I would have thought damage to the plant has been
  
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• Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet

  10-09-2016 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Studies suggest that regenerating soil by turning our backs on industrial farming holds the key to tackling climate change
  It’s getting hot out there. Every one of the past 14 months has broken the global temperature record. Ice cover in the Arctic sea just hit a new low, at 525,000 square miles less than normal. And apparently we’re not doing much to stop it: according to Professor Kevin Anderson, one of Britain’s leading climate scientists, we’ve already blown our chanc
  
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• Late summer in the Outer Hebrides

  10-09-2016 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  South Uist Before me is a curve of white sand and a lazy sea of glorious Hebridean blue, breaking with a gentle whisper on to the shoreIt’s the best kind of late summer day, with bright sunshine and a temperature as high as anything we’ve had this year. The smell of new-mown grass carries on the warm breeze and from a few fields away comes the muted drone of a tractor. Emerging from under the bridge the river curves sinuously as it crosses the sand on the final stage of its journey t
  
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• US government halts oil pipeline opposed by Native Americans

  10-09-2016 06:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US government blocks the building of an oil pipeline in North Dakota opposed by Native Americans, shortly after a district judge rules it can go ahead.
  
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• A surgeon's downfall

  10-09-2016 02:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ground-breaking work on synthetic organ transplants made Paolo Macchiarini one of the most famous doctors in the world. Now his reputation lies in tatters.
  
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• Sleep 'prioritises memories we care about'

  10-09-2016 01:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers discover that during sleep the thoughts your care about are more likely to enter your memory.
  
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• Calculating the role of lakes in global warming

  10-09-2016 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  As global temperatures rise, how will lake ecosystems respond? As they warm, will lakes -- which make up only 3 percent of the landscape, but bury more carbon than the world's oceans combined -- release more of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane? And might that create a feedback loop that leads to further warming?To predict the effects of rising air temperatures on the carbon cycle of lakes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers will link computer models of changing weather,
  
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