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• Shark attacks: Coalition to deploy extra drumlines to protect surfers

  01-10-2016 23:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Strategy, which helps track and monitor sharks without baiting or killing them, will be prioritised on north coastUp to 100 extra “smart” drumlines will be rolled out along the New South Wales coastline to keep swimmers safe from sharks, the state government has announced.The controversial shark management strategy helps authorities track and monitor sharks without baiting or killing them, and the rollout announced on Sunday will be prioritised on the NSW north coast following a rece
  
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• Saudi-led forces rescue passengers from vessel off Yemen - SPA

  01-10-2016 21:04
  A Saudi-led force in Yemen said it rescued passengers on Saturday from a vessel being used by the United Arab Emirates military that was attacked by Houthi fighters in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane. Hundreds of Emirati soldiers in an Arab alliance have been fighting Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis, who control the capital, and training Yemeni troops in Aden to help rebuild a state loyal to exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The UAE military said on Saturday one of its vessels had been invo
  
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• Lead contamination in LA housing project said to put 300 kids at risk

  01-10-2016 20:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Jordan Downs residents fear wider impact of planned demolition in former industrial site but lead contamination is only one part of toxic puzzleIt’s a sunny Saturday morning in South Los Angeles, but Nuvia Perez is keeping her three boys inside. “They don’t go out to play,” said Perez, 37, whose front door faces a 21-acre former industrial site in the heart of Jordan Downs, a housing project.Continue reading...
  
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• Protesters stage 'die-in' flashmob at Heathrow over expansion plans

  01-10-2016 18:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Reclaim the Power reads testimonies from communities affected by climate change urging people to consider impact of flightsActivists campaigning against airport expansion and climate change have staged a “die-in” flashmob demonstration at Heathrow.Scores of protesters, some wearing dust masks and others decked in banners, lay on the floor in Terminal 2 at the airport on Saturday as bemused airline passengers looked on.Continue reading...
  
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• Life in Space, 'Star Trek' Tech & the Future of Space Exploration

  01-10-2016 17:30
  
  What's the secret to becoming a successful scientist? Owning your curiosity. That's what Michelle Thaller, NASA's deputy director of science communications, told a roomful of people at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum earlier this month. 
  
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• UAE military vessel damaged in 'incident' off coast of Yemen

  01-10-2016 15:42
  A United Arab Emirates military vessel was damaged in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane off the coast of Yemen on Saturday but there were no injuries to its crew, the UAE military said. Hundreds of Emirati soldiers in a Saudi-led coalition have been fighting Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis who control the capital and training Yemeni troops in the port of Aden to help rebuild a state loyal to exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. "General Command of the Armed Forces said one of its leased vessels
  
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• Hawaiian bees are first on US endangered species list

  01-10-2016 15:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Seven species of yellow-faced bee native to Hawaii are the first bees to be added to the US list of endangered species.
  
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• Texas activists who lost one pipeline fight set sights on new battle

  01-10-2016 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Demonstrators have been unable to halt the construction a local project – but they aren’t giving up as the same company plans the Dakota Access pipelineIt looks to Lori Glover “like a long snake going across the whole desert”. For David Keller, it is “like having a very beautiful historic home and having someone run a bulldozer through the kitchen”. And in Yolonda Blue Horse’s view, it is another example of disrespect from an industry that does not care
  
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• How to sneak up on a seal (and other wildlife photography tips)

  01-10-2016 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Tired of making beautiful beasts and luscious landscapes into drab photos? So was Patrick Barkham. Follow him into the wild as he gets a masterclass from a proSplash! There’s a ripple on the water and I grapple with my camera to focus on the river. An otter-sized ripple is radiating out across the current. But it turns out to be from a fluorescent stick that’s been tossed into the river and is now being chased by a swimming dog. I lower my camera. Even at 7am, dog-walkers are a ubiqu
  
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• Debate: Would a legal ivory trade save elephants or speed up the massacre?

  01-10-2016 11:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Horns will lock over the future of the African elephant at Cites CoP17. We ask experts whether they believe the ban on the international ivory trade is workingEnrico Di Minin, research fellow in conservation science at the University of Helsinki, and Douglas MacMillan, professor of biodiversity economics at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent. Continue reading...
  
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• Cheetah trade: Nations to suppress social media enticement

  01-10-2016 10:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arab nations join forces with African countries in a bid to suppress the illegal live trade in cheetahs, with a special focus on social media.
  
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• More than 15,000 homes and businesses were hit by winter floods

  01-10-2016 07:01 via theguardian.com
  
  New analysis shows impact of storms across the north of England last winter, with some councils still helping homes to recoverMore than 15,000 homes and businesses were flooded in areas across northern England in last year’s devastating storms, new analysis shows.Councils are still helping flood-hit homes recover from the disruption caused last winter as storms Desmond, Eva and Frank swept across the country, the Local Government Association (LGA) said. Continue reading...
  
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• Searching for the ash trees of childhood

  01-10-2016 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire Lime-green bunches clustered heavy on each branch, spinning down with the equinoctial gales or hanging as grim, dry, umber swagsEven before the first frost, ash trees along the Teifi gorge are taking on the pale autumn tints that are prelude to their fall. The river here roils darkly down to salt-marshes round Cardigan, its depths brown and turbid with slurry run-off, tide-lines blanched by agrochemical pollutant along each bank, dippers and wagtails gone, birds silent i
  
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• Bees added to US endangered species list for the first time

  01-10-2016 04:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Seven types of the yellow-faced or masked bees once found in great numbers in Hawaii are under threat, federal officials saySeven types of bees once found in abundance in Hawaii have become the first bees to be added to the US federal list of endangered and threatened species.The listing decision, published on Friday in the Federal Register, classifies seven varieties of yellow-faced or masked bees as endangered, due to such factors as habitat loss, wildfires and the invasion of non-native plant
  
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• The lights go out in SA and Turnbull flicks the switch to peak stupid | Lenore Taylor

  01-10-2016 01:27 via theguardian.com
  
  The PM ridiculed state renewable targets after the South Australian blackout, the very targets he has to achieve to meet his own emissions promisesOne big storm and our climate and energy debate is surging back to peak stupid.Now Malcolm Turnbull has encouraged the campaign to use the South Australian blackout to slow the shift to clean energy, saying state renewable energy targets are “extremely unrealistic”.Continue reading...
  
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