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• In intimate ally Venezuela, tears and cheers over Castro's death

  26-11-2016 18:18
  By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling socialists mourned former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, while opposition hardliners exulted over the death of a man they call a dictator who helped wreck the economy and whose country has for years got an easy ride with subsidized oil. The two leftist Latin American governments became intimate allies under Castro and his younger disciple, the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, a relationship buttressed by generous oil shipments from the OPE
  
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• Croatian scientists 'find 30 new species in caves'

  26-11-2016 17:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists say they have discovered 30 new species of animal in subterranean caves, following a two-year search.
  
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• Kuwaitis vote in austerity-focused poll, energised by opposition

  26-11-2016 13:09
  By Sami Aboudi and Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaitis voted on Saturday in an election energised by the participation of opposition candidates for the first time since 2012 and focused on recent government austerity measures aimed at tackling the oil-rich nation's deficit. The parliament of Western-allied Kuwait was due to run until July 2017, but the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, dissolved it in October, saying "security challenges" in the region - an apparent reference to wars in
  
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• Shell CEO expects no valuation hit from climate accord

  26-11-2016 10:55
  Royal Dutch Shell expects to pump out all the fossil fuel reserves listed on its balance sheet, its chief executive said, dismissing concerns that production limits in the wake of the Paris climate accord could hit the energy giant's valuation. In an interview with Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, Ben van Beurden said the issue of "stranded" reserves - deposits in the ground that cannot be used because of carbon emissions limitations - would have no impact on balance sheets.
  
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• Office envy: are these the world's most sustainable workplaces? – in pictures

  26-11-2016 10:05
  
  From treadmill desks and foam flushing toilets to solar powered offices and apps allowing employees to control temperature and light – a selection of the world’s most sustainable workplaces Continue reading...
  
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• Costa Coffee launches in-store cup recycling scheme

  26-11-2016 09:01
  
  UK’s biggest coffee chain will take paper cups from any brand at recycling points in all of its storesThe UK’s largest coffee chain Costa Coffee is to launch a recycling scheme in all of its stores to ensure that as many as possible of its own takeaway cups – and those from its competitors – are recycled.In a move designed to reduce the millions of used disposable cups that end up in landfill, the chain’s customers will be encouraged to leave or return them to a Cos
  
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• The small African region with more refugees than all of Europe

  26-11-2016 09:00
  
  Hunger follows displaced people around north-east Nigeria, as Boko Haram and climate change drive millions from their homesAs Ali Kawu eases his handcart to a halt on a recent morning in north-east Nigeria, it is the first time he has dared to stop walking in more than 24 hours.A day earlier, at 8am, Boko Haram militants raided his village. Kawu, 25, escaped with what he could – his wife, their three children, and kindling for a fire. They left behind their papers, six sacks of beans, up t
  
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• Caroline Lucas meets Michael Morpurgo: ‘You were our hero’

  26-11-2016 09:00
  
  The Green party co-leader and the War Horse author talk Trump, the planet and staying hopefulCaroline Lucas, joint leader of the Green party and MP for Brighton Pavilion, was working on a Renaissance literature PhD when she decided that politics, not poetry, was the life for her. Michael Morpurgo had a job as a primary schoolteacher when he realised that storytelling was where his talents lay. Now 73, he is one of the biggest names in children’s literature, a former children’s laurea
  
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• A solitary little egret is an elegant sentinel on the muddy creek

  26-11-2016 06:30
  
  Poppit Sands, Cardigan Often I encounter him fishing here, with an oystercatcher or redshank for company, watching acutely, spearing for small fish and crustaceans.On ebbing or flowing tides, the muddy rhine that curves behind the dunes is a fascinating place. This time of year the estuary throngs with geese. Plangent calls tug at your emotions as they pass in V-formations overhead. Occasionally – all too seldom nowadays – a curlew’s bubbling call pitches to crescendo, then cas
  
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• Nature deficit disorder

  26-11-2016 02:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It's become a buzzword, but what is NDD?
  
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