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• Cycling on Vauxhall Bridge: a return visit and some new statistics

  03-12-2016 23:14
  
  One year since opening more cyclists seem to be using one of London’s “superhighway” routes, although not all its goals have yet been met On Monday I stood on Vauxhall Bridge counting cyclists. Sad but true. I did the same thing almost exactly a year ago following a startling radio station row about how many people were using the newly-opened, two-way cycle superhighway, CS5, to cross the bridge and how many weren’t bothering. My return last week was in order to see what
  
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• Azeri security forces say kill man trying to detonate suicide belt

  03-12-2016 22:39
  Azerbaijan's security forces on Saturday shot dead an Azeri man who tried to detonate a suicide belt near a shopping mall in the capital Baku, the state security service said. Ex-Soviet Azerbaijan, a secular Muslim country with a population of about 10 million, is a major energy producer in the Caspian Sea region. "Azeri citizen Azizagaoglu Emin Jami (born 1978) ... was killed during a special operation carried out by the state security service," the service said in a statement.
  
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• Ogoni king: Shell oil is killing my people

  03-12-2016 20:45
  
  King Emere was in a London court last week, watching the case that – he hopes – will allow him to sue Shell in the UK for polluting his tribal landHis Royal Highness Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, the paramount ruler and hereditary king of the Ogale community in the oil-rich Niger delta, is ready to explode. Related: Shell and Nigeria have failed on oil pollution clean-up, Amnesty saysContinue reading...
  
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• Climate scientists condemn article claiming global temperatures are falling

  03-12-2016 15:48
  
  A Republican-held panel promoted a misleading tabloid story alleging earth may not be warming, relying on data that leaves out important points of contextClimate scientists have denounced the House committee on science, space and technology after the Republican-held panel promoted a misleading story expressing skepticism that the earth is dangerously warming.On Thursday afternoon, the committee tweeted a Breitbart article alleging, “Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alar
  
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• All Hab Systems Go at the Mars Desert Research Station

  03-12-2016 13:37
  
  The Mars Society is conducting the ambitious two-phase Mars 160 Twin Desert-Arctic Analogue mission to study how seven crewmembers could live, work and perform science on a true mission to Mars. Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie is chronicling the mission, which will spend 80 days at the Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah desert before venturing far north to Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island, Canada in summer 2017. My daughter Mona emailed me back and told
  
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• Kinder Morgan pipeline: Canadians intensify huge opposition to expansion

  03-12-2016 12:00
  
  Trudeau’s approval of project some find analogous to Standing Rock incited thousands of activists, politicians and First Nations members to increase actionOpponents of a contentious Canadian pipeline project are preparing for a lengthy, multifaceted battle that will see thousands take to the country’s streets, courts and legislatures to contest the government’s recent approval of the project.Prime minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday that the Liberal government had clea
  
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• Five ways to take action on climate change

  03-12-2016 10:00
  
  The world’s leaders have promised to take urgent action on climate change. But that was the easy part. Here’s what they need to do nextThe Paris agreement has been ratified. Only one year after negotiating this historic treaty, it has come into force. This signals that the vast majority of governments around the world remain committed to fighting climate change. Yet that was the easy part. Actually realising these commitments made at COP21 in Paris will require concerted, concrete ac
  
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• Ethical gifts: think of others when you think of others this Christmas

  03-12-2016 07:59
  
  Lendwithcare offers ethical alternatives to traditional gifts, so you can help budding entrepreneurs across the globeIt’s the ethical Christmas gift that can throw a financial lifeline to people in poorer countries who are trying to improve their lives. Lendwithcare gift vouchers allow Britons to lend relatively small sums of money to people in 11 countries who are keen to start or grow their own small business – and the occupied Palestinian territories have now been added to the lis
  
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• OPEC to meet non-OPEC producers on Dec. 10 in Vienna - sources

  03-12-2016 06:59
  OPEC will meet non-OPEC countries to finalise a global oil limiting pact on Dec. 10 in Vienna, two sources told Reuters on Saturday. Two OPEC sources earlier said the meeting was due to take place in the Russian capital Moscow, but later said that plan had changed. OPEC agreed this week to reduce output by around 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) beginning in January in a bid to reduce global oversupply and prop up prices.
  
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• Life and death on a Highland road

  03-12-2016 06:30
  
  Leys Castle, Inverness The carcass would not last long with so many scavengers around and I expected that night a fox would carry it off to eat at leisureDriving down the hill the other day, I spotted a casualty on the road ahead, and knew by its size that it was a brown hare. Of all the creatures I find dead or injured on the roads, the brown hares are the ones that upset me the most, not least because when they are hurt their hare scream is penetrating and eerie. This one was a crumpled heap o
  
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• Adani coal mine: green groups fume over plan for $1b federal loan

  03-12-2016 04:21
  
  A $2.2b rail link to the huge Carmichael project has gained conditional approval for commonwealth fundingThe environmental movement is up in arms over a move towards federal funding of up to $1b for a railway that will serve Adani’s proposed Queensland coal mine.A $2.2b rail link to Adani’s huge Carmichael mine in the untapped Galilee basin has gained conditional approval for a commonwealth loan, days before its billionaire promoter, Gautam Adani, is due to meet state and federal pol
  
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• A tiny wasp could save Christmas Island’s spectacular red crabs from crazy ants

  03-12-2016 01:00
  
  In what could be the most closely scrutinised biological control project in Australia, a 2mm wasp is being released to control a deadly ant infestationHave you heard the one about the wasp that kills the bug that feeds the ants that kill the crabs that keep the forests healthy on Christmas Island?If not, that’s because it hasn’t happened yet, but it is a tale worth telling. Continue reading...
  
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