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• UK Police defend choice to warn thousands to evacuate as storm falters

  14-01-2017 21:30 via theguardian.com
  
  East coast residents have derided the severe storm warnings as ‘a load of rubbish’Police and Environment Agency officials today defended their decision to warn tens of thousands of people living near the east coast of England to leave their homes because they were at risk of flooding.Thousands were evacuated on Friday after the Environment Agency issued 17 severe weather warnings – which warn of danger to life – with people living in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex told they w
  
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• Space Webcasts: SpaceX Launches Iridium Satellites, Aces Rocket Landing

  14-01-2017 20:18
  
  Update for 2:18 pm ET: SpaceX has successfully launched (and landed) a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium NEXT satellites for the communications satellite company Iridium. The launch at 12:54 pm ET (1754 GMT) lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base California and was SpaceX's first launch since a Sept. 1 rocket explosion. You can watch SpaceX's full webcast in the window below, courtesy of SpaceX. Watch Our Launch Video  | Watch the Falcon 9 Land at Sea  | S
  
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• SpaceX rocket successfully lifts off

  14-01-2017 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  SpaceX successfully launches a rocket, its first mission since an explosion in September.
  
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• WATCH LIVE: SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launches Into Space, Aces Landing

  14-01-2017 19:30
  
  SpaceX has successfully launched (and landed) a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium NEXT satellites for the communications satellite company Iridium. The launch at 12:54 pm ET (1754 GMT) lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base California and was SpaceX's first launch since a Sept. 1 rocket explosion. You can watch the satellite deployment, which will occur 60 minutes after launch, live in the window below, courtesy of SpaceX. Watch Our Launch Video  | Watch the Falcon
  
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• SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch

  14-01-2017 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US SpaceX rocket company resumes operations after a launch pad explosion in September.
  
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• SpaceX Returns to Flight with 10-Satellite Launch, Rocket Landing

  14-01-2017 19:05
  
  SpaceX launched 10 satellites to orbit today (Jan. 14) in a rousing return-to-flight mission that also included a rocket landing on a ship at sea. 9:54 a.m. local California time), carrying 10 communications satellites to low-Earth orbit for the Virginia-based company Iridium. Deployment of the satellites is scheduled to begin 59 minutes after liftoff and should take about 15 minutes, SpaceX representatives have said.
  
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• Trump, robotics and Brexit turn up the heat amid the snow of Davos

  14-01-2017 16:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The world is full of scary new problems for delegates at this year’s World Economic Forum - not that old ones like climate and poverty have gone awayDonald Trump’s US election victory and the UK’s vote to leave the European Union will cast a long shadow over the global elite’s annual gathering in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week.This year, 3,000 politicians, business leaders, economists, entrepreneurs, charity leaders and celebrities will head to the World Economic
  
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• Robotics, Trump and Brexit turn up the heat amid the snow of Davos

  14-01-2017 16:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The world is full of scary new problems for delegates at this year’s World Economic Forum - not that old ones like climate and poverty have gone awayDonald Trump’s US election victory and the UK’s vote to leave the European Union will cast a long shadow over the global elite’s annual gathering in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week.This year, 3,000 politicians, business leaders, economists, entrepreneurs, charity leaders and celebrities will head to the World Economic
  
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• China and Vietnam to 'manage' differences over South China Sea - communique

  14-01-2017 15:38
  China and Vietnam pledged on Saturday to manage their differences and safeguard peace in the South China Sea, in a joint communique issued during a visit to China by Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong. After "candid" discussions, the two countries agreed to "manage well their maritime difference, avoid actions that complicate the situation and escalate tensions, and safeguard the peace and stability of the South China Sea", said the communique published in full by China's state ne
  
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• Patagonia, Black Diamond take on Utah officials over public land rights

  14-01-2017 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The outdoor industry is leading the fight to protect America’s public lands from being developed for gas and oilUtah, a state rich in epic landscapes and national parks, is becoming ground zero for a fight between the $646bn outdoor industry and state lawmakers over public land management.At a trade show for outdoor clothing and gear makers in Salt Lake City this week, two prominent figures from the industry called on their peers to move the semi-annual event out of the state unless Utah l
  
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• ‘The last five years have not been great at Greenpeace’

  14-01-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson poised to lead US foreign policy, activists like Peter Willcox, skipper of the Rainbow Warrior, are needed more than ever. But are they losing their nerve?Dawn was breaking when the campaigners used slingshots to fire ropes on to the rig. But as they began to scale the Prirazlomnaya, aiming to unfurl a banner denouncing Russia’s attempts to drill for oil in the Arctic, their hopes of another successful Greenpeace “action” swiftly faded.
  
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• Should we invest in BP?

  14-01-2017 07:59 via theguardian.com
  
  We drive and fill up at their garages, but my wife won’t have itEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• It's never too early for spring song

  14-01-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Airedale, West Yorkshire A book from a century ago tells me when I might hear the ‘spring’ songs of each common songbirdThe robin has uncorked its spring song. This one – a male, I suspect, giving it some welly in the upper reaches of a bare horse chestnut – is the loudest, the fullest, I’ve heard so far.
  David Lack, the author of the landmark 1943 study The Life of the Robin, wrote that its autumn song was “thinner and less rich” than its spring reprise
  
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• SpaceX rocket set to return to flight

  14-01-2017 02:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US SpaceX rocket company hopes to resume operations after a launch pad explosion in September.
  
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• Oil pipeline safety rule scaled back after cost objections

  14-01-2017 00:49
  
  President Barack Obama's administration scaled back new safety measures for the sprawling network of fuel pipelines that crisscross the United States on Friday, following oil industry complaints that proposed ...
  
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