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• Scott Pruitt vows to slash climate and water pollution regulations at CPAC

  25-02-2017 22:47
  
  Head of the EPA told the conservative audience they would be ‘justified’ in believing the environmental regulator should be completely disbanded
  Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has vowed to roll back flagship regulations that tackle climate change and water pollution, telling a conservative audience in Maryland they would be “justified” in believing the environmental regulator should be completely disbanded.
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• Biologists think 50% of species will be facing extinction by the end of the century

  25-02-2017 21:37
  
  Scientists at Vatican conference are searching for a solution to the manmade ‘major extinction event’One in five species on Earth now faces extinction, and that will rise to 50% by the end of the century unless urgent action is taken. That is the stark view of the world’s leading biologists, ecologists and economists who will gather on Monday to determine the social and economic changes needed to save the planet’s biosphere.“The living fabric of the world is slippin
  
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• Biologists say half of all species could be extinct by end of century

  25-02-2017 21:37
  
  Scientists at Vatican conference are searching for a solution to the manmade ‘major extinction event’One in five species on Earth now faces extinction, and that will rise to 50% by the end of the century unless urgent action is taken. That is the stark view of the world’s leading biologists, ecologists and economists who will gather on Monday to determine the social and economic changes needed to save the planet’s biosphere.“The living fabric of the world is slippin
  
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• Brexit brings new questions about investing down on the farm

  25-02-2017 17:00
  
  When Common Agricultural Policy payments come to an end, what will they be replaced with? And what should that be spent on?Compared to most industries subject to the ups and downs of global markets, farming is a cottage industry. Where mining has a few operators dominating the scene, agriculture involves thousands of producers in each country.That simple fact works against the high levels of investment agriculture minister Andrea Leadsom would like to see in the run-up to a hard Brexit. Continue
  
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• Island that inspired National Trust finally given to group

  25-02-2017 12:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The island that inspired the National Trust has finally been gifted to the conservation charity.
  
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• 'It's very scary in the forest': should Finland's wolves be culled?

  25-02-2017 11:00
  
  Europe’s wolf population is on the rise – and in Finland, their future hangs in the balance. Are they a threat to humans, or should they be protected?The story of a kill is told in the snow. On the Finnish island of Porosaari, we find the first paw print. “That’s a male,” says Asko Kettunen, retired border guard, hunter and tracker. How can he be sure? “It’s big.”Five ravens rise from dark pines, croaking in the icy silence; they will scavenge anyt
  
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• Tracks in the snow where carnivores passed in the night

  25-02-2017 06:30
  
  Achvaneran, Highlands The tracks went straight down the garden, through the fence and over the burn with one leap. It knew where it was goingThe previous night’s snowfall had been just right for tracking: about 4cm at dusk, then no more until after light. So I was out early and picked up the first tracks under the beech tree at the bottom of the garden, a stoat. It had been quartering the ground, hunting, but did not make a kill until it reached the large pond. There the tracks suddenly ve
  
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• New UN climate chief: 'Action on warming unstoppable'

  25-02-2017 03:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UN’s new climate chief says she is confident, despite concerns about President Trump's policies.
  
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• Chris Grayling advises motorists to 'think hard' before buying diesel

  25-02-2017 01:38
  
  Transport secretary recommends low-emission cars after it emerges that thousands of children breathing toxic airDrivers should “think long and hard” before buying a diesel car and instead consider purchasing a low-emission vehicle, the transport secretary has said, as the government considers a strategy to tackle air pollution. Chris Grayling’s intervention took place as the Guardian revealed that tens of thousands of London’s children were attending schools in areas with
  
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• Anxiety has become a way of life for my generation. In an insecure world, is it any surprise? | Simon Copland

  25-02-2017 00:00
  
  As we face what has become an epidemic of anxiety disorders, we must confront the social conditions behind it It always hits me in the gut first. I often feel it first thing, my stomach twisted in a knot, my brain deciding it doesn’t want to deal with the day before I even wake up. Sometimes my anxiety will fester around a particular thing – a cascade of worry about my work, health, social life, or often a simple decision I have to make. This worry becomes totally paralysing, with ho
  
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