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• Dakota Access pipeline: appeals court refuses tribes' request to stop oil flow

  18-03-2017 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Two tribes sought emergency order to stop oil flow while suit plays outDC court ruling means controversial pipeline could start work MondayAn appeals court on Saturday refused a request from two Native American tribes for an “emergency” order that would prevent oil from flowing through Dakota Access pipeline. Related: Native Americans take Dakota Access pipeline protest to WashingtonContinue reading...
  
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• The climate change battle dividing Trump’s America

  18-03-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Climate change denial and energy conspiracy are high on the president’s agenda, but US scientists are fighting backEver since Donald Trump became US president, certain sectors of American society have felt particularly embattled. His statements on Mexicans and Muslims are notorious, but there is another community, less heard about, that has also been sent reeling: scientists.If politics has never been a world that is overly respectful to empirical research, Trump’s victory exploited
  
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• ‘Improvising is what leads to discovery’ | Kitchen encounters

  18-03-2017 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The owner of Otter Farm, Mark Diacono, says we need to make mistakes when cooking. But he won’t be making any this weekend as he takes over Cook’s Instagram account. Follow us: @guardian_cook My kitchen is … big, light and brand new. We recently built our house, so it was the chance to design it from scratch. I never thought I’d go for the modern, clean, German aesthetic, but I did: it’s all horizontal, clean lines with no handles – I’m not a visually f
  
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• Torrey Canyon disaster – the UK's worst-ever oil spill 50 years on

  18-03-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The UK’s biggest ever oil spill in 1967 taught invaluable lessons about the response to disasters, toughened up shipping safety and stirred green activism“I saw this huge ship sailing and I thought he’s in rather close, I hope he knows what he’s doing,” recalled Gladys Perkins of the day 50 years ago, when Britain experienced its worst ever environmental disaster.The ship was the Torrey Canyon, one of the first generation of supertankers, and it was nearing the end
  
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• From the archive: the Torrey Canyon oil spill disaster of 1967

  18-03-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  How the Guardian reported the grounding of the Torrey Canyon supertanker and what was then the world’s worst oil spillOn 18 March 1967, the Torrey Canyon, one of the world’s biggest tankers, ran aground between Land’s End and the Isles of Scilly, leaking more than 100,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea. It was the UK’s worst oil spill to date, causing major environmental damage with more than 20,000 sea birds contaminated. The first Guardian report about the disaster ap
  
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• Did George Orwell shoot an elephant? His 1936 'confession' – and what it might mean

  18-03-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  George Orwell wrote a shocking account of a colonial policeman who kills an elephant and is filled with self-loathing. But was this fiction – or a confession? An Orwell expert introduces the original storyBritish imperialism being a largely commercial concern, when Burma became a part of the empire in 1886 the exploitation of its forests accelerated. Since motorised transport was useless in such hilly terrain, the timber companies used elephants. These docile, intelligent creatures were wo
  
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• Buzz Aldrin launches VR plan to get humans to Mars

  18-03-2017 08:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The second man to set foot on the Moon, launches a virtual reality movie detailing his plan to get humans to Mars.
  
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• A window into the life of the wood

  18-03-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  New Forest To some, fallen timber makes for an untidy forest. There was a time when the woodsmen would have cleared much of it away. Not nowWe’re standing deep into the trees, looking through an oval porthole constructed from the boughs of a toppled oak. The sun is filtering through the still bare canopy to light up the story of this wood. As we look through the window, we are taken into its past, present and future. The brown of autumn’s leaf drop mingles with the emerald-green of m
  
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• It's great news, but sadly, Turnbull's hiding the greens under the mash | Lenore Taylor

  18-03-2017 00:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Huge potential of pumped hydro at Snowy Mountains could pave the way for a 100% renewable energy grid, but don’t tell the prime minister’s colleaguesOnce there was a well-tested system for leaders who wanted to achieve policy change. It wasn’t that complicated really. They thought through the idea and then they advocated it. First to their own party, then to the public and the interest groups directly affected and finally to the pollies whose votes they needed to get it through
  
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