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• Imported bees 'threat' to native species

  01-04-2017 12:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A leading biologist says Scotland's native honey bees are being threatened by imports brought in because of the hobby's growing popularity.
  
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• Salmon farming in crisis: 'We are seeing a chemical arms race in the seas'

  01-04-2017 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Rare only 40 years ago, farmed salmon is now taken for granted in our kitchens. But the growth of the industry has come at great costEvery day, salmon farmers across the world walk into steel cages – in the seas off Scotland or Norway or Iceland – and throw in food. Lots of food; they must feed tens of thousands of fish before the day is over. They must also check if there are problems, and there is one particular problem they are coming across more and more often. Six months ago, I
  
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• A natural history GCSE? It might help get our children outdoors | Michael McCarthy

  01-04-2017 10:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The experts agree: children are too enclosed. Lessons about Britain’s flora and fauna could be the answerIt is now 12 years since the American author Richard Louv pointed out that something new and potentially very damaging was happening to children: they were retreating from the world of outside. Young people were no longer playing in the fields, woods and parks where their parents played, and they were losing contact with nature: for their leisure time, they were retreating back inside t
  
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• The ridiculous story of airline food and why so much ends up in landfill

  01-04-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Airlines generated 5.2m tonnes of waste in 2016, most of which went to landfill or incineration – and it cost them £400mYou probably know about the waste problem in our oceans. But how about the one in our skies?Airline passengers generated 5.2m tonnes of waste in 2016, most of which went to landfill or incineration, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates. That’s the weight of about 2.6m cars. And it’s a figure set to double over the next 15 years. C
  
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• A glorious presence suddenly surfaces – a drake goosander

  01-04-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Llanfairfechan, Gwynedd In their usual river habitat, these magnificent, large, hole-nesting ducks are shy and rightly soTraeth Lafan’s wide expanse of sand is a landscape that draws you in, like the Elenydd moors or the high Arctic, through its abstraction. Nothing’s solid here; all’s sketched and coloured in shifting tones of water and light. Even history has become ambiguous, uncertain. These are drowned lands, their legends tide-steeped, wind-honed. I come here for the bird
  
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• Open for business: England launches world's largest water retail market

  01-04-2017 02:20
  
  The water retail market for England's non-domestic water customers is now officially open for business, with company's across the country able to grasp a portion of an expected £200m economic boost that the opening is expected to bring.
  
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• Need for transparency as 'slush fund' allegations get bandied about | Lenore Taylor

  01-04-2017 01:13 via theguardian.com
  
  If the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility hasn’t got a risk policy yet, how can it be considering a $1bn loan for the Adani project?We don’t yet know whether the $5bn Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) will be – as was alleged in parliament this week – a “slush fund” used to pursue the government’s “pro-coal agenda”.
  But we do know some government ministers are absolutely determined to promote coal mining and generation
  
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