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• Saved: the endangered species back from the brink of extinction

  08-04-2017 21:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Human activity has put wildlife around the world at risk, but many creatures are now thriving thanks to conservationistsThe saiga antelope makes a strange pin-up for the conservation world. With its odd bulbous nose and spindly legs, it is an unlovely looking creature – particularly when compared with wildlife favourites such as the polar bear or panda. But the survival of Saiga tatarica tatarica is important, for it gives hope to biologists and activists who are trying to protect Earth&rs
  
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• Top Bolivian NGO facing eviction - given just days to move archive

  08-04-2017 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Director of CEDIB in Cochabamba says they’re being punished for criticising natural resource exploitation and other government policiesOne of Bolivia’s leading social and environmental organisations has been plunged into crisis after being told it must clear out of its current premises storing millions of records and tens of thousands of books and other publications. The Centro de Documentación e Información Bolivia (CEDIB) runs one of the biggest and most important lib
  
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• 'Inhaling knowledge in the library'

  08-04-2017 15:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists at University College London are working on a project to capture aromas for their historic value.
  
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• North Sea oil is in its death throes. But the industry has one last grand act left | Ian Jack

  08-04-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds of oil rigs will be decommissioned over the coming years, at enormous cost to taxpayers. Why not use British workers and expertise to do it?To witness the beginning or end of a great industry or a way of living isn’t unusual. Each generation has its list of comings and goings – great grandfathers who remember the advent of the motor car, grandmothers who recall the last factory hooter in Accrington, fathers and mothers who can say where and when they last used a typewriter o
  
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• Hotel Armadillo review – Attenborough checks in to an amazing animal AirBnB

  08-04-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  David Attenborough narrates a fascinating detective story about the hunt for the rare armour-plated kittens who hold the key to Brazil’s fragile ecosystemConservationist Arnaud Desbiez worked in the Brazilian Pantanal for eight years before he set eyes on a giant armadillo. On one level this is surprising: a giant armadillo is about the size of a pig. But it’s also rare, solitary and nocturnal, spending up to three-quarters of its life underground. The giant armadillo is considered a
  
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• Coloured skies signal the changing day

  08-04-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  South Uist The plumage of the few birds present seems to be in harmony with the muted colours of the dayThe hail shower begins within seconds of the car coming to a halt. Driven by furious gusts, the ice pellets ping off the roof and rattle against the windscreen, sliding down the glass to obscure the sight of the sand and the sea beyond. Then, departing as swiftly as it arrived, the squall is past, the wind subsiding again to a stiff breeze. Getting out for a walk, which had seemed so unlikely
  
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• Galactic garbage

  08-04-2017 02:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Millions of pieces of man-made trash are orbiting the Earth. Some are tiny, but all pose a risk.
  
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