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• EPA wipes its climate change site as protesters march in Washington

  29-04-2017 22:27
  
  Website ‘undergoing changes’ to reflect agency’s ‘new direction’, as tens of thousands protest inaction on climate in cities across the US
  The US Environmental Protection Agency’s main climate change website is “undergoing changes” to better reflect “the agency’s new direction” under Donald Trump.Related: The American people – not Big Oil – must decide our climate future | Senator Bernie Sanders and Mark Jaco
  
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• EPA wipes its climate change site day before march on Washington

  29-04-2017 19:42
  
  Visitors to the website on Saturday found it was ‘undergoing changes’ to reflect the agency’s ‘new direction’, as thousands protest climate inaction
  The US Environmental Protection Agency’s main climate change website is “undergoing changes” to better reflect “the agency’s new direction” under Donald Trump.Related: The American people – not Big Oil – must decide our climate future | Senator Bernie Sanders and
  
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• Last-ditch attempt to save the endangered vaquita porpoise

  29-04-2017 19:16
  
  $4m mission in Gulf of California aims to rescue world’s most endangered sea mammal – with help from US navy dolphinsScientists are finalising plans to make a last-ditch attempt to save the world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise. They believe there are now fewer than 30 of these distinctive cetaceans left in the Gulf of California. Only by catching the remaining creatures and protecting them in a sanctuary can the vaquita be saved, it is argued. Continue re
  
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• Yes, I am a climate alarmist. Global warming is a crime against humanity | Lawrence Torcello

  29-04-2017 16:51
  
  There can be no greater crime against humanity than the destruction of conditions that make human life possible Most of us have wondered about the human context of past crimes against humanity: why didn’t more people intervene? How could so many pretend not to know? To be sure, crimes against humanity are not always easy to identify while they unfold. We need some time to reflect and to analyze, even when our reasoning suggests that large scale human suffering and death are likely imminent
  
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• The American people – not Big Oil – must decide our climate future | Senator Bernie Sanders and Mark Jacobson

  29-04-2017 12:00
  
  We must aggressively transition our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward clean, renewable energy solutions. And we need to do so now The debate facing our world today is not whether we need to address climate change. That debate is far, far behind us. The issue is how to address climate change – as quickly and effectively as possible.
  Virtually the entire scientific community – more than 99% of peer-reviewed studies – has concluded that climate change is real. It is
  
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• NY Times hired a hippie puncher to give climate obstructionists cover | Dana Nuccitelli

  29-04-2017 12:00
  
  Bret Stephens’ first piece for the Times showed exactly why some climate realists are canceling their subscriptionsYesterday, New York Times subscribers were treated to an email alert announcing the first opinion column from Bret Stephens, who they hired away from the Wall Street Journal. Like all Journal opinion columnists who write about climate change, Stephens has said a lot of things on the subject that could charitably be described as ignorant and wrong. Thus many Times subscribers v
  
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• NY Times hired a hippie puncher to give climate obstructionists cover

  29-04-2017 12:00
  
  Bret Stephens’ first piece for the Times showed exactly why some climate realists are canceling their subscriptionsYesterday, New York Times subscribers were treated to an email alert announcing the first opinion column from Bret Stephens, who they hired away from the Wall Street Journal. Like all Journal opinion columnists who write about climate change, Stephens has said a lot of things on the subject that could charitably be described as ignorant and wrong. Thus many Times subscribers v
  
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• Refugee guests are given hands-on experience of a shepherd's work

  29-04-2017 06:30
  
  Ribblehead, Yorkshire Dales Willing helpers hold the week-old lambs until Rodney is ready to dock their tailsPliers and rubber rings, a tub of aquamarine dye, plastic ID ear tags … Rodney Beresford lays out the tools of his trade on a flat-topped boulder. It’s lambing time, and he is here in the sheepfold to dock tails and castrate the days-old males.
  For once the shepherd is not alone, however. For 10 years Rodney has been offering refugees and asylum seekers “a day out to re
  
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• Humpback whales charge a pod of killer whales in Monterey Bay – video

  29-04-2017 02:56
  
  Humpback whales charge orcas in an ‘altruistic’ behavior that pushes the predators away from their favorite prey: seals, dolphins, sea lions and young whales. A pod of nine orcas have killed four grey whales in seven days in the bay Continue reading...
  
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• Orca pod filmed hunting whale calf in 'unprecedented' California killing spree

  29-04-2017 01:33
  
  A group of killer whales in Monterey Bay killed four gray whales in a week, a phenomenon one researcher hasn’t seen in her 30-year career In an “unprecedented” rash of attacks, a pod of killer whales in Monterey Bay, California, has killed four gray whales in a week, including a calf whose killing was captured on video, according to one marine biologist.Related: An extraordinary battle between sperm whales and orcas – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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• Mood black as community rakes over Hume Coal's mine plan

  29-04-2017 01:20
  
  Southern highlands landholders unite to battle proposal that would threaten the bore water they rely on• Support our independent journalism by giving a one-off or monthly contributionThe sun has not long disappeared below the rolling hills of the highlands when the locals begin to muster. There are angry mutterings and shaking of heads among the 50-odd filling the old village hall in Exeter, two hours south of Sydney.Continue reading...
  
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• Trump executive order aims to allow Arctic drilling

  29-04-2017 00:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US president said he hoped the new order would create "thousands and thousands" of jobs.
  
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