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• 'The back of her leg was missing': woman bitten by shark in California

  30-04-2017 23:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Attack experts say likely involved a great white or seven-gill shark would have been life-threatening if immediate care had not been available, witness saysA shark attacked a woman wading in the ocean with friends, tearing away part of her upper thigh in the ocean off a popular southern California beach, authorities and witnesses said on Sunday.Related: Orca pod filmed hunting whale calf in 'unprecedented' California killing spreeContinue reading...
  
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• Woods alive to the sound and throb of spring: Country diary 100 years ago

  30-04-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 1 May 1917April 30
  All weekend, from dawn to dusk, the chiff-chaff throbbed in the trees, its small body jerking with each emphatic note; everywhere in the Delamere woods I heard the cheerful music of the willow wrens, which, a friend told me, reached here in numbers on the night of the 25th-26th, though he heard several at Marbury on Wednesday. Yesterday I heard a cuckoo before I was up, and it was calling at Bowdon on the previous day; the cor
  
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• Shark attack injures woman at popular southern California beach

  30-04-2017 21:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Witness says ‘all of the back of her leg was kind of missing’ after attack that experts say likely involved a great white or seven-gill sharkA shark attacked a woman wading in the ocean with friends, tearing away part of her upper thigh in the ocean off a popular southern California beach, authorities and witnesses said on Sunday.The attack occurred on Saturday near San Onofre State Beach in northern San Diego County.Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on defending science: the battleground is culture | Editorial

  30-04-2017 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  It is not enough for scientists to be right. They must also be politically adeptThe Wellcome Trust is not making any kind of threat. That would be vulgar. The trust is a unique institution that has helped to fund almost every worthwhile piece of scientific research in the UK over the last 20 years. Without its annual £1bn investment in research, nearly all of which is spent in the UK, there would be very little world-class science in this country. Its open letter to the leaders of all poli
  
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• Powerhouse: the startup making solar the most accessible energy in the world

  30-04-2017 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s one of the only incubators focused on solar companies – but Powerhouse is part of a larger movement to nurture new companies in the low-carbon futureIt started with a crowdfunding startup, an investment from Prince, and the idea to help new solar companies tackle business challenges that can be hard to overcome on their own.Now, four years later, the idea has morphed into a group called Powerhouse, and notably, in a world flush with tech startups, it’s one of the only incu
  
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• As wind, wave and shale power converge, could this be the end for Opec?

  30-04-2017 07:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The oil cartel is maintaining price discipline for now. But a concatenation of global circumstances could destroy its power to control the marketWhen the major oil-producing countries meet in a month’s time at a Vienna hotel, they are expected to extend the production cap that has pushed up the price of oil in recent months.The agreement in December by Opec and Russia to curb production for the first half of 2017 has driven oil prices up near $55 a barrel, offering some respite for an indu
  
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• Trump says Paris climate agreement is 'one-sided' deal – video

  30-04-2017 05:05 via theguardian.com
  
  US president criticises deal where ‘the United States pays billions of dollars while China, Russia, and India ... will contribute nothing’. His comments came as thousands of people across the US marched in rain, snow and sweltering heat to demand action on climate change — mass protests that took aim at his agenda for rolling back environmental protections. Continue reading...
  
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• Household food waste level 'unacceptable'

  30-04-2017 05:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Changing rules on best before dates and the sale of "wonky vegetables" could help cut waste, MPs say.
  
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• People's Climate March: thousands rally to denounce Trump's environmental agenda

  30-04-2017 02:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds of marches held around the US including in Washington DC, Seattle, Boston and San FranciscoThousands of people across the US have marched in rain, snow and sweltering heat to demand action on climate change mass protests that coincided with president Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and took aim at his agenda for rolling back environmental protections.A sea of protesters taking part in the People’s Climate March swarmed in front of the White House to demand Trump rethink p
  
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• Thousands march across US to demand action on climate change – video

  30-04-2017 02:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Mass protests in Washington, San Francisco, Denver and Seattle coincide with Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and take aim at his rolling back of environmental protections. Organisers said about 300 sister marches were being held around the country, including in Seattle, Boston and San Francisco. In Chicago, marchers headed from the city’s federal plaza to Trump Tower. In Denver, marchers were met with a dose of spring snow Continue reading...
  
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• Shops urged to help cut £10bn food waste cost

  30-04-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  
  End confusing ‘best before’ labels, says reportSupermarket “best before” labels could be phased out while shops should be forced to sell oddly shaped vegetables under proposals from MPs who have warned the government it needs to do more to tackle food waste.More than £10bn worth of food is thrown away by households each year, according to a damning report from the environment, food and rural affairs select committee. Continue reading...
  
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• Nespresso bid to recycle coffee pods

  30-04-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Nestlé bows to environmental backlash over popular home brewing systemCoffee company Nespresso – part of Swiss multinational Nestlé – is to trial a scheme for consumers to recycle their used aluminium capsules for the first time in the UK, in the face of a growing environmental backlash against increasingly popular single-serve pods, many of which end up in landfill.A six-month pilot, starting this week in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, will allow Nespres
  
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• Let’s celebrate Britain’s natural lifelines | Hugh Warwick

  30-04-2017 01:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Roads and railways don’t always blight landscapes – they are also vital havens for wildlifeThe next time you are on a train take a moment to look out of the window. As you trundle along the line consider all the other lines you can see – roads, canals, power lines; and (once you’re out of the city) hedges, ditches, dykes and drystone walls.It is one of the defining features of humanity that we love lines. So significant is our love that we have created a “linescape&
  
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