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• Across Dartmoor on horseback: Coutry diary 50 years ago

  11-06-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Originally published in the Guardian on 17 June 1967DARTMOOR: The best way to see the country of the high moorland is, I am now convinced, from horseback. A docile eight-year-old mare carried me for three hours over Holne Moor and along the thickly wooded valley of the Dart and provided a morning of great delight. Early in the ride, descending from the moor to the river valley, we started a buzzard from the heather. The bird rose into the air and crossed the valley in gracious soaring and glidin
  
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• Across Dartmoor on horseback: Country diary 50 years ago

  11-06-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Originally published in the Guardian on 17 June 1967DARTMOOR: The best way to see the country of the high moorland is, I am now convinced, from horseback. A docile eight-year-old mare carried me for three hours over Holne Moor and along the thickly wooded valley of the Dart and provided a morning of great delight. Early in the ride, descending from the moor to the river valley, we started a buzzard from the heather. The bird rose into the air and crossed the valley in gracious soaring and glidin
  
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• With particles, size really matters

  11-06-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Engineers call them nano-particles, and close to congested roads and busy airports, we inhale them in astonishing numbersIn 1996, the Scottish scientist Anthony Seaton put forward a new theory about the health problems from modern air pollution. Throughout our evolution, we have always lived with dusts, but Seaton suggested that the problems from modern air pollution were due to the sheer number of tiny pollution particles that we are now exposed to.Related: Time for the oil industry to snuff ou
  
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• Cities should be studied as evolutionary hotspots, says biologist

  11-06-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Animals and birds evolve more quickly in urban environments than in remote habitats, Cheltenham science festival is told Foxes loitering around rubbish bins and pigeons roosting in train stations: urban animals are widely regarded as the dregs of the natural world.However, according to biologist Simon Watt, cities represent some of the world’s hotspots for evolution and behavioural adaptation. Speaking at the Cheltenham science festival, Watt, who is founder of the Ugly Animal Preservation
  
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• Flash mob: the World Naked Bike Ride comes to London – in pictures

  11-06-2017 12:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds stripped off as the World Naked Bike Ride hit London this weekend, aimed at encouraging a ‘vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world’Join us for Guardian Cities cycle week from Monday as we explore the good and bad of urban cycling around the worldContinue reading...
  
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• Naomi Klein: ‘Trump is an idiot, but don’t underestimate how good he is at that’

  11-06-2017 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The US has a president who embodies many of the things Naomi Klein has been warning about for years. She says her new book had to be written before things got worseThe fact that Naomi Klein predicted the forces that explain the rise to power of Donald Trump gives her no pleasure at all. It is 17 years since Klein, then aged 30, published her first book, No Logo – a seductive rage against the branding of public life by globalising corporations – and made herself, in the words of the N
  
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• Rio Tinto bidding war: Glencore offers US$100m more for Australian coalmines

  11-06-2017 08:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Miner initially said it was selling Coal & Allied to Yancoal, which is majority controlled by China’s Yanzhou CoalA multibillion-dollar bidding war for most of Rio Tinto’s Australian coalmines has broken out between China-backed Yancoal and Glencore after the Swiss commodities company made an unexpected offer.Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest miner, is exiting coalmining in Australia at a time of falling prices and market volatility. Continue reading...
  
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• The eco guide to prison labour

  11-06-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The world’s biggest companies, from Starbucks to Victoria’s Secret, use prisoners to work on their products. Is it helpful work experience or sheer exploitation?We are all, at heart, ethical consumers. I’ve never met anyone actively looking for a dose of slave labour with their teabags, window frames or underwear.71% of companies surveyed in 2015 believed their supply chains might contain some form of slavery Continue reading...
  
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• Josh Frydenberg says he's trying to convince Coalition MPs to support clean energy target

  11-06-2017 03:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Minister argues Alan Finkel’s recommendations won’t punish existing coal-fired power stations nor rule out new onesThe federal energy minister is working to convince all his Coalition colleagues of the merits of a proposed clean energy target as several publicly raise concerns about its impact on coal.Josh Frydenberg is at pains to point out the recommendations from chief scientist Alan Finkel’s review of electricity market security would neither punish existing coal-fired powe
  
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