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• The latest threat to Antarctica: an insect and plant invasion

  17-06-2017 22:54
  
  Rise in tourism and warmer climate bring house flies – and the growth of mosses in which they can liveAntarctica’s pristine ice-white environment is going green and facing an unexpected threat – from the common house fly. Scientists say that as temperatures soar in the polar region, invading plants and insects, including the fly, pose a major conservation threat.More and more of these invaders, in the form of larvae or seeds, are surviving in coastal areas around the south pole
  
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• Record levels of green energy in UK create strange new world for generators

  17-06-2017 17:43
  
  As renewables play a greater role in the British market, they are making the price of power increasingly unstableAs the sun shone on millions of solar panels and unseasonable gusts turned thousands of turbine blades last Sunday, something remarkable happened to Britain’s power grid. For a brief period, a record 70% of the electricity for the UK’s homes and businesses was low-carbon, as nuclear, solar and wind crowded out coal and even gas power stations. That afternoon was a glimpse
  
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• Should you join the charge and buy an electric car?

  17-06-2017 08:00
  
  Green motoring is becoming financially attractive thanks to a drop in leasing prices and lower running costsIs now the time to buy an electric car? Falls in financing costs mean that switching to a zero carbon-emitting vehicle won’t just help the environment, it can be cheaper than buying and running a conventional car.When Guardian Money last looked at electric cars, the price premium for most models meant they made most financial sense to central London drivers keen to avoid the £1
  
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• Tranquil moments where the forest meets the sea

  17-06-2017 06:30
  
  New Forest South Only on private land can we experience a sense of remoteness that was once commonplace hereSmall heath butterflies flirt among the delicate pink flowers of sea-spurrey. A solitary meadow brown flashes past, wind-driven and quickly lost against the muddy crust of dried-out estuarine pools. There’s bright blue sky overhead, but the spinnaker-ballooning yachts out in the Solent lean over on a choppy white-tipped sea. Oystercatchers hunker down in the gulleys above which three
  
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• My 25-year project to photograph the world's animals

  17-06-2017 01:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wildlife photographer Joel Sartore has photographed more than 6,000 contained species so far. He explains why.
  
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• Voyage to the sea floor: expedition returns with fascinating finds

  17-06-2017 01:38
  
  Museum Victoria collects gelatinous fish, spiny crabs, scarlet sea-spiders, nightmarish cookie cutter sharks and plenty of rubbish• Gallery: Deep sea discoveries: sea pigs, a dumbo octopus and glow-in-the-dark sharksThere’s no sunlight four kilometres below the waves but there is light.
  It comes from a sea cucumber that emits a faint glow from its sticky skin, attracting fish and crabs that try to take bites out of its side. The skin is both a lure and a trap, marking incautious preda
  
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• Deep sea discoveries: sea pigs, a dumbo octopus and glow-in-the-dark sharks

  17-06-2017 01:36
  
  Images of bizarre deep sea creatures found in May and June by the research ship Investigator as it travelled along the Australian coastline to the Coral Sea. The scientists aboard the ship mapped the sea floor to a depth of 4,000 metres and collected more than 1,000 different marine species, about a third of which were new to science and half of which showed some kind of bioluminescent quality• Voyage to the sea floor: expedition returns with fascinating finds Continue reading...
  
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• How Australia's climate policies came to be poisoned by pragmatism

  17-06-2017 00:57
  
  A history of failure has left Australia with virtually no genuinely independent advice on climate changeIt might seem a million miles from the climate policy debate of today but Australia’s decade-long climate wars arguably began with perfect being the enemy of good.On at least three occasions, the chance for Australia to have relatively strong emissions policies were squandered, leaving many people in politics, industry and the environmental movement today wishing that something weaker &n
  
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