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• Yellowstone grizzly: Endangered or not?

  23-06-2017 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Yellowstone grizzlies are about to be taken off the endangered species list - after they were first added more than 40 years ago.
  
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• Banks can help to protect world heritage sites | Letters

  23-06-2017 19:47
  
  Chris Gee on how banks lend to companies that have the potential to cause irreversible damage to heritage sitesEven protected Unesco world heritage sites – some of the most incredible places on earth – are threatened by decisions being made by banks (Report, 22 June). Almost half of those listed for their natural values are threatened by harmful industrial practices such as oil and gas exploration and mining. Banks lend to companies that have the potential to cause irreversible damag
  
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• It’s the time for a-changin lyrics | Brief letters

  23-06-2017 19:46
  
  Immigration | Jeremy Corbyn not bowing | Reworked Dylan lyrics | Royal resignations | Racing colours | SwallowsHow to reconcile weak wage growth with low unemployment (Editorial, 23 June)? The answer is a ready supply of cheap migrant labour. Continued dependence on migrants rules out a living wage and ultimately the welfare state.
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  Winterborne Houghton, Dorset• Disgraceful behaviour by the Labour chap, Corbyn (Report, 26 June). Deliberately ignoring the convention that he need n
  
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• Sadiq Khan: Gove must get a grip on 'life and death' air pollution crisis

  23-06-2017 16:00
  
  Mayor of London wants urgent meeting with new environment secretary to press for action on toxic air qualityThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has requested an urgent meeting with the new environment secretary, Michael Gove, to urge him to get a grip on Britain’s “life and death” air pollution crisis.This week, Khan activated the capital’s emergency alert system after experts warned toxic air in the capital had reached dangerous levels. Large parts of southern England and W
  
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• In a world ruled by rumour, it is vital that scientists speak with humility and clarity | Sue Desmond-Hellmann

  23-06-2017 14:29
  
  Facts are the science world’s stock-in-trade, but in an era of fake news it is ever more important to build public trust by avoiding exaggerated claims and jargonOne of my most cherished possessions is a handmade cherrywood salad bowl that’s never held a leaf of lettuce. It is 25 years old and gets more beautiful every year. The bowl was a gift, carved by a widower who was left to raise his daughter alone when his wife died under my care as an oncologist. My patient, who I’ll c
  
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• From heatwaves to hurricanes, floods to famine: seven climate change hotspots

  23-06-2017 13:00
  
  Global warming will not affect everyone equally. Here we look at seven key regions to see how each is tackling the consequences of climate changeIt could have been the edge of the Sahara or even Death Valley, but it was the remains of a large orchard in the hills above the city of Murcia in southern Spain last year. The soil had broken down into fine white, lifeless sand, and a landscape of rock and dying orange and lemon trees stretched into the distance.A long drought, the second in a few year
  
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• Latest diesel car models remain highly polluting, tests show

  23-06-2017 12:33
  
  Six new vehicles including Land Rover and Suzuki are adding to air pollution crisis, despite stricter rules coming in months The latest diesel car models are failing to meet pollution limits when on the road, just three months ahead of stricter new tests, independent tests have found. Results show that none of six new 2017 diesel cars met the EU standard for toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollution in real-world driving. The updated Equa Index, produced by the testing firm Emissions Analytics, show
  
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• Exxon, Stephen Hawking, greens, and Reagan’s advisors agree on a carbon tax | Dana Nuccitelli

  23-06-2017 12:00
  
  Nearly everyone other than science-denying Republican Party leaders understands the importance of a carbon pollution tax
  What do ExxonMobil, Stephen Hawking, the Nature Conservancy, and Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Treasury and Chief of Staff have in common? All have signed on as founding members to the Climate Leadership Council, which has met with the White House to propose a revenue-neutral carbon tax policy.The group started with impeccable conservative credentials, bringing on cabinet
  
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• Melting and cracking – is Antarctica falling apart?

  23-06-2017 11:15
  
  Although fracturing and surface melting on the Larsen C ice shelf might sound like indicators of climate change, these processes are naturalAntarctica boasts a great many superlatives: it is the driest continent, the coldest, the remotest, the windiest and the highest on average. Right now, during midwinter, it is also the darkest. As a rift on the continent’s Larsen C ice shelf lengthens and gets closer to the ice front, we are anticipating the detachment of a large tabular iceberg within
  
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• Splish splashing spinning gorilla

  23-06-2017 11:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Zola has been cooling off in his favourite blue swimming pool at Dallas Zoo.
  
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• Hinkley Point C: watchdog confirms fears of political vanity project | Nils Pratley

  23-06-2017 08:38
  
  NAO report condemns ‘risky and expensive’ nuclear project that went ahead despite the economic case crumblingThe National Audit Office does not use excitable phrases like “utter shambles.” But the spending watchdog’s verdict on Hinkley Point C, the nuclear power plant in Somerset that is supposedly inevitable, amounts to the same thing. The government “has locked consumers into a risky and expensive project with uncertain strategic and economic benefits”
  
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• Blue prints: photography pioneer Anna Atkins's hand-crafted images – in pictures

  23-06-2017 08:00
  
  Victorian botanist Anna Atkins brought nature to life with her striking, modern-looking cyanotypes of seaweed and algae Continue reading...
  
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• The long-jump prize goes to … the froghopper

  23-06-2017 06:30
  
  Fermyn Woods, Northamptonshire Hard to spot, sitting still under a leaf, these bugs on the move are jumping championsAs the morning sun heats the still woodland air the rides fizz with the sounds of flying insects: bumblebees buzz between bramble blossom and clover heads, a myriad of small flies zips through the air, and longhorn beetles whir and clatter around the dog roses. Each species has its own habits and lifecycle that together constitute the intricate web of life in this ancient wood. Co
  
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• Watched chimps change their hunting habits

  23-06-2017 03:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wild chimpanzees have changed their hunting strategies in response to being watched and followed by scientists, observations suggest.
  
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• Finding Neemo: Nasa goes from the bottom of the ocean to outer space | Andrea Boyd

  23-06-2017 03:26
  
  Nasa astronauts-aquanauts have made a temporary underwater home to prepare for future missions. An Aussie space engineer is part of the team On Sunday a group of six astronauts, engineers and scientists submerged 19 metres to the bottom of an Atlantic Ocean reef to live underwater for Nasa’s extreme environment mission operations (Neemo) expedition. Living underwater has very similar dangers and parallels to living in a spacecraft: closed-loop life support, pressurised habitat with incredi
  
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• How the presence of humans can affect chimp hunting habits

  23-06-2017 03:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two chimp 'tribes' have developed different hunting habits in response to human presence.
  
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• Future of energy on show in Kazakhstan

  23-06-2017 01:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kazakhstan's Expo 2017 provides a taste of what could be the future of greener and renewable energy.
  
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• Spending watchdog condemns 'risky and expensive' Hinkley Point

  23-06-2017 01:01
  
  Damning report says nuclear project is bad for UK consumers and governments failed to assess alternative finance models Generations of British consumers have been locked into a “risky and expensive” project by the UK’s subsidy deal for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, according to a damning report by the spending watchdog.The National Audit Office said the contract sealed by ministers last September with EDF to construct the country’s first new at
  
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• Official view on Hinkley Point C? Nuclear power scheme is risky and expensive

  23-06-2017 01:01
  
  Audit office’s 80-page report concludes that Britons have been sold a white elephant - and a badly costed one at thatThe National Audit Office does not use excitable phrases like “utter shambles.” But the spending watchdog’s verdict on Hinkley Point C, the nuclear power plant in Somerset that is supposedly inevitable, amounts to the same thing. The government “has locked consumers into a risky and expensive project with uncertain strategic and economic benefits&rdqu
  
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