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• Red Admiral spotting: desperately seeking a British butterfly revival

  05-08-2017 21:34 via theguardian.com
  It was a damp day on Denbies Hillside in the North Downs, but is the outlook now better for the insect?By any standards, it was a poor day to count butterflies. Denbies Hillside, on the south-facing flank of the North Downs – supposedly a summer haven for lepidopterists – was swept by wind and heavy showers. Butterflies, like humans, take a poor view of such conditions and had made themselves scarce.Such are the discomforts of involvement in the Big Butterfly Count. The national surv
  
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• Extreme weather 'could kill up to 152,000 a year' in Europe by 2100

  05-08-2017 10:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Weather-related deaths could surge by 2100 if nothing is done to curb climate change, scientists say.
  
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• RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR by Philip Hoare review – a love of the sea

  05-08-2017 10:01 via theguardian.com
  In the third of a remarkable trilogy, Hoare tells stories of people and water, from Sylvia Plath’s love of the Atlantic to submariners trapped in an air pocketA storm sends waves as tall as houses rushing up a beach near Southampton. They breach the sea wall, pushing aside blocks of stone. Spray reaches the tops of trees. Philip Hoare, faced with flying shingle and a wall of water, decides after some consideration not to take his morning swim. But the following day he is out in the water a
  
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• Rock, water, sky and solitude in Snowdonia

  05-08-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Talsarnau, Gwynedd Not another person was visible in this elemental landscape. But there was activity on the waters of Llyn y DywarchenBeyond the water-lily lake of Llyn Tecwyn Isaf, in Snowdonia national park, the farm road zigzags steeply to Caerwych, from whence a splashy path slips round beneath Y Gyrn to climb into a region of marshy flats where bog asphodel and creeping spearwort flower. Recent waymarking lures you on through terrain problematical in mist to the bronze age trackway.A short
  
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• Extreme weather 'could kill up to 100,000 a year' in Europe by 2100

  05-08-2017 05:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Weather-related deaths will spike by 2100 if nothing is done to curb climate change, scientists say.
  
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• Brexit could leave Britain with a bare larder, farmers warn

  05-08-2017 01:01 via theguardian.com
  NFU says UK produces only 60% of its own food and must increase production to avoid food insecurity after leaving EUBritain must increase home-grown food production and build stronger supply chains to face Brexit uncertainties, the National Farmers Union has said.In an annual calculation to draw attention to the UK’s decline in food self-sufficiency, the NFU said the national larder would be bare this Sunday if Britain opted for a cliff-edge departure from Europe and imports became unavail
  
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• Extreme weather deaths in Europe 'could increase 50-fold by next century'

  05-08-2017 00:30 via theguardian.com
  If no action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or protect citizens, weather disasters could kill 152,000 a year between 2071 and 2100, says studyDeaths from weather disasters could increase 50-fold in Europe by the start of the next century if no action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or protect citizens, researchers have warned.A new study estimates a toll of 152,000 deaths a year between 2071 and 2100 as a direct result of hazards relating to extreme weather, with those l
  
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• U.S. EPA Releasing Smog Rule

  05-08-2017 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Faced with a lawsuit by 15 states, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week it would no longer delay the implementation of a rule requiring states to reduce emissions of smog-creating air pollution. Crafted by the Obama administration in 2015, the regulation calls for states to begin meeting stricter ozone standards as of October 1, 2017, lowering the air pollution limit from 0.075 parts per million to 0.070 ppm.  Ground-level ozone, or smog, is created when polluta
  
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