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• In praise of limestone: Country diary 50 years ago

  20-08-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Originally published in the Guardian on 21 August 1967LAKE DISTRICT: If you live in the Lake District it is a good thing sometimes to get away from the wet, almost steamy valleys – so overgrown in August – to the hard, colourless limestone scars which edge its southern limits. “Colourless,” is not quite a fair description because up on the tops of the ridges where the bare limestone breaks through and only hazel and yew really thrive, there are paths bordered with pink ce
  
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• The sweet song of goldfinch success

  20-08-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  Goldfinches are common in our gardens nowadays. But there is something special about watching them in a wild settingThe tinkling sound is familiar now; as familiar as the chirp of sparrows used to be when I was growing up. In those days, the goldfinch was a special sight: one would occasionally visit our suburban garden, delighting us with its colourful plumage. I can still remember seeing for the first time the bird’s crimson face-patch and – when it flew – a sudden flash of g
  
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• Trump's decision to allow plastic bottle sales in national parks slammed

  20-08-2017 21:25 via theguardian.com
  Reversal of ban shows ‘corporate agenda is king and people and environment are left behind’, say campaignersThe Trump administration’s decision to reverse a ban on the sale of plastic water bottles in some of America’s most famous national parks, such as the Grand Canyon shows “the corporate agenda is king and people and the environment are left behind”, campaigners have said.Related: Day of doom for national monuments is approachingContinue reading...
  
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• Trump's decision to allow plastic bottle sales in national parks condemned

  20-08-2017 21:25 via theguardian.com
  Reversal of ban shows ‘corporate agenda is king and people and environment are left behind’, say campaignersThe Trump administration’s decision to reverse a ban on the sale of plastic water bottles in some of America’s most famous national parks, including the Grand Canyon, shows “the corporate agenda is king and people and the environment are left behind”, campaigners have said.Related: Day of doom for national monuments is approachingContinue reading...
  
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• Trump's day of doom for national monuments approaches

  20-08-2017 19:13 via theguardian.com
  Created by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the Cascade-Siskiyou monument protects Oregon’s extraordinary biodiversity, from butterflies to trout. But a Trump review threatens to open the landscape to the timber industryDave Willis, a grizzled woodsmen and backcountry outfitter, has spent decades laboring to protect the mountains of southwestern Oregon, one of the most beautiful, biodiverse regions in the country.Through grassroots activism, Willis and his conservationist allies have won the
  
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• Day of doom for national monuments is approaching

  20-08-2017 19:13 via theguardian.com
  Created by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the Cascade-Siskiyou monument protects Oregon’s extraordinary biodiversity, from butterflies to trout. But a Trump review threatens to open the landscape to the timber industryDave Willis, a grizzled woodsmen and backcountry outfitter, has spent decades laboring to protect the mountains of southwestern Oregon, one of the most beautiful, biodiverse regions in the country.Through grassroots activism, Willis and his conservationist allies have won the
  
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• The winners and losers of Mexico's wind power boom

  20-08-2017 12:23 via bbc.co.uk
  In 'windy' La Ventosa, a village 700km from Mexico City, residents are renting out their land for wind farms.
  
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• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power review – another climate change lesson from Al Gore

  20-08-2017 08:59 via theguardian.com
  A necessary essay from the sharp end of the global warming crisisDavis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth (2006) was an effective consciousness-raising exercise, focusing on Al Gore’s “slide shows”, as he calls them, on the reality of climate change. Eleven years on, the sequel brings home the intensification of the crisis: needless to say, as the film’s timeline approaches the present, the spectre of Trump looms like an iceberg on a foggy Arctic night. As Gore visi
  
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• The eco guide to Electric Vehicle hype

  20-08-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Don’t get spooked by the pro-fossil fuel lobby: when we abandon petrol and diesel, our whole world is going to changeWhen it comes to cars, I had a bit of luck this summer. No, I wasn’t loaned the new Tesla Model 3. My street underwent a pavement improvement scheme. All the parking bays were suspended and minicabs no longer idled their engines during the night. I found myself living in an accidental Low Emissions Zone. It was wonderful.The best I can say about the anti-EV campaign is
  
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• How to watch a total solar eclipse: Tips from the Faroe Islands

  20-08-2017 04:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Ahead of Monday's eclipse in the US, here are four tips from the Faroe Islands, which experienced one in 2015.
  
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• How to watch a total solar eclipse

  20-08-2017 04:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Ahead of Monday's eclipse in the US, here are four tips from the Faroe Islands, which experienced one in 2015.
  
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• National Trust rebels call vote to ban hunting with hounds from estates

  20-08-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  Ranulph Fiennes leads charge against ‘despicable’ trail hunts, as 50 members endorse a motion to revoke all licencesAll hunting with hounds on National Trust land could be banned in an unprecedented vote this autumn.Trail hunting – in which hounds and riders follow a scent that was laid earlier – is still allowed on trust estates but has long been regarded by animal rights campaigners as a means of circumventing the hunting ban. Now 50 trust members, including the explore
  
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• Britain’s seabird colonies face catastrophe as warming waters disrupt their food supply

  20-08-2017 01:04 via theguardian.com
  Populations of gannets, puffins and other marine birds are in freefall, but a crucial scientific study to pinpoint the causes is being blocked, say expertsBempton Cliffs bird reserve was in fine fettle last week. The last of its population of puffins had departed for the winter a few weeks earlier, while its thousands of young gannets were still being cared for by their parents on the chalk cliffs of the East Yorkshire nature site. For good measure, kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars were also b
  
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