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• How high is air pollution in your city and how does it compare to the most polluted cities in the world?

  21-08-2017 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pollution is a greater global threat than Ebola and HIV, according to warnings by the World Health Organisation. According to its recent report, one in four deaths among children aged under five are now due to environmental hazards such as air pollution and contaminated water.Previously this year, air pollution levels in London were worse than those in Beijing for a brief period - with the UK capital's pollutants frequently breaking UK limits. 
  
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• Solar eclipse: See it in 60 seconds

  21-08-2017 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  A Nasa telescope captures the total solar eclipse as it passes over the western US state of Oregon.
  
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• Solar eclipse 2017: Americans gaze at sky spectacular

  21-08-2017 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Skywatchers in the US are treated to a spectacular coast-to-coast eclipse.
  
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• Solar eclipse: Watch it happen

  21-08-2017 19:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The US witnesses the spectacular effects of its first coast-to-coast solar eclipse in 100 years.
  
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• Moss may prove cheap city pollution monitor, study finds

  21-08-2017 19:23 via theguardian.com
  Common moss changes shape in areas of high nitrogen pollution and drought and has potential to be big bioindicator, say scientistsDelicate mosses found on rocks and trees in cities around the world can be used to measure the impact of atmospheric change and could prove a low-cost way to monitor urban pollution, according to Japanese scientists.Moss, a “bioindicator”, responds to pollution or drought-stress by changing shape, density or by disappearing, allowing scientists to calculat
  
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• 'Thick, black tarry stuff flowed down our stream': how slurry spills affect the land

  21-08-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  The Whittemores were hoping for an ‘idylllic lifestyle’ farming in Sussex. Instead, noxious byproducts from a biogas farm poisoned their land Lynda and Richard Whittemore bought Quennells farm in the quiet Sussex countryside six years ago. They were hoping for what Lynda calls “an idyllic lifestyle”, tending their flock of 400 pedigree sheep and 45 cattle on 180 acres of farmland. “We have an undulating field at the back of the stream, winding to the other corner,&r
  
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• Subsidised farm causes acres of damage to Sussex countryside

  21-08-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Noxious byproducts from slurry spill at Crouchland biogas farm poisoned neighbouring land and animalsLynda and Richard Whittemore bought Quennells farm in the quiet Sussex countryside six years ago. They were hoping for what Lynda calls “an idyllic lifestyle”, tending their flock of 400 pedigree sheep and 45 cattle on 180 acres of farmland. “We have an undulating field at the back of the stream, winding to the other corner,” Lynda says. “Usually it has lovely clear
  
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• The World Eyes Yet Another Unconventional Source of Fossil Fuels

  21-08-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In May of this year, China claimed a breakthrough in tapping an obscure fossil fuel resource: Researchers there managed to suck a steady flow of methane gas out of frozen mud on the seafloor. That same month, Japan did the same. And in the United States, researchers pulled a core of muddy, methane-soaked ice from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.The idea of exploiting this quirky fuel source would have been considered madness a couple of decades ago — both wildly expensive and dangerous. U
  
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• Serious farm pollution breaches rise in UK – and many go unprosecuted

  21-08-2017 15:01 via theguardian.com
  Environment Agency figures show severe incidents are weekly occurrence as farms struggle with cost of pollution prevention despite subsidiesSerious pollution incidents in the UK from dairy, poultry and pig farms are now a weekly occurrence, leading to damage to wildlife, fish, farm livestock and air and water pollution.The Environment Agency in England and its devolved counterparts in Wales and Scotland recorded 536 of the most severe incidents between 2010 and 2016, the worst instances among mo
  
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• A carpet of tomatoes and dew-covered cobwebs: today's unmissable photos

  21-08-2017 14:19 via theguardian.com
  A selection of the day’s best images, including a tomato harvest drying in China, multicoloured saris on the streets of New York and cobwebs reminding us of the impending autumn in Herefordshire, England Continue reading...
  
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• RRS Sir David Attenborough's stern on the move

  21-08-2017 11:58 via bbc.co.uk
  A section of the UK's new polar research ship will get an early taste of the sea this week.
  
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• Stop treating science denial like a disease

  21-08-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Turning the rejection of scientific expertise into a pathology mistakenly presents individual ignorance as the bottleneck in political disagreements
  The elevation of science to a central theme in American politics is an extraordinary development in the co-evolution of science and society. Three months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, 40,000 or so people turned out in the rain in Washington, DC for the March for Science, with similar numbers in other cities. Given Trump’s all-out at
  
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• Eclipse spectacle set to grip US public

  21-08-2017 07:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Skywatchers in the US prepare for an event that is without precedent in the country's 241-year history.
  
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• Hide and seek with reptiles and other riverside creatures

  21-08-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Airedale, West Yorkshire Under one board are two young lizards, one buff, one a dramatic charcoal-grey; under another a dark-green frogIt’s all gone a bit quiet down by the river. The breeding season has petered out, and by and large the birds have retired from public life: to moult, to regrow, to regroup. It’s a drab, warm morning. One of the kingfishers hunches over the streaming shallows. A young bullfinch mopes in the low branches of an ash. Damp late-summer greenery – fern
  
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