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• Patagonia joins forces with activists to protect public lands from Trump

  26-08-2017 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Native Americans and environmental advocates get help from outdoor retailers as they battle proposal to change monuments’ boundariesEnvironmental activists, Native American groups and a coalition of outdoor retailers have vowed to redouble their efforts to protect public lands, after the US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, recommended on Thursday that Donald Trump change the boundaries of a “handful” of national monuments. Related: US public lands: Trump official recommends shri
  
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• Bat conservation is open to everyone, even city nature-phobes

  26-08-2017 08:06 via theguardian.com
  It’s International Bat Weekend, an annual celebration of the flying mammals that live in trees or in the crevices of buildingsCharlie Hearst is a National Bat Monitoring Programme volunteer and member of the London Bat GroupIt’s getting dark. Thunderstorms are forecast and I’m loitering around a park in Croydon past closing hours, waiting to meet a total stranger. Alarm bells should be ringing if it weren’t for our shared interest: bats. This isn’t an eccentric date
  
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• 'Wow, no cow': the Swedish farmer using oats to make milk

  26-08-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Swedish drinks company helps farmer shift away from livestock farming and cut climate impact with his own oat milk brandAdam Arnesson, 27, is not your usual milk producer. For starters, he doesn’t have any dairy cattle. Our first photo opportunity is in the middle of one of his fields of oats.Until last year all these oats went into animal feed, either sold or fed to the sheep, pigs and cows he rears on his organic farm in Örebro county, central Sweden. Continue reading...
  
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• The bees are already sealing their hives for the winter ahead

  26-08-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Ryall, Dorset The wax cells are studded with pollen gems in carnelian, citrine, garnet – an almanac of the seasonsThe bees think it’s autumn. Since mid-July they have been reducing their numbers and sealing up the hives with propolis. Dark brown, sticky when fresh, brittle as cinder toffee when dry, propolis is a glue bees make from tree sap. It’s antimicrobial and despite its bitter taste some beekeepers chew it as a remedy for a sore throat. Bees use propolis to fill small ga
  
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• Why the IPA's claim global warming is natural is 'junk science' | Graham Readfearn

  26-08-2017 00:08 via theguardian.com
  An Institute of Public Affairs-sponsored journal article has been seized on by conservative media outlets. But there are a few problemsPeople who work for climate science denial thinktanks tend not to spend all that much time worrying about getting stuff into scientific journals.Perhaps because it’s easier, people who are paid to tell the public and policy makers that human-caused climate change is overblown bunk would rather pump out newspaper columns, do softball interviews or push out t
  
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