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• From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?

  23-09-2017 14:23 via theguardian.com
  More than 100,000 bees have been targeted by rustlers in the past month alone – and keepers fear the culprits are from their own ranksThere was a lump in Katie Hayward’s throat as she spoke about the emotional impact of the thefts that have cast a shadow over Britain’s beekeepers. “The heartbreaking thing is that it’s a very close community. The fact that one beekeeper does this to another is the hardest thing of all,” she says.Two years have now passed since
  
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• Two Buddhists fined £15,000 for releasing crustaceans into sea

  23-09-2017 12:31 via theguardian.com
  Zhixiong Li and Ni Li caused ‘untold damage’ to environment by releasing non-native crabs and lobsters off BrightonTwo Buddhists who released £5,000 worth of crustaceans into the Channel as part of a religious ceremony have been fined almost £15,000 for causing “untold damage” to the environment.Zhixiong Li and Ni Li helped throw live crabs and lobsters into the sea off Brighton as part of a “life release” ceremony in 2015, a court has heard. Conti
  
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• Dave Eggers: 'As the hurricane bore down, Trump tweeted his excitement'

  23-09-2017 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The novelist counts the political cost of hurricanes Harvey and Irma• ‘Everything is gone’: Americans return to their flooded homesIt had been 12 years, since Katrina, that an Atlantic hurricane of this strength had made landfall on the American mainland.On 17 August, meteorologists were watching storm formations in the Atlantic. They named one Potential Tropical Cyclone 9. Later that night, they renamed it Tropical Storm Harvey. For the next week, the storm was downgraded to a
  
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• Country diary: sci-fi fungus flourishes in the forest

  23-09-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  New Forest Octopus-like tentacles are stained with what appears to be congealed blood and there’s a stink of rotting fleshNaturalists need good contacts, and generalists such as me depend on observant friends to pass the word when they see anything that might be of interest. A phone call alerted me. My friend had spotted a photographer at work, and enquired what he was taking. He had been tipped off that there was a rare fungus nearby and had come to get some pictures of it. Jeremy thought
  
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• This year's hurricanes are a taste of the future

  23-09-2017 00:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a detailed talk about the history and the underlying physics of hurricanes and tropical cyclones, MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel yesterday explained why climate change will cause such storms to become much stronger and reach peak intensity further north, heightening their potential impacts on human lives in coming years.
  
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• Farmer wants a revolution: 'How is this not genocide?'

  23-09-2017 00:34 via theguardian.com
  Health comes from the ground up, Charles Massy says – yet chemicals used in agriculture are ‘causing millions of deaths’. Susan Chenery meets the writer intent on changing everything about the way we grow, eat and think about food
  The kurrajong tree has scars in its wrinkled trunk, the healed wounds run long and vertical under its ancient bark. Standing in front of the homestead, it nestles in a dip on high tableland from which there is a clear view across miles and miles of ro
  
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• New book warns climate change is making us sick

  23-09-2017 00:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2008, Jay Lemery, MD, an emergency physician in Colorado, read a commentary about the effects of global climate change on human health. The author was Paul Auerbach, MD, professor of emergency medicine at Stanford and one of the world’s leading authorities on wilderness medicine.
  
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• NASA-Produced Damage Maps May Aid Mexico Quake Response

  23-09-2017 00:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  A NASA-produced map of areas likely damaged by the Sept. 19 magnitude 7.1 Raboso earthquake near Mexico City has been provided to Mexican authorities to help responders and groups supporting the response efforts. The quake, which struck 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of Mexico City, caused significant loss of life and property damage.
  
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• Flint Residents Experienced Decline in Fertility During Lead Water Crisis

  23-09-2017 00:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the year after Flint, Michigan changed its water supply to the lead-tainted Flint River, there was decrease in fertility and an increase in fetal deaths among residents, according to an analysis of health statistics by a team of U.S. economists.
  
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