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• Tanzania gallery: the struggle for life without water at the Nyarugusu Dispensary

  30-09-2017 18:28 via theguardian.com
  At Nyarugusu in the Geita district in north-west Tanzania, life is a constant struggle, one that is made infinitely harden by the absence of running water. Photographer Sameer Satchu travelled to the area and recorded these images of daily events at a medical facility, the Nyarugusu Dispensary, for Water Aid Continue reading...
  
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• Bali volcano: What is it like waiting for an eruption?

  30-09-2017 12:31 via bbc.co.uk
  More than 100,000 people have fled their homes as they wait for Bali's Mount Agung to erupt.
  
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• Let bee-friendly bulbs transform your spring | Alys Fowler

  30-09-2017 11:59 via theguardian.com
  Organic bulbs have been around for a while, but the choice was limited. The picture has just got a lot more colourfulIt’s bulb-planting time. Fill every container, plant every spare inch of soil so that when spring comes everyone will be pleased (even the hard-hearted are softened by the sheer exuberance that bulbs bring on a grey day). And “everyone” includes bees and other pollinators who feast on bulbs. Or should do. Sadly, too many of our bulbs are a poisoned chalice for a
  
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• Badger or Bulbasaur - have children lost touch with nature?

  30-09-2017 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Studies show that children are better at identifying Pokémon characters than real animals and plants. Robert Macfarlane on his quest to reconnect young readers with the natural worldIn August 1913 the children’s writer Eleanor Farjeon visited the poet Edward Thomas and his family at their home near the South Downs. On their first walk together, Thomas’s 11-year-old daughter Bronwen realised that the city-dwelling Farjeon knew few of the names of the wild flowers that flourishe
  
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• Country diary: cliffs, clouds and wild, wet views

  30-09-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Cei Newydd/New Quay, Ceredigion Waterfalls flowed wide and white on to the foreshore, shedding excess water from the landscapeThe steep path up to the headland was scoured to the bedrock by the recent storms, with banks of debris built up at the breaks of slope like shoals in a stream. Long grass at the margin was flattened and the turf had been peeled back from the edges of the rock by the passage of water. Recent rain, a series of startlingly abrupt and intense showers, had made me wonder whet
  
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• Elon Musk's big battery for South Australia already half complete

  30-09-2017 01:16 via theguardian.com
  Tesla boss said the project is a great example of how to replace fossil fuels with renewables• Elon Musk: SpaceX can colonise Mars and build moon baseThe clock is ticking on entrepreneur Elon Musk’s promise to build the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in South Australia within 100 days or provide it for free.But with the facility already half finished, the US billionaire looks set to get paid. Continue reading...
  
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• Bone Marrow Protein May Be Target for Improving Stem Cell Transplants

  30-09-2017 00:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bone marrow contains hematopoetic stem cells, the precursors to every blood cell type. These cells spring into action following bone marrow transplants, bone marrow injury and during systemic infection, creating new blood cells, including immune cells, in a process known as hematopoiesis.
  
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• Hunt is over for one of the 'Top 50 Most-Wanted Fungi'

  30-09-2017 00:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a step toward bridging the gap between fungal taxonomy and molecular ecology, scientists from several institutions including Los Alamos National Laboratory have characterized a sample of “mystery” fungus collected in North Carolina and found its home in the fungal tree of life.
  
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