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• Why Tony Abbott’s climate snow job mistakes Australia for Europe | Greg Jericho

  14-10-2017 23:22 via theguardian.com
  Conservatives cheering climate change always ignore how Australia’s economy will be among the hardest hitIt was well that Tony Abbott gave his climate change denying speech this week in London, because his thinking betrays a bizarre Euro-centric conservative outlook that constantly ignores multiple studies that show Australia’s economy will suffer greatly from climate change. His speech to the Global Warming Policy Foundation was a typical Abbott speech: a greatest hits of climate ch
  
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• Hinkley nuclear site radioactive mud to be dumped near Cardiff

  14-10-2017 21:13 via theguardian.com
  Critics say dredging of sediment could increase risks of contamination on Welsh side of Severn estuaryMore than 300,000 tonnes of “radioactive” mud, some of it the toxic byproduct of Britain’s atomic weapons programme, will be dredged to make way for England’s newest nuclear power station and dumped in the Severn estuary just over a mile from Cardiff. Related: Electricity consumers 'to fund nuclear weapons through Hinkley Point C'Continue reading...
  
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• Bodycam footage shows woman's rescue from California wildfire - video

  14-10-2017 16:50 via theguardian.com
  Bodycam footage from a Sonoma County police officer shows the rescue of a woman in Santa Rosa. Thirty-five fatalities have been recorded so far, making it the deadliest week in California wildfire history. The death toll could rise further as search-and-rescue teams are deployed to sift through the remains of 3,500 burned buildings. Hundreds of missing persons reports have been resolved, but stories continue to emerge of people who did not make it out alive‘Just ash and bones’: Calif
  
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• Geoengineering is not a quick fix for climate change, experts warn Trump

  14-10-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Leading researchers and campaigners express concern that geoengineering research could be used as an excuse not to reduce CO2 emissionsLeading climate scientists have warned that geoengineering research could be hijacked by climate change deniers as an excuse not to reduce CO2 emissions, citing the US administration under Donald Trump as a major threat to their work.David Keith, a solar geoengineering (GE) expert at Harvard University has said there is a real danger that his work could be exploi
  
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• The inside track: how to spot the telltale signs of badgers, otters and more

  14-10-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Keen to find Britain’s wild creatures in their natural environments? Conservationist and tracking expert Simone Bullion explains howWild animals are all around us whenever we venture into the countryside, but many of us have no idea where they are, what they are or how to recognise the clues they leave. Once you know what you are looking for, you can decode the forest floor or riverbank and unlock the secrets of where a badger has been sleeping, what a fox has been eating and where an otte
  
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• Country diary: rewilding a river I fished with Arthur Ransome

  14-10-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire Wild trout are once again thriving in the beck my grandfather tended for the Manchester Anglers’ AssociationWhen I was a kid I recall fishing for minnows with a jam jar by the Ribble and being sketched by a man in wire-framed specs. It was the writer Arthur Ransome, who was there with my grandfather, Nat Hunt, then river keeper for the Manchester Anglers’ Association. I no longer have that sketch, but I do still own a card Ransome sent Grandad praising hi
  
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