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• High court proves we have free speech against environmental wreckers | Bob Brown

  21-10-2017 23:00
  Adani and the loggers should watch out – we have a right to peaceful protest to protect our environmentThe high court has drawn a line in the sand against laws which burden the right of Australians to peaceful protest.The court made no judgement on Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman’s decision to flatten the Lapoinya state forest in northwest Tasmania against the wishes of the local community. But it struck down his Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Act 2014 aimed at stopping peopl
  
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• Is Congress about to wreck America's natural treasures?

  21-10-2017 21:38
  The Antiquities Act has been used to preserve some of the most beloved US lands and landmarks but it is facing assault from Trump and CongressOne-hundred-eleven years and a few months ago, Theodore Roosevelt signed the landmark law that helped cement his place as America’s conservation president.Related: National park ban saved 2m plastic bottles – and still Trump reversed itContinue reading...
  
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• British apple boom brings back hundreds of forgotten varieties

  21-10-2017 21:02
  As events across the UK celebrate Apple Day this weekend, we talk to the growers preserving the country’s ‘lost’ harvestBritain is enjoying a remarkable apple boom, as hundreds of new community orchards revive lost varieties and contribute to a thriving heritage market.According to Steve Oram, who is the apple diversity officer at the wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species: “We are adding new orchards to the register all the time. Some are in allotme
  
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• Is Congress about to wreck the Grand Canyon and other national park treasures?

  21-10-2017 16:09
  The Antiquities Act has been used to preserve some of America’s beloved lands and landmarks but it is facing assault from Trump and CongressOne-hundred-eleven years and a few months ago, Theodore Roosevelt signed the landmark law that helped cement his place as America’s conservation president.Related: National park ban saved 2m plastic bottles – and still Trump reversed itContinue reading...
  
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• Why going after this act of Congress could wreck America’s national parks

  21-10-2017 15:00
  The Antiquities Act has been used to preserve some of America’s most beloved wild lands and historic landmarks and is facing assault from Trump and CongressOne-hundred-eleven years and a few months ago, Theodore Roosevelt signed the landmark law that helped cement his place as America’s conservation president.Related: National park ban saved 2m plastic bottles – and still Trump reversed itContinue reading...
  
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• A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe

  21-10-2017 09:00
  Insects have triumphed for hundreds of millions of years in every habitat but the ocean. Their success is unparalleled, which makes their disappearance all the more alarmingThirty-five years ago an American biologist Terry Erwin conducted an experiment to count insect species. Using an insecticide “fog”, he managed to extract all the small living things in the canopies of 19 individuals of one species of tropical tree, Luehea seemannii, in the rainforest of Panama. He recorded about
  
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• 'A world where a 12-year-old can cycle safely' is the aim, but minister expects others to deliver

  21-10-2017 08:30
  Jesse Norman wants to make cycling safer, but sees local authorities and charities like Sustran as key facilitators, not governmentJesse Norman, the transport minister whose brief includes cycling, has only been in the job for six months but has already prompted controversy by insisting that cyclists follow the Highway Code, something criticised here on the Bike Blog.In his office at the Department for Transport in Westminster, he comes across as affable and open – and talks the talk when
  
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• Country diary: the woodland is intoxicating at this time of year

  21-10-2017 06:30
  Bramshaw Telegraph, New Forest The heather is fading but there are so many fallen trees to explore, each with its diverse community of fungiWithout doubt, 200 years ago our walk would have made a slow start. We would have been watching with fascination the sliding shutters of the new signalling station, constructed as part of the chain linking Plymouth with London and Portsmouth. Skilful combination of its six panels could transmit messages at astonishing speed. Today only the place name, Bramsh
  
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• Kea or Kākāriki? Bird of the Year contest gets New Zealand in a flap

  21-10-2017 02:33
  Country’s treasured avian species puff up their plumage as nation votes on who rules the roostBird of the Year leaderboard – check the pecking orderFirst there was the “Jacinda effect” and a government to cobble together. Then came the mania for the jade Kākāriki, the shining cuckoo and the stern Ruru.New Zealand’s Bird of the Year Competition has kicked off, and it has galvanised voters with the same intensity as the recent election. Now in its 13th year,
  
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• New Zealand Bird of the Year leaderboard: check the pecking order

  21-10-2017 02:32
  It’s the final countdown to New Zealand’s Bird of the Year award, the annual contest for the most popular bird in Aotearoa. Here you can see the current leader in the contest, updated hourlyVote for your favourite bird here – voting finishes Monday 23 October, 5pm New Zealand timeBird photographs and descriptions courtesy Forest & BirdContinue reading...
  
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• The place spacecraft go to die

  21-10-2017 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Why one of the Earth's most remote places is the preferred place to dump space junk.
  
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• Ocean graveyard

  21-10-2017 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Why one of the Earth's most remote places is the preferred place to dump space junk.
  
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