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• Country diary 1917: passing companionship in the wood

  29-10-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 3 November 1917Surrey, November 1
  Unlike the bare ground at the foot of the beech, grass spreads almost up to the root-trunk of our oaks, and fallen leaves lie thick among the bents. Underneath them are acorns, a full crop this year. It takes but a little time to collect a full sack. They are so plentiful that a litter of young pigs throw small showers upward as they nose about while they scutter along the edge of the wood. A sudden loud whirr o
  
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• Blue Planet II review: the ocean as you've never seen it before

  29-10-2017 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Bird-eating fish, surfing dolphins, rafts of sea otters … there are some extraordinary things going on under the sea, as David Attenborough’s brilliant new series revealsA man stands at the front of a ship, looking out. DiCaprio? Soon to be joined by Winslet? And Dion: Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you …Thankfully not, though this will be going the same way – deep down there. This man is older (91) and wiser. He is David Attenborough, of course, and this i
  
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• The eco guide to sanitary products

  29-10-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Menstrual pads are hard to talk about, and also an eco disaster on our beaches – but we need to change our waysThis column nearly didn’t happen. When a manufacturer of eco friendly menstrual pads bounded up to me and asked me brightly in public: “Are you a flusher or a binner?” I stared at her in total horror. Menstrual products and their disposal represent one of the last great consumer taboos – odd in a society which cheerfully discusses the vajazzle. It’s a
  
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• Queensland Labor keeps promise on Great Barrier Reef coal-ship loading ban

  29-10-2017 02:21 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Election-eve ban aims to cut contamination from coal and oil spills to help struggling reefThe Queensland Labor government has banned the loading of coal ships at sea in the Great Barrier Reef marine park, following through on its 2015 election promise.The environment minister, Steven Miles, signed off on the ban on Saturday, in response to public concerns after the environment department last month flagged allowing so-called trans-shipping in the marine park under certain rules. Cont
  
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• Battle for the mother land: indigenous people of Colombia fighting for their lands

  29-10-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  The 50-year civil war is over but, in the Cauca Valley, indigenous communities are on frontline of fight against drug gangs, riot police and deforestationA green-and-red flag flies over a cluster of bamboo and tarpaulin tents on the frontline of an increasingly deadly struggle for land and the environment in Colombia’s Cauca Valley.It is the banner for what indigenous activists are calling the “liberation of Mother Earth”, a movement to reclaim ancestral land from sugar plantat
  
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• Forget cod and salmon: Britons urged to rediscover the humble Cornish sardine

  29-10-2017 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Though regarded as among the tastiest fish, 90% of the catch goes to Europe. Now a supermarket campaign aims to change thatAt close to midnight, the crew of the Rachel Anne are surprisingly cheerful, given they have spent seven hours fruitlessly searching the English Channel for sardines. Scanning the screens in the wheelhouse, Richard Chamberlain, the skipper, suddenly spots a red blob on the echo-sounder which indicates a sizeable shoal is close by. “It’s looking good,” he sh
  
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• Chimpanzees among 33 species selected for special protection

  29-10-2017 00:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The Convention of Migratory Species includes chimpanzees, leopards and vultures on its list.
  
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• Chimpanzees among 33 breeds selected for special protection

  29-10-2017 00:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The Convention of Migratory Species includes chimpanzees, leopards and vultures on its list.
  
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