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• ‘For us, the land is sacred’: on the road with the defenders of the world’s forests

  04-11-2017 13:25
  A busload of indigenous leaders have been crossing Europe to highlight their cause before the start of UN climate talks in BonnOf the many thousands of participants at the Bonn climate conference which begins on 6 November, there will arguably be none who come with as much hope, courage and anger as the busload of indigenous leaders who have been criss-crossing Europe over the past two weeks, on their way to the former German capital.The 20 activists on the tour represent forest communities that
  
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• Climate change: US report at odds with some in Trump team

  04-11-2017 09:59 via bbc.co.uk
  A spokesman says climate is "always changing" after a report ties global warming to human activity.
  
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• Is it too late to save the world? Jonathan Franzen on one year of Trump's America

  04-11-2017 09:06
  ‘As the ice shelves crumble and the Twitter president threatens to pull out of the Paris accord’, Franzen reflects on the role of the writer in times of crisisIf an essay is something essayed – something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author’s personal experience and subjectivity – we might seem to be living in an essayistic golden age. Which party you went to on Friday night, how you were treated by a flight atte
  
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• Coral bleaching badly affected reefs of Kimberley, study finds

  04-11-2017 07:05
  Up to 80% of Kimberley’s inshore reef bleached in El Niño heatwave of 2016, with about 29% of the coral at Rottnest, off Perth, also affectedUp to 80% of coral in inshore reefs in the Kimberley was bleached during the global mass bleaching event that also affected 93% of the Great Barrier Reef in the summer of 2016-2016, according to new research.Led by scientists from the University of Western Australia and published in Scientific Reports this week, the research found between 57% a
  
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• Country diary: a storm here is a spectator​​ sport of the utmost drama

  04-11-2017 06:30
  Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire To see how many features I once climbed have been battered away by wave and wind is a salutary lesson in human ambitionMeadowsweet still flowered along lanes through an obscenity of tank ranges; grasses riffled and glistened in the verges; far offshore, Lundy dipped in and out of view. Nowhere’s better in stormy weather than south Pembrokeshire’s Castlemartin peninsula. Here the elemental interplay of land and sea is slow-motion spectator sport of the utmo
  
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