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• Footage of starving polar bear exposes climate change impact – video

  09-12-2017 14:26
  Video filmed in the Canadian Arctic provides graphic evidence of the impact of climate change on polar bears in the region, showing an emaciated animal scrounging for food on ice-free land. The footage was recorded by the conservation group Sea Legacy during a late summer expedition in Baffin Island. 'My entire Sea Legacy team was pushing through their tears and emotions while documenting this dying polar bear,' the photographer Paul Nicklen wrote on social media.'Soul-crushing' v
  
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• Country diary: the cold is bitter, but the views are entrancing

  09-12-2017 06:30
  The Chevin, Otley, West Yorkshire In the waning light the massed black-headed gulls move like a cloud of incenseThe light that drenches the far side of Wharfedale has the translucence of burning coal, burnishing fields with the illusion of deep warmth. But it presages the onset of a bitterly cold night; the meagre heat of the winter sun is lost as my surroundings, the Danefield woods on the Chevin escarpment, are plunged into dusk.My run has been prolonged by enthusiasm. Now I feel as exposed as
  
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• AGL snubs Coalition with decision to shut down Liddell plant

  09-12-2017 02:15
  Company outlines plan to replace lost capacity with a mix of renewables, battery storage and high-efficiency gas peakersAGL has rebuffed pressure from the Turnbull government and confirmed it will close its Liddell coal-fired power plant, replacing it with a mix of renewable sources.The decision, announced on Saturday morning, was widely expected, and the company had intimated a similar plan earlier this year.Continue reading...
  
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• The 'Godfather of Coral' who's still diving at 72

  09-12-2017 01:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Charlie Veron's been diving for 50 years and has discovered more than 20% of the world's coral species
  
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• 'Soul-crushing' video of starving polar bear exposes climate crisis, experts say

  09-12-2017 00:27
  Footage from Canada’s Arctic shows emaciated animal seeking food in scene that left researchers ‘pushing through their tears’Video footage captured in Canada’s Arctic has offered a devastating look at the impact climate change is having on polar bears in the region, showing an emaciated bear clinging to life as it scrounged for food on iceless land.Continue reading...
  
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