Environment news

• John Young, US astronaut and pioneer, dies aged 87

  06-01-2018 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  He was the only person to have flown missions on the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programmes.
  
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• The latest cutting-edge technology changing our landscapes? Trees

  06-01-2018 10:30 via theguardian.com
  The UK has been slow to embrace agroforestry, fearing trees compete for valuable space and water. In fact they can increase crop diversity as well as profits, as two pioneering Cambridgeshire farmers have found“Most people round here think it’s pretty normal for the earth to just blow away,” says Lynn Briggs. “They seem to think it’s what happens and you just have to live with it. It’s even got a name – they call it fen blow.”But when Lynn and her
  
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• Country diary: midwinter has its own discreet beauties

  06-01-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Morfa Bychan, Gwynedd A distant, writhing, black line resolves itself into a low-flying flock of scoter ducksAt the western end of Black Rock Sands, the beach where Roman Polanski filmed the battle scenes in his powerfully unsettling 1971 version of Macbeth, is a dark crag of ancient rock, trap-dyked, quartz-seamed, dripping. In it are the sea-caves that Robert Graves inhabited with the “Things never seen or heard or written about” of his poem Welsh Incident (1929). A dull winter&rsq
  
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