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• The Great Barrier Reef from the sky – in pictures

  10-02-2018 22:16 via theguardian.com
  Photographer Joshua Smith’s latest project, The Reef, is an aerial exploration of his experience with Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. Smith’s hope is to raise awareness of Australia’s connection with the reef and the impact humans have on it. The series is the the fifth instalment of Down Under from Above,a captivating film and aerial photo series sharing unique perspectives of Australian landscape while highlighting the importance of preservation Continue reading...
  
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• Carillion links put fracking firm’s scheme in doubt

  10-02-2018 14:54 via theguardian.com
  North Yorkshire project halted for inquiry into stability of Third Energy, whose chairman is former chief executive of outsourcing giantA controversial plan to start fracking for shale gas in rural North Yorkshire has been thrown into doubt amid mounting concerns over the finances and management of the company behind the scheme.In a move that has encouraged anti-fracking protestors, energy secretary Greg Clark has ordered the start of drilling at Kirby Misperton to be put on hold pending an inve
  
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• The barren desert preparing astronauts for life on Mars

  10-02-2018 13:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Researchers have created a simulation of the red planet with the hope humans will one day live there.
  
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• Report warns of dire future for Coral Triangle reef fish

  10-02-2018 13:23 via theguardian.com
  Popular species like grouper and wrasse could be gone from dining tables in decades as trade drives wild populations to the brink of collapse.The US$1 billion a year Live Reef Fish for Food Trade (LRFFT) is threatening the future of key reef predator species like grouper, coral trout and Napoleon wrasse, according to a recent study.
  The study - published by WWF, the Swire Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and ADM Capital Foundation - urges swift action towards reg
  
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• First images of creatures from Antarctic depths revealed

  10-02-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Photographs of rare species from unexplored area of Antarctic seabed highlight need to protect life in one of the most remote places on the planetThe images below are the first of creatures found in a previously unexplored region of the Antarctic seabed offering a fascinating glimpse of life in one of the most remote and pristine places on the planet. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: finely dressed gadwall has an air of austere decency

  10-02-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Airedale, West Yorkshire: Neck held straight, upright and officer-like, the drake appears dressed in close-fitted tweeds, a fine houndstooth of tan and greyI don’t know a bird book that has much to say about the gadwall (Anas strepera). Generally this unobtrusive winter duck is compared with the more common mallard, and comes off worse: smaller (just), duller (much), either shriller (the duck) or coarser (the drake) in quack. But like many a winter bird – think of the intricate coppe
  
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• Rocket man

  10-02-2018 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Elon Musk just launched the world's most powerful rocket. It's only a fraction of what he's up to.
  
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