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• For the chop: the battle to save Sheffield’s trees

  25-02-2018 15:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘Europe’s greenest city’ has lost 5,000 trees, chopped down by a private company despite furious local protests. Michael Gove calls the destruction “bonkers”. Now, after a brief truce, the chainsaws are about to start their work again …It’s just after nine on a bitterly cold Wednesday morning and university lecturer Paul Norman has been patrolling a Sheffield street for more than an hour. Between glances up and down the road, he is marking students&rsqu
  
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• The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction

  25-02-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Scientists are alarmed by a rise in mass mortality events – when species die in their thousands. Is it all down to climate change?There was almost something biblical about the scene of devastation that lay before Richard Kock as he stood in the wilderness of the Kazakhstan steppe. Dotted across the grassy plain, as far as the eye could see, were the corpses of thousands upon thousands of saiga antelopes. All appeared to have fallen where they were feeding.Some were mothers that had travell
  
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• Can a tourist ban save DiCaprio’s coral paradise from destruction?

  25-02-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  South-east Asian idylls – from Philippine islands to the Thai bay made famous in The Beach – plan to turn tourists away so that devastated coral reefs have some time to recover. Will it be enough?Our Thai tour guide, Spicey, takes a drag on her cigarette and gestures sadly towards the beach. “The problem with people is that they are too greedy. They see a beautiful place and they want it. They take, take, take from nature. And then they destroy it.”The golden sands of May
  
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• One million birds killed illegally every year at a wildlife site in Iran

  25-02-2018 01:04 via theguardian.com
  Conservationists sound alarm over unprecedented slaughter of rare and endangered species by hunters at three lagoonsA million wild birds a year are now being killed illegally at a single wildlife site in Iran. That is the stark warning from conservationists who say highly endangered migratory species face being wiped out in the near future there unless urgent action is taken.In a letter last week to the journal Science, the conservationists pinpoint the Fereydunkenar wetlands in Iran as the site
  
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