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• Campaigners slam £1m incentive to store nuclear waste

  12-05-2018 21:59 via theguardian.com
  Compensation offered to encourage local communities to allow test boreholes is described as ‘completely inadequate’MPs from both major parties have attacked the government’s latest incentive to entice communities into volunteering to host Britain’s first deep underground store for nuclear waste as “completely inadequate”.Ministers have offered up to £1m per community for areas that constructively engage in offering to take part in the scheme, and a furth
  
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• Peers to rebel over ‘toothless’ post-Brexit green watchdog

  12-05-2018 21:33 via theguardian.com
  Former ministers condemn new body’s lack of power for legal action against governmentA former Tory cabinet minister is backing efforts to force through tough green laws after Brexit, amid anger over plans that would weaken environmental protections once Britain leaves the European Union.Four former environment and climate change secretaries from three parties told the Observer they had concerns about “toothless” plans announced by the government last week, which suggested the n
  
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• ‘Paradise and hell’: the battle to save the forest elephant

  12-05-2018 09:01 via theguardian.com
  Gabon’s wild and beautiful rainforest is on the frontline against ivory poachers, part of international criminal networks that also fund terroristsDeep in the steamy rainforest of Gabon, a poaching gang’s night-time fire is smouldering and two long elephant tusks lie among the tangled roots. The axe that hacked them off lies nearby.Just after dawn, the insect buzz and bird chatter is suddenly pierced by a whistle blast and camouflaged park guards burst out from their forest cover, sw
  
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• Cuckoo bee species 'hiding in plain sight'

  12-05-2018 04:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Researchers identify 15 new species of sneaky bees hidden in museum collections and in an ancient thesis.
  
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• Stephen Hawking service: Possibility of time travellers 'can't be excluded'

  12-05-2018 03:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Anyone born in the next 20 years is eligible to apply for a seat at the Westminster Abbey service.
  
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• 'Just four citizens': the Australians who confronted Adani in India, and made a difference

  12-05-2018 01:24 via theguardian.com
  In this book extract, Geoff Cousins describes how the farmer, the activist, the tourism operator and ‘an old bald man with hope in his heart’ travelled to India to protest against AdaniSign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning
  I settled back into the seat as the Air India flight took off from my hometown of Sydney, unaware of just how relieved I would be to return there. I had been warned the Indian government might take a dim view of our mission to int
  
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• Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight

  12-05-2018 00:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The space agency says it will be the first test of a heavier-than-air aircraft on another planet.
  
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