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• America's tree sitters risk lives on the front line

  26-05-2018 15:26
  In the hills on the border of Virginia and West Virginia protesters – mainly women – are defying police and energy companies in non-violent environmental activismWay out in the Appalachian hills, on the line between Virginia and West Virginia, after an hour-long backwoods hike up Peters Mountain, an orderly clutch of tents were surrounded by a plastic yellow ribbon that read, “police line do not cross”.Past that, a woman sat on top of a 50ft pole. Continue reading...
  
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• Tree-sitters put their lives in the balance to foil Appalachian pipeline

  26-05-2018 12:00
  In the hills on the border of Virginia and West Virginia protesters – mainly women – are defying police and energy companies in non-violent environmental activismWay out in the Appalachian hills, on the line between Virginia and West Virginia, after an hour-long backwoods hike up Peters Mountain, an orderly clutch of tents were surrounded by a plastic yellow ribbon that read, “police line do not cross”.Past that, a woman sat on top of a 50ft pole. Continue reading...
  
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• Our Place by Mark Cocker review – can Britain’s wildlife be saved?

  26-05-2018 08:30
  British people have long expressed a love of wild nature and the countryside. So why is much of it being allowed to disappear?Outside a church, a board welcomes visitors to “The Unkempt Churchyard”. Pamphlets in the church describe the wildlife and defend the policy, for there have been complaints. But when Mark Cocker visits the churchyard, he finds the rye-grass monoculture now so familiar in Britain. Even the daisies are missing. A broad-spectrum herbicide has killed them. Traditi
  
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• Burning issue: Are wood-burning stoves going to get the chop?

  26-05-2018 08:00
  With the government aiming to clean up the UK’s air quality, wood burners and open fires are likely to come under scrutinyMillions of households with open fires and wood-burning stoves could face curbs on their use after the government unveiled plans to clean up the UK’s air quality.Although this week’s announcement was short on detail, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, said he was ready to legislate to ensure only the “cleanest” domestic fuels would be avail
  
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• Country diary: mystery of the walled 'rooms' deep in the wood

  26-05-2018 06:30
  Mike’s Wood, River Kent, Cumbria: There are dozens of black gates along the valley, marking the route of the Thirlmere to Manchester aqueductLike little beacons among the hazel trees, stitchwort flowers lead me onwards towards the enclosure. There is always a moment, before passing through the black gate into this woodland “room”, of wondering about the motives for creating a separate space within the wood. The deeply mossed encircling wall strides over the crags and boulders o
  
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• Senior EPA officials collaborated with climate change denial group, emails show

  26-05-2018 03:59
  Newly released emails show senior officials from the Environmental Protection Agency worked closely with conservative thinktank the Heartland InstituteNewly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to rally like-minded people for public hearings on science and global warming, counter negative news coverage and tout Scott Pruitt’s stewardship of the agency.John Konkus, EPA’s deputy ass
  
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• Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson readies himself for space

  26-05-2018 02:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK entrepreneur puts himself through a gruelling training programme so he can rocket to space.
  
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