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• Up in smoke: what did taxpayers get for their $2bn emissions fund?

  02-06-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Before the latest auction figures, Adam Morton investigates the plan Turnbull once called ‘a recipe for fiscal recklessness’At some point in June, the Australian government will announce it has spent up to $2.3bn over three years on a scheme that the prime minister believes is a reckless waste of public money. Related: Land-clearing wipes out $1bn taxpayer-funded emissions gainsContinue reading...
  
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• India slashes heatwave death toll with series of low-cost measures

  02-06-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘Common sense’ policies such as free water and reflective roof paint save lives as temperatures near 50COne morning last week, Mohammad Javed wheeled an air conditioner on to the pavement outside his catering business in Delhi, placed his chair a metre away, sat down and did not move all day. When the machine ran out of water, he asked passing boys to fetch a bucket. When he had to give directions to workers in the building across the lane, he shouted. Every few minutes, he took a lo
  
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• India slashes heat-wave death toll with series of low-cost measures

  02-06-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘Common sense’ policies such as free water and reflective roof paint save lives as temperatures near 50COne morning last week, Mohammad Javed wheeled an air conditioner on to the pavement outside his catering business in Delhi, placed his chair a metre away, sat down and did not move all day. When the machine ran of water, he asked passing boys to fetch a bucket. When he had to give directions to workers in the building across the lane, he shouted. Every few minutes, Javed took a lon
  
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• Country diary: coated with algae, the crab looks like an aquatic Green Man

  02-06-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Start Point, Devon: Spider crabs rub pieces of seaweed against the backs of their shells until they stick, creating remarkable camouflageThe combe above the beach echoes with the calls of chiffchaffs, and cock stonechats flick and churr on the wind-stunted hawthorns that line the footpath. Around the twin radio masts – a 20th-century riposte to Start Point’s whitewashed gothic lighthouse – a small flock of swallows cut and swerve.Beneath the sea there are signs of spring too. C
  
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