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• Body of woman killed by alligator found in Florida lake

  09-06-2018 22:55
  Shizuka Matsuki, 47, was walking dogs near lake in DavieAlligator killed by officials found to have bitten womanFlorida officials confirmed on Saturday divers had found the body of a woman who was killed by an alligator while walking her dogs near a lake in south Florida. The 12ft 6in alligator involved was captured and killed. Related: Miami woman bitten and likely killed by alligator, officials sayContinue reading...
  
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• Pope Francis tells oil bosses world must reduce fossil fuel use

  09-06-2018 14:36
  Pontiff says clean energy is needed as climate change risks destroying humanityPope Francis has told oil company chiefs that the world must switch to clean energy because climate change risks destroying humanity.“Civilisation requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilisation,” he said at the end of a two-day conference at the Vatican. Continue reading...
  
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• Climate change: Pope urges action on clean energy

  09-06-2018 13:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Francis tells oil executives the world must convert to clean fuel in an unprecedented conference.
  
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• Our plastic pollution crisis is too big for recycling to fix | Annie Leonard

  09-06-2018 12:00
  Recycling alone will never stem the flow of plastics into our ocean. We must address the problem at the source
  Every minute, every single day, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters our oceans. In the name of profit and convenience, corporations are literally choking our planet with a substance that does not just “go away” when we toss it into a bin. Since the 1950s, some 8.3bn tons of plastic have been produced worldwide, and to date, only 9% of that has been recycled. Our
  
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• Mud, sweat and tears on the Dorset Gravel Dash | Laura Laker

  09-06-2018 09:30
  The 100-mile on- and off-road bike-packing event is undoubtedly a challenge, but there is a true sense of adventure Twenty-two miles from the end of a gruelling, beautiful and intensely varied 100 mile cross-country bike ride through Dorset, the rear derailleur on my bike clacked, pinged and, in the manner of a wounded fly, ended its journey upside down, immobile and missing several parts. I stood on the dirt track peering down at it, wondering how I’d finish the ride, before my riding bud
  
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• Country diary: the loneliest house in Wales?

  09-06-2018 06:30
  Cefn Garw, Migneint, Snowdonia: Decades ago old Mr Roberts, who shepherded on horseback, departed his remote tyddyn, leaving the moor to fox, raven, pipit-hunting merlinThere are places among the Welsh hills where you may “grow rich/ With looking”. In my copy of RS Thomas’s Collected Poems, the verse from which that’s taken is marked with a curlew’s feather, picked up by Cefn Garw, perhaps the loneliest house in Wales. I’ve often followed the four-mile, climbi
  
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• The 'dark fleet': Global Fishing Watch shines a light on illegal catches

  09-06-2018 05:22
  Low light imaging data being used to expose unregulated and unreported fishing on the high seasNew data is being used to expose fleets of previously unmonitored fishing vessels on the high seas, in what campaigners hope will lead to the eradication of illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.
  Global Fishing Watch (GFW) has turned low light imaging data collected by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) into the first publicly available real-time map showing the locatio
  
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• Miami woman bitten and likely killed by alligator, officials say

  09-06-2018 03:23
  Florida woman was identified from evidence collected from a necropsy after she disappeared while walking her dogs by a lakeA woman who disappeared while walking her dogs near a lake in Miami, Florida on Friday was bitten and likely killed by an alligator that was later captured, wildlife officials said.A necropsy confirmed the alligator bit Shizuka Matsuki, 47, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials said in a statement. They believe Matsuki was killed and were searching for
  
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• Move over Elon: global energy prize goes to Australia's solar guru

  09-06-2018 00:18
  UNSW professor Martin Green, who revolutionised photovoltaics, says sun’s power is ‘the best option out there’ The “father of PV” – University of New South Wales professor Martin Green – has become the first Australian to win the global energy prize from a shortlist that included Tesla’s Elon Musk.UNSW said Green had been selected from 44 contenders from 14 countries by a committee of leading scientists to share the $820,000 prize with Russian scie
  
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• Josh Frydenberg urged to step in to save national park from NSW brumby plan

  09-06-2018 00:00
  Conservationists say federal environment minister has obligation to protect areas of national significanceConservationists have called on the federal environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, to intervene to protect the Kosciuszko national park from brumbies after a New South Wales bill was passed giving heritage protection to the feral horses.The Australian Conservation Foundation says the federal government has an obligation under national environment law to protect areas of national significance
  
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