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• I’m terrified of flying insects – could a twerking bee cure me?

  01-07-2018 16:59
  The campaign to save our bees is something we can all get behind, so I decided to face my fears at an urban apiaryYou know what really makes a summer? Being besieged by flying insectoid life forms with venomous stingers. As a child, I discovered a wasps’ nest in the shed while trying to retrieve a lawnmower and it didn’t end well. Now a grown man, I’m terrified of anything airborne. The list of things that have triggered freak-outs includes flies, butterflies, poplar fluff and
  
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• Is the world running out of sand? The truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands

  01-07-2018 09:00
  The insatiable demand of the global building boom has unleashed an illegal market in sand. Gangs are now stealing pristine beaches to order and paradise islands are being dredged and sold to the construction industryParadise is a beach, we are told. Pristine white or coral pink. We leaf through brochures in search of perfect sand. There is a Paradise Beach on Barbados, and in Croatia, and Thailand, and South Africa, too. In every tourist-hungry part of the globe, in fact. The naturalist Desmond
  
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• Urban wildlife

  01-07-2018 07:59
  Many ostensibly rural creatures are thriving in our towns and cities, while adapting to surviveLast week, researchers revealed that bumblebees fare better in urban rather than agricultural environments. City colonies produced more males and reached a larger size, had more food stores and survived longer. They concluded that urban environments provide longer-lived, more varied flowers than intensively farmed agricultural areas. Continue reading...
  
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• Think you know how to recycle? Take the quiz

  01-07-2018 06:37
  What goes in the blue bin, what goes in the yellow bin, and what do you do with pizza boxes?Recycling should be straightforward: paper goes in the blue bin; plastics, glass and metal in the yellow bin; dead plants in the green bin and everything else in the red bin – right? Except it’s not always quite that easy. What do you do with mixed packaging? How do you deal with neighbours doing the wrong thing? And what to do with pizza boxes?Continue reading...
  
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