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• Thousands march on Whitehall to call for end to 'war on wildlife'

  22-09-2018 18:32 via theguardian.com
  Protesters including Billy Bragg and Chris Packham take to central London to demand pro-wildlife policiesThousands of people marched to Whitehall on Saturday to demand the government invests in wildlife-friendly policies and swiftly reverses the decline of British ecosystems.Protesters including Billy Bragg delivered a radical manifesto, co-edited by the broadcaster Chris Packham, to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The manifesto called for an end to the “war on wild
  
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• Hundreds march on Whitehall to call for end to 'war on wildlife'

  22-09-2018 18:32 via theguardian.com
  Protesters including Billy Bragg and Chris Packham take to central London to demand pro-wildlife policiesHundreds of people marched to Whitehall on Saturday to demand the government invests in wildlife-friendly policies and swiftly reverses the decline of British ecosystems.Protesters including Billy Bragg delivered a radical manifesto, co-edited by the broadcaster Chris Packham, to the Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs. The manifesto called for an end to the “war o
  
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• Hayabusa-2: Japan's rovers send pictures from asteroid

  22-09-2018 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Pictures have emerged from the surface of an asteroid after Japan landed two robotic rovers on it.
  
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• Gardens: repairing summer's damage

  22-09-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  This year’s extreme weather has left our plots struggling. It’s time to rethink how we gardenWhat a year it’s been. While the months of soaring temperatures provided an initially welcome ray of sunshine after a long, cold, wet winter, the two extremes have damaged our gardens – and highlighted how vulnerable labour-intensive, primped-and-pruned plots can be. Mature trees and shrubs (with deeper root structures), perennial crops and wildflower-laden areas suffered less fro
  
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• Who was the mysterious gardener Miss Harrison?

  22-09-2018 10:48 via bbc.co.uk
  A box of archives reveals the story of a pioneering 19th century gardener who blazed a trail for women.
  
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• Millions of dead chickens and pigs found in hurricane floods

  22-09-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  In North Carolina 3.4 million chickens and 5,500 hogs have been confirmed killed as massive lagoons are discharging fecal soupEric Phelps steered a small, battery-powered pontoon boat over the tops of cornstalks and into the eastern North Carolina town of Wallace on Thursday afternoon. The smell of floodwater under a hot sun – a mix of oil, manure and mold – was overwhelming.Gliding across the surface, Phelps saw something even more unsettling: dead chickens, hundreds of them, lodged
  
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• Invisible killer: how one girl's tragic death could change the air pollution story

  22-09-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  In a far-reaching human rights case, Ella Kissi-Debrah could become the first person to have toxic air given as their cause of death – and finally make this silent killer visible From a tiny office on the top floor of the old town hall in Catford, south-east London, Rosamund Kissi-Debrah is leading a campaign to push air pollution on to the political agenda as never before. It has been claimed for years that pollution caused by motor vehicles, especially diesel cars, buses and lorries, is
  
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• Nasa launches satellite to precisely track how Earth's ice is melting

  22-09-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The $1bn, decade-in-the-making creation can measure height and thickness of ice sheets to within a centimeter
  The world will soon have a much clearer picture of how quickly humans are melting Earth’s ice and expanding the seas, with data collected by a sophisticated satellite launched by Nasa.Every 91 days, the $1bn, decade-in-the-making creation will orbit over more than 1,000 paths. The satellite, about the size of a Smart car, will point six lasers at ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarc
  
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• Country diary: the ferocious beauty of two natural born killers

  22-09-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd: The polecats were pale-masked, an aura about them of fierce intent as they undulated along the roadShrinking out of the downpour into the inadequate shelter of an ash tree, I peered along the lane in rain-dimmed light and saw movement in the verge. A dark animal, sturdy-slender and perhaps two feet in length, appeared out of the grass and darted on to the tarmac, closely followed by another. They were pale-masked, an aura about them of fierce intent as they undulated along t
  
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• The couple helping hedgehogs back into the wild

  22-09-2018 01:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Frank and Veronica Tett have been nursing hedgehogs back to health for the last 30 years.
  
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