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• Florida: endangered sea turtles thriving thanks to Covid-19 restrictions

  19-04-2020 23:52
  
  Researchers are seeing an increase in nests as restrictions keep humans and harmful waste off beachesMarine life researchers in Florida say that coronavirus restrictions keeping humans and harmful waste off beaches are having a beneficial effect on the numbers of endangered leatherback sea turtles in the state.With the summer nesting season barely two weeks old, staff from the Loggerhead MarineLife Center in Juno Beach have already found and marked 76 nests of the world’s largest species o
  
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• A swallow puts an end to our isolation | Letters

  19-04-2020 18:55
  
  Common pursuits | Lockdown wisdom | Chartered physiotherapists | The Lord of the Rings | Swallow sightingI hope the LSE academics suggesting that some folk are embracing more common pursuits such as football in their Who’s Who entries (16 April) examined what the entrants actually submitted. I recall completing an entry to one biographical yearbook and stating my interest in “rugby league football”. When published, it said my interests were “rugby, league football”.
  
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• A swallow puts an end to our isolation

  19-04-2020 18:55
  
  Common pursuits | Lockdown wisdom | Chartered physiotherapists | The Lord of the Rings | Swallow sightingI hope the LSE academics suggesting that some folk are embracing more common pursuits such as football in their Who’s Who entries (16 April) examined what the entrants actually submitted. I recall completing an entry to one biographical yearbook and stating my interest in “rugby league football”. When published, it said my interests were “rugby, league football”.
  
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• BlackRock's SDG fund and HP's ocean-plastic drive: The sustainability success stories of the week

  19-04-2020 18:34
  
  As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe.
  
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• Dutch flower park's virtual tour brings its blooms to living rooms

  19-04-2020 12:43
  
  Keukenhof will showcase 7m plants to online viewers after coronavirus forces closureCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe 7m bulbs were planted and now the flowers are in bloom: tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, orchids, roses, lilies and more. Everything is ready at the Dutch flower park of Keukenhof – everything, except the visitors.For the first time in its 71-year history, the renowned flower park in South Holland will not open to the public. Instead, manage
  
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• The Guardian joins forces with hundreds of newsrooms to promote climate solutions

  19-04-2020 12:00
  
  As the 50th anniversary of Earth Day approaches, we’re partnering with newsrooms around the world to report on solutions to the climate crisis – and drive hopeEven as the coronavirus pandemic terrorizes the world, there’s another global emergency the media can’t afford to stop covering.Fifty years ago this week, the environmental movement staged the first Earth Day demonstration to call attention to environmental degradation and demand reform. In the half century since, c
  
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• Norway and the A-ha moment that made electric cars the answer

  19-04-2020 10:00
  
  A country fuelled by hydropower has become the world’s electric vehicle leaderIn 1995, the lead singer of the 1980s band A-ha and the head of the Norwegian environmental group Bellona climbed improbably into a converted electric Fiat Panda they had imported from Switzerland and set off on a road trip.They drove around Oslo refusing to pay the city’s sky-high road tolls, parking illegally wherever they could, and ignoring every penalty notice they were given. Eventually, the authoriti
  
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• ‘I’ve already got infected lungs’: for sick coal miners Covid-19 is a death sentence

  19-04-2020 08:00
  
  Miners with black lung struggle during the pandemic with layoffs, benefit cuts and the threat of a virus that would almost certainly kill them Coronavirus – live US updatesLive global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSeven years ago John Robinson of Coeburn, Virginia, was diagnosed with black lung. A coal miner for nearly 30 years, 54-year-old Robinson and many of his fellow workers already faced years of health issues. And then came Covid-19.Scarring of the lungs caused by years of
  
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