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• The art of protest in pen and ink – in pictures

  13-06-2020 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  London-based reportage illustrator George Butler has travelled all over the world to war zones, refugee camps and gold mines. “I choose newsworthy situations and people with stories to tell, and then record them in pen and ink,” he says. Recently he’s been focusing on moments of protest in his home town. This month, he attended the Black Lives Matter protest in London’s Hyde Park to capture “people’s emotions as they pouted out onto the pavement” with th
  
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• The vultures aren't soaring over Africa – and that's bad news

  13-06-2020 10:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Unlovely and unloved, vultures play a vital role as nature’s clean-up squad but are now one of the most threatened groups of birds on the planetIt’s hard to love vultures. Their bare-headed appearance, scavenging habits and reputation as the refuse disposal workers of the bird world rarely endear them to a public who prefer more conventionally attractive creatures. But amid growing fears that the birds are facing extinction, conservationists are calling for more to be done to save th
  
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• The vultures aren't hovering over Africa – and that's bad news

  13-06-2020 10:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Unlovely and unloved, vultures play a vital role as nature’s clean-up squad but are now one of the most threatened groups of birds on the planetIt’s hard to love vultures. Their bare-headed appearance, scavenging habits and reputation as the refuse disposal workers of the bird world rarely endear them to a public who prefer more conventionally attractive creatures. But amid growing fears that the birds are facing extinction, conservationists are calling for more to be done to save th
  
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• Fast-growing mini-forests spring up in Europe to aid climate

  13-06-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Miyawaki forests are denser and said to be more biodiverse than other kinds of woodsTiny, dense forests are springing up around Europe as part of a movement aimed at restoring biodiversity and fighting the climate crisis.Often sited in schoolyards or alongside roads, the forests can be as small as a tennis court. They are based on the work of the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who has planted more than 1,000 such forests in Japan, Malaysia and elsewhere. Continue reading...
  
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• Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows

  13-06-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Modelling suggests climate is considerably more sensitive to carbon emissions than thoughtWorst-case global heating scenarios may need to be revised upwards in light of a better understanding of the role of clouds, scientists have said.Recent modelling data suggests the climate is considerably more sensitive to carbon emissions than previously believed, and experts said the projections had the potential to be “incredibly alarming”, though they stressed further research would be neede
  
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• Red pandas tracked by satellite in conservation 'milestone'

  13-06-2020 01:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Red pandas in Nepal are being monitored in their last stronghold in the mountainous forests of Nepal.
  
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