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• Stop making sense: why it's time to get emotional about climate change | Rebecca Huntley

  04-07-2020 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The science has been settled to the highest degree, so now the key to progress is understanding our psychological reactionsIt took me much longer than it should have to realise that educating people about climate change science was not enough. Due perhaps to my personality type (highly rational, don’t talk to me about horoscopes, please) and my background (the well-educated daughter of a high school teacher and an academic), I have grown up accepting the idea that facts persuade and emotio
  
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• English countryside 'at risk from Boris Johnson’s planning revolution'

  04-07-2020 18:18 via theguardian.com
  
  The prime minister’s ‘build, build, build’ strategy could harm habitats and reduce wildlife protection, critics warnThe English countryside and its wildlife are at serious risk because of Boris Johnson’s pledge to revolutionise the planning system, leading green groups warn today.In a joint letter to the Observer, the organisations, which include the National Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the Wildlife Trusts, say wide-scale deregulation l
  
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• 'An ashram for the hummingbird': the Trinidad haven for world's tiniest bird

  04-07-2020 10:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Theo and Gloria Ferguson have created a garden specially designed to attract hummingbirds – and hundreds visit dailyAt the foot of Theo and Gloria Ferguson’s property stands a giant silk cotton tree. Reminiscent of those enchanted species in children’s fables, this ancient sentinel’s huge varicose limbs yawn upwards and outwards, towards a canopy of leaves that scratch the sky. Eight adults linking arms would struggle to encircle its vast girth, proof of the aeons it has
  
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• 'An ashram for the hummingbird': the Trindad haven for world's tiniest bird

  04-07-2020 10:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Theo and Gloria Ferguson have created a garden specially designed to attract hummingbirds – and hundreds visit dailyAt the foot of Theo and Gloria Ferguson’s property stands a giant silk cotton tree. Reminiscent of those enchanted species in children’s fables, this ancient sentinel’s huge varicose limbs yawn upwards and outwards, towards a canopy of leaves that scratch the sky. Eight adults linking arms would struggle to encircle its vast girth, proof of the aeons it has
  
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• Reality bites: how the pandemic changed the way we eat

  04-07-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From wonky veg to distanced restaurants, Covid-19 has transformed the way we shop, cook and eat. Have we fixed our relationship with food for good?If I thought food waste was complicated before Covid-19 emerged, now it blows my mind. I started to research a version of this article in January – those carefree days when people worried about supermarkets overstocking, not the disappearance of pasta and flour. Even then, the picture was hazy, but it was much clearer than it is now.Until lockdo
  
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• Dover clifftops 'buzzing with wildlife' after National Trust takeover

  04-07-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Restoration work and wet winter have led to an explosion of colour and an increase in birdsA well known piece of the British landscape that had become depleted of flora and fauna because of years of intensive farming is alive with wildflowers, butterflies and birds this summer.Since the National Trust acquired fields on top of the white cliffs of Dover two and half years ago after a £1m national appeal championed by Dame Vera Lynn, it has worked to restore the area to rich grassland. Conti
  
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• The environmentalist's apology: how Michael Shellenberger unsettled some of his prominent supporters

  04-07-2020 04:04 via theguardian.com
  
  The American environment and energy commentator’s piece in the Australian has found praise in conservative media Few things engage a particular subset of conservative media more than an environmentalist having an apparent change of heart and dumping all over the “climate scare”.Earlier this week, the Australian newspaper ran an opinion piece that fitted this narrative so perfectly that room was found on its front page. Continue reading...
  
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• Brits believe a non-green Covid-19 recovery would be bad for the economy, cross-party survey reveals

  04-07-2020 02:01
  
  A survey of more than 2,000 UK voters, in which all major political preferences were accounted for, has revealed that the majority of Brits want a "green" recovery from Covid-19, in which measures designed to boost the economy also serve to reduce pollution and emissions.
  
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