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• Future shock: how will Covid change the course of business?

  26-12-2020 17:00
  
  The crisis poses a deadly threat to some sectors and creates opportunities for others. We examine how they will fare in 2021Coronavirus has changed lives and industries across the UK, accelerating fundamental shifts in behaviour and consumption that were already on their way. Debates about home working, preserving local high streets and the ethics of air travel were bubbling away before coronavirus rampaged across the world, but the consequences of the worst pandemic in more than a century have
  
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• Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by starvation'

  26-12-2020 12:00
  
  Necropsy reveals 80% of the thousands of songbirds that died suddenly showed typical signs of emaciationBirds ‘falling out of the sky’ in mass die-off in south-western USRead more in our series Biodiversity: what happened next?The mass die-off of thousands of songbirds in south-western US was caused by long-term starvation, made worse by unseasonably cold weather probably linked to the climate crisis, scientists have said.Flycatchers, swallows and warblers were among the migratory bi
  
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• Oysters return to Belfast Lough after more than 100 years

  26-12-2020 09:00
  
  Researchers surprised by reappearance of species without aid of reintroduction schemeNative oysters have unexpectedly returned to the shores of Belfast Lough after more than 100 years, researchers have discovered – though scientists are still unsure how they got there.Ostrea edulis, the European flat oyster, is listed as threatened and/or declining by the Ospar conservation scheme and is the focus of numerous biodiversity projects around Europe. But now it has impressed scientists by estab
  
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• Gibraltar vets make daily patrols to check macaques for coronavirus

  26-12-2020 09:00
  
  Authorities want to shield Europe’s only wild monkeys from threat of Covid-19Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficials in Gibraltar are making daily patrols of the territory’s Barbary macaque population amid fears that the iconic monkeys could be vulnerable to the coronavirus.The British overseas territory has been relatively spared by the virus, documenting about 1,000 confirmed cases and six deaths. But as governments around the world wrestle with
  
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• 'It's as if we've learned nothing': alarm over Amazon road project

  26-12-2020 07:00
  
  Memories of Brazil’s dictatorship as plan threatens biodiverse home of three indigenous communitiesBrazilian activists have voiced alarm over their government’s plans to bulldoze a 94-mile highway through a biodiverse corner of the Amazon along the border with Peru that is home to at least three indigenous communities.The planned road is an extension of the BR-364, a 2,700-mile highway that links São Paulo with the Amazon state of Acre, and would connect the town of Cruzeiro d
  
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• How Lewis Hamilton is helping make racing greener

  26-12-2020 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lewis Hamilton isn't just the world's most successful F1 driver, he's also a key backer of a new off-road electric vehicle racing series called Extreme E.
  
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