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• 'Like champagne, mate': how a US kangaroo ban could kill off an Indigenous opportunity

  13-03-2021 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As animal rights groups in America call for an end to imports, Aboriginal people push for a culturally-appropriate industry on countryLast night Clayton Donovan watched a kangaroo die. Australia’s only hatted Indigenous chef joined four others who made the 156km drive to Burra in South Australia’s mid-north to see for themselves where the meat they serve on their plates actually comes from.The 47-year-old, who grew up on Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung land on the mid-north coast of New
  
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• 'It looks like snow': how Australia plans to fix the 'horrifying' blight of expanded polystyrene

  13-03-2021 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A study by the Yarra Riverkeeper Association found about half the litter in the river was expanded polystyreneOn a two-kilometre stretch of the Yarra River east of Melbourne’s CBD a few years ago, volunteers were gathering rubbish from the banks and reeds.Among all the discarded bottles and bits of plastic sucked up with an oversized vacuum were an estimated 5 million pieces of expanded polystyrene – some in the form of tiny white balls, others in chunks at various stages of disinteg
  
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• ‘There's no ice’: warming seas chill Quebec’s seal tourism

  13-03-2021 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  For the fifth time since 2010, a lack of ice means no visitors and an unstable future for the ice-dependent harp seal“There’s no season this year. There’s no ice,” says Ariane Bérubé, sales director for the Château Madelinot hotel on Quebec’s Magdalen Islands (also known as the Îles de la Madeleine).It’s not the first time the seal pup observation season has been cancelled – since 2010 there have been five winters with insuffici
  
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• Climate change: 'Forever plant' seagrass faces uncertain future

  13-03-2021 12:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A seagrass that's one of the world's most powerful weapons against climate change is under threat from warming waters.
  
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• Signs of spring in the garden mean one thing: get sowing | Alys Fowler

  13-03-2021 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I always kick off with broad beans, dwarf peas and radishes. Then it’s game on for everything elseLet the show begin! The snowdrops are fading, the daffodils are starting to tower above them, the crocuses are running riot, and the lengthening days are slowly warming the soil. These signs of spring mean one thing: it’s time to start sowing.You don’t, however, have to do it all at once. Stagger sowing and you’ll be able to keep a steady stream of small seedlings from window
  
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• ‘We are seeing a crisis in values’ – an extract from Mark Carney’s book

  13-03-2021 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The former head of the Bank of England looks at the danger of putting a price on everythingRead Simon Hattenstone’s interview with Mark Carney
  A few summers ago when a range of policymakers, business people, academics, labour leaders and charity workers gathered at the Vatican to discuss the future of the market system, Pope Francis surprised us by joining the lunch and sharing a parable. He observed that:Our meal will be accompanied by wine. Now, wine is many things. It has a bouquet, col
  
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• Mark Carney: ‘I didn’t want the Bank of England job. But I was asked to fix something’

  13-03-2021 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  He earned a fortune at Goldman Sachs, but now the banker wants the financial sector to reassess its values and tackle the climate emergencyRead an exclusive extract from Carney’s book
  Mark Carney is no ordinary banker. He is the banker’s banker, the superstar banker, the George Clooney of banking, possibly even the James Bond of banking. The accolades bestowed on him are many: he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2010, the world’s
  
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• Lawn growers throw in the trowel as meadows replace perfect stripes

  13-03-2021 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Traditional mowing regimes being ditched as aesthetics and morality come under scrutinyThey were once a status symbol for the rich, and later the pride and joy of suburbia. But the immaculately striped, tightly mown lawn is becoming an endangered species.Monty Don this week called time on the predominantly male, British “obsession” with a tidy lawn, arguing that fossil-fuel-powered mowing was noisy and “about the most injurious thing you can do to wildlife”. Continue read
  
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