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• The Guardian view on reclaiming the Seine: hope for 21st century rivers | Editorial

  02-08-2024 19:25
  
  Paris 2024 has pointed the way towards a brighter future for urban waterways in post-industrial citiesIt was an American modernist poet who captured best the ancient, elemental status of rivers. In one of his best-loved poems, Wallace Stevens celebrated their “third commonness with light and air / A curriculum, a vigor, a local abstraction”. Life-supporting and place-defining, the great rivers of the world have nurtured and sustained our cities, but more latterly been blighted by the
  
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• Choughs breed in Kent for first time in 200 years

  02-08-2024 15:00
  
  Unexpected fledging is result of long-term restoration project to bring red-billed birds back to Kent coastlineThe chough, a charismatic cliff-dwelling corvid, has bred in Kent for the first time in two centuries.A young pair among eight birds released last year defied expectations to successfully breed this summer, making a nest on Dover Castle and rearing one chick, which fledged in June. Continue reading...
  
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• The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals

  02-08-2024 13:00
  
  As demand for the tin ore cassiterite soars, special forces units of Brazil’s Ibama environment agency must play a cat and mouse game with the thousands of illegal miners pouring into Yanomami reservesIn the back yard of the federal police headquarters in Roraima, the northernmost state of Brazil, giant sacks lie strewn and overflowing with a jet-black, gravel-like mineral: cassiterite. Although less high-profile than other items seized during a crackdown on illegal mining in this Amazon s
  
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• Harris should take on oil industry if she wins election, climate advocates say

  02-08-2024 12:00
  
  Environmentalists believe presumptive nominee is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute fossil fuel firms over disinformationIf elected president, Kamala Harris should take on the fossil fuel industry for its history of spreading climate disinformation, environmentalists say.Forty US states and municipalities have sued big oil for allegedly spreading climate disinformation. For years, climate advocates and some lawmakers have said the Department of Justice should file a similar case. Continue
  
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• Harris is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute big oil, climate advocates say

  02-08-2024 12:00
  
  Environmentalists want DoJ to hold fossil fuel firms accountable and for presumptive nominee to lead chargeIf elected president, Kamala Harris should take on the fossil fuel industry for its history of spreading climate disinformation, environmentalists say.Forty US states and municipalities have sued big oil for allegedly spreading climate disinformation. For years, climate advocates and some lawmakers have said the Department of Justice should file a similar case. Continue reading...
  
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• Weather tracker: Record-breaking rain in Delhi leaves trail of destruction

  02-08-2024 09:02
  
  Almost 200 killed as deluge sweeps northern India, while rain gives way to high humidity at Paris OlympicsBetween Wednesday and Thursday morning, 147mm of rain was recorded in eastern parts of Delhi by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), breaking a 14-year record for the highest single day total in July.Delhi received more than half its monthly rainfall on Wednesday. This torrential rain damaged infrastructure throughout northern India as waterlogged drains led to flash floods. Continue r
  
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• Week in wildlife – in pictures: a feisty sea lion, a retiring elephant and a fleeing fox

  02-08-2024 09:00
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• China sees highest number of significant floods since records began

  02-08-2024 08:01
  
  So far this year officials warnings have been issued for 25 floods, and China is only halfway through its peak flood seasonHalfway through the peak flood season, China has already experienced the highest number of significant floods since record keeping began in 1998, and the hottest July since 1961, authorities said on Friday.This year so far it has recorded 25 “numbered” events, which the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources defined as having water levels that prompt an official war
  
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• Zoo hails birth of 'one of world's rarest animals'

  02-08-2024 07:25 via bbc.com
  
  The onager foal has been running off energy while enjoying his new habitat, zookeepers said.
  
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• Surrounding cities with trees may bring down urban heat

  02-08-2024 07:00
  Belts of trees and large lakes suck cooler air that reduces urban heat island effect by 0.5C, scientists sayA reduction in temperature of 0.5C may not sound much but with cities getting hotter as the climate warms it could save the lives of elderly people and young children.The urban heat island effect, which raises temperatures in cities by 2-3C because the sun’s rays are absorbed by roads, roofs and other hard surfaces, is already making life uncomfortable for millions worldwide and caus
  
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• Much cagou about something: New Caledonia’s favourite bird thriving after conservation push

  02-08-2024 04:54
  
  Efforts to protect the flamboyant flightless bird, including managing predators, have seen cagou numbers grow in the Pacific territoryIn the early hours of the morning, a powerful cry echoes through the rainforest in Farino, in southern New Caledonia. What sounds like a dog barking is actually the song of the cagou. The shy bird, with grey plumage and a distinctive crest, is difficult to see through the trees.The striking bird is an important cultural symbol in the French Pacific territory, deco
  
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