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• Perseid meteor shower: When and how to watch

  10-08-2024 15:49 via bbc.com
  
  The Perseids meteor shower peaks between August 11th and 13th this year.
  
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• ‘Left with nothing’: inside California’s wildfire home insurance crisis

  10-08-2024 13:00
  As California sees increasingly devastating fires, Butte county residents lose their insurance – and homesKristy and Michael Daneau breathed a deep sigh of relief when they found the home for sale on a heavily wooded lane in northern California’s Butte county five years ago. Everything lined up.The owner was looking to sell only to survivors of the Camp fire. A few months earlier, the couple and their four daughters had lost everything in the blaze, save for their four dogs. Kristy b
  
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• Conservation group releases video showing logging near endangered greater gliders – video

  10-08-2024 10:15
  
  The group says the logging in a state-owned forest in Queensland is taking place less than 3km from a high-density population group of endangered greater gliders. Conservation groups want swathes of St Mary state forest near Maryborough to be included in the Queensland government's proposed Greater Glider Forest park• After 25 years, logging and bushfires, a greater glider has been spotted in Deongwar state forest Continue reading...
  
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• ‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?

  10-08-2024 08:00
  There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group most likely to buy EVsElon Musk has long flirted with rightwing politics, and delights in pushing an image of himself as a contrarian showman. Yet in recent months the billionaire’s political allegiances have started to raise a question for Tesla, the company that he built into the world’s largest electric carmaker: just how far can he go before customers start to abandon his products?The German pha
  
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• Call for tougher policing of Scottish grouse moors on eve of ‘Glorious Twelfth’

  10-08-2024 07:00
  
  For first time, moors must hold licence under regime aiming to reduce unlawful killing of birds of prey by gamekeepersWildlife campaigners are calling for even tougher policing of Scottish grouse moors on the eve of this year’s “Glorious Twelfth”, which marks the legal start of the grouse shooting season.On Monday 12 August moors across the British uplands will echo to the sound of shotguns and estate vehicles. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: Two kings of the cliff, living in something like harmony | Lev Parikian

  10-08-2024 06:30
  
  Blackgang Beach, Isle of Wight: For a moment on a deserted beach, raven and peregrine rattle their sabres before going about their business once moreYou have to know it’s there. A scramble down narrow paths, brushing aside overhanging branches, then out on to the rocks before a short descent to the fine shingle. The reward? A deserted beach, curving into the distance. Channel to the left, chalk cliffs to the right. Human count: zero. Perfect.Two hundred gulls huddle together by the shoreli
  
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• The weird world of wasps and why we should worry if they are on the wane

  10-08-2024 06:00
  The winged insects may have a bad rep but their low profile this summer could spell trouble for the environmentWe think of them as pests to run away from, or to squash with the nearest object to hand, before they sting us or target our jam sandwiches. But wasps are actually one of the most fascinating species around; apex predators that kill and dismember prey for their young and have complex and fascinating social lives.This year they are in the spotlight after experts began to notice they were
  
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• Down into the ocean's 'twilight zone' with Boaty McBoatface

  10-08-2024 02:51 via bbc.com
  
  The UK's most famous robot returns after travelling 2000km in the deep ocean.
  
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• Fresh hope for bird with bizarre 'crex crex' call

  10-08-2024 02:33 via bbc.com
  
  There are hopes the corncrake can stage a comeback in England, after being reintroduced to Norfolk.
  
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• How to build your ecohome: start simple, do your research and take the time to get it right

  10-08-2024 02:00
  From designing an entire house from scratch to making basic changes with big impacts, getting into ecologically efficient homes isn’t as hard as it seemsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhether you’re considering building a new ecologically sustainable home, renovating an existing one, or simply interested in sustainable building methods, there are many different points of entry to ecohomes – depending on your budget and level of commitme
  
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