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• Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales

  14-08-2024 17:00 via bbc.com
  
  Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.
  
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• Fallout from Woodside’s birthday bash shows Australia is far from united in climate fight | Temperature Check

  14-08-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  WA newspaper throws tantrum and Tony Abbott blames ‘climate cult’ after prime minister misses fossil fuel company’s partyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIf we are looking for something to illustrate Australia’s inability to have any coherent and sustained response to the climate crisis over the past couple of decades, we can find it in the reaction to the fossil fuel giant Woodside’s 70th birthday dinner.That reaction being a
  
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• ‘The wells are salty’: how the invading ocean is contaminating Vanuatu’s water

  14-08-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As the climate crisis causes the Pacific to rise, the archipelago’s water is increasingly unsafe to drinkChurch pastor Damien Hophand, who lives on the island of Malekula in Vanuatu with his wife and two children, has seen a change to the community’s water supply recently – and it’s not a welcome one. “The wells are salty,” says Hophand. “It’s not suitable for drinking.”While many on the archipelago of 83 islands of Vanuatu get all their wate
  
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• Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year

  14-08-2024 12:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: In 2024, 15 national temperature records have been set as weather extremes grow more frequent, climate historian saysHow does today’s extreme heat compare with Earth’s past climate?‘You feel like you’re suffocating’: Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shadeA record 15 national heat records have been broken since the start of this year, an influential climate historian has told the Guardian, as weather extremes grow more f
  
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• How does today’s extreme heat compare with Earth’s past climate?

  14-08-2024 12:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Viewed through a long enough lens, our climate can seem unremarkable – but for humans it is unprecedentedUnprecedented number of heat records broken this year‘You feel like you’re suffocating’: Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shadeClimate records are tumbling at a galloping pace. The world has just experienced its hottest ever single day on record, amid a string of record-breaking months that followed the planet’s hottest recorde
  
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• ‘You feel like you’re suffocating’: Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shade

  14-08-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Florida has passed legislation banning local safety rules for outdoor workers, despite heat stress set to cost global economy $2.4tn by 2030Unprecedented number of heat records broken this yearHow does today’s extreme heat compare with Earth’s past climate?It was a hot, muggy day in south Florida when Cristina Lopez sank to her knees, overcome by a wave of nausea and dizziness, as the sun beat down relentlessly on the plant nursery where the Guatemalan migrant works with three of her
  
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• Britain experiencing a beaver baby boom as kits spotted across the country

  14-08-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Kits emerge for after-dark dips in Northumberland, London, Kent and the Cairngorms after reintroduction driveA beaver baby boom is under way across Britain this summer in places where the species had been extinct for centuries.From Ealing in London to the Cairngorms in Scotland, and from Canterbury in Kent to the Wallington Estate in Northumberland, new kits have emerged from their lodges for an after-dark dip in the water. Continue reading...
  
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• Birdwatch: herring gulls forced to move to urban jungle

  14-08-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Endangered species can provoke unfair hostility among city dwellers The herring gull’s haunting cry reminds us of childhood seaside holidays by the beach, or the theme of the long-running BBC radio series Desert Island Discs.Yet today, you are more likely to hear that memorable sound in our city centres rather than by the sea. Herring gulls have moved into the urban jungle, nesting on the roofs of tall buildings, where they are safe from predators such as foxes, or their marine-dwelling co
  
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• Activists warn of ‘extreme anger’ if ministers fail to reform water regulator

  14-08-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sources say government has dismissed some of the more ambitious ideas for fixing sewage crisisAnti-sewage campaigners have warned of “extreme anger” if the Labour government does not radically reform the water regulator.Sources at the Environment Agency (EA) and in the Labour party have told the Guardian that while Labour had spent time considering reforms of the EA and Ofwat in order to fix the sewage crisis, some stricter options that had been proposed were now off the table. Conti
  
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• Police remove climate protesters from Parliament House in Canberra – video

  14-08-2024 06:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Climate protesters were removed from Parliament House by police on Wednesday morning. In a statement, the protesters said they felt 'betrayed by the Albanese government’s abandonment of major reform to our environment laws earlier this year, following pressure from coal and gas companies' Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: A valley revived, as far as the eye can see | Merryn Glover

  14-08-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Glen Feshie, Cairngorms national park, Scotland: We take a bike ride through a glacial trough that slowly but surely become a wildlife haven The Feshie is a river of time and change. It’s a sunny morning when we pedal up through the pine forests along its western banks. Some of these trees are commercial plantation, but others are fragments of the ancient Caledonian forest. It was nearly destroyed by the felling of successive wars, leaving Glen Feshie a wasteland of stumps by the mid-1940s
  
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• Despair as the sea slowly swallows a Kenyan beauty spot

  14-08-2024 02:55 via bbc.com
  
  Local authorities are seeking to build a seawall to prevent further intrusion of the ocean to the village.
  
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• More cattle kept in UK ‘megafarms’, BBC finds

  14-08-2024 01:00 via bbc.com
  
  Campaigners warn more cows could be spending their entire productive lives indoors.
  
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