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• A brutal hurricane razed their town. Five years later, they’re still searching for home

  31-08-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas in 2019. Its poorest survivors are being pushed from one shantytown to the nextShaquille Joseph knew things were profoundly wrong, irreversibly so, when he heard the bubbling.The noise had no logical origin. It wasn’t the sound of a tidal wave, roaring towards his house, but a steady fizzing, like a pot of water boiling over in the next room. Moments before, Joseph had been ready to fall asleep in his bedroom. But now he got up and went to the window. C
  
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• Upcycling a black cab or bin lorry: growing industry converts old vehicles to electric

  31-08-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Entrepreneurs are replacing petrol and diesel engines on buses, boats and even planes – and say the impact is not only environmentalBy all rights the 2007 black cab driving through London on a sunny summer day should be on its way out. Taxis older than 12 years are not eligible for licences in the city, to try to cut air pollution. But this one is different: under its bonnet is an electric battery and motor.That would not have been immediately obvious to the family trying to hail the Guard
  
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• Many protected landscapes owned by English water firms in disrepair, data shows

  31-08-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Figures reveal just 16% of company-controlled sites of special scientific interest are in good conditionWater companies are allowing important natural landscapes they own to fall into disrepair, data shows, with only 16% of sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) under their control in good condition.The companies have been accused of “polluting for profit” by not investing to improve the status of their SSSIs. Continue reading...
  
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• Profits from community windfarm to fund a million native trees in Hebrides

  31-08-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  About 211,000 saplings already planted under plan to reestablish woodland on Western Isles croftsAn ambitious plan to plant at least a million native trees on crofts in the Outer Hebrides has taken root, its organisers say, with more than 200 small new woods sprouting across the islands.The Western Isles woodland project hopes to reestablish a thriving mosaic of small woods dotted across the islands by using vacant or underused crofts to reforest the Hebrides and promote nature restoration. Cont
  
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• Country diary: This bird is about to fly non-stop to the Sahara desert | Rick Beven

  31-08-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Sandwich, Kent: The warbler migrations have begun, and this one – now carefully ringed before its mammoth journey – is a more uncommon oneThe departure of our warblers in autumn is an exfiltration quite unlike the noisy invasion of their arrival in spring. The migration of the Phylloscopus, or leaf warblers, has begun and our observatory on the Kent coast has been catching and ringing large numbers of willow warblers and chiffchaffs on their way to their wintering grounds in west Afr
  
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• A day in the life of a Queensland prawn trawler – in pictures

  31-08-2024 02:00 via theguardian.com
  Photographer Paul Hilton shadowed Captain Robert Bergholz on his boat Restless to see how a local prawn trawler’s day unfolds Continue reading...
  
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