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• Trip on psychedelics, save the planet: the offbeat solution to the climate crisis

  02-10-2024 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Proponents say using hallucinogens can spark ‘consciousness shifts’ to inspire climate-friendly behaviorsThousands gathered for New York City’s annual Climate Week last week to promote climate solutions, from the phaseout of fossil-fuel subsidies to nuclear energy to corporate-led schemes like carbon credits. Others touted a more offbeat potential salve to the crisis: psychedelics.Under the banner of Psychedelic Climate Week, a group of academics, marketers and advocates gather
  
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• Plibersek’s coalmine decision is double trouble for climate and housing | Grogonomics

  02-10-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  The emissions impact is obvious but with full employment in construction, approving three mine extensions is saying you want workers there rather than building homesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, approved three new coalmine expansions last week, she not only failed abjectly to act on climate change, but by diverting scarce workers from constructing homes to expanding fossil-fuel projects, she also made it harder for the
  
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• Fly brain breakthrough 'huge leap' to unlock human mind

  02-10-2024 17:00 via bbc.com
  
  A new map showing 50 million neural connections is a 'huge leap' to understanding our own brains.
  
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• ‘The Earth is crying out for help’: as fires decimate South America, smoke shrouds its skies

  02-10-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Huge tracts of land have burned from largely man-made blazes in Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Brazil and other countries, with people suffocating from its fallout“Blue, our sky is forever blue!” effuses the official anthem of Rondônia, a UK-sized chunk of the Amazon in the western reaches of Brazil. But the “pure crystalline” heavens celebrated by those lyrics have vanished in recent months.Huge tracts of South America have been blanketed in smoke from largely man-made w
  
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• Floods are wreaking havoc around the world. Vienna might have found an answer | Gernot Wagner

  02-10-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Austrian capital has been spared the worst of recent flooding. Its experience could be a lesson in how to tackle the climate crisisFloods are seemingly unavoidable these days. Florida, North Carolina, Nigeria, Tunisia, Mexico, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Poland and Austria are among the places that have experienced flooding in the last month. Those floods should no longer come as much of a surprise. Climate change leads to more frequent and intense rain almost everywhere on the planet, and most i
  
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• Days of the jackal: Canis aureus makes sudden tracks into western Europe

  02-10-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The golden jackal has expanded its range as far as Norway and Spain, seemingly driven by climate breakdownThe golden jackal, Canis aureus, may seem an exotic creature from a far-off country but the species has suddenly expanded its range into western Europe. Much smaller than a wolf but larger than a fox, the jackal will compete with both species for food and territory. The animals have been found as far north as Finland and Norway and have also reached Spain.Genetic research shows the individua
  
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• Country diary: The last redstart till spring | Mya Bambrick

  02-10-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Purbeck Heaths, Dorset: On a 22-mile fundraising walk, I spotted two rusty-red birds about to embark on their own epic journeyTwenty miles in, two to go. I had spent the previous 12 hours walking around Poole Harbour, Dorset, for a birthday fundraiser in aid of a local environmental charity, Birds of Poole Harbour. I was just passing through Hartland Moor as the sun hovered above the distant pine trees, casting an orange hue on the gorse and heather below.This last section of the walk took me th
  
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