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• ‘Danger in my back yard’: residents in a wildfire-prone California town eye more Yosemite tourism with unease

  27-10-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  As a new glamping development seeks to open in the region hammered by extreme weather, Mariposa locals are fighting backKathleen Armstrong saw the smoke curling above the tree-covered horizon and turned on her scanner with bated breath. Mariposa was on fire again. It was the Fourth of July, a high-risk time in the California mountain town near Yosemite national park that had already seen its fair share of emergency evacuations.Armstrong and her husband rushed to pack up their four dogs as the sk
  
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• ‘It is about people’s love of the river’: swimming group fighting for rights in the Avon

  27-10-2024 15:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Conham River Park is home to a group devoted to protecting and promoting the use of the riverIn a shallow valley populated by reddening ancient oak trees, the River Avon snakes along quietly – the grind of Bristol unknowingly just metres away.Despite the falling leaves and temperature, a group of women tentatively step into the 12.5C waters of the Conham River Park in the east of the city for a midday swim – a ritual they all insist is not just a hobby but a way of life. Continue rea
  
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• Three things with Sophie Thomson: ‘My infrared thermometer travels with me wherever I go’

  27-10-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the Gardening Australia host shares the tool that turns heads at airport security Read more Three Things interviewsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailGardening is a lifelong love for Sophie Thomson. Her parents ran a plant nursery in the Adelaide Hills where she grew up surrounded by flowers, vegies, herbs and greenery. After her parents sold the business, she launched a career as a gardening expert on TV and radio and, for th
  
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• From plastic bags to shoelaces, the art in this California show is made entirely of trash

  27-10-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco has curated a show of ‘alchemized’ toothpaste caps, zip ties, broken computer keys and perfume spray tubesAs a young artist, Miguel Arzabe visited art shows around the US to learn from others’ work. But his biggest source of inspiration were the exhibit catalogues. Fascinated by the documents, he decided to make his own work out of the books themselves.He cut the pages into thin strips and wove them into a large, intricate And
  
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• Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists say

  27-10-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Pledge signed by experts from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have cut emissionsCarbon offsets used by corporations around the world to lower their reportable greenhouse gas emissions are “ineffectual” and “hindering the energy transition”, according to more than 60 leading climate change scientists.A pledge signed by scientists from nine countries, including the UK, the US and Australia, said the “only pa
  
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• Own some rope from the Mary Rose: rare shipwreck artefacts go on sale

  27-10-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  A haul of 8,000 items from 150 shipwrecks is to be auctioned after the closure of a Cornish museumThey are some of the most evocative historic artefacts that fate ever consigned to the bottom of the sea. Now, coal from the Titanic, a piece of rope from the Mary Rose and musket flints from the shipwreck that inspired William Wordsworth to write one of his greatest works are to be sold at a very rare auction.The artefacts are among the 8,000 objects salvaged from 150 wrecks that will go under the
  
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• Own some coal from the Titanic: rare shipwreck artefacts go on sale

  27-10-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  A haul of 8,000 items from 150 shipwrecks – including the Titanic and Henry the VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose – is to be auctioned after the closure of a Cornish museumThey are some of the most evocative historic artefacts that fate ever consigned to the bottom of the sea. Now, coal from the Titanic, a piece of rope from the Mary Rose and musket flints from the shipwreck that inspired William Wordsworth to write one of his greatest works are to be sold at a very rare auction.T
  
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• Chef Tom Kerridge calls on UK government to fund surplus food scheme

  27-10-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Michelin-starred restaurateur has signed an open letter demanding delivery of £15m to divert produce to food banks and soup kitchensChef Tom Kerridge is teaming up with charities to demand delivery of a promised £15m fund to divert fresh but unused food from farms to food banks and soup kitchens across the country.Repeated promises have been made by former ministers to fund the food waste reduction scheme, which effectively compensates farmers for harvesting, storing and packagin
  
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• The clocks go back, but now is not the time to hibernate

  27-10-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The dark months make nature harder to access, but these simple activities will help you stay connected to itAs the clocks go back today, it’s worth remembering that even though we may consider ourselves to be a nation of nature lovers, in a recent study people in the UK were found to be more disconnected from the natural world than most of our European neighbours. And the result is a decline not just in nature’s wellbeing but in ours, too. And, though it’s harder to get out and
  
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• Stop punishing doctors who take part in climate protests, regulator told

  27-10-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds of health workers sign letter to General Medical Council calling for halt to suspensions as GP faces jail for activismHundreds of health workers have called on the General Medical Council to stop suspending doctors imprisoned for peaceful climate activism ahead of a trial which could see the first jailing of a working GP for a non-violent climate protest in the UK.Two retired GPs have been suspended by GMC-convened tribunals this year after receiving short sentences for non-violent offe
  
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