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• William returns to 'special place' Africa for prize awards

  02-11-2024 23:41 via bbc.com
  
  The awards event in South Africa will have emotional connections for the Prince of Wales.
  
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• Spain floods: 10,000 troops and police drafted in to deal with disaster

  02-11-2024 22:47
  
  Pedro Sánchez orders largest peacetime troop deployment to deal with flooding that has killed 211 peopleSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has ordered the country’s largest peacetime military deployment, announcing that 10,000 troops and police officers will be drafted in to help deal with the aftermath of this week’s devastating floods, which have killed at least 211 people in eastern, southern and central regions.Speaking after chairing a meeting of the floo
  
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• Chris Bowen on Trump, science and coal: ‘We’re living climate change. What we’re trying to do is avoid the worst of it’

  02-11-2024 20:00
  
  The climate change minister is ‘disturbed’ by rising temperatures and increasingly unnatural natural disasters – but that’s what gets him out of bed every dayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn Spain, more than 200 people have been killed after the deadliest floods in the country’s modern history. Australia is heating faster than the global average, meaning more extreme heat events, longer fire seasons, increasingly intense heavy rain and s
  
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• Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists

  02-11-2024 16:57 via bbc.com
  
  Representatives of 196 countries have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, as part of the COP biodiversity summit.
  
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• US students score win in push for fossil fuel divestment by private high schools

  02-11-2024 14:00
  
  Concerned students press for their high schools – some with $1bn endowments – to reinvest in clean energyA high school in California has decided not to invest in coal, oil or gas, instead pledging to put money into clean energy. It’s the latest win in a new fossil fuel divestment campus campaign launched by high schoolers across 11 countries that is gaining support in the US.The Nueva School, an elite private school outside San Francisco, pledged in spring 2024 to invest a port
  
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• ‘You have to disguise your human form’: how sea eagles are being returned to Severn estuary after 150 years

  02-11-2024 13:00
  
  Use of bird hand-puppets to rear young among innovative methods unveiled as part of project to restore speciesSea eagles were last seen soaring over the shimmering mud flats and brackish tidal waters of the Severn estuary more than 150 years ago. Now wildlife charities have unveiled innovative plans to bring the raptor back to the estuary, which flows into the Bristol Channel between south-west England and south Wales, by 2026.“Sea eagles used to be common in these regions. But they were w
  
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• Toxic PFAS in menstrual pads harms reproductive health, advocates says

  02-11-2024 13:00
  
  California lawsuit demands Carefree and parent company Edgewell remove chemicals or add warning labelCarefree menstrual pads are contaminated with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”, which presents a threat to the reproductive health of women using the products, a new lawsuit filed in California state court alleges.The suit demands Carefree and its parent company, personal care product giant Edgewell, remove PFAS from the products or put a warning label on its packaging. Continue reading
  
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• Toxic PFAS in menstrual pads harm reproductive health, advocates says

  02-11-2024 13:00
  
  California lawsuit demands Carefree and parent company Edgewell remove chemicals or add warning labelCarefree menstrual pads are contaminated with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”, which presents a threat to the reproductive health of women using the products, a new lawsuit filed in California state court alleges.The suit demands Carefree and its parent company, personal care product giant Edgewell, remove PFAS from the products or put a warning label on its packaging. Continue reading
  
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• Country diary: A tense day at the sheep auction | Andrea Meanwell

  02-11-2024 06:30
  
  Kendal, Cumbria: We’re changing the make-up of our livestock, and today we need to recoup some losses. So I pick up my ‘market stick’ and take to the ringI was feeling the pressure when I woke up on the morning of the Lakeland fair at Kendal auction. We have applied to be part of the new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme, including its “native breeds at risk” supplement. This means that 80% of our livestock must be native pedigrees, so we have spent thousan
  
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• ‘Welfare for the rich’: how farm subsidies wrecked Europe’s landscapes

  02-11-2024 06:00
  
  The steep and stark environmental decline was not supposed to happen under the common agricultural policy The Rhine overflowed last winter, covering fields miles from the river and in some places leaving just the tops of trees visible.But Thomas Bollig, who farms just a few miles from the banks of the Rhine, was not worried. Even as floods inundated the fields of his neighbours, making sowing impossible, his holdings were largely unaffected. Bollig farms organically, and the natural methods he u
  
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• Revealed: the growing income gap between Europe’s biggest and smallest farms

  02-11-2024 06:00
  
  Big farms rake in record profits when food prices soar, while small farms struggle on razor-thin margins‘Welfare for the rich’: how farm subsidies wrecked Europe’s landscapesThe income gap between the biggest and smallest farms in Europe has doubled in the past 15 years and hit record levels at the same time as the number of small farms has collapsed, a Guardian analysis of agricultural income data has found.Figures from the European Commission’s Farming Accountancy Data
  
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