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• ‘After three days we found her alive’: the ‘miracle’ rescues after Spanish floods

  03-11-2024 19:39
  
  Media reported stories of survivors including the woman trapped in her car in a flooded underpass for 72 hoursHer car was among the scores that were swept up in Spain’s deadly floods, tossed about by the mud-coloured waters that surged on to streets. But after 72 hours spent trapped in an underpass, the woman was hailed as one of the lucky ones.“After three days, we found someone alive in their car,” Martín Pérez, the head of Valencia’s civil protection serv
  
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• Thousands of blue-clad protesters join London march for clean water

  03-11-2024 17:09
  More than 130 organisations take part in protest demanding government action over country’s sewage crisisThousands of blue-clad protesters have told the government to “stop poisoning Britain’s water” as they marched through London calling for action on the country’s contaminated coastal waters and rivers.A coalition of more than 130 nature, environmental and water-sport organisations called supporters out on to the streets of the capital on Sunday afternoon, aiming
  
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• Labour MPs push back against anti-pylon lobbying despite local opposition

  03-11-2024 16:38
  
  Letter by 61 Labour MPs supports ‘cheapest and most pragmatic’ plan for new electricity infrastructureMore than 60 Labour MPs have formed a bloc to push back against anti-pylon lobbying by Conservative and Green MPs, saying they back plans to build the pylons despite local opposition in several areas.MPs, particularly in rural areas, have come under mounting pressure from anti-pylon activists to oppose the infrastructure. The Tories found themselves forced to commit to hold a “
  
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• My mother nursed a life-affirming 25-year grudge. Hard as I try, I don’t have the attention span | Zoe Williams

  03-11-2024 13:39
  
  It turns out long-held resentments exist even in the animal kingdom. Does that mean they hold an evolutionary advantage?The best thing that happened to me during the whole of the pandemic was a story on the internet. An Oregon resident, furloughed, saw on a daytime nature documentary that, if you fed crows, they would bring you small gifts. Curious, they tried it, and were delighted to find themselves in effective possession of a 15-strong crow family – but then things took a dark turn. Th
  
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• Grudges aren’t just great fun – they might have an evolutionary benfit. Ask a crow | Zoe Williams

  03-11-2024 13:39
  
  It turns out long-held resentments exist even in the animal kingdom. Does that mean they hold an evolutionary advantage?The best thing that happened to me during the whole of the pandemic was a story on the internet. An Oregon resident, furloughed, saw on a daytime nature documentary that, if you fed crows, they would bring you small gifts. Curious, they tried it, and were delighted to find themselves in effective possession of a 15-strong crow family – but then things took a dark turn. Th
  
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• Revealed: billionaires are ‘ultimate beneficiaries’ linked to €3bn of EU farming subsidies

  03-11-2024 10:54
  
  Thousands of small farms have closed according to analysis of official but opaque data from EU member states‘We didn’t realise how hard it is’: small farmers in Europe struggle to get byThe European Union gave generous farming subsidies to the companies of more than a dozen billionaires between 2018 and 2021, the Guardian can reveal, including companies owned by the former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš and the British businessman Sir James Dyson.Billionaires were &ld
  
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• Cop16 ends in disarry and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

  03-11-2024 07:00
  
  Conservation summit agrees global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics and stronger indigenous representation, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promisesA global summit on halting the destruction of nature ended in disarray on Saturday, with some breakthroughs but key issues left unresolved.Governments have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, for the first time since a 2022 deal to stop the human-caused destruction of life on Earth. Countries hoped to make progress during the two
  
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• Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

  03-11-2024 07:00
  
  Conservation summit agrees global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics and stronger indigenous representation, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promisesA global summit on halting the destruction of nature ended in disarray on Saturday, with some breakthroughs but key issues left unresolved.Governments have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, for the first time since a 2022 deal to stop the human-caused destruction of life on Earth. Countries hoped to make progress during the two
  
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• Silver lining? Why an Australian startup is betting on a copper solar boom

  03-11-2024 00:00
  SunDrive hopes its copper-based solar cell can reach commercial scale in partnership with global panel producer TrinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIf an Australian startup gets its way, the silver lining in the global solar boom will become a copper one – before reserves of the material run out.SunDrive Solar, backed by investors including Malcolm Turnbull and the billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, is hoping its copper-based solar cell can reach commercial scale
  
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