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• The Guardian view on the rise of eco-poetry: writing cannot ignore global heating | Editorial

  10-11-2024 19:25 via theguardian.com
  Verse’s connection to nature can inspire awareness and hope amid the climate crisis, offering clarity beyond dataPoetry has a big debt to nature, its muse and source of metaphor for centuries. As the UN climate conference begins, it is time to pay it back. Poetry must give nature a voice to express its dire predicament. “I will rise,” declares the furious river in the Scottish makar Kathleen Jamie’s poem What the Clyde Said, After Cop26 – just as the River
  
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• Tide’s out, dinner’s up: why Wales is at the forefront of a seaweed revolution

  10-11-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Food, fertiliser, fuel … seaweed has been a life force for centuries. On a coastal foraging trip in Pembrokeshire, we discover it’s now behind a new green initiative, tooI am lying in a hot bath filled with seaweed. After a week learning about the stuff, collecting it, drying it, eating it, feeling it slippery beneath my feet, this is the first time I’ve bathed in seaweed and, yes, in the steam and candlelight, I get it – I get what the fish are crazy for. The fish, the
  
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• Three things with Yael Stone: ‘Please just remember – I am not talking about a vibrator’

  10-11-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the actor turned activist tells us about her ‘dooga dooga’ – and a childhood cassette tapeRead more Three Things interviewsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYael Stone scored her big break with her role as inmate Lorna Morello in the hit Netflix prison drama Orange Is the New Black. But instead of pursuing a Hollywood career after the series ended in 2019, Stone walked away from it all.After securing a covet
  
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• Fears New York buildings’ deadly toll on migratory birds could be on the rise

  10-11-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Annual bird survey suggests ‘particularly bad’ autumn on key migration route through city’s brightly lit skyscrapersAs fall bird migration nears its end in New York City, a troubling trend may be emerging: preliminary evidence suggest that more avians collided with buildings this season compared with last autumn.NYC Bird Alliance surveys suggest that collisions are up citywide and that it has proved to be a “particularly bad” autumn for collisions. While spring 2024
  
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• Plans for a new national park in Wales met with opposition from local residents

  10-11-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A proposal to protect part of rural Wales has sparked a furious debate over who the countryside is forPlans to create a new Welsh national park stretching from the dunes of north-east Wales to the wild Berwyn mountains and the peaceful, wooded slopes of Lake Vyrnwy further south have captured the imagination of many ramblers, cyclists and other outdoor lovers.But the Welsh government’s proposals to improve access to nature have been dismissed by an opposition group as creating “a pla
  
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• Deleted tweets, missed warnings and calls for the ‘hangman’: the bitter political fallout from Spain’s floods

  10-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The region’s president responds to criticisms that he was slow to act by attacking the prime ministerThe sun still hadn’t risen on Tuesday 29 October when the mayor of Utiel, Ricardo Gabaldón, took another look at the warnings from Spain’s state meteorological office and ordered all the schools in the small Valencian town to close.“The warning early that morning – at 5am or 6am – was orange,” he said. “That’s when I was weighing up whe
  
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