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• Scientists unveil 50,000-year-old baby mammoth remains

  23-12-2024 19:24 via bbc.com
  
  "Yana" is the latest pre-historic discovery in a crater in a remote region of Russia.
  
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• Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses

  23-12-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation showsThames Water intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs including bonuses and dividends, the Guardian can reveal.The company, which serves more than 16 million customers, cut the funds after senior managers assessed the potential risks of such a move. Continue reading...
  
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• My sewing group makes reusable produce bags - cutting back on plastic and textile waste

  23-12-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Read more from My DIY climate hack, a series on everyday people’s creative solutions to the climate crisisSingle-use plastic bags are not only wasteful, they cause serious damage to the environment and our health. Anne-Marie Bonneau, 56, is on a mission to put more reusable produce bags into the world. With the help of her sewing bee group, who make them from upcycled fabric, they’ve given more than 4,000 bags away.As more cities and states implement plastic bag bans, Bonneau, who is
  
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• How to teach climate change so 15-year-olds can act

  23-12-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  OECD’s Pisa program will measure the ability of students to take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the global world’More summer essentialsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“It’s going to get hot and everything’s going to be on fire and the oceans will rise. That’s just like the worst of the worst. How do you combat that?” asks year 11 student, Josh Dorian.“Well, you fix it, you
  
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• Water voles bounce back in key areas but distribution across UK declines

  23-12-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Efforts to eradicate American mink help boost population of river-residing mammal in 11 areas of countryWater voles continue to decline in their distribution across Britain but there are signs of recovery in some regions, with populations bouncing back in 11 key areas, according to a report.The river-residing mammal, which inspired Ratty in the Wind in the Willows, has revived in number in parts of Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and East Anglia thanks to targeted conservation w
  
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• ‘If we die, we die together’: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, are we better prepared?

  23-12-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Aceh in 2004. Now warning systems are in place, but some feel more could be doneIt was just before 8am on Sunday 26 December 2004 when the earthquake struck. Abdul Rahem, 47, a fisher, was strolling along the beach, enjoying the morning breeze near to his home in Lam Awe, a sleepy fishing village on the coast of Aceh in Indonesia. He retreated to paddy fields when the violent shaking and swinging stopped. But it wasn’t until he heard the cries
  
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• ‘They knew that we were here’: following in the footsteps of the uncontacted Pardo River Kawahiva people

  23-12-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Every few years, a team from Brazilian state body Funai enter the forest hoping to find signs of the community in order to assesses their wellbeing and security. Here is what their most recent mission revealedRead more in this seriesIn 1999, when Jair Candor came across four huts, several hunting blinds and a fishing spot used by a previously unknown group of people, he immediately followed government policy and retreated.Brazil’s 1988 constitution requires that such places – where u
  
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• Sprout bhajis? How to feed unexpected guests at Christmas and New Year

  23-12-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Elevate the basics with cupboard staples and when it’s all finished store the leftovers quicklyTurning a dish from what you might have at the weekend to something special to impress guests can often be achieved just by adding something which is already in the fridge or cupboard. Continue reading...
  
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• Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer

  23-12-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forestsThe Finnish folk musician Liisa Matveinen lives in a mustard-coloured house in Ilomantsi, 12 miles (20km) from the Russian border. Large books of folk songs line her walls. Sitting in her kitchen, Matveinen sings a about a humble hunter going into the woods to find reindeer.The song tells us how they were “honoured” pr
  
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• Country diary: Few have known this landscape better than Penny Condry | Jim Perrin

  23-12-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Machynlleth, Powys: After many decades of the closest observation, good humour and protection, she will be much missedEvery other Saturday for 41 years, the word “Machynlleth” would alert nature-lovers to Bill Condry’s latest dispatch for the Guardian’s country diary. His milltir sgwâr – “square mile” – was the RSPB’s Ynys-hir nature reserve, of which he was warden.On my way north this week, I turned in here. While t
  
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