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• Weather tracker: Storm brings well over a metre of snow to peaks in Alps

  27-12-2024 12:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Several days of snow brought avalanche risk at Christmas, as wintry weather also caused four deaths in IndiaA snowstorm developed across the Alps on Saturday 21 December due to a low-pressure system situated over the Adriatic Sea. This depression allowed relatively warm and moist air to push into the Alps, condensing and falling as snow as it met the much colder alpine air mass. Snowfall continued for several days, with well over 1 metre of snow on some peaks and significant snowfall across many
  
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• Take a walk on the wild side with the environment quiz of 2024

  27-12-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From a ‘holy grail’ discovery to the return of a Dartmoor dweller, test your knowledge of this year’s biggest stories Continue reading...
  
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• Nasa makes history with closest-ever approach to Sun

  27-12-2024 11:28 via bbc.com
  
  Scientists hope the probe can help us better understand how the Sun works.
  
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• Chelsea flower show garden to champion Britain’s endangered rainforests

  27-12-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Zoe Claymore says she wants to help promote and protect rare habitats by using lichens, ferns and foxgloves Mosses and cow parsley will feature in a Chelsea flower show garden to celebrate endangered British rainforests.Vast expanses of the UK were once temperate rainforest. But these moss-covered ancient trees and their lichen have become a rare sight due to deforestation and overgrazing. Dartmoor, for example, once covered with trees, now harbours just a few fragments of temperate rainforest.
  
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• Week in wildlife in pictures: a seasonal robin and newborn lion cubs in Bedfordshire

  27-12-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: The brent geese arrive like fighter pilots – wary of danger | Claire Stares

  27-12-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Langstone, Hampshire: Our smallest goose species doesn’t quite have the military precision of others, but there is still cohesion to their loose formationsA flock of geese winging across an estuary in V-formation is one of the most iconic spectacles of the season, but a rare sight in Langstone and Chichester harbours. In flight, our wintering dark-bellied brents lack the military precision displayed by other species, most notably pink‑footed and barnacle geese. Instead, they ribbon a
  
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• Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024

  27-12-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heatwaves, leaving millions prone to deadly temperaturesThe climate crisis caused an additional six weeks of dangerously hot days in 2024 for the average person, supercharging the fatal impact of heatwaves around the world.The effects of human-caused global heating were far worse for some people, an analysis by World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central has shown. Those in Caribbean and Pacific island states were the hardest hit. Many endure
  
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• Charities to get £15m to save surplus farm food

  27-12-2024 05:06 via bbc.com
  
  Cash could be used for new technology or to provide training to more staff, the government says.
  
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• National Trust warns UK's most precious heritage at risk from extreme weather

  27-12-2024 01:09 via bbc.com
  
  A blurring of the distinctions between seasons is also a challenge for insects and their predators.
  
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