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• ‘The forest will survive’: the volunteers saving Kharkiv’s war-charred woodland

  31-12-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite fighting going on just miles away, some Ukrainians are looking to the future – by planting sturdy English oaksYuriy Bengus, a biologist, surveyed a scene of destruction. The Zhuravli forest, on the northern edge of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, was a blackened mess. Rooks cawed from burned pine trees and hopped between stumps. A dead bird lay in an abandoned military dugout. War was down the road. From somewhere to the north of Kharkiv came a muffled boom.Bengus plunged his
  
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• ‘In 10 years we may cease to exist’: rising seas and influx of tourists threaten to engulf Panama island

  31-12-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guna people have fought for survival for hundreds of years. But modern threats are testing its cultural resilienceVanishing act: Panama’s Guna people forced to move as the sea swallows their island – in picturesIn a church built on stilts facing the sea, two 19-year-old American Mormon priests sit in front of the altar chatting to young Guna people. Elder Burr and Elder Aba, from the US states of Utah and Oregon respectively, reached the island of Kanir-Dup , in the Guna Yala (Sa
  
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• 10m trees to be planted in US to replace ones destroyed by hurricanes

  31-12-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Arbor Day Foundation non-profit to plant trees in six of the worst-hit states over the next four yearsSome costs of the recently ended supercharged 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, those that can be quantified at least, are astounding.A succession of storms that ravaged large areas of the US killed at least 375 people, the most in the mainland US since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Some estimates pegged damage and economic loss at $500bn. Continue reading...
  
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• Starmer faces test of climate leadership with big decisions on carbon budget

  31-12-2024 10:54 via theguardian.com
  
  PM will have to respond to Climate Change Committee’s recommendations on future emissions cuts with drastic changes in many sectors of economyKeir Starmer will face a key test of his claims to leadership on the climate early next year, when the UK’s statutory advisers issue their latest advice on future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.The independent Climate Change Committee will set out recommendations on the UK’s seventh carbon budget on 26 February. At the core of the budge
  
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• Country diary: A Hogmanay fire to see in the new year | Tom Allan

  31-12-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wolfehopelee, Scottish Borders: The bonfire is an annual ritual where we take stock of the year with cold backs and flame-seared facesIt’s a few hundred metres from where the crab apple tree fell to where we’ll burn it. Not a great distance, but the branches are heavy and awkward. I drag them behind me, head down like a shire horse, and the sharp twigs leave little furrows in the muddy grass behind me.For more than two decades, it has been an annual ritual to have a Hogmanay fire on
  
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• ‘Moving to the mountaintops’: rising seas displace tens of thousands in Papua New Guinea

  31-12-2024 03:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Gulf province councillor says growing numbers are leaving, in what climate activist describes as a ‘humanitarian crisis’Two years ago fisher Siri James lived on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea, in a small village near Pariva beach. But as the tides continued to rise, James was forced to move further in from the shore.“It’s not easy moving inland, I was born and raised by the seas, I am a fisherman. I know the flow of tides and currents, I know when the wind will co
  
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• Future of space travel: Could robots really replace human astronauts?

  31-12-2024 02:46 via bbc.com
  
  Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
  
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• Watch: Rocket blasts off for India's first space-docking mission

  31-12-2024 00:01 via bbc.com
  
  The rocket, which took off from a site north of Chennai, places two satellites in orbit.
  
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