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• The cleaning conundrum: should we wear gym clothes three times before washing?

  05-02-2025 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  The French government has faced ridicule for its new laundry edicts which include wearing a T-shirt five times before laundering it. But maybe it has a point?
  Name: Laundry.Age: As old as clothes. Continue reading...
  
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• Green activists warn London exchange over possibly ‘criminal’ copper trading

  05-02-2025 16:08 via theguardian.com
  Dealing in metal from Papua could break UK law because of environmental impact of mining it, campaigners argueCampaigners have warned the London Metal Exchange (LME) it could be breaking the law by allowing the trading of copper from one of the world’s most controversial mines.The way the metal is produced at the Grasberg mine in the highlands of Papua, Indonesia, an ongoing conflict zone, is so environmentally destructive it would be illegal almost anywhere else in the world, they say. Co
  
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• Carnivorous marsupials, cryptic birds and feral cats: wildlife cameras capture life on a Queensland cattle station

  05-02-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The monitoring program by Australian Wildlife Conservancy aims to show conservation and cattle grazing can coexist if properly managedSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterFrame by frame, the wildlife living on a Queensland cattle station are revealed. A long-eared bilby is caught mid-hop on a gibber plain, the name given to the densely packed rocks of the desert pavement. The eyes of an endangered kowari – a palm-sized carnivorous marsupial with a bottle-brush tail – glow an
  
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• Badger admiring art wins wildlife photographer of the year public vote

  05-02-2025 14:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Ian Wood wins Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award with photo taken in St Leonards-on-SeaA badger captured glancing up at a graffiti version of itself has won the Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award for wildlife photographer of the year.The image was taken by a British photographer, Ian Wood, on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It’s like solving a murder’: who dumped 30 tonnes of rubbish on Lichfield?

  05-02-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The city is determined to solve the ‘whodumpedit’ mystery after a huge pile of refuse was discarded, blocking the road. But with fly-tipping across the UK on the up, will it be possible to find the culprit?Squinting through her car headlights in the early dawn, it looked like some sort of surrealist horror. Weighing just short of 30 tonnes, the enormous pile of rubbish had appeared on Elaine Hutchings’ doorstep in Lichfield overnight. “The road was carnage,” she say
  
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• ‘The unknowable is not nothing’: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney on the mysteries of Figures in Extinction

  05-02-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Death looms large in the pair’s dance trilogy but, as Complicité’s artistic director says, confronting it is ‘integral to and essential for life’To one side of this light-filled studio at Nederlands Dans Theater in the Hague are director Simon McBurney and choreographer Crystal Pite. McBurney is as still and reflective as a lake, though you sense the currents of contemplation moving behind his eyes. Next to him, Pite can barely stay on her chair and her arms keep r
  
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• Specieswatch: Invasive red swamp crayfish is threat to England’s ponds and rivers

  05-02-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  North American native burrows into riverbanks causing leaks in canals and dams and carries crayfish plague It is quite a claim to fame to be the least wanted species in Europe but the red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, seems to have that distinction. It was picked out as a major threat to other wildlife, riverbanks and ponds in 14 countries to illustrate the efforts of a new Europe-wide organisation trying to eliminate alien species.So far this native of North America has only been found a
  
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• East Anglian farms breach environment regulations 700 times in seven years

  05-02-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Freedom of information data reveals violations on intensive poultry and pig farmsIndustrial-scale livestock farms across East Anglia have breached environmental regulations more than 700 times in the past seven years, freedom of information (FoI) data has revealed.The farms across Norfolk and Suffolk are among the largest in the country. Pig and poultry farming is concentrated in the region and 28% of England’s pig population was farmed in the area in 2023. Continue reading...
  
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• First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years

  05-02-2025 06:41 via bbc.com
  
  The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.
  
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• It seems the end of everything is upon us. Is no one coming to our rescue. How about … the molluscs?! | First Dog on the Moon

  05-02-2025 06:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Did you know molluscs protect the citizens of Poland from water pollution? It’s true!Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: A tiny jumper from the land of kangaroos | Charlie Elder

  05-02-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  West Dartmoor, Devon: Landhoppers, originally stowaways from Australia in the soil of exported plants, bring a burst of life to my sluggish winter gardenThe moor is cold and still. From the bleak tors topped with lumps of granite creased like fossilised dough to rocky valleys and bristling slopes of gorse, it waits for spring sunshine to warm its bony back. Save for a few birds animating the frostbitten hedgerows, my garden on the western flank of Dartmoor stares back at me blankly. Yet the
  
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• Lords inquiry finds grey belt idea largely redundant

  05-02-2025 03:37 via bbc.com
  
  The Built Environment Committee says the concept has been "eclipsed" by other planning rule changes.
  
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