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• The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about

  22-02-2025 22:33 via bbc.com
  
  Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.
  
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• Waves are getting bigger. Is the world ready?

  22-02-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Southern Ocean waves are growing larger and faster, threatening coastlines. But some scientists think they could help turn the tide in the climate crisisIn his remarkable memoir of his life chasing breaks in far-flung corners of the globe, Barbarian Days, the writer William Finnegan describes the “spooky duality” of waves, the way that, “when you are absorbed in surfing they seem alive. They each have personalities, distinct and intricate, and quickly changing moods, to which y
  
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• These people protected US forests and lands. Their jobs have now vanished due to Trump

  22-02-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Former federal employees devastated by president’s mass firings: ‘We’re at risk of losing our public lands to the billionaire agenda’Approximately 2,300 people have been terminated from the agencies that manage the 35m acres (14m hectares) of federal public lands in the US.These are our lands. They encompass national parks and forests, wilderness and marine protected areas, scenic rivers. They are home to campgrounds, river accesses, hiking trails and myriad other sites a
  
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• UK soil breakthrough could cut farm fertiliser use and advance sustainable agriculture

  22-02-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Research group says discovery could lead to new type of environmentally friendly farmingA biological mechanism that makes plant roots more attractive to soil microbes has been discovered by scientists in the UK. The breakthrough – by researchers at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Norfolk – opens the door to the creation of crops requiring reduced amounts of nitrate and phosphate fertilisers, they say.“We can now think of developing a new type of environmentally friendly farmi
  
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• Young country diary: A sky full of geese is an awe-inspiring sight

  22-02-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  North Norfolk: Every morning, an endless flow of pink-footed geese passes overhead. Their comings and goings define the dayThe first thing you hear is a raucous cacophony in the distance, ebbing and flowing. Then the first small specks appear, and soon the sky is filled with a seemingly never-ending flow of geese.These are pink-footed geese, who migrate to north Norfolk at the start of winter along with hundreds of thousands of other geese. They come here to escape the harsh winters of Siberia,
  
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• £3,000 rents cause housing fears near nuclear plant

  22-02-2025 08:45 via bbc.com
  
  Residents living near a nuclear power plant have seen rents double to £3,000 a month.
  
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• Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot

  22-02-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zealIf the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the extreme and far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, the hard-right Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.But we cannot bank on it. The UK government must do all it can to prevent the disaster that has befallen several other Euro
  
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• Scientists probe gulls' 'weird and wonderful' appetites

  22-02-2025 02:09 via bbc.com
  
  Photographs of gulls eating anything from chips to starfish will help solve a scientific puzzle.
  
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